One of the easiest dinners to prepare is the grill. Well, it's really one of those electric griddles, but same thing. This is a form of the popular "cook and roll as you eat" dining concept in Vietnamese cuisine, and probably most other Asian countries as well (Korean comes to mind). What are we serving up tonight? Well, we aren't using rice paper (which is odd because my sister absolutely loves rice paper; she will roll a spring roll and give it a good satisfying sniff before eating it) tonight. On the grill will be the meats of pre-sliced beef, pre-sliced lamb, shrimp and squid (at the hubster's request of course). Alongside these meats we'll also be grilling regular onion, green onion and some dill.
(my sister thoughtfully separated the beef from the others with the onions for me)
How to eat: grab a lettuce leaf. Add some herbs (tonight we were using only basil in addition to the lettuce... at least that's the only other thing I was using). Add some of the banh hoi (super thin rice noodles) if you'd like. Add the meat (or shrimp or squid... not me!) and some of the grilled onions. Add a sliced cucumber. Roll it all up as best as you can (the lettuce leaf serves as the "paper"), and dip into prepared fish sauce. It may get messy, but it is tasty.
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