Summer Rolls

Summer Rolls are awesome: fresh veggies, cool noodles, nice cold shrimp, a bit of sriracha & hoisin for dipping. Yummy!

This was a good excuse to check out 99 Asian Market in the north end, to get some wraps. We last made spring rolls for a party a couple of years ago, and while the wrappers are nearly indestructible, we only had a small handful remaining. The store seems to have a pretty amazing selection, though not being familiar with the items or able to read most of the labels, I was at a bit of a loss. I was also disappointed that any lunch-time báhn mì preparation didn't seem to be happening that morning.

This was also a good excuse to try making shrimp, something I've never done before, ours not being much of a seafood-consuming house. Unfortunately the shrimp was not provided by Full-Moon Farm … nor the egg for the matter.

Puttin' the peek in pico de gallo

As promised, the journey from this:



to this:



as captured by my blurry little cameraphone. Except that's really the whole story. Take onions, tomatoes and cilantro, chop for like, an hour while listening to Car Talk on VPR, mix. Serve with enchilada pie if you're lucky enough to have either the chicken or +chicken meat share. So good. So so good.

Anyway: Pico de Gallo: chop tomatoes, onions, cilantro; mix and let stand in the fridge. Nom.

Oh, and:



Beware of Cilthulhu!