Trop chou

Made #ChineseCabbage & pork #soup for family dinner last night. We had it with rice & some stir fried tofu & flower mushrooms in garlic & oyster sauce(not pictured).

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#dinner before heading out for the evening.

#Lemongrass sour #soup with soft #tofu, #ChineseCabbage #broccoli & #snowpeas. Green onions garnish.

Chocolate #eclair is from Save On Foods grocery bakery; for my dessert. I had it with jasmine tea.

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#PakChoi #plants in 3 gallon pots.
“Pak Choi” translates to “white vegetable” in Cantonese due to their white stems. Cultivation began in the #YangtzeRiver Delta region & spread to other parts of Asia, thanks to traders & migrating populations.

Pak choi looks almost identical to bok choy but they're two different plants. Pak choi has darker leaves as it matures. Pak choi stems are white, more visibly so when matured. Bok choy stems are pale green. Pak choi has more of a peppery undertone taste, while bok choy has subtle sweetness. We grow both of these similar plants in our backyard food gardens.

I have 3 blueberry plants & only one has produced berries so far.

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I found a sad, old ¼-#wombok (AKA #NapaCabbage, #ChineseCabbage) in the fridge this afternoon, and thought I'd better do something with it (other than throw it into the compost bin). Fortunately, I just happened to buy 1.5kg of ugly carrots yesterday...

Here's what I did:

Sliced wombok ~550g
Grated carrot ~400g
Chopped spring onion ~50g
Lime juice ~1 lime
Garlic ~3 cloves
White miso paste 1T*
Salt 2t**
Chilli flakes 1t

#kimchi #NotReallyKimchi #fermented #fermenting

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*T is for Tbsp
**t is for tsp

#FishBalls & #ShrimpBalls with #ChineseCabbage #soup - part of our #dinner tonight. Making some pan fried prawns, next. Eating both with steamed rice.

A lot of our longtime #ComfortFoods include #seafood because after mass diaspora migrations, many of our peoples ended up living in coastal communities.

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