Le Sabbat

Our church dose a special youth meal once a year that I had the joy of planning for this year. So of course I used Pininterest to find recipes to use. It was Asian themed so I had quite a bit of fodder to choose from.

On the Table
First up was a recipe to make flat crispy wantons like you would use to dip or break into soup. This recipe basically had you cut up wanton wrappers, salt and pepper them, and then bake them. They turned out pretty well as long as you don't layer them too thick on the cookie sheet. Then they burned on the outside and didn't crisp at all on the inside. Repeatability: Probably will sometime when my hubby is craving Chinese.

Appetizers
Secondly was a crab rangoon recipe from here. This was possibly the best recipe of the night. They puffed up nicely and had just the right amount of filling. It was one of the few things that had nothing left afterwords. We cheated and bought store egg rolls to be the alternative to these but they were the item of choice. Repeatability: Will most definitely repeat. Over and over again.


Soups
We did a choice of soups as well. The first choice was from my own personal recipes of Egg Drop soup. It's a good recipe but I cannot figure out how to make it yellow like you see in restaurants. It just turns a sickly green/grey that is not appetizing to look at. But anyhow, our other choice was a Wanton Soup. It seemed to be pretty good, if time consuming. It smelled awesome. However we had a hard time getting the wantons to look as pretty as they do in the picture. Repeatablity: If we do an Asian themed one again I will use it, but not for my family, We're not a big wanton soup fan.

Main Dish
Like the soups we did one new recipe, a General Tso's Chicken; and one of my recipes a Honey Sesame Chicken.  The General's didn't turn out very well, I think we might have skipped a few steps in it. It seemed to taste the same as the Honey Chicken did which should most definitely not be the case. Repeatability: Yes, but if it tastes the same I'm going to loose it. The only real reason I want to try it again is because my husband loves General Tso's.

Dessert
Dessert was sugar cookies from a mix and pre-bought fortune cookies. I figured we had enough work to do as it was!

Discoveries:

1. I should make the recipes before hand if possible to make sure they are actually good!
2. We could have made a lot of the ingredients for these recipes a head of time. I will look for recipes in the future that will make this more possible.