i know i know - it's been awhile. but w/ the whole chinese new year thang, ayi had her own fishballs to fry and we gave her 10 days off. like most of china. including our DAILY newspaper. who'da thunk?
anywayze, we're back at it. and i have a few pix to post to play catsup. but i'll start w/ today, and move back thru the week, if you can stomach it. not so sure i did. but i made a new old friend. learned i can pocket a bottle of tabasco everytime we head out to our fambly friendly haunt (blue frog) (but i promised the teachers i'd stay away from their friday nites - cuz that's when they hang out there - 2fers - till 8pm.
anywayze, we're back at it. and i have a few pix to post to play catsup. but i'll start w/ today, and move back thru the week, if you can stomach it. not so sure i did. but i made a new old friend. learned i can pocket a bottle of tabasco everytime we head out to our fambly friendly haunt (blue frog) (but i promised the teachers i'd stay away from their friday nites - cuz that's when they hang out there - 2fers - till 8pm.
ok ok. back to plate presentation. nothing's improved. did we actually think it might after an extended leave? i bought new plates (they're red). but i think they're too much trouble to get out of the butterfly cabinet. i somehow think it improves the taste of dinners of late.
this? methinks it's my arugula along w/ the daikon radish she bought on monday. mixed w/ the rest of the bottle of sesame oil. that's all i taste. radish. oil. arugula. served room temp. not bad. but a bit too oily for my taste. but now i have no arugula left for MY evening salad (of mixed greens that i guard closely or they'll be served up cooked, for lunch).
cabbage. 2nd time this week. but today it's yellow. i dunno why it's so yellow. she doesn't use any of my spices. otherwise, i'd think tumeric. maybe just too much chicken flavored msg. oh. and pepper. and garlic cloves. we use a lot of garlic here. whole and cloven.
no zhu rou today.
instead? i get this.
the gristly bits of the steak we cooked a week ago. might have been last TUESDAY - the last day of the holiday. i distinctly remember not being able to actually EAT my meal cuz we had pop in visitors with perfect timing (just off the grill) that wouldn't leave. so we just packed the whole thing up (baked potato, sauteed mushrooms and all) in hopes that we'd eat it the next day (or the next day or the day after that). apparently, there was still some left for lunch today (WEDNESDAY). and since she's painfully aware i'm not fond of the zhu rou, this was deemed an acceptable protein replacement.
the gristly bits of the steak we cooked a week ago. might have been last TUESDAY - the last day of the holiday. i distinctly remember not being able to actually EAT my meal cuz we had pop in visitors with perfect timing (just off the grill) that wouldn't leave. so we just packed the whole thing up (baked potato, sauteed mushrooms and all) in hopes that we'd eat it the next day (or the next day or the day after that). apparently, there was still some left for lunch today (WEDNESDAY). and since she's painfully aware i'm not fond of the zhu rou, this was deemed an acceptable protein replacement.
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