^^ There’s a large Asian market here and I saw them amongst the many other varieties of frozen egg rolls they sell. They were quite good - kind of like an Asian version of a hand pie.
Now I want an old-fashioned deep-fried McDonald’s crack-apple pie.
I’m going to have to try making apple egg rolls or spring rolls.
Last night I made some pasta that I topped with mussels in a tomato sauce. It was a decent idea, but I was not impressed.
This is the closest thing to the apple egg roll, I think - I just baked 'em, but if you deep fried them it would be pretty close.
I’ve worked out a crude approach dicing some apples, adding sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a splash of apple juice. Simmering this till the apples just begin to soften, then allowing it to cool. Put the filling in an egg roll wrapper and air frying.
It might be good with a bit of cream cheese in it. Or brown sugar.
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Apple egg rolls sound very much like Filipino banana lumpia. Yum.
Oh man, I haven’t had lumpia in ages. We used to be able to get them in the local grocery store back when we lived in Virginia - there was a lady who made them by hand and would sell them at a few places. So good. But those were meat and veg fillings, no banana.
For brunch/lunch, I have been on a mission to use up all the random leftovers in the fridge, and today’s experiment was loosely based on Loaded Mashed Potato Cakes. I think this is about to become my new favorite thing to do with random leftovers. I fried up maybe 3 slices of chopped prosciutto, added a bit of olive oil, and one finely minced red bell pepper. Meanwhile, we had maybe 3 - 4 cups of leftover potato/parsnip/roasted garlic mash, so I dumped that into a bowl, added 4 eggs, some goat cheese, some diced havarti, some Penzey’s Fox Point, some pepper, some parsley, and some all-purpose flour.
Dumped in the sauteed peppers and prosciutto. Mixed it all up and fried the first three patties, but the batter wasn’t quite holding together enough, so I added a bit more flour (multigrain chapati flour this time, for more nutritional value) for the next round and made them a bit smaller. Bingo! I think you could adapt this to just about any random stuff you might have in the fridge.
We have a metric ton of root vegetables in the fridge right now, thanks to our enthusiastic CSA, so I am now thinking about all possible combinations of root vegetable patties/fritters/whatever. I guess it will be our Hanukah food this year? We have tons of sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, turnips, beets, celery root, carrots, parsnips, watermelon radishes, winter squash, and I’m sure I am forgetting a few things. Maybe mashed sweet potato with chickpea flour, smoked paprika, and tahini/garlic drizzle? Other ideas welcome!
I roast sweet potatoes, scoop out the flesh, stir in a little tahini and chili powder (the mix that you’d use in chili, not straight chile powder), smoked paprika, and some canned chickpeas, then re-stuff. Smoked paprika sprinkled on top.
Tonight I’m finally getting around to making @scabpicker’s Dan Dan Noodles.
Tonight will be a bag of frozen Mexican-style veggies, some additional roasted red peppers, some hamburger and assorted spices. There will be left-overs, because I made a lot. But the fridge is looking neater.
Yesterday was baked mustard chicken, and because there’s another thread on the board about latkes, I made some potato pancakes, too, though I tarted mine up with some finely chopped serranos and a little cheese.
Tonight will be pot roast, and that’s where the random root vegetables will be going.
How’d ya like it?
Tonight we’re having chicken shwarma from a Trader Joe’s pre-marinated pack. I made a batch of sourdough flat bread dough last night, and I’ll get it out of the fridge and bake it in about an hour. I had a light lunch because I’m sure I won’t be able to resist eating some fresh, hot bread. 
It was good. Thanks! When all this is over, I’m going to have to try it at a Chinese restaurant to compare.
I spent so long chopping and prepping that I ran out of steam. I’ll find some leftovers or crack open a jar of gefilte fish.
Stuffed eggplant with the stuffing pretty much just moussaka. Very fine.
Panini yesterday, which was very good. Will make again soon, since I have another panino loaf to use. Leftover pot roast/veg and potato pancakes tonight. Probably shakshuka tomorrow, since I already have the sauce made and there’s some duck eggs in the fridge.
I was on the road today. So supper was a McRib sandwich and an apple fritter.