RunnerKim
08-09-2000, 05:59 PM
I have had the most frustrating time this week with trying to make 1 recipe - I'm beginning to believe that I *shouldn't* make it!
I'd put on the menu for this week 5 Spice Pork Roll-ups from A Spoonful of Ginger cookbook (essentially an Asian burrito). No luck finding sprouts at the Farmer's market or my normal grocery store. But no big deal as we were out of sesame oil and rice vinegar, so needed to go to the Asian market anyway. Hubby very graciously offers to run this errand as I was tired. We also needed to pick up "won-ton wrappers" for the recipe.
He returns with these tiny 2x2 inch "won-ton wrappers" - not exactly something you could wrap up several ingredients in. Oh he says, you wanted "egg roll" wrappers. Now my husband is not culinaryly-challenged. We shop and cook together - and have never bought these tiny things - but I had told him "won-ton" and that's what he bought. To top it off he also bought some hybrid soybean & sesame oil b/c they didn't have sesame oil. He did however find bean sprouts.
He works by a grocery store and stops and finds egg roll wrappers and real sesame oil - so we're all set now. I look at the recipe this morning and realize the pork should marinate (says for an hour, but longer preferred). So I rush around making the marinade before work, only to realize that we're out of rice wine!
Arghhhh.
Kim
I'd put on the menu for this week 5 Spice Pork Roll-ups from A Spoonful of Ginger cookbook (essentially an Asian burrito). No luck finding sprouts at the Farmer's market or my normal grocery store. But no big deal as we were out of sesame oil and rice vinegar, so needed to go to the Asian market anyway. Hubby very graciously offers to run this errand as I was tired. We also needed to pick up "won-ton wrappers" for the recipe.
He returns with these tiny 2x2 inch "won-ton wrappers" - not exactly something you could wrap up several ingredients in. Oh he says, you wanted "egg roll" wrappers. Now my husband is not culinaryly-challenged. We shop and cook together - and have never bought these tiny things - but I had told him "won-ton" and that's what he bought. To top it off he also bought some hybrid soybean & sesame oil b/c they didn't have sesame oil. He did however find bean sprouts.
He works by a grocery store and stops and finds egg roll wrappers and real sesame oil - so we're all set now. I look at the recipe this morning and realize the pork should marinate (says for an hour, but longer preferred). So I rush around making the marinade before work, only to realize that we're out of rice wine!
Arghhhh.
Kim