Throwing together lunch

"Ken, go make some lunch for your children." means a lot different than "What do you want for lunch?"
"What do you want for lunch" is a question. It is simply a request for information. Quite like, "How does chicken sound?"
But my wife doesn't usually ask "How does chicken sound?" because I will probably tell her "Cluck, cluck, cluck." So instead, the usual is, "what do you want for lunch"
Now sometimes she doesn't want to make lunch. That's fair enough. I'm not opposed to making lunch. That sounds like this: "Would you mind making lunch today?"
But today is different. Today is "Go make some lunch for your children."
That carries implications.
Sometimes it means PMS. Other times it means that the kids are bouncing off the walls, driving my wife crazy, and she is going to go take a nap.
This time I got lucky. This time it meant, "You haven't gone grocery shopping and there's absolutely nothing to eat, so you make lunch and it is hereby no longer my problem."

Now I need to explain that my wife has never been poor. There are many different levels of "nothing to eat". When I was a kid, sometimes we would eat oatmeal three times a day, because that was all we had to eat. "Nothing to eat" back then meant that we were out of oatmeal and there was truly nothing. But for my wife, "nothing to eat" may simply mean that we are out of bread. I have found that in my family, there is always something to eat. It's just a matter of how you put it all together.
So today was one of those times when I had to make one of my famous "recipes".
Some folks call them concoctions. Others prefer "throw together".
Mine is a recipe.

If you want to make a good recipe, the easiest way to do it is to start with a shallow pan. A wok will do.

For this recipe, I got some water and a couple of eggs. I mixed them together with a fork and added some salt. Salt is an excellent source of iodine. I put it in everything.

Next I added some flour. Enough to make a paste out of it, and then add a little more water to make a batter out of it.


So this is eggs, flour and water. Mixed with a fork to take out all of the clumps of flour. It's about the same consistancy as pancake batter.

Let that mixture sit for a while, so that the flour will soak up all the liquids and it will all be even textured.
Next I cut up some garlic and onions. It wouldn't be a recipe without garlic and onions.

Then I raided the pantry to find some canned vegetables. Here is a mixed vegetable and ohh, what a treasure...water chestnuts.


I poured a little oil into the fryer and then some batter. You have to be quick on the batter, or it wont be even. Make it all nice and thin. In retrospect, I would have made them a little bit larger and as thin as I could. I would have added more water to make them just thin enough to hold together.

Cook them quickly. About one minute. Just enough to make the bottoms golden brown and the edges starting to curl up a little.
If it was a pancake, this is when you would flip it. But in this case I left the top raw and took it out and worked on the next one.

And of course, in goes the last of the left over turkey. Chopped up, seasoned with soy sauce and stir fry sauce.



I added the garlic and onions to smell up the house a little bit and let them sit.
I then cut up the water chestnuts (the picture didn't turn out)
and added it to the mix along with the mixed vegetables. You could substitute chopped celery for water chestnuts if you want to.




After I did all of this, I took some flour in a bowl

And added water enough to make a dough ball. I pulled off pieces of the dough ball and smeared it all along the edges so that I could paste them into a roll. It was very messy work and I didn't take any pictures because my hands were messy and I didn't want to touch my nice clean camera. Each half became a roll of stuff, just like a burrito. In retrospect, I would have either made them all smaller and not cut them in half, or made them bigger so that they would roll better. If they were even bigger and much thinner i could have put the stuff on sideways and it would have rolled right up.
Then I took each one and dropped it in the fry daddy brand deep fryer for three our four minutes until it seemed like it was in long enough.
And viola!



Deep Fried Stir Fry Roll Ups

Difficulty:6
Time it took: 1 hour
Palatability: Scarfed down and asking for more.