Chicken say "What?"

So we may have had home made ramen tonight or we may have had chicken noodle soup. I say this because though we were shooting for ramen and the noodles were not your standard chicken noodle soup noodles the broth was right on the money. We used the last of the stock from the last time we made chicken salad and man was that some tasty soup. Clear and refreshing with some green peas, diced onion and celery.

I was in charge of the tofu and went with tofu steaks in peanut sauce again. I am going to try and take down the number of ingrediants in the sauce. I think I may be able to get away with peanut butter, cooking sake, vinegar, garlic and pepper. The peanuts have enough oil and salt to get away with not adding any soy sauce, salt or sesame oil. The sesame oil does have something extra but may not be necessary. I did not put in fresh ginger tonight which is definitely a mistake. However, it was still super yummy and both kids powered theirs back. The Mrs and I also partook of some home grown ggplant fried up in the pan with the tofu. So good. Anytime you are frying eggplant make sure you have the right amount of oil. Too little and things go horribly awry. Too much and things get very sloppy. Delicate balance there.

So the real question for this evening; Was this meal vegetarian?

Thursday: The return of Cabbage.

So with the end of the coleslaw you may have been thankfully saying good by to the purple cabbage. And yet what is this before your eyes but more of the intensely coloured vegetable. My crafty wife used the rest of the head in a veggie stir fry. Quite delicious and oh so healthy. We also scored some cold tofu salad type thing, just a sec.... "hi ya yakko". Food for the daring. However, a perfect of example of give me a child and I will make you a zealot. I am always amazed by the power of suggestion that parents have over their children. Through constant repetition my wife has convinced my children that they love food which I consider marginal fare at best. So there you go. Your weird eating habits can be blamed on the whims of your mother. Oh yeah chicken soup is back again. The beans and pot barley are so much softer 24 hours later. Definitely need to do some pre-soaking for best first day results.

Pizza for 3

In Japan the saying "mikka bozu" describes someone who starts something with vigor and then quickly gives up. The cut off is three days, mikka meaning 3 days and bozu meaning something like bozo [not an official translation]. So today was day three and we are still going strong. Fingers crossed for tomorrow. Lunch was not the most inspired affair. Mommy is sick and the kids all wanted different left overs. Still working on that coleslaw for those of you keeping track.

For dinner we did make chicken soup and pizza. Kind of timely making chicken vegetable soup for the sick among us. The pizza worked well too but I am not completely sold on mozzarella cheese. We are big cheddar people and I definitely prefer it topping my pizza. I managed to burn the last one while messing around on the computer. Lots of leftovers because only three of us were eating. Breakfast should be good.