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A week ago, I had two parties to go to, and you can never go to a party empty handed, right? So through a strange and round about text conversation I had with one of the hostesses of the parties, it came about that I would make mini egg rolls for her.

The history of the only party food that I make is this:

I had a class in 8th grade where we all had to bring in food from our cultural heritage and share it with the class. In my 8th grade brain, I thought ‘fried rice’ immediately. And I would request that my dad make it. Diabolical, I know (can you guess the heritage?). Again through conversation and whatnot, it came about that I would make egg rolls instead and this without my dad. Don’t ask me how that happened, parents are a tricky race. Granted, my dad did teach me how to do it, and helped me with the slightly messy rolling of the wrapper part. Mom helped me fry the rolls with as little oil burning and splattering as possible. In the end, the egg rolls were a big hit and added to my short short list of foods that I choose to cook.

So years later, my roommate at the time and I decided to resurrect the egg rolls for a different party, and now it’s all I do.

Of course, two parties and family…that’s a lot of egg rolls.

Step 1. Buy supplies

Step 2. Marinate meat and make super secret sauce (I used a free recipe from the internet).

Step 3. Chop like a mad beast

Step 4. Cook meat and Stir Fry with veggies

Step 5 and 6. Do Step 4 three times because your wok is too small to handle the load. Sweet!

Step 7. Wait a day because it took so long to do Steps 1-6. Then proceed to roll mini wrappers (suspiciously looking like pre-made won ton wrappers) into cute little mini egg rolls.

Step 8. Show picture of 154 mini egg rolls before they are fried because 1. it looks cool, and 2. you were too silly to remember to take a final picture of completed egg rolls. Yeah, sorry about that. In the end, I had more innards left, so I got more wrappers and made another 54 mini egg rolls for the family to share. All told, I made 208 rolls. And not one was left over!