{"id":1195,"date":"2014-11-12T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:26:48","slug":"pulling-out-a-childhood-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/pulling-out-a-childhood-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling Out a Childhood ‘Recipe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to make what my family called ‘macaroni chinois’ (Chinese macaroni) all the time until I switched to using Japanese soy sauce. It’s a ridiculously simple mix of saut\u00e9d onions, carrots, elbow macaroni, and Chinese soy sauce to taste, a very inexpensive and reasonably healthy meal for a hungry student! Thinner Japanese soy sauce works okay, but doesn’t have nearly as much flavour in this application.<\/p>\n

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I added way more veggies than I normally used to, when I was pretty much guaranteed to have onions and carrots on hand, but not much else. Here, you can see red onion, carrot, green beans, chayote, and garlic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Add in cooked macaroni and soy sauce and done! The macaroni gets much darker with the Chinese sauce than it does the Japanese. I also had to use almost a quarter of a small bottle to get a burst of flavour throughout. Still has that wonderful umami flavour, though!<\/p><\/div>\n

The only thing lunch lacked was protein. I only remember after I was done that I had some almonds in the freezer! I’ll add some of those to my leftovers. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’m not going to be eating vegetarian per se this winter, but definitely more so than I have in a while. I’ve read about shopping for meat in MX and I’m not sure I have the stomach for it on Isla. I know I could get packaged meat at a Soriana or other grocery store in Maz, but that’s not very convenient. The chicken lady will keep me stocked in poultry (that I won’t even have to cook!) and I’ll eventually get to the fish market. So far, I’m not starving and I’ve even lost a couple more pounds. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to make what my family called ‘macaroni chinois’ (Chinese macaroni) all the time until I switched to using Japanese soy sauce. It’s a ridiculously simple mix of saut\u00e9d onions, carrots, elbow macaroni, and Chinese soy sauce to taste, a very inexpensive and reasonably healthy meal for a hungry student! Thinner Japanese soy sauce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}