Holiday time is here, which means ugly sweater parties and potlucks galore. Of course as a studio we planned a holiday party to take place as a reward for making it through fall semester. I pressured everyone into making it an ugly sweater party and because we're all broke graduate students this is a perfect time to bring food together and share.

I personally made some Vietnamese pork eggrolls and it turns out I like making spring rolls because the thiner wrapper is much easier to fry but these are just learning curves I find by trying to make traditional foods away from home and just far enough away from asian grocery stores to find the exact ingredients I recognize.

I also used this opportunity to use Christel's kitchen because her apartment is much more accessible from school after work, class, and climbing and just more conveniently placed to go to the party. This meant, however, that I was designated helper to make her dishes - spam masubi and tomago!!!

I've never made either before but I'm pretty handy in the kitchen and learn fast so our process went smoothly. Christel already made the egg part of the tomago before I arrived and had the rice ready to be balled up. While I fried/baked my eggrolls she cooked her spam, made her sauce, and we were ready to roll.

We went assembly line style which is pretty typical for us with Christel portioning off rice and me rolling. We made quite a bunch of stuff and were a big hit at the potluck and I'm pretty proud of us and I've never had spam masubi or homemade tomago before but I'm ready to eat this again.