Thursday, August 5, 2010

Just Hand Over the Recipes Nice and Slow. There's a Good Chap.

Hey guys,



Our homestay is all that we could have expected and more! I'm learning a lot about the culture and language. Although, due to an unnamed hyper three-year-old girl, I'll probably be able to successfully name the characters of Winnie the Pooh before I can understand vocabulary about the weather and time. It's great fun, though.



I look forward to every meal, and I've even learned how to cook some things. Of course, I'll have to hear it many more times to remember. But that's the fun. We made dumplings last week, which took ages, but it was awesome.








The pictures you see on this page are as follows: tofu and mushroom dish, me stuffing a dumpling, a row of dumplings created by ourselves, a unique anonymous fruit that was quite yummy, a half-eaten chicken foot, and some vegetable soup.




It’s kind of hard to eat chicken foot because there’s really no meat! I guess you just have to chew the skin off. It doesn’t taste bad, though. Really. You should try it.




If you want a simple recipe for soup, try this. Boil some spinach or another vegetable in water until it’s soft, add salt, ginger, spring onions, and chicken bouillon. It’s really quite simple. You could also add garlic.







Well, that's a little bit about the food here! Please continue to yarp for us as we adjust. We have started working on homework, but we have yet to meet and make relationships with college students, since there's still a month before school starts. We can't wait for the opportunity.

Thank you!