Oh man, we have greens coming out of our ears! I’m not complaining though. I love fresh greens and usually don’t get to eat as much of them as I’d like. In a grocery store it’s typically cheapest to just buy some heads of romaine and a bag of spinach. Once in a while when they’re on sale we’ll get a bag of mixed greens, but even that only has about 3 different kinds. With our CSA we are getting tons of variety, and it’s awesome! Here’s just some of them (that I actually know name of): 2 kinds of spinach, frisee, butter, red leaf, oh man there’s so much more I can’t remember. I’m getting to be really creative with making my own salad dressings and playing with other salad ingredients. One of the best ideas I had was making my own buttermilk dressing and serving it in a parmesan cheese bowl. Have you ever made a bowl out of parmesan cheese? It’s shockingly easy. I’ll explain it in the recipe below but one nice thing is the only ingredient you need is the cheese. Read more
I’ve heard these rolls called many different things depending on who made them or where they’re sold. My absolute favorite rolls were called shrimp rolls at the Vietnamese Ba-Le bakery near my office in Hawaii. There are around 25 Ba-Le bakery/sandwich shops in Hawaii, but I found that after trying shrimp rolls at over 10 of them, the ones by my work were always the freshest. Maybe it was because I always got them around lunch time, but they were the best. I used to dance evenings in a hulu/jazz show in the International Marketplace in Waikiki. There was a little Thai stand in the food court that called theirs Thai Shrimp Rolls, they always put a dot of sriracha in their peanut sauce which gave it such a great kick that I started doing that at every place I went. There were two different Vietnamese restaurants near my first apartment that I’d buy them from, one called the Vietnamese Spring Rolls, the other simply called them Summer Rolls. Fortunately, every restaurant has a picture on the menu so it’s easy enough to know what you’re ordering. Read more
