My fusion "lunch"

[politicat]

We're out of bread, tortillas and rolls. (I know, I let it get out of hand.) We're also out of lettuce.

So I have chicken salad, veggies and I'm poking through the kitchen looking for something to do with them because I can't just make a salad - no lettuce - or a sandwich.

I did find rice paper wrappers. Cracked, but I could break them apart and have intact halves.

So I made chicken salad spring rolls with jicama.

They look pretty, and they tasted great!

(and yes, I took the pics on the floor. I've got seedlings on the kitchen cabinets getting ready to transplant outside.)

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Necessity is the mother of invention

Those look good!

:::sniff sniff::::: Is the jicama nekkit or is that lime juice I smell?

And kudos on showing the true spirit of fusion cuisine. It all started so naturally .... a recipe from your Polish neighbor, with an ingredient from your Ecuadoran sister-in-law, but cooked and presented in a way you learned from your Korean coworker. Then it went all Hollywood and got fancy prices on restaurant menus. And now its back where it belongs ..... in the repertoire of we mere mortals.

Fusion, the true modern American cuisine.

[politicat]

2. Lemon juice, but close enough.

I'm jealously hoarding the last of my key-limes for my tea and seltzer until they come back into season. It's a slightly different flavor, but within reason. I was out of mild chile powder, else there would have been a dash of that on the jicama, too.

I'm seriously thinking about giving up on bread and tortillas altogether, since I like rice paper wrappers and they're practically without calories, fat free and without cholesterol.