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[usnuzuloose]

Have a good nap!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Okay, who has a low fat recipe for chinese ?

 

[skiingfast]

Have a good nap!

Yes sleep well and enjoy a weekend nap.

Okay, who has a low fat recipe for chinese ?

Just don't use oil.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Then what do you use?

 

[franandaj]

You gotta love the Chinese.....'LRot' of "pee-prel" indeed!

So I have a really funny story with Yasu. Evidently it is a Japanese tradition that when someone passes, you create a shrine in the house with pictures of the deceased and place a rice bowl with chopsticks in it so that they may be well fed in the afterlife. We have had a lot of cats and Yasu takes lots of pictures of the cats when he is here doing laundry.

When those cats eventually pass away he always sends us an assortment of pictures that he has taken over the years. We had two cats that were sister that were named by Fran's ex'es daughter, Henry Lee and Jimmy Lee (evidently born around when Kathy Lee was popular). They were very old and passed earlier this year. When Yasu found out that they died, he sent everyone who works in the office and Fran and I emails with pictures of the cats, the subject: Jimmy and Henley.

Is that possible? Everytime I get take out chinese, the left overs rarely make it to the next day.

You just don't buy enough!

In my case, my picture shots have to be VERY QUICKLY taken. Stir fry and long set-up times for cameras do not mix.

So, by inference, I spend more time preparing food for eating; than setting up a camera for food porn.

And for the record....even before I picked up a camera, I was always preparing my food and arranging it similar to how they look in the 'before' shots. Just something that you pick up as a child to do from the various mother's and auntie's kitchens. It is more efficient to have things in tidy piles before you start cooking....as with stir fries and Asian cooking, you need to have ALL the prep done beforehand.
I haven't done anything special or different since getting my camera.

The French call is "mise en place"

No update on Fran since this morning...she was cranky. The nurse came late.

I haven't posted an update, but her foot looks really better. Yesterday it was shiny and red and glazed, today it looks like a foot. Like I said she got a shot in the hip yesterday and this morning got a drip IV. But this thing that she is on now is like the bomb that we dropped on Hiroshima of antibiotics. It takes no prisoners, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Evidently she had it three years ago when she was admitted to a hospital for pneumonia. So the Dr. decided not to cut the crap and just went for the big guns.

Hopefully she is full of beef and broccoli. I mean Alison.

No we don't get that. From this place we like fried wontons, hot n sour soup, mu shi pork and she likes sweet and sour pork. We got Chicken Fried rice as well. I think I need another helping.

Okay, who has a low fat recipe for chinese ?

I have a great Egg Foo Young Recipe. I posted it on a LTP thread, but I still need to post it on the WFD thread. It's very healthy and tasty too!

Time to start the drugs!

 

[queenie82]

Do any of you know how to make nice Chinese bun 'packages'?
I mean the white ones...like for traditional Shanghai buns.

I've had slightly varying tastes...with the shanghai being the nicest I think.
The most common...pork bun found at every chinese takeaway in Aussie food courts...is nice...but I was just wondering if anyone has made it before?

A friend of mine...her mum has a recipe for a LOVELY bun casing but it is complicated and strenuous to make. Her dad loves it (as do I)...but my friend has stopped her mum making it as she has shoulder troubles.

Anyway..
Just a curiosity....
I like the bun as much as the filling....sometimes more

 

[queenie82]

Glad Fran is doing better. It's probably one of the cocktail they use for suspected meningococcal. They don't mess around with that either...
Although I know one of those requires heart monitoring so it probably isn't that one...

Make sure you take care of yourself while you care for her

 

[usnuzuloose]

I am glad to hear she is doing better. I guess I will wait for you to post it on WFD.

 

[franandaj]

Glad Fran is doing better. It's probably one of the cocktail they use for suspected meningococcal. They don't mess around with that either...
Although I know one of those requires heart monitoring so it probably isn't that one...

Make sure you take care of yourself while you care for her

Thanks! I did take a sort of nap today. I better go feed the kids so that when her bag is done we can go to bed.

I am glad to hear she is doing better. I guess I will wait for you to post it on WFD.

It may be a while....I should look for it on the last to post threads.....

 

[skiingfast]

I have a great Egg Foo Young Recipe. I posted it on a LTP thread, but I still need to post it on the WFD thread. It's very healthy and tasty too!

Hmm I may need some bean spouts. Egg foo young sounds good.

 

[PrincessInOz]

WOW! I slept the afternoon away!

 

[kmedina]

Strep took me out of the loop for a few days (all the way from page 1 to 22). I am never current lately, because it takes too much reading to catch up. At least, I am last!

 

[queenie82]

WOW! I slept the afternoon away!

You missed some news then...go turn on the tv or go to smh.com.au




Sorry you've been ill kmedina

 

[PrincessInOz]

Strep took me out of the loop for a few days (all the way from page 1 to 22). I am never current lately, because it takes too much reading to catch up. At least, I am last!

Sorry you've been ill.

 

[PrincessInOz]

You missed some news then...go turn on the tv or go to smh.com.au




Sorry you've been ill kmedina

My home page is the Age. I've already caught up.


This will put bring the clause that the government put into the Qantas Sale contract into play. The government will be intevening at some stage.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Kmedina, hope you feel better. Glad somebody got some good sleep.

Ahh egg foo young love it.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Well, I know that kmedina has been working on much less sleep....but I was not good today with a distinct lack of sleep last night.

 

[franandaj]

So what's the Aussie news? I've just fininshed our 11:00 news and they don't seem to cover anything international.

 

[skiingfast]

My home page is the Age. I've already caught up.


This will put bring the clause that the government put into the Qantas Sale contract into play. The government will be intevening at some stage.

What happened? Do you have a link?

Strep took me out of the loop for a few days (all the way from page 1 to 22). I am never current lately, because it takes too much reading to catch up. At least, I am last!

I'm glad you are feeling better.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Qantas, our ever UNreliable national carrier has been in a very bitter dispute with its staff over pay and wages. Been going on publically for the better part of about 3 months now.
The Shareholder Annual General Meeting was yesterday. The CEO requested and got a pay rise. His pay will go from $3plus Million to over $5 Million. It prompted a shareholder walk-out.

ALL FLIGHTS GROUNDED now.

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/qantas-grounds-all-flights-20111029-1mpao.html