When I did the first challenge, I already had set my eyes on the recipe for the pork and wakame dumplings, and was planning on making them soon – La Fuji Mama must have read my mind when she chose the recipes for the second Washoku Warriors challenge! The Washoku Warriors group cooks its way through Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen by Elizabeth Andoh, a fabulous book on traditional Japanese home-style cooking. I knew I was in for a hard time, though – cooking rice and edamame isn’t that hard. Wrapping gyoza, on the other hand… I am kind of decorationally challenged, and I was sure they could never ever look as professional as those La Fuji Mama wraps. (click here for her awesome Nutella Banana Gyoza.)...

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