Be assured, this song will get stuck in your head for the next week

I became friends with LeVar Burton today on Twitter. (Is the world still flattening, Thomas Friedman???)

The original Reading Rainbow theme song:



That song takes me back to the days when I was 2 feet tall, sported a hot bowl cut, and licked the cream from Oreos without eating the cookies.

TJ's Gyoza Lunch

Here's another recipe to try. Again, I got all of the ingredients from Trader Joe's. My inspiration for this dish came from the blog, Cooking with Trader Joe's. They posted this great recipe for a Gyoza salad. I tinkered with a little to satiate my own palette:

Ingredients:
bag of frozen gyoza (They have it in chicken, vegetable, and pork)
sugar snap peas
baby carrots (the peeled, ready-to-eat kind)
Trader Joe's Crushed Garlic
Onions
Trader Giotto's Extra Virgin Olive Oil
about half a cup of water
soy sauce

Directions:
Defrost the gyoza for a bit (to make it easier to cook). In a small wok, add three tablespoons of olive oil, the crushed garlic, and onions. Throw in the gyoza. Add the baby carrots (cut them in half so they can cook easily) and the snap peas. Stir. Stir some more. Stir. Add olive oil/water when needed. Towards the end, mix in soy sauce to add some flavor and color.

This is what it looked like in the end:
Like the recipe posted on Cooking with Trader Joe's, you can play with it to your liking. Instead of soy sauce or sesame soy giner vinaigrette, you can use teriyaki sauce sauce. Or you can add water chestnuts for an even crunchier taste.