Monday, August 4, 2008

That's How I Roll

I've spent the last week eating summer rolls every single day. And I have no regrets. This is perfect summer vegan food at its easiest and it also gets a bunch of greens into me when my brain occasionally says "NO SALAD NO!" (I don't know why that happens. It's really weird. I still like restaurant salads; I just get too lazy to make my own. Too lazy to make salad? No wonder I sitll have incompletes, yipes). That was an excessively long parenthetical remark, sorry. Anyway, I skip the cellophane noodles because they are devoid of nutrition (I suppose the rice paper is, too, but it's the key to making this fun and NOT A SALAD). I chop up a ton of romaine and scallions, julienne cucumber and sometimes carrot, and lay out bean sprouts, cilantro, mint, and basil. And then it's time to roll! Oh, and I make an easy easy peanutty sauce out of hoisin sauce and peanut butter (to be even more honest, I've been using PB2 because it's bikini season and it works brilliantly). Yum yum yum.

(I also sort of accidentally bought myself a new [used] digital camera on The Ebay, so soon I should be able to take lovely good photos and hopefully that will motivate me to cook?)