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Snapped: Lunch Time

Eliza Leigh and Humanoid Translator — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0000

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Eliza’s Fake Summer Rolls

Eliza Leigh and Humanoid Translator — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:41 +0000

Hello, welcome back to Opinionated Ant.
Hungry? I was so I nagged my Human into making her fresh summer rolls. Before she would let me eat them though we had to make a how-to video. Normally, Bebe the Concert Aficionado would be in her princess apron and lording over the kitchen, but she was excused since she handed in her doctors note. We can’t afford to get sick you know. And neither can you so before you start please wash your hands.

“End of Public Health announcement.”

I was wondering when you’d butt in Human.
Here’s our recipe sans video… if you’d prefer an audio demonstration go here.

Ingredients

Spring roll wrappers (softened in water)
Mint (cut, shredded to your desire)
Lettuce(large pieces to make “cups” or shredded if you prefer)
Carrots (shredded or sticks)
Cucumbers (sticks, it’s easiest to eat this way)
Vermicelli
Avocado (small slices)

Directions:
Have softened wraps ready, my human does one at a time only because she forgets and puts them on top of one another (don’t do that- they’ll stick!).
Cut up all vegetables.

If you are using large pieces of lettuce place the vermicelli, carrots, cucumbers, avocado and mint inside it. Place the lettuce cup inside the wrapper and roll up.

(If you’re using shredded lettuce then you can just through it all together inside the wrapper.)

Remember to tuck in edges (HT usually does around halfway through) as you roll.

Serve with your favorite dipping sauce (fish sauce, peanut sauce, soy sauce, hoisin and or rice wine vinegar).

Since these are “fake” summer rolls the combinations are limitless. Some of our favorite ingredients are:
Crab meat, shrimp, leftover chicken or steak; Mint, basil, cilantro; bean sprouts, vermicelli… you get the idea.

Are you looking for an authentic (or other variation) recipe? Here are a few sites to get your stomach acids pumping!

*Rasa Malaysia~Goi Cuon (Vietnamese Fresh Spring Rolls) with Hoisin Peanut Dipping Sauce Recipe
*Passionate Eater~Fresh Summer Rolls (Goi Cuon)
*Eating Out Loud~ Healthy spring rolls with peanut sauce

Snapped: Picnic Time

Eliza Leigh and Humanoid Translator — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:00:32 +0000

Once there was a hungry, desperate insect. Stealthily, she made her way across the lush jungle, all senses fixed upon the brown mountain ahead. If she could just make it to the precipice, her deliverance from starvation would be there waiting for her. Dodging great, clumsy giants she scurried as quick as her many legs could take her until, behold the plate! There before her hungry eyes the delicasies she dreamed of daily. Right before her grasp were cold, crisp pickles. Salty, crunchy chips. Grapes and-

Oh no, a giant grabbed the plate away! How cruel, after traveling so far, dreaming so hard her prize was snatched before she could savor even one bite.

As the ant sadly watched, the giant slowly lowered the plate down into the grass below. “What? She’s leaving the plate there!’ The ant began her trip back down, hoping the picnic would wait for her.

“Eliza, are you hungry? Because, now I am.”

Back from Outer Space… I Will Survive

Eliza Leigh and Humanoid Translator — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:42 +0000

“Eliza Leigh, are you singing!!? ”

I Will Survive What do you think the beautiful noise emanating from my mouth is?

“You’re last breath?”

Human, this would probably be a good time to tell you that I found your chocolate stash… and it is now depleted.

“I won’t survive. What do you want? I’m trying to unpack and edit all the pictures from this weekend.”

That’s what I survived. Not only did we manage to emerge unscathed from the parking garage (how many spots did Bebe need to try out, they were all the same size) but I was tempted with gluttony and did not have a coronary. You on the other hand…

“Let’s not talk about food.”

No, let’s. How many buffets did you go to? Is Portland, Maine a mecca for them?

“We went to two buffets. The Great Wall and Pizza Hut.”

I was shocked they still have Pizza Huts.

“I know, but it was Bistro style. A far cry from the Pizza Hut I used to go to as a kid, there was some Reading Rainbow book program and we got buttons and everything. What was it called? Eliza? H e l l o?

Back from Outer Space… oh sorry I was tuning you out. What we talkin about? Right, food. Show some pictures of the food we ate this weekend.

I wish you would hurry up and fix your flash player problems so you can upload the little video clips you took too. Like Greg “I made Bill Cosby Laugh” who showed Bebe how to make frozen Gyoza at Trader Joe’s or How to Make Someone Queasy (that was the funniest/lamest video you made yet).

“Hey that one was your idea!”

Yes, but you taped it.

“I will survive, hey hey.”