Bundles of Joy

A large part of being "self employed" is finding new and exciting ways to make cash. Last night I found myself rushing off to do a music survey for a focus group company. It was essentially sitting in a room with 200 other women, 30 and over, listening to bad music and then rating it with a pencil on one of those sheets with the circles. Totally odd, but that's a whole other post.

Like a true hero, my wonderful boyfriend took charge of dinner and it was ready lickity split and was SOOOO tasty!


BUNDLES OF JOY

What he did was:
- grate up some carrots and some celery and put it in a bowl with some slivered green onion
- chopped up some portabello mushrooms (you can use any kind) and put them in a small bowl with some tamari (enough to marinate the shrooms)
- grabbed some sprouts, we had a medley of different types
- some leftover brown basmati rice we had in the fridge
- the rice paper
- and some hummus (we had the roasted garlic and onion flavour)



Then you work in an assembly line with all your fillings and the rice paper. Get a large bowl and fill it with warm water for the rice paper. Place paper in the bowl, so that it softens enough to be plyable and not at all papery. Place the plyable paper on a cutting board and fill with hummus, rice, carrot mixture, mushrooms and sprouts.



He was originally inspired to do this from a recipe in How it All Vegan. This idea is not a new one and you can fill your bundles with anything really. Keeping things raw is great. The hummus, sprout, mushroom combo was a taste sensation. With the rice, it was filling enough to sustain me through the 2 and half hours of "hooks".