Some kind of rice and vegetable dish comes to my mind.

Egg rolls and/or hot and sour soup. Lots of egg rolls, I love them! Egg drop soup is good also, but egg rolls are the best.

This is a very good Egg Drop Soup that is very hearty.

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/egg_drop_soup/

Soup sounds good. Even when the filling is piping hot, lettuce wraps eat like cold. If you want to go meaty, maybe individual riblets? For warmer weather, fermented vegetables/pickles, with eggs if you want more protein.

Mmmmm, soup does sound good.

Egg foo young? If you got a fresh veg like broccoli or green beans, you can garlic and ginger them up.

Thanks for the ideas - egg rolls seem like a plan. I've been wanted to try a baked veggie version that I've saved. Bonus is that I ca make extra and freeze.

One thing I have "invented" and enjoyed all winter.

Sushi is nice and healthy, but not that healthy. It's kind of unbalanced. Just starch and protein, no veggies. Very lacking some nutrients.

With my high power LED grow lights, I always have a huge supply of lettuce.

Lettuce wrapped sushi is delicious!

dcarch

I've been planning a similar dinner for later this week and am serving this Forbidden Rice Salad Forbidden-rice-salad-to accompany these: cabbage wraps jamie-olivers-steamed-asian-chicken-parcels

I make the salad with toasted sesame oil and just a tiny bit of other oil and a bit more tamari than they call for. It's really good and very substantial.

That salad sounds great - I will have to keep my eyes open for forbidden rice. I have access to a plethora of Asian food stores, so shouldn't have trouble finding it. Does it take longer to cook than say, brown rice?

No, it's about the same cooking time, I believe, if not shorter. The recipe says to boil it about 30 min, then let it set off the burner while preparing the other ingredients

I will have to try it - thanks!

DCarch, are you using the lettuce instead of rice or instead of nori?

While my husband likes them well enough, he considers them an appetizer rather than a meal.

Perhaps a side of steak? ;)

nekotish

DCarch, are you using the lettuce instead of rice or instead of nori?

I pick a few large lettuce leaves from my planter and wrap a piece of sushi roll with a touch of wasabi and enjoy.

It is considered proper to eat sushi using your fingers.

dcarch

Some guacamole, warm black beans/salsa side dish, cheese of choice, flour or corn tortillas ....and they could make fajitas or tacos.

We had tacos last night but I like same ingredients but lettuce wraps, DH had corn tortillas.

I ended up making baked egg rolls based on a Canadian Living Recipe. They were pretty easy to make, although my wrapping technique needs work!