Cooking the fish that James caught.

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Living in HV has spoilt us silly. We could ta bao anything from Sushi Teh, Crystal Jade, Nasi Lemak…… you name it, we had it (I’m drooling now..).

One of the things that we are trying to get used to here is FOOD. We eat breakfast in our units. Lunch and dinner are served communally so there isn’t much choice for food.

It’s not that we don’t like Western food. We love it – the pastas, steaks etc. But Kiwis don’t eat a lot at lunch and dinner here is at 5.30pm! We normally eat sandwiches or pies and salads at lunch. So we get hungry after lunch and by 10pm we are hungry again!?

Sophie hasn’t been eating much because she doesn’t really eat pies, fries, potatoes and all the raw veggies (which btw has been really good for us). But I was surprised to see that she started to eat raw onions and lettuce today!

Anyways, we started to get creative about our meals on the weekends because the school provides us with ingredients in the morning for our lunch and the kitchen is closed for lunch on the weekends. It’s mostly for sandwiches. So we get tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cheese/hard boiled eggs.

On Fri, James went fishing with one of the staff and they caught a trout! So on Sat, we cooked it for lunch. Steamed fish with soya sauce! We used all the tomatoes, and onions for the fish instead! I bought a microwavable mug and cooked rice in it! So we had fish and rice. WAH SHIOK! The fish was so sweet…….. yummmmmms!

Today, we cooked an omelette with all the ingredients – onions, tomatoes, cheese and Sophie had that with some shell pasta I cooked in the microwave. She helped to cook the omelette. It’s a fun thing to do. I simply cracked the eggs and cut up the veggies and she helped mix everything and stir it.

Actually although we would love to eat like we do at home, we are actually quite ok with it coz James and I are quite chin chai people. It’s Sophie that we are worried about coz she hasn’t been eating much. But I think she’s adjusting coz seems like most of the other babies are not eating much too, just fruits and bread. We’ll see…

P/s The post above was written on Sunday. On Monday Sophie had a virus that made her throw up. She was down the whole day and got better today. All the kids got it last week. We thought it would pass us but Sophie finally caught it too. But she’s much better now. She’s been drinking and just sleeping lots. Also thank God that one of the students in our school is a PD!

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