Sequestration Meal #280

 

As I am confronting my anxiety-induced food hoarding tendencies (which were always a little bit there, I think, but not improved by any means over the past year or so), I have been trying to eat the things in the freezer I was saving for the possibility that I wouldn't be able to get food for a while (which yes, happened a couple of times, but not often enough to warrant keeping the freezer jam packed at all times). Buried in the midst of it all was about half a bag of tofu-and-vegetable potstickers.

I don't really need a recipe for Asian dumpling soup, but I found one to follow along with anyway (this omnivore one from the Modern Proper was easily veganized). It was quick and delicious. My dumplings, sitting there frozen for a year and jostled around my freezer who knows how many times in that time span as I pulled things out and put them back, of course, exploded, but exploding dumplings can make a fine soup. I do think the broth was a bit salty, and that was my fault for following the Modern Proper too closely--there was no need to add stock, soy sauce, and salt. When I make this again--if frozen dumplings are available in some future life of mine--I will add more water and no salt and just let the broth and soy sauce do the work. But that aside, this was really delightful.