A Wok to Remember

We had a huge lunch today at a local restaurant, The Barcelona. Then we went to the Marble Slab Creamery where we managed to stuff copious amounts of ice cream into our aching bellies. Hers was a pina colada inspired coconut and pineapple mix and mine tried to imitate Chunky Monkey (my personal favorite) with banana, chocolate and walnuts. Those folk definitely know a thing or two about ice cream.

We weren't feeling very well afterwards and took a long nap. When we woke up it was already dinner time and neither of us were feeling hungry. We tried to think of the lightest thing possible so, of course, we ended up settling on a light Asian theme utilizing what was left in the fridge.

I didn't like the Stir Fry, but I don't particularly like stir frys in general. To me they all end up tasting relatively the same no matter what you put in them, the flavor of soy sauce drowning out everything and leaving a sort of bittersweet aftertaste in your mouth. Shannon, on the other hand, really enjoys the sweet and sour Asiany sauces and enjoyed this dish.

The Curried Beef Rolls are something that we have had before and tried to recreate. Since the only elements are curried beef and egg roll wrappers, we figured it wouldn't be too difficult. Thankfully we were right and they turned out pretty much as imagined, a nice crispy egg roll shell with a gingery curry flavored beef in every bite. Unfortunately we didn't have any plum sauce and had to substitute with crab apple jelly, but that managed to work out quite nicely since apples and curry tend to compliment each other.