vietnamese rolls & asian wild rice

monday 14th was wild rice day. we also made vietnamese rolls (i absolutely love the conventional one with the beehoon and prawns and sauce!) so we made the raw vegan equivalent which was excellent.

Matt, our very cool instructor (i think he's head chef) gave a demo of how to make the sauces. its so funny how they label it "South East Asian Sauces". he made 2 sauces, spicy sweet 'n' sour sauce and Bon Bon sauce. ok, spicy sweet & sour sauce i have heard at home, bon bon sauce???

anyway, it was nice to learn how to make sauce. i dont think i will ever have to buy a bottle of sauce from the supermarket again! these natural raw sauce are just so good i think i could never have the commercially available sauce. the only thing is that the sauce last only for a week. i guess which is just as well since we should really only eat fresh stuff. so bon bon sauce is tahini, ginger, lemon juice, agave nectar, tamari, garlic. put it all in the blender and puree until smooth. how easy is that? and i realised that the bon bon sauce that they refer to is what we call sweet sauce at home. sweet & sour sauce was good, its made with mango! i never would have thought that there's mango in the sweet sauce. well, its really good! if you want the recipe, email me.

the two sauce that was made is used to complement the vietnamese roll. i think this is a nice vegetarian version of the conventional vietnamese roll. other possibilities if you dun want to use the rice paper is cabbage. we made two versions. i was surprised how sweet and juicy the cabbage version was. it really adds to the flavour. this is a really good replacement for anyone who wants a healthier version, minus the prawns if you're concerned about cholesteral. we also made wild rice which was nice on its own as well as added to the roll. i liked it in the roll. gave it a nice flavour and i think it makes a nice meal.

we had so much fun doing the rolls. that's giselle doing her roll. i told her she should do a website and call it rawfooddiva or rawfoodqueen, hahaa... and penny should call hers rawfoodmum! and day should be rawfooddoctor! these people just crack me up. we have so much fun working as a team.













this is my roll, work in progress (my camera's been very busy!)



and the end result...










we had our vietnamese roll at gastronomy session, which is suppposed to be a quiet time for us to eat and enjoy the full flavours, and share our experience. quite interesting really, how people describe and share their experience...

oh ya... and my lunch was




ok got to go, class... hope you are enjoying my experience too!