Today's
lunch features baked sweet potato that looks like ham,
shrimp egg rolls, steamed
broccoli, and onigiri.
This was my first try at making egg rolls, and they
were surprisingly easy to make. However, I was using
instructions without pictures, so I folded them wrong.
They ended up like small envelopes instead of rolls,
and weren't as structurally sound, so they tended to
tear. They tasted just as good, though. (I've posted
the correct folding procedure on the recipe page.) This is also the first
time I've successfully made onigiri, which are hand-squished
rice balls. (The first time I tried the rice stuck to
my hands, not itself, and made for pitifully messy rice
blobs. Then I found out the secret: do with wet hands
and the rice won't stick to 'em! Hallelujah!)
I have one traditional triangle shape with nori along
the bottom, and then two spheres that I arranged little
cut pieces of nori along so they look like soccer balls,
sorta-kinda.
This poor lunch. I made it all nice and neat for
my Friday lunch, and then the women in the office (of
which I am one) went out for Chinese. And on Monday
we planned another lunch date at another Chinese
place, so I took it home on Friday so it wouldn't
go over to the dark side over the weekend. It did fulfil
its destiny on Saturday.
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