For dinner tonight, I was really excited to use my rice paper wraps that I had bought like a year ago! Brady is on the kick of using things, which I am all for, so we tried them. I will say that I had high hopes and dreams for these wraps because they look so cool, but I am may not be cut out for them after all. This will not be an easy recipe to follow because I was all over the kitchen making a huge mess and starting a million things at once. I will try to simplify it, but we will see. Another warning: I do not know exactly what any of the measurements were, I just threw things together.
To Start:
I mixed part of the filling:
- broccoli slaw
- carrots
- water chesnuts
- rice vinegar
- sesame oil
- TJs Asain sauce
While I did that I boiled the shrimp.
I also stir-fried:
- fresh kale
- asparagas
- rice vinegar
- ginger
- sesame oil (just a dash)
In the meantime, I mixed up a sauce from:
-TJ’s General Tsao sauce
-rice vinegar
– soy sauce
-ground ginger
– sesame oil
– lime juice
-hoisin sauce
I also heated up a pack of rice noodles in water in the microwave, while all of this was going on!
Next, I wet the rice wrappers in warm water for 20sec. to make them soft enough to use. (This was not easy, they were folding and sticking and ripping). Each time I would get one done, I would add the shrimp/veggies/noodle mix plus a dash of sauce. Here are what they turned out looking like.
A little weird looking, we thought. So we started eating them, and I decided I did not like the wrap at all. It had a weird texture (smooth and slimyish and hard to chew). It also did not have much for nutrition so…
We took them all off and they wound up in this heap!
Here is a picture of my plate with the kale/asparagas and the insides of the wraps all mixed together.
And one of just the greens. I will be making these again. I didn’t realize how much I liked kale this way. Yum!
Dessert was 3 fresh baked cookies with every kind of chip that I took to the neighbors. Those needed to get out of our house!!
