tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23928317.post-48772690842147149352008-07-10T00:07:00.004-04:002008-07-10T00:50:18.117-04:00I figured the goodness of the springrolls would certainly outweigh or equal out the badness of the fried zucchini. Yes?<br /><br />No?<br /><br />Too bad.. both were equally delicious :D<br /><br />We're on vacation this week! WOO HOO! We've done absolutely NOTHING! Not so woo hoo. We've had plans.. and then things have popped up totally destroying our plans.. we ended up doggie babysitting for 2 days, killing our plans to head out to some fresh air markets we've never been to. The weather has not cooperated, squashing our desire to get out on the lake.. BUT there has been no work so therefore, we are happy campers. heee!<br /><br /><div align="center"><a title="Fresh Springrolls by La Mia Cucina, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamiacucina67/2654114385/"><img height="375" alt="Fresh Springrolls" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2654114385_b40cbe19e0.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div align="left">One thing we discussed at the beginning of our vacation was that we had been straying from our Cooking Light recipe list the past couple weeks and that we wanted to get back on schedule again. So I've picked 5 recipes for our dining pleasure this week and being Wednesday, we finally tried the first one. Gah. Okay so being on vacation kinda takes away the desire to prepare dinner every night. Who knew? Anyhoo, we did try one tonight and it was another winner from Cooking Light.</div><br /><div align="center"><a title="Fried Zucchini / Fresh Springrolls by La Mia Cucina, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamiacucina67/2654948308/"><img height="375" alt="Fried Zucchini / Fresh Springrolls" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2654948308_6ceee7fbb7.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Please try to contain your jealousy over my hot pink styrofoam plates :P</span></em></div><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&amp;recipe_id=604766">Fresh Spring Rolls with Dipping Sauce</a> was easy to prepare, I got to work with rice paper spring roll wrappers - something I've never done before, and they were incredibly good. Add to it, only 101 calories, 0.8 grams of fat and 16.8 grams of carbs for TWO rolls PLUS 2 teaspoons of the dipping sauce and I'd say this recipe is a keeper for sure!<br /><br />Following the measurements exactly, this recipe does not make 6 spring rolls as stated. I have no idea how they came up with that number, because I got 12 HUGE spring rolls and still threw the left over ingredients into a salad. Not to mention, they called it "6 appetizer servings" - at the size they ended up being, using 3 strips of this and that and 4 slices of halved shrimp, they turned out to be as big as your average eggroll from many Asian restaurants. I could not even finish ONE of them. Hubbs had 2. We had 9 left over. Thank goodness we had some unexpected company show up.. they took the 9 home with them. :)</div><br /><div align="center"><a title="Ingredients for Fresh Springrolls by La Mia Cucina, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamiacucina67/2654113795/"><img height="500" alt="Ingredients for Fresh Springrolls" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2654113795_8196b18fd2.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div align="left">Crispedy carrots, cukes, bell peppers and bean sprouts.. I added a couple strips of spring onion as well.. decided against the lettuce and went with a small handful of baby spinach instead and 2 (size 26-31) shrimp sliced in half were piled into the middle of the spring roll wrapper that had been softened in warm water - then wrapped around the contents snugly. The dipping sauce was super easy as well.. a matter of juicing a lime and whisking in a few other ingredients. Once I got the hang of dealing with the sticky rice paper, the rolling went quickly and I had a dozen spring rolls in less than 30 minutes.<br /><br />Delish!</div><br /><div align="center"><a title="Fried Zucchini on styrofoam plate :D by La Mia Cucina, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamiacucina67/2654948664/"><img height="375" alt="Fried Zucchini on styrofoam plate :D" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2654948664_1eac471867.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div align="left">As a side dish.. heh heh.. we took advantage of the first harvest of zucchini from our garden. Most gals living a lifestyle change, would steam or grill the zucchini. Thank GAWD I'm not most gals. Oh hells no. I dredged each zuke coin into an egg, then flour, salt and pepper.. then I dropped those beauties into a skillet containing sizzling hot canola oil and fried 'em up to golden brown perfection! teee!<br /><br />C'mon.. you can't fault me for that can you? I know Hubbs didn't.. if we weren't already an old married couple, I'd bet my last dollar that he would have proposed tonight by the look on his face when he ate the first fried slice of zucchini heaven. :)</div><br /><div align="center"><a title="Fried Zucchini / Fresh Springrolls by La Mia Cucina, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamiacucina67/2654114715/"><img height="375" alt="Fried Zucchini / Fresh Springrolls" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2654114715_aa307eabe4.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div align="left">I've got 4 more recipes to go.. with 3 days left (can't count Saturday- we're headed out to my hometown for a slumber party at my soul sistah's house - I will not be held accountable for anything that passes these lips that night as I can guarantee after 3/4 of a bottle of vodka it will be a free for all)<br /><br />***crickets***<br /><br />Wait.<br /><br />That didn't sound right.<br /><br />Uhmm.. 'kay never mind. Anyhoo.. 4 recipes left - ya'll might see another post here again this month before the Daring Baker challenge. I KNOW! I'll be shocked too! heheee<br /><br />xoxo</div>Lishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05631520734280170415noreply@blogger.com