When I could eat again…!

I am doing extremely well.  Not only do I jog 1 hour/4 miles daily non-stop, I study the bible non-stop all day and cook for my kids.  One of the ladies at the healing room prayed over my swelling leg and declared that I should no longer fear what I could or couldn’t eat for I am healed.  So….!!!  These days, I’ve been reaching for anything I feel like.  Dark chocolate, chicken, even pork.  I could eat home made char siu bao (roasted pork buns), Chinese glutinous rice rolls.  When I went to the Bay Area last time, I scoffed off a whole bag of Hong Kong’s signature egg puffs off the sidewalk in Oakland Chinatown, just with minimum sweetness.  I was in heaven.  These days, I noticed that when my leg swells up a little bit due to bread or cream cheese or the irritable egg, I just need to down some homemade kim-chi with rice cakes Korean style and the swelling goes down.  Magic food for inflammation.  If you have arthritis and swelling and the like, eat super spicy food.  Last time I had Pakistani food and Thai food at restaurants  and even though they were not organic, I had no swelling at all because of the spice.  Life is incredibly delicious!!

Fun Videos

My daughter sent us this “I Am An Expert” video and since she’s entering the field of hardware design, this video probably prepares her.  My kids for some reason all enjoyed this very much.

The old Kowloon City

Here are some photos from one of the most unusual section of Kowloon, Hong Kong.   You could see a lot more at the google images here.

A very fun Cantonese idioms list with illustration

My daughter who couldn’t speak Cantonese for the life of her found this entry of some of more common Cantonese idioms with illustrations.  It’s so fun to read these things again.  So if you want to learn a bit of Cantonese, start here.

Prep time

My husband was jealous that I bought my teenage boys have a tiger and a dog from Costco for their chairs as support and he wanted one to take to work. So I bought him one too but he didn’t dare in the end to take it to work. So while he’s gone, the husky gets to do the prep for his class.

Sunsets in Washington

These shots were from my previous home in Washington.
 

My Town

Some occasional shots of my town.

At a pastel event.

 

This dude walks his yaks daily.

At a bird festival.

The lowly ant

It could pull many times its weight!

 

What’s On The Stove

This weekend, I made water chestnut with chicken with a bit of hot sauce, rice wine, white vinegar; typical Cantonese dish of marinated tofu, cubed mushroom, Szechwan preserved vegeteable and diced pork; and black bean sauced eggplant.  On Friday, I spent a whole day making taro root cake – mashed up all the boiled taro root, mix with rice flour or cornstarch or flour or a bit of every type of flour, dried shrimp, shitake mushroom and marinated pork bits.  Stick it into the microwave for 20 mins instead of steaming it and then the next day, pan fry slices.

Birds at the marsh

Here are some of the birds we saw today at the local marsh.