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So it seems. For another week.
More money: yay!
More boredom: boo!
Although, I guess, given it'll be testing and fixing time, it'll probably be long hours and crazy demands, and realising just how badly I designed things the first time... *shudders*
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Bible Study is having a potluck dinner this week. Which was prompted by a photo of some mapo tofu I made, which one of the women gushed over. Except that she's not going to be at bible study this week! And the other people in the bible study are doing heavier dishes - fondue, etc.
Mapo Tofu is really a comfortable food, for eating with steamed rice and freshly cooked simple vegetables (broccoli in salt and garlic, steamed bok-choi in oyster sauce). It's not something you have with fondue!
So I'll make a Vietnamese rice noodle salad, with roast pork crackling on the side.
- buy the roast pork crackling to go on top
- lettuces, carrots, spring onions, coriander (add-in), rice noodles
- chilli sauce, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar (add brown sugar as necessary), ginger, maybe garlic?
MUST REMEMBER TO CHECK FOR GLUTEN FREE (I mean, you don't expect it in fish sauce or rice wine vinegar, but who even knows these days)
And that will be a nice, light contrast to the creamy heaviness of the cheese fondue (and the chocolate fondue that will follow).
The bible study leaders were all "but it's okay, just make the tofu anyway!" But I can't.
Look, if B1 ever finishes her studies and we get the space cleared up, then I will 100% put on a Chinese feast for my peoples: stewed pork, ong tsoi, rice, noodle salad, steamed fish, mapo tofu, steamed broccoli - the whole hog. But I can't serve mapo tofu with fondue. It's just...wrong.
More money: yay!
More boredom: boo!
Although, I guess, given it'll be testing and fixing time, it'll probably be long hours and crazy demands, and realising just how badly I designed things the first time... *shudders*
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Bible Study is having a potluck dinner this week. Which was prompted by a photo of some mapo tofu I made, which one of the women gushed over. Except that she's not going to be at bible study this week! And the other people in the bible study are doing heavier dishes - fondue, etc.
Mapo Tofu is really a comfortable food, for eating with steamed rice and freshly cooked simple vegetables (broccoli in salt and garlic, steamed bok-choi in oyster sauce). It's not something you have with fondue!
So I'll make a Vietnamese rice noodle salad, with roast pork crackling on the side.
- buy the roast pork crackling to go on top
- lettuces, carrots, spring onions, coriander (add-in), rice noodles
- chilli sauce, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar (add brown sugar as necessary), ginger, maybe garlic?
MUST REMEMBER TO CHECK FOR GLUTEN FREE (I mean, you don't expect it in fish sauce or rice wine vinegar, but who even knows these days)
And that will be a nice, light contrast to the creamy heaviness of the cheese fondue (and the chocolate fondue that will follow).
The bible study leaders were all "but it's okay, just make the tofu anyway!" But I can't.
Look, if B1 ever finishes her studies and we get the space cleared up, then I will 100% put on a Chinese feast for my peoples: stewed pork, ong tsoi, rice, noodle salad, steamed fish, mapo tofu, steamed broccoli - the whole hog. But I can't serve mapo tofu with fondue. It's just...wrong.
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And yes, food combinations: VERY IMPORTANT. I mean, they mean well, but...it just doesn't fit!
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