Chinese Night!

Saturday was Caleb’s birthday.  Originally we were going to have a party for him at the house with homemade pizza.  Unfortunately, sickness was visiting most of his cousin’s, so we opted to postpone his party to another day.

Instead of going to Applebee’s with the family, Caleb decided that he wanted to have homemade Chinese for supper.

Unfortunately, I forgot how long it takes to make homemade Chinese from scratch, so instead of starting in the afternoon, I started at 5 pm.  We didn’t eat until 9pm, but it was darn good!

Here is a the boys’ plates before they dug in.

I made fried rice.  I did have a seasoning packet to make it, but it really isn’t that hard even without a mix.  Pork egg rolls.  Caleb and Koehler made assembled and Caleb deep fat fried them.

Homemade cream cheese won-tons “crab rangoons.”  Beth likes them a little sweeter so I add some sugar to the cream cheese.  Again Caleb & Koehler assembled them and Caleb deep fried them.  Steam rice.  Ho Hum.

General Tao’s Chicken and Orange Chicken.  The General Tao’s was from a recipe, but I doctored up the Orange Chicken from scratch.  It was ok, but I think I’ll look for a good recipe.

Sweet & Sour Chicken without the sweet or sour.  I made some sweet and sour sauce, but Beth doesn’t like it with the sauce.  Also, I didn’t have any chunk pineapple.  Basically, I used the same fried chicken for all of the dishes, just added some different veggies and sauces.  Last time (the first time) I used a recipe for some batter for the chicken and it was a mess.  This time I used my southern fried chicken coating with a milk/egg wash and then fried in a pan with oil.  Worked much better!  And tasted much better.