Out of hiatus, for now.

Hello!!!
Sorry for the hiatus on my cuisine. I have had very little time and energy to cook, unfortunately. However, I had the desire to concoct an interesting asian inspired dish tonight! I like to call it "pad thai spring rolls". They aren't really spring rolls, and they don't really have pad thai in them, but the taste is very reminiscent of pad thai. Anyways!! Here's the recipe that I created:

2 massive chicken breasts
4 tbsp olive oil
1/8 cup fish sauce
2 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
3/4 cup frozen peas
1 large carrot grated
a couple leaves of lettuce

bean or rice vermicelli, prepared to the package instructions
rice paper for wrapping the rolls

Cut the chicken into either strips or chunks, cook in the oil on med-high heat. Once cooked most of the way through, add the fish sauce, hoisin sauce and soy sauce. Allow to simmer at low-med heat until chicken is finished cooking and then add the peas. Place a lid on and allow to cook at low until peas are tender. Can add 1/2 cup water if needed to increase the amount of sauce. Turn off the heat, strain peas and chicken from the sauce and place in a separate bowl. Retain the sauce in the pan.

Prepare the vermicelli according to instructions, and then place strained noodles into the retained sauce and stir.

Prepare (one at a time) the rice paper according to instructions on package.

Lay rice paper flat, then place a piece of lettuce, some shredded carrot, a few pieces of chicken and some peas, and then a generous portion of the noodles onto the rice paper, then wrap it up! There you have it, an easy "pad thai spring roll". I made my rolls quite large, so I had 8 when I was done. You can easily make more by limiting the chicken and noodles. Just depends on what you like!!!

Enjoy!!!