Crap.
No no no no no no no no no no.
NO.
Just breathe.
Congrats, Little J!!
I’ve been working on baby sign language with Little J for over a month now. I was starting to feel really discouraged. I know they say it can take a while for the baby to catch on, but I felt like I’d been doing it forever and not getting through.
Well, I’m happy to say…. (more…)
Damn you, Rachael Ray!
Ok, so it wasn’t (completely) her fault. It was probably (mostly) my fault too.
As part of my quest to become a better cook, I borrowed Rachael Ray’s 365 No Repeats – A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners from the library. I perused it eagerly, bookmarking the recipes that sounded both yummy and relatively easy (coincidentally, all the recipes I marked called for chicken as the main ingredient).
Oh wow.
We were watching TV tonight, J was flipping stations. He stopped on a public access science fiction show, mostly because it was dorkily hilarious. Then one of the hosts started gushing about the upcoming Batman movie. He showed film shots and went on and on about the super-awesome costumes. And I kid you not, the host looked like…
Food, Glorious Food!
Tonight for dinner I made shoyu chicken (shoyu = soy sauce, for you mainlanders). It was soooooo good. My first whiff of it as it was simmering made me immediately long for home. It was the first time I attempted shoyu chicken. Suprisingly easy to make, if a little time-consuming. I kept having visions of my mother in the kitchen – which is funny, because my visions were of her making chicken adobo. I also cooked some “sticky rice” (as J called it). The smell of dinner was making us both nostalgic, and excited to have a little taste of Hawai’i.
Finally, the rice was done and the chicken was cooked. I served us, we sat down, pierced the chicken with our forks…and oops, apparently the chicken wasn’t cooked through. (more…)
