I had a serious hankering for egg rolls today. I have no idea where this craving came from, but I sought out to satisfy it. I've only assisted in making egg rolls once in my early teen years with my mom, and I had no recipes stashed away, so I had to look around to find something that sounded like would satisfy me and wouldn't be too hard to make. After googling for a bit, I came across a recipe for southwest egg rolls. This took me back to the summer after graduating high school when I worked at Bennigan's and I spent half of my tips earned on their egg rolls (and the other half on chicken strips for the cute teenaged-sailor that would eventually become my husband). Their egg rolls, though not traditional, are to die for and I have never thought about trying to recreating it. I had to look up the appropriate dipping sauce to go along with it, and luckily I found one!

"healthify" the egg rolls by baking them. The egg rolls definitely tasted baked, giving the wrapper a gummy, chewy texture. Not exactly an indicator of a good egg roll, I know. Next time I think I will compromise and saute them in a smidge of olive oil or cooking spray, just to help give it a crispier crunch. As for the filling, the spinach was a real turn off to me and the kiddos. But, to be fair, we aren't big cooked spinach fans to begin with. I opted to add corn, and am glad that I did, but next time I personally will skip the spinach since it was too overpowering for us. All in all, we weren't too thrilled with our egg rolls, but it has nothing to do with the actual recipe - half of the issue was the way I chose to cook it, and the other half was a personal preference issue. Other than that, I think it will be an amazing dish! I will do my personal modifications for next time, but if you choose to fry the egg rolls in oil, I'm sure your outcome will be far, far from disappointing. Especially if you serve it with the sweet pineapple pepper sauce - it makes for an amazing combination! I guess Bennigan's knew what they were doing pairing the two together! I will be making these again very, very soon, as I can imagine how wonderful these will be next time!