We saw these made on TV and decided that it would be fun to give them a try. There were fun and actually fairly easy to make. We used a couple of fake meats in them but that didn't turn out too well. The cool adn groovy thing about these is that your meat eater can put meat in theirs without contaminating the veggie rolls. We are also still trying to find a good dipping sauce, probably a sweet and sour sauce would pretty well.
Make sure all your veggies are cut and your lettuce seperated into leaves, this will make things easier. Wet a towel and lay it out on the counter. Get a large bowl of warm water. Now you're ready.
Take a sheet of rice paper. You can probably find these in your local chinese market in the section with the egg roll wraps. They are big, round and translucent. Put the sheet into the water. Work it around until it doesn't have any hard spots in it and it extremely flexable. Take it out of the water and lay it out flat on the towel, making sure that it's not folded under itself.
Now add your veggies (and meat) to the end closest to you. Finish up with a leaf of lettuce rolled up nicely. Now comes the tricky part. Hold all your veggies down and pull the end of the wrapper closest to you up over them. Using firm but not hard pressure, hold the veggies and end of the wrap and roll it forward. Do it again and you should have a nice roll started, using about 1/4 to 1/2 of the wrap. Then fold the side in and finish rolling the whole deal until you get to the end. When you are finished you should have something that looks not unlike a burrito.
You can either eat it whole or you can take a sharp knife and cut the roll into several pieces. This is really easier than it seems. The rice paper wrap is much tougher than you might think as well.
Have fun and experiment with fillings and sauces.