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Our photographer was a little wobbly but this is our "in the kitchen night" at my house.

In our ward we have a monthly night where we go to one sister's home and cook with her. For my turn I decided to make pelmeni because a) I love them, b) they are much more fun to make in a crowd :) My plan was to send everyone upstairs with Beloved and have the kitchen to ourselves, however 6:30 rolled around and no one was there and then 6:45 still no one so I decided to go ahead and let the little girls help me (and they were thrilled) We had just started rolling out dough and making our little meatballs when Colleen came! then Michelle! yeah! a party!!

(for the record I would have been totally fine if it was just me and the girls)

So we rolled and made our little dumplings and made our soup and ate, the whole family came to join us for that part:) I also made a dessert that Val gave me the recipe for that was so delish! and then everyone disappeared and we had the kitchen to ourselves to chat some more while we cleaned up the mess.

It was a fun night!

Thanks for coming girls!

Peach Dessert

1 box vanilla wafers crushed

1 cube butter melted

1 cup sugar

mix together

peel and slice 12 peaches

beat 1 pint heavy cream, about 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup sugar and 1 t vanilla, whip again. Fold in peaches

put 3/4 of the cookie mix into a 13x9 pan, pour the peach mixture on top, top with remaining cookies. Refrigerate until time to serve.

Pelmeni

dough:

2 cups flour

2 eggs

3/4 t salt

1/2 cup water

mix, then refrigerate until cool

meatballs:

1lb ground beef

1/2 lb ground pork

1 onion diced

soy sauce

salt and pepper

roll out dough and cut in little rounds. Form meatballs with your hands. Place one meat ball in the middle of each dumpling, fold and pinch into a crescent then fold the corners up.

when you have a tray of them you can freeze them and make into soup later OR drop them into boiling broth, cook until they float and then serve with dill, soy sauce and sour cream.