Aug 11 2010

Thanks for the Lumpia, Mom!

“I’m a princess who doesn’t need a crown.”
— Lucy, after much deliberation (and misplacing her tiara) adds a new princess rule

We visited my mom (Lucy’s Gma) last weekend. In addition to getting caught up (and getting our fill of soup and adobo) we got a big bag of frozen lumpia to take home with us. Score!

Lucy and I decided to take a few pics of the batch we cooked up today. I like to wrap my lumpia in lettuce before I chow down, something I picked up from eating eggrolls at vietnamese restaurants. The lettuce adds a nice clean, cool crunch to go along with the fried, warm crispiness of the lumpia.

Lumpia

Lumpia

Of course, you can’t have lumpia (or just about any of my favorite filipino foods) without vinegar. I made sure to snap a pic of the condiment squirt bottle I use for my vinegar. The squirt bottle is great because you can get as much vinegar as you want as you chow down w/o having to double-dip your lumpia in a shared sauce dish. (Once bitten into, a lumpia’s structural integrity goes downhill fast; double-dipping would leave lumpia chud in the sauce dish.)

I usually stick the following in my sauce:

  • vinegar
  • garlic
  • soy sauce
  • pepper
  • chili peppers

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Lumpia

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