Summer Rolls and Mochi! Hooray!

After my 9:00am dentist appointment, I thought I'd reward myself with a trip to the asian supermarket. Ever since I tasted mochi ice cream treats - little bonbons of ice cream covered in mochi - in Hawaii, I've been craving them. (Ha, now that I looked on wikipedia for mochi, I see it's available at Trader Joe's - so maybe it's not that exotic anymore...) Nevertheless, I hit the jackpot at the asian store. They had green tea, red bean, and mango flavors. I decided to get the green tea and the mango:

I also bought a bunch of other stuff for making sushi and for summer rolls. I decided since I had to get rid of some lettuce and green onions, I'd make some summer rolls when I got home. It was my first time, so I was kind of nervous working with rice paper! But I think I figured it out pretty well:

Thanks to some cooking tips from Miss K, I was pretty sure I could come up with something tasty. They're stuffed with romaine lettuce, tofu (fried in sesame oil, ginger, soy sauce, lime), mint leaves, green onion, and rice vermicelli. Yum! Dipping sauce is soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, ginger, & a splash orange-mango juice.