This is the Indonesian version of the spring or egg roll, a version of which you find in most Asian countries. For the filling you use meat, chicken or seafood and a selection of vegetables. For example you can use any combination of the following:

•White cabbage
•Bamboo shoots
•Bok Choi
•Carrots
•Bean sprouts
•Leeks
•French-cut green beans

The lumpia skins are available ready-made in most Asian supermarkets or can be made at home using the following method:

•400 gr. flour
•1 egg
•water

Mix flour and egg and add enough water to make a smooth batter mixture. Heat a large frying pan, grease it and pour in some of the mix so that only a thin film remains in the frying pan. Repeat until you have 2 skins for each lumpia (be prepared to lose a few until you have mastered this trick).

Filling ingredients:

•200 gr. boneless chicken breast
•1 medium red onion (finely cut)
•1 clove garlic (minced)
•2½ cm. ginger root (grated)
•1 tsp. sambal oelek (hot pepper paste)
•1 tsp. trassi (shrimp paste)
•300 gr. white cabbage (thinly sliced)
•250 bean sprouts
•1 small tin bamboo shoots
•1 large carrot (chopped)
•1 tbs. kecap manis (sweet Asian soy sauce)
•2 tbs. peanut oil
•Vegetable oil, for deep frying

Preparation:

Boil the chicken and after cooling, slice in strips. Set aside.
Wash and slice all the vegetables. Set aside.
Heat your wok and add the oil. Slice onion, ginger and garlic and cook together in the wok until soft. Add the sambal and trassi and cook for 2 minutes more. Add the vegetables, chicken and ketjap manis. Toss until vegetables are soft and but not over-cooked.

Place a lumpia skin on a cutting board and spoon some of the filling in the center, fold up opposite sides and then roll up, sealing the last bit of the skin with some beaten egg to make it stick.
Cook in hot oil for about 5 minutes, making sure both sides are browned equally. Serve with peanut sauce or just ketjap manis and samba or sweet and sour sauce.

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Here are a few of the moments we shared with our lovely customers this week:

Bunga seemed to be a popular bag with several of our customers this year!



Sharon Benz (wearing the black/grey) got support from her friend to buy her first Laga! Lori Jones snagged the only Bunga we had in black/red/cream and Linda Edwards (who has several Laga’s of her own) encouraged her friend Regina to buy the blue/cream who was truly pleased with her first Laga bag! Congratulations ladies!

Lorraine Harnish from APQS has been coveting co-worker Gretchen Adams’ Harapan large handbag and decided it was high time she got one of her own! Isn’t it a beauty in burgundy/black? Great choice, Lorraine!

Mothers and daughters LOVE Laga! Yet another family, Elizabeth Brigham (holding her new Pagi large in black/brown) and her daughter Barbara Denys with her Harapan small in black/grey, chose Laga to be their new handbag obsession, and we are so grateful they did!

And Kathleen Webb, from Studio 180 Designs, came to purchase three Laga bags to give as gifts to some very special (and lucky!) people in her life. She chose the Ria in black/cream and brown/red/cream and the Mudah in blue/cream. They are all so adorable, don’t you think? Thank you, Kathleen!

There are so many more pictures we took at the Lancaster show but this is just a sampling of our wonderful Laga friends and family… hopefully we can include some of those pictures in a later blog. Thank you ALL for your loyalty, support and friendship! It means the world to us and to the tsunami survivors we serve <3

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We look forward to seeing you at our next show coming up next month:

MQX New England: April 11-14
Radisson Manchester Downtown Hotel
Laga Booth #192
400 Elm Street
Manchester, New Hampshire

We hope to see you there!

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SPINACH based salad

Ingredients:

5 ounces fresh spinach (half a 10 ounce bag)
3/4 cup chopped celery
3/4 cup dried cranberries
1 can (15 ounces) mandarin oranges – or fresh Cuties or Halos
or 1 cup of pomegranate seeds
1 large Granny Smith Apple
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/3 cup pecans
Optional: Feta cheese & Orecchiette (little ears) pasta

Dressing:
4 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
2-4 teaspoons white sugar – Or use Honey to taste or Stevia
1/8 teaspoon each: paprika, onion powder
1 tablespoon poppyseeds

Throw it all together!

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