to a healthy 2012?

Hey ya'll,
I haven't posted in a while, hope everyone had a great holiday season!
Now it's back to work and attempting to adhere to our New Year's resolutions....
in honor of those I have a couple healthy ideas to pass on:
#1. roasted red peppers

I love red pepper, but roasted red pepper is especially delicious!  They are super easy to make too, just cut out the stem and seeds & flatten them onto a piece of aluminum foil on the broiler pan.

 I check mine about every 5 minutes and move them around if they aren't blackening evenly.
They should look close to this when they are done.

The entire skin should be wrinkled and mostly blackened.  If you still have smooth red areas, they need to stay in longer.  At this point, use tongs to place the peppers in a ziploc or tight sealing container and let them sit 10-15 minutes.  After being steamed, the skin of the pepper should just slide off and they are ready.  I made wraps for my lunch last week with hummus and my roasted red peppers-yum!

My second recipe is spring rolls.
At the local sushi place, I had honey-Sriracha sauce for the first time and fell in love.... it's dangerously addicting, I should warn you!  So that's what I make first so it can sit and stew for a little bit--simple ingredients:

I put them both in a small saucepan and it's up to you how hot you want it.  When the sauce seemed pretty uniform I transferred it to a bowl while I made the rolls. 
For the spring rolls, I chopped up spearmint, thai basil, and cilantro.  I have made spring rolls before and skipped the mint and basil, they were really bland--you need the herbs!  I slightly boiled some red pepper and carrots strips until they were just softened.

The name of these rice papers cracks me up!  They are really easy to use though, I just fill a pie pan with boiling water and drop them in one at a time.  Transfer the paper to a cutting board and fill them up with your herbs, veggies, cellophane noodles (which after they were cooked I juiced an entire lime over them....), and some bean sprouts!

Needless to say, there were no leftovers!