I went to the farmers market(ish) bizarre this morning and came home with some great spoils: tons of green chiles, red onions, potatoes, carrots, fresh garlic, lettuce, cilantro, tomatoes, pumpkin, chicken bouillon (of all things) and salt and pepper (all for about...oh $4). I brought them home and frantically cleaned my apartment (to have official guests over) and began planning a menu. I knew I wanted to make a nice salad since those are hard to make in the guesthouse and aren't common to be ordered at the restaurants around. I also decided on some roasted pumpkin with a little olive oil and honey, a spicy meatball soup, breaded chicken fingers (since I had chicken to use up), and roasted asparagus.
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| Giving the Asian sign for excitement! |
Cooking in China has been a little difficult so far just since I haven't fully decided to 'stock' my kitchen yet. That means that I really only have a wok and a very small sauce pan to cook in (although I do have a rice cooker and a blender as well...wohoo). Beijing also doesn't have ovens...but Rob lent me a little toaster oven so that will have to make do. Everything actually came together quite nicely with the only real challenge being that the soup I made was a smaller pot then I usually make for 4 people. It did turn out DELICIOUS though! I originally wasn't sure what type of soup it was going to be. I was thinking potato (ish). But I kept adding to it and then eventually decided to make some meatballs to go with it and...boom...it was was a winning combination. At 7:30 on the dot (even though we planned on eating at 7:00...lol) Chris, Enoch and Brenda showed up at the door hungry and demanding food! So we all sat down to eat :-)
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| My first dinner guests :-) |
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| Chris giving Brenda the Googely eye. |
That's all for now,
Zaijian,
Gary
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