Saturday's Lunch.

Just to let you know,

I am eating other foods and meals, throughout my baking marathon. Today, we wanted more spring rolls. Here are the shrimp Mr. Hawthorne cooked today.

These are the last of the frozen shrimp from 2007.

And here are the ingredients for the innards of our spring rolls. I have tapioca sheets and big lettuce in the background, the shrimp, some sticky rice I made last week when Sister Hawthorne and Trouser Snake came down, some peppers, cucumber, carrot, radish from my garden, faux crab meat, and clover sprouts for crunch.

Mr. Hawthorne peeled the shrimp. By cooking the shrimp in the shell, Mr. H. was able to butterfly them after peeling, and have a straight, not curled up shrimp.

Here, Mr. Hawthorne is soaking a tapioca sheet to soften. His stuffing ingredients are at the left: faux crabmeat strips at top, and continuing clockwise, sliced peppers, julienned carrots, cucumber strips, and julienned radishes in the middle.

Softened tapioca sheet with lettuce.

Sticky rice went on top.

Then a strip of cuke and a strip of pepper.

Next the crabmeat. My crabmeat ... She's faux.

Julienned carrots.

Julienned radishes.

More rice.

More lettuce on top.

And Mr. H. starts rolling.

Finished roll with two little shrimpies on top.

Just so you know, here are parts of the stuffing: from left - faux crabmeat strips, pepper strips, julienned carrots, cuke strips, and julienned fresh radish.

Close up of my clover sprouts.

And here's yet another roll up. Rice and lettuce with clover sprouts.

Strips of faux crabmeat.

Yellow pepper strip went on.

Then the cucumber strip went on.

Next, the carrots went on.

And the radish strips.

More rice.

And roll 'er up.

In the meantime, I'm making a dip: garlic, ginger, toasted sesame seeds, Tamari sauce, sesame oil.

Press the garlic into the toasted sesame seeds.

Press the nuked, frozen ginger through the garlic press.

Add in the Tamari sauce. Or soy sauce.

A few drops of sesame oil.

Here are the dips for the spring rolls: Sesame/soy on the left, Wasabi in the middle, and my chili-infused oil on the right.

Dipping sauces in the background. On the plate, Mr. H.'s two spring rolls with shrimp on top, and the two I made with lots of clover sprouts inside and shrimp on the inside.

Oh my. This is looking very good.

Here's Mr. Hawthorne's roll, sliced.

My plate, with the shrimp rolls, and the dipping sauces.

Absolutely delicious. Now, Mr. Hawthorne apologizes. He goes to Harris Teeter and sees all the lovely spring rolls sliced and packaged and he so wants to be able to do the same. He wants one of those bamboo mats for sushi roll ups. Wait for Christmas, Mr. Hawthorne.