summer rolls.

Last summer, a friend of mine hosted a spring roll making party.  I seem to recall consuming more wine than focusing on rice paper wrapping, but somehow the skill stuck with me.  

I later learned that the “spring” rolls we made were more appropriately titled “summer,” due to the fact that we didn’t fry them. [...]

cucumber cool.

This past weekend, my mom brought me the largest cucumber I have ever seen.  I remember someone in Israel telling me that American produce scared him, and cucumbers should be small and eaten whole, not engineered to the size of a baseball bat.  Enter the bat:

This afternoon I used part of it in the most [...]