Random Recent Events

So I am finally getting around to posting again...so this is a post of everything that has happened since Thanksgiving:

Starting with the delicious chicken soup I made from scratch from the left over chicken bones and chicken! yeah....even though it's not that hard, I was pretty proud of myself :) I made the broth from boiling the bones and then added veggies: Carrots, potatoes, onions, and baby bok choy(couldn't find celery and I wanted something green!) and then added the chicken.Even Clayton said it was good!

Then a few weeks later we invited Makoto over to make Japanese Curry! Now....I LOVE Japanese Curry, and make it a lot in the States...but i have not made it with a Japanese person in a few years (since Yuki I think) so I got a tutorial/reminder on how to make it CORRECTLY! :) Makoto is pretty serious about his curry...so everything had to be cut the correct way (yes even the potatoes and carrots), there had to be the exact amount of meet (and how you can tell that when I am hacking off slabs of who knows what part of the cow i bought in the East Market is beyond me!), the curry should be cooked the night before and allowed to sit (it tastes better that way apparently), and of course the rice needs to be THOROUGHLY washed! :) But, he was right...it was VERY tasty!!

And Makoto even broke into his stash of delicious Japanese beer to enjoy while we cooked! Sooooo much better then terrible Chinese beer!

While cooking, we also decided to break into the mystery fruit that Clayton and I bought from our favorite fruit man in the North Market. The man is soooo nice and he always trys to get us to buy this giant fruit thing....so on a weak day Clayton and I bought it, having NO idea what it was or how to eat it. Traci told us to just peel it like an orange and then eat it kind of like an orange...she said it would taste a little like a grapefruit. She also told us it was a Pomelo. Well, as it was our first Pomelo we had to document it...and man is it a cool fruit!! The peel is super thick and soft!

Then I decided it looked like a little mushroom man and set him up with feet and everything :) yup, I'm a huge dork
But it is really tasty! Closest to a grapefruit in China I think! Now...I don't usually document papers my students have completed...but after grading FOREVER, I came to this one and it was just too funny not to share!
A little background: this paper comes from my narrative essay lesson. The students were asked to write a narrative story going along with different CHinese proverbs I gave them. They also had to complete a Story Map and Story Board. Bellow you will see the Story Board for this particular story...I forget which proverb it is...but check out the last picture...A man falling off a mountain yelling....shit
hahahahaha