This is my blog of my travels in Japan (starting in the spring of 2005)

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Yuning Surprise

This girl keeps on surprising me. I found out she speaks 4 languages, not 3. Add Korean to the list. Wow. I try to dabble in Spanish and flirt with Japanese for my repertoire of languages. But she is fluent in 4! Her cooking skills are great too. She cooked Korean the other day. 4 courses. The next day she cooked Italian making her own pasta sauce! I felt the cooking presure so i cooked her Mexican. I made fajitas. Probably the easiest thing to cook, but she had never had them before. (how to make Fajitas: Cook chicken in lemon juice and garlic, cook veggies like peppers and onions, add taco seasoning and put on tortillas with salsa, cheese, and sour cream). The hard part was finding tortillas in this crazy country. Imagine a 15 minute game of Pictionary and that was basically what i was doing at the supermarket trying to explain Tortillas to the staff there. AHHH. I also cooked her French Toast one day since she had never heard of that. So the score is 2-2 for cooking, but her food is a lot better! Any cooking recipies that are easy to do but look difficult...please send them my way!

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

eggs

1:03 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You cooked her Mexicans. The rules must different there when it comes to cooking with people.

3:00 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cuban chicken and rice w/ black beans.
1 lb chicken thighs
3 cup uncooked brown rice
2 cups black beans
1 bunch green onions

Season chicken with pepper to taste. Cook. Prepare rice and beans. Divide onions into green and white parts. Strip meat from bones of cooked chicken, and portion out. Combine beans and rice, and portion out. Dice white part of onion, and top rice/bean mixture. Mince green part of onion, and top chicken. Dribble a little white wine vinegar over rice/beans. Serve. Ask if she has a sister. ;)

2:07 PM

 
Blogger Mike Staffa said...

Hey Rhyno! Sorry, she doesnt have a sister. Ever since 1980, families can only have one child in China. So she is the only one! Sorry.

11:24 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

where can you buy chicken from Cuba?

7:00 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mike -

How about something on a stick....candybar, porkchop, etc.

Michelle Fickett

1:04 AM

 

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