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    Home » Recipes » Blog

    Fantabulous Flowery Fresh Spring Rolls

    September 20, 2015 By Sara McCleary Updated November 29, 2020 - This post may contain affiliate links

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    Anyone who has flown from New York back to Australia knows what a journey it is. We really are a long way away from the USA.  Actually we are as just as far from a lot of places.

    I arrived home today from an amazing couple of weeks in the States. After over 24 hours of travelling, the last thing I wanted to be greeted by on my return were rancid sausages. Yet there they were in their entire gag worthy glory on my doorstep. Their expiry date were a week earlier, so I hazard a guess they had been sitting there for two weeks. Why PR companies take no notice of me when I say check before sending still astonishes me.

    But that wasn’t the best bit of the return home. With rancid sausages in hand I opened the front door to have the unpleasant and unexpected smell of urine hit my nostrils.

    Flowery Fresh Spring Rolls

    Walking into the entrance hall I tip toe around a pile of faeces. It was a very familiar pile of crap, generally I find it out in my back yard, but never in the house. It was possum poo!

    There was more crap in the dining room and lounge room, along with puddles of urine. No surprises where the smell was coming from. In fact the little bastard was obviously on a mission to crap in every room in the house several times. There was even a near perfect circle of poop around one of my photography prop boards. Making me wonder if it was into devil worship.

    Beside a house full of unwanted poop, the kitchen had plates on the floor, bottles of olive oil tipped over, basically everything that had been on the benches was knocked over or had been hurtled to the floor.

    There were dirty footprints all over the white leather lounges. My office had photography props knocked off the shelves and my desk had seen better days. The bath also had grubby footprints in it.

    May I add, as I type this we still haven’t located the squatter as yet, stay tuned!

    Flowery Fresh Spring Rolls

    I don’t know about you, but I always have certain food cravings that need to be satisfied after I have been away travelling. When returning home from Europe or the USA it is usually salad and/or Asian food.

    Vietnamese style fresh spring rolls were what I had a hankering for this time and a batch were made up ready for an early dinner. The spring rolls you see in the photos are not those, but are some I made for dinner a few weeks ago. They are one of my favourite things to eat when the weather gets warmer.

    Flowery Fresh Spring Rolls

    I came across a large container of edible flowers at the local green grocer and thought wouldn’t they look gorgeous in fresh spring rolls. And, they really do! Perfect for spring.

    The beauty of making fresh spring rolls is that you can really put anything you like in them. I am probably pretty boring with my filling of poached chicken breast, mixed lettuce, Thai basil, coriander, mint and green shallot, but that’s how I like them when making them at home. I serve them with my passionfruit and peanut dipping sauce.

    Have you ever come home from traveling to be greeted by the unexpected? Or have particular food cravings that need to be satisfied?

    Sara xxx

    Flowery Fresh Spring Rolls

    Flowery Fresh Spring Rolls

    Recipe Author: Sara McCleary
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    Ingredients

    • rice paper sheets
    • 2 chicken breasts poached
    • edible flowers
    • mixed lettuce
    • thai basil
    • coriander
    • mint
    • green shallot spring onions/scallions

    Instructions
     

    • Dip a rice paper sheet in some warm water and place on a plate. Quickly dip it, don’t soak it. The sheet will continue to soften as you add your fillings.
    • Place flowers face side down on the rice paper and then top with desired ingredients for the filling. Roll them up, tucking in the ends as you go. Be careful not to over stuff them or roll too tightly or they will split.
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    1. Rosemarie

      October 12, 2015 at 4:16 pm

      They look too pretty to eat!

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      • Sara

        November 02, 2015 at 1:08 pm

        Thank you 🙂

        Reply
    2. THE HUNGRY MUM

      October 03, 2015 at 3:26 pm

      urgh, possum poo! But even more urgh is the rancid snags! How utterly gross. I would have turned my jetlagged body around and got on the first plane outta there! These rolls are so pretty! Will keep an eye out for edible flowers at the greengrocers - though I'd be more likely to plonk them on a cake rather than actually made something healthy with them 😉

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      • Sara

        November 02, 2015 at 1:07 pm

        I know, it wasn't a good homecoming at all 🙁

        Reply
    3. john | heneedsfood

      September 27, 2015 at 9:00 pm

      I'd have been so annoyed with that damn possum - they can be so pesky! Clearly wasn't interested in the rotten sausages!

      Negatives aside, these are some mighty fine looking rolls! I'm waiting for my nasturtiums to flower in the front garden!

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      • Sara

        November 02, 2015 at 1:07 pm

        The sausages could have killed two birds with one stone, so to speak.

        Reply
    4. Jean | DelightfulRepast.com

      September 23, 2015 at 12:36 am

      PS And, yes, why is it so hard for people to understand that we need to be contacted first before they mail us stuff?! Sheesh!

      Reply
    5. Jean | DelightfulRepast.com

      September 23, 2015 at 12:35 am

      Sara, you're taking the whole possum thing unbelievably well! So much better than I would. Your spring rolls are beyond beautiful. I don't know if I'd be able to eat them, I'd just want to keep looking at them!

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      • Sara

        November 02, 2015 at 1:00 pm

        I had to take it in my stride, or it could have just been the jet lag. But I am surprised, when I think back, that I wasn't a blubbering mess on the floor.

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    6. Helen | Grab Your Fork

      September 21, 2015 at 11:54 pm

      Oh noes I can't imagine a worse welcome home than what you endured! Good luck with evicting your unwanted squatter asap!

      Reply
      • Sara

        November 02, 2015 at 12:59 pm

        Was definitely a surprise to walk in the door to. Squatter has been well and truly evicted, for now anyway......

        Reply
    7. Gourmet Getaways

      September 21, 2015 at 3:54 pm

      This looks so good! I can almost taste it!

      What a great dish.

      Thanks for sharing

      Julie

      Gourmet Getaways

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      • Sara

        November 02, 2015 at 12:58 pm

        Thanks Julie

        Reply

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