Archive for January, 2007

bok choy done on the bbq living in a small, now independent country that has been invaded in the past by not one, but two other nations, leads to much reflection about my home country and the way history is prioritised and celebrated. which meant that on friday night a few of us stayed at [...]


green beans and pumpkin all i’ve been wanting to eat are green beans lately. this is one variation on the green bean theme. freshly milked coconut, red curry paste and fulap pumpkin and beans, served on top of rice noodles. we had a lovely household dinner sitting around the table on the deck, eating and [...]


my family are visiting (an excuse for a tropical holiday, i say) and so i took them to an island closeup to my town for a night. we drove (me! driving a manual on the right!) about 80kms to the other side of my island, caught a speedboat for an hour across the sea, and [...]


tofu dumplings

09Jan07

dumpling soup i’ve had my eyes on a 1kg packet of frozen wonton wrappers at au bon marche for the past few weeks; they’re 1500vatu and so its a big committment to make. then last saturday i was browsing the freezers at the chew store and found a kilo pack of wrappers for 700vatu – [...]


fish and chips

09Jan07

not chicken, fish one of the local supermarkets sells a fish they like to call deep sea code. i prefer cod, but regardless of the name, it tastes like chicken when cooked. tonight we had a collaborative cooking adventure; home fries canadian style (the oven did make the kitchen hotter than it was outside), deep [...]



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