As the wife and mother, I feel that it is my duty to provide home-cooked meals for the family. Back in the States it was easy to prepare creative and delicious food, but here I've felt handicapped in the kitchen.
The obstacles: Familiar spices, seasonings and sauces are unavailable. It can take guts to buy raw meat (is that a pun?). Drew just recently bought me a big toaster oven, but we lack baking pans.
The advantages (aka things that we're so thankful for): We've got two awesome gas burners, a wok and two pots. Virtually any vegetable is readily accessible. There's meat, cooking oil, soy sauce, flour, sugar, ketchup and red pepper flakes galore. Our kitchen has a small fridge to keep food fresh.
I am feeling so much more encouraged after today! My teammate Portia helped me to navigate the meat market, so I bought a couple chicken breasts. I'm planning to make both American and Chinese food. We feel thankful for the relative ease of enjoying nutritious meals here in our home.
(By the way, I'm waiting for a couple pictures from the mountain hike -- coming soon.)-- Rachel for all
Wow. Doesn't look too bad. I must admit that after 5 months we still don't have any food in our fridge, but then again we are just two single guys. I might cook one day though :) .
ReplyDeleteHey, my roommate and I were playing with the idea of jumping over to Changsha one of these weekends and wondered what you thought about it?
Anyways, hope you are doing well!
Looks delicious! Can we come for dinner? ;-)
ReplyDeleteWow that looks good! Drew, you are one lucky dude!
ReplyDeleteI'm so proud of you for your positive outlook! And I'm glad you have a friend to help you navigate the meat market. :) I'm sure before long you'll be a pro at cooking in your new situation. :)
ReplyDeleteI'll continue to remember your beautiful family. Thanks for those specific things to lift up! And thanks for posting pictures! :) I really enjoy reading and seeing about you guys. You're missed here. :)