Today is officially the first day of spring, and my family is celebrating with SPRING ROLLS!
Last week, the Tuesday Crew (that is what I am calling us from now on – you may remember them from the #NintendoEnthused post) got together to learn to make Vietnamese spring rolls. We “gently convinced”* @thienkim (whose spring roll class at Whole Foods had just been cancelled because her co-host, @cookingwithegg was injured) to show us how to make spring rolls. I don’t know about anyone else, but I was pretty impressed when she made the eggs with chopsticks.
Here’s a pic of me rolling my spring roll – Thien Kim took over shortly after this picture was taken. Loose roll crisis averted.
*Okay, we begged a little.
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Fast forward to the first day of spring…
After I told my cousin about my spring roll adventure, she went to the Asian market near her, and got some tapioca sheets (rice) for me.
So I headed to Giant to get the rest of the ingredients.
I already had:
Eggs
Tapioca Sheets
Soy Sauce
Vinegar
Sugar
Salt
Basmati Rice (as the side – no special reason for the type of rice, it was just the only rice I had)
I needed:
Cucumbers
Cole Slaw Mix
Chicken
Shrimp
Rice Flour Noodles
Unsalted peanuts
Hoisin Sauce
Snow Pea Pods (used them as a side)
The whole process was pretty fast.
- I boiled the noodles briefly, and rinsed them
- Cooked the eggs, chicken, and shrimp, then cut it up
- Put the cole slaw mix in vinegar, sugar, and salt
- Peeled and cut the cucumbers
- Crushed the peanuts
- Put a little lemon juice and soy sauce in the Hoisin and mixed it
- Wet the sheets, and put them on plates so that they could wrap their own seconds
The kids enjoyed it, and the hubby ate SEVERAL! If you want to learn to do these yourself, check out @thienkim here: http://www.mycupofcreativitea.com/2012/03/rollin-in-spring-rolls.html
See how it went for the other students…
Justice Fergie – http://justicefergie.com/home.php/index.php/2012/03/spring-rollin/
A Shorter Story – http://www.ashorterstory.com/2012/03/terrific-tuesdays.html
Here are the pics from my first day of spring… spent… spring rollin’ (I just couldn’t resist.)!
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