Cinnamondee

Hot and Sour

We made some Tom Yum soup tonight.  C-girl and W's favorite. 

She gets to smash the lemongrass...

C-boy is too destructive, that would end up a mess if I let him do that. 

So he gets to tear up the kaffir leaves-add both to boiling water

 

Then all that's left is add some mushrooms, firm tofu(or shrimp if you eat seafood), broccoli, lime juice and stinky fish sauce- sprinkle some cilantro and/or Thai chili sauce if you like it hot like W...

Serve with rice and smiles

 

(that looks like a thumbs sideways, but I'm assured its a thumbs up)

Here's a easy recipe link (we changed some stuff to suit the kids taste).

Memories of it still, keep calling

Going through my kids backpacks, I found their Japanese eraser collections.  These totally reminded me of the ceramic and metal pin craze circa 1980-ish.  So a shout out to that and to Nonnahs who totally remembers. I can never get myself to purge this crap, goodness the memories they bring back of fun times!  I can't believe what ridiculous stuff I still have-

If you grew up on Oahu, anywhere near Pearl City, there was 'Summers' Place' where we would spend hours looking at the pins. 

 

Good grief, I don't get it now but it was fun back in the day.

Ollie's got a new pad courtesy of Costco extra boxes.  This is the second one C-girl has made.  The first got partially ingested.  Cute dog, just not the brightest bulb.

 

In other recycling around the house - we try to do as much of not throwing away as possible since our pledge to go 5 weeks with one kitchen bag this time around -

 

C-boy has taken the empty cartons I was saving for who knows what (we don't have tetrapak recycling here but the kind lady at our State Recycling has informed me instead that ALL of our household trash like tetrapaks are sent to Hpower for incineration for energy- I am sincerely doubting it ALL goes there but it seems like a nice fantasy nevertheless. She either doesn't read the news or thinks I don't) So anywho,the cartons are now in his room and a great addition to Buzz Lightyears' space program. 

And the 5 weeks of one kitchen bag goes on, we're on week 3 and lots of room left.  Yes, even after W bought a Vietnamese takeout in a moment of weakness on Sunday night when he was left by himself.  Sabotager.