A couple of things that made me smile.
The Instructions on the teabag box - "Brewing the HIRAMEKI way"
1) Pour freshly boiled water and cover for 2-3 mins.
2) Whilst waiting, take a deep breath and bring your arms up into a 'L' shape. Keeping the 'L' lift your left knee to your right elbow, then your right knee to your left elbow. Do 10 sets. This exercise is good for your mind. (I think you have to be sitting down but it forgets to mention that!)
3) Dunk the teabag 5 times then remove. Now you tea is ready.
4) As you enjoy the taste, see the world from a different point of view. See, you've got HIRAMEKI!
Secondly, there have been some pretty terrible floods here which obviously didn't make me smile but in an article about them, it was reported that 16 live fish and 40 live crabs had escaped from a restaurant in the floods, now that made me smile! They even had a comment from the restaurant owner "perhaps someone will be lucky enough to find them".
For the Foodies
We cooked our first home cooked meal tonight which was nice, and we used the rice cooker which was so easy we're not sure why we've never owned one! We're defo getting one when we get back, rice is cooked perfectly fluffy. We cooked chicken, with cashew nuts, lots of Asian veggies inc three different types of mushrooms (Enokitake, Oyster & Buna Shimeji)- I love mushrooms! Dave & I often have mushroom disagreements as I put them in everything whilst he follows these funny little rules like 'they're not supposed to be in Chilli Con Carne'.
The Ingredients
Just look at all the yummie Shrooms!
The Dish!
Mushrooms are great, but I have to concur with Dave on the chilli con carne rule.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried Singapore Chicken Rice yet? It's way tastier than the name would make it seem... local specialty, should be available everywhere.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am definitely right about the Chilli rule. Mexican's would not put Mushrooms in their Chilli! Had a funny argument with Jayme about this that night, and successfully managed to twist her argument on it's head when I (very surreptitiously) got her to admit that she doesn't agree with non-british sausages going into Sausages and Mash.. at which point I said "...Because British people wouldn't make it like that..." and she said "Exactly!!" Only when I started laughing did she realise she had just been done!! We laughed for a long time about that one ;)
ReplyDeleteAhh but I would put mushroom gravy on top of my English sausages and mash! ;)
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