Yesterday was Family Day, a new-ish holiday in Ontario. Many places were closed, so I didn't get to go out and buy any food. We did go to Eggsmart though, and later went round to Sunny's house for a family dinner.
Today, I managed to scrape round the kitchen and found a frozen sirloin burger, some carrots, onions and pasta which I used to make this for the girls' lunch:
After school, we went to the always-popular Foody Mart to stock up on supplies. The girls bought a huge bag of instant noodles, and as for me ... well, watercress was on sale, so I bought some lean pork, some pork bones, a little chicken, ginger and carrots to make a watercress pork bone soup. When I used to ask Chinese friends how to make this soup or that soup, they'd always say "Oh, it's easy. Just put everything in the pot and boil it for a few hours." I'd always get frustrated because I thought there was more they weren't telling me, but it turns out most soups are that easy. The only thing you really ned to know is to blanch the bones/meat in boiling water for a couple of minutes to get rid of most of the fat and scum, and then you really do put it all in a pot and boil it for a few hours.
For dinner we made our standard minced beef, potatoes and carrots in a spicy broth. We have now completely given up using the rice cooker, which I could never get to work satisfactorily anyway, instead making it on the stove. Stovetop rice is almost completely foolproof, assuming you can measure in increments of 1.5, and you can turn the stove on and off.
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