Hi Friends,
I’ve been up since 2 AM. I went to bed at 11 earlier. Since yesterday I’ve been trying to catch the Northern Lights, but haven’t been lucky. Yesterday I woke up around 2ish, nothing. Then at 2.30, also nothing, at 3.30, nothing. I went back to sleep at 5 AM, feeling defeated 🤣
And this morning, again, at 2 AM nothing, up to now nothing even though 2 websites say yes, big activity, yet I can’t see a thing. I checked our security Webcam, and turns out I missed it. It came out around midnight to 1 AM. Darn it 😅 We turned off porch light on purpose, but of course it shows us black and white screen, so what the camera caught looks like a brush of forward-line clouds 🤣
Better luck next time. Maybe when sites give a warn of activities, Imma drag the family to camp outside 😆
I hope you had better longer sleep than I did tho!
For today’s share, it is meat pockets. Great as is, nice with ketchup, lovely with Acar (Indonesian cucumber salad), or with creamy dill cucumber salad (recipe is included below)
500 g lean ground beef
1 large red potatoes, diced
1 heaping tsp garlic powder
1 heaping tsp onion powder
Sesame oil to taste
Rice vinegar to taste
Kikkoman soy sauce to taste
Hoisin sauce to taste
Oyster sauce to taste
A generous pinch of white pepper powder
Chicken bouillon powder, if needed
2 heaping tsp flour
Enough water
1/4 c chives
1 box thawed puff pastry
1 yolk mixed with 1 tsp water
1 long cucumber, sliced thinly
1 heaping cup sour cream
Dill (fresh/frozen/dried), as strong as you like
Rice vinegar to taste
Water as needed
Lime/lemon juice to taste
1/2 of a small onion, dice
2 garlic, dice
In a bowl, mix cucumber slices and the rest of the ingredients, adjust flavor to your liking, cover and chill.
Brown beef, stir in diced potatoes, cook covered, 8 mins, on low medium heat.
Mix flour and water in a small bowl
Take off lid, season beef, then pour in flour mixture, stir quickly (it will thickened). Add in chives, and take off pan from heat. Cool to room temperature.
Lay out thawed pastry, cut with round cookie cutter. Reroll scraps, and cut as well.
Place a tbsp of filling on one round skin, top with another, and seal edges. Poke skin with fork, then brush with yolk mixture. Repeat steps.
Preheat oven to 400 F and bake pockets for 15-20 mins
Enjoy 🙂
Meat Pockets with Creamy Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
- 500 g lean ground beef
- 1 large red potatoes diced
- 1 heaping tsp garlic powder
- 1 heaping tsp onion powder
- Sesame oil to taste
- Rice vinegar to taste
- Kikkoman soy sauce to taste
- Hoisin sauce to taste
- Oyster sauce to taste
- A generous pinch of white pepper powder
- Chicken bouillon powder if needed
- 2 heaping tsp flour
- Enough water
- 1/4 c chives
- 1 box thawed puff pastry
- 1 yolk mixed with 1 tsp water
Cucumber Salad
- 1 long cucumber sliced thinly
- 1 heaping cup sour cream
- Dill fresh/frozen/dried, as strong as you like
- Rice vinegar to taste
- Water as needed
- Lime/lemon juice to taste
- 1/2 of a small onion dice
- 2 garlic dice
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix cucumber slices and the rest of the ingredients, adjust flavor to your liking, cover and chill.
Meat Pockets
- Brown beef, stir in diced potatoes, cook covered, 8 mins, on low medium heat.
- Mix flour and water in a small bowl
- Take off lid, season beef, then pour in flour mixture, stir quickly (it will thickened). Add in chives, and take off pan from heat. Cool to room temperature.
- Lay out thawed pastry, cut with round cookie cutter. Reroll scraps, and cut as well.
- Place a tbsp of filling on one round skin, top with another, and seal edges. Poke skin with fork, then brush with yolk mixture. Repeat steps.
- Preheat oven to 400 F and bake pockets for 15-20 mins
