The Magic Bullet

We decided to use some saved up Kohl's cash for a couple home appliances; we bought a Shark floor steam cleaner (to use on all our tile...swiffer wasn't doing the job) and a magic Bullet thingy.  I primarily wanted the bullet to chop up shrimp finely so I could use it for my Lumpia. We found a huge Asian market chain called "Super H Mart" that has so much stuff we've never heard of but want to try. Produce was fresh and cheap as well.

We found the perfect lumpia wrappers--generally the wrappers carried in most stores are too thick to make lumpia properly--with a thin crispy texture, not bubbly:

I had made a batch of them with ground turkey/ ground pork, but wanted something more flavorful. The rolls were quickly eaten up by John, myself and Norman, but I froze half to fry fresh later. We also were able to find the yummy dipping sauce:

I was a little disappointed with my bullet as far as dicing the shrimp; it sorta pureed some and left other shrimp whole. So I didn't do that many with shrimp. I also made a few with cream cheese, and think I'll try using crab next time.

    But the bullet does come in handy when I want to make smoothies for the kids without using the huge blender, which takes up a lot of space in dishwasher. The kids each get their own cup and drink it all too! It's great since we have been stocking up on fruits from Costco, and I don't want them to go bad. For these smoothies I used mango, raspberry, strawberry, banana, carrot and a little orange juice. Makes me feel like a good mom for a minute :)