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Coconut Sticky Rice with Mango & Fortune Cookies: Ann & Jason
When I heard we were on dessert for Chinatown, I was immediately committed to making homemade fortune cookies. I would worry about what to pair with them at a later time. After looking through several recipes, I was happy to see that it wouldn't be as hard as I had originally thought to make them :)
The fun part was coming up with the fortunes. Unfortunately, I lost the original fortunes Jason and I wrote together between our original January scheduled Chinatown and our rescheduled March date and as such had to come up with some on my own without my sarcastic husband's input... fortunately, they still turned out pretty good :)
The fortune cookies weren't quite as easy as the recipe lead on.... apparently you should be able to start out making 2 or 3 at a time and increase from there. I started with 2 and had to revert back to making 1 at a time and never got to increase it....fortunately they cook fast so it didn't take too long to make them. 
We decided to pair the fortune cookies with coconut sticky rice. 
The difference between sticky rice, or sweet rice, is that you steam it vs. the traditional boiling method. There are rice steamers that you can buy, or if you are feeling inventive, you can create one out of a large pot, an oil splash guard, and a bowl. It worked great!!
Dessert is served!!!
Recipes:
Fortune Cookies:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/9684/fortune-cookies-i/
Sticky Rice with Mango:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sticky-rice-with-mango-12066
