Parisian flats are very small for the most part when you are a poor student with a part-time job (I'm no longer a student since I've been pregnant, but maybe I'll get back to that later on in life). Therefore, the kitchen is usually tiny, and especially when you have a huge fridge like I do and a dishwasher (the black thing under the oven).
We decided to invest in a dishwasher when I was about 4 months pregnant because quite frankly, with what experienced mothers have been telling us about how you'll never have time for yourself anymore once Baby is here, I don't intend on spending very much time in the kitchen doing dishes if I'll be swamped with other things to worry about. And I know how I am: although I have certain hygiene phobias, I've always been a messy, messy girl. So watching dishes pile up will definitely not make my day and will most certainly not make me want to jump in there and clean up! Also, no arguments about who's turn it is to do them ;-).
I spend a good amount of my time in the kitchen (especially now) making things to eat because I am a glutton. This must be due to growing up in Taiwan where food is available almost at any hour of the day, and you can get all sorts of local xiao chi (literally meaning "small eat" but doesn't that sound retarded in English, I guess the appropriate word is delicacy/dish?). R. is always telling me I'm obsessed with food, that the only thing I talk about all day is Food food food. He often wonders if there's anything else in my head. Well, wasn't he surprised when he went to HK two weeks ago (his first time in Asia) by himself and realised that it was more of a national/cultural obsessive-compulsive disorder (need I say more?).
Looking back, having worked at a cafe as a line-cook back in those carefree Montreal days really did teach me a thing or two! That was 6 years ago though, and I've come a long way since and I can do more than flip quesadillas now...
My mother was/is a good cook too, and made sure we ate healthy things because most restaurants in Taiwan use a ton of MSG in food to accentuate flavor in their dishes.
We decided to invest in a dishwasher when I was about 4 months pregnant because quite frankly, with what experienced mothers have been telling us about how you'll never have time for yourself anymore once Baby is here, I don't intend on spending very much time in the kitchen doing dishes if I'll be swamped with other things to worry about. And I know how I am: although I have certain hygiene phobias, I've always been a messy, messy girl. So watching dishes pile up will definitely not make my day and will most certainly not make me want to jump in there and clean up! Also, no arguments about who's turn it is to do them ;-).
I spend a good amount of my time in the kitchen (especially now) making things to eat because I am a glutton. This must be due to growing up in Taiwan where food is available almost at any hour of the day, and you can get all sorts of local xiao chi (literally meaning "small eat" but doesn't that sound retarded in English, I guess the appropriate word is delicacy/dish?). R. is always telling me I'm obsessed with food, that the only thing I talk about all day is Food food food. He often wonders if there's anything else in my head. Well, wasn't he surprised when he went to HK two weeks ago (his first time in Asia) by himself and realised that it was more of a national/cultural obsessive-compulsive disorder (need I say more?).
Looking back, having worked at a cafe as a line-cook back in those carefree Montreal days really did teach me a thing or two! That was 6 years ago though, and I've come a long way since and I can do more than flip quesadillas now...
My mother was/is a good cook too, and made sure we ate healthy things because most restaurants in Taiwan use a ton of MSG in food to accentuate flavor in their dishes.
Anyway, all this blah-blah to say welcome to my little kitchen where I'll be posting some food photos (surprise!!!) and recipes up from time to time.
And I'll try to refrain myself from doing this in them:
And I'll try to refrain myself from doing this in them: