Farm recipes and food secrets from the Norske Nook
T’s father found this book at the church bazaar for 50 cents! He intended to give it to T’s aunt who collects this kind of recipes books. He left it on the coffee table and I started reading it one evening when we were hanging out at the in laws’ place.
The recipes book is fun to read, it has so many intriguing “old farmer” stories and cooking tips scattered among the recipes. One of the not so secret tips especially to those factories that make traditional biscuits/cookies/mooncakes in Malaysia, she used lard in her pie crust recipes!
Most of the recipes called for fresh produce and simple ingredients. I like that as I prefer to cook our meals from scratch with fresh ingredients instead of cooking from over processed ingredients.
I borrowed the book to try out some recipes and T’s father then decided to give it to me. :-)
Filed under family, food, slice of life | Comment (0)Pizza popcorn dinner and Farkel game
We were invited to join T’s parents, his uncle and aunt for dinner. They said it’s traditional pizza and popcorn dinner, but I am not sure it’s their family tradition, midwest tradition or American tradition. :-)
T’s uncle and aunt live about 25 minutes away from where we live. They run a farm corporation with thousand acres of corn, wheat and soy field. Their home is on the farm. T’s uncle is in his 70s and he still works in the field! It’s harvesting season right now and they have been really busy. When they told us their workers have been working 120+ hours per week, I poked at T who worked about 45 hours a week and complained about over working.:-)
We had two large pizzas with meatball and mushroom toppings. They were very delicious, but pretty greasy and high calories. T somemore brought home the leftover to eat for lunch!
We chit-chatted and played the dice game Farkle after dinner. It ’s a very fun dice game with simple rules. The cover of the container said it’s a game of guts and luck. Really, through the game, it’s so obvious who would take chances and who were the conservatives. :-)
T’s mom was having such good luck with the game, she kept getting three pairs, two triplets and straight. We had a good laugh and the game ended with her reaching 10, 000 points, way ahead of all of us!
Filed under family, slice of life | Comment (0)Lost cell phone, get new SIM card
Sister in law went to this family day gathering organized by the company my brother’s work at. They was a big crowd and a pick pocket was able to get in. My sister in law’s cell phone was pick-pocketed!
Since her cell phone plan is registered under my name, I have to go to the service provider to get the new SIM card! We were surprised that it took a couple of minutes to get the new SIM card. In the old days, one had to wait in line and could take up to an hour. Now, you just go to the customer service counter without taking a number to join the line, she just gave you a new SIM card and logged that into the system!
Filed under family | Comment (0)Acupuncture has helped relieve pain
Mom has gone for five sessions of acupuncture for her leg pain caused by extruded disc that pressed against the nerves, she says it has helped to relieve pains tremendously.
She is doing so much better now. She couldn’t walk without her left leg in pain. Last two days she was able to walk around and even do some housework as she feels better. Though being told by the doctors to rest more, she still gets up at 6.00 a.m and start buzzing around the house. That’s mom.
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