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<\/a><\/p>\nOf course with the new kitchen, I did a ton of cooking in September, including a “Chinese week” where I made a bunch recipes from Souped Up Recipes<\/a>. So grateful to have our Asian Mart with most of the ingredients and brands that are recommended in the recipes!<\/p>\n While in the middle of cooking, my new neighbours, from Pakistan!, dropped off these delicious banana muffins.<\/p>\n Other than hamburger, the only way I really like beef is in these recipes. I would end up adding this beef and carrots to my regular rotation.<\/p>\n Cashew chicken also happens regularly . I love Asian five spice mix!<\/p>\n My Chinese-style chicken teriyaki wasn’t much to look at but was delicious.<\/p>\n Beef and broccoli is always delicious. Oyster sauce is magic.<\/p>\n Of course I made plenty of white rice to go with everything.<\/p>\n That leek was longer than my fridge is deep! LOL<\/p>\n On a whim one Saturday afternoon, I decided to run away to Progreso for dinner.<\/p>\n I found a restaurant that served me a delicious mezcalita.<\/p>\n And an even more delicious shrimp aguachile with mango and habanero.<\/p>\n That broth was divine and I did not leave a drop!<\/p>\n I really need to do this more often.<\/p>\n The final recipe I did was American sweet and sour pork, which featured more ketchup than I normally eat in a year. As I expected, the recipe was way too sweet for me and did not end up on the rotation, despite being delicious. I actually finished up with the last of the dumpling wrappers, making sweet and sour pork gyozas!<\/p>\n These vegetables were for a different dish featuring pork and celery, so I’d have something blander and saltier to offset the sweetness of the sweet and sour sauce.<\/p>\n Obligatory feline portraits. I love my girls so much.<\/p>\n These rocking chairs are much too low for me, but at only $1,000 for both, I had to snag them as I knew they’d look good against the pink.<\/p>\n I came into some duck eggs and was able to knock a few more things off my egg bucket list!<\/p>\n A jammy egg over noodles. Divine. Many months later, days before I actually wrote this post, a restaurant ignored my “no egg” request with my ramen and included a soy sauce marinated chicken egg like this that looked so good that I decided to take a bite, figuring that since I’d gotten over the “ick” factor of eggs, that maybe I could build up tolerance to chicken eggs. Nope. It tasted rotten! I finally had the proof I needed for myself that I really can’t eat chicken eggs. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n And then a Japanese omelette, for which there are no words. They are made with mirin and sesame oil, making them a little nutty and sweet. This was the first egg dish that I truly went “OH, this is why people love eggs so much.” I made this one a few more times!<\/p>\n I made another upgrade to the kitchen. I gave up on having a fancy faucet with a spray hose because there just isn’t enough pressure. I’d tried installing a pressurizing pump, but it kept jamming up with sarro. After searching for a compromise, I found this inexpensive faucet on Amazon that was the answer I needed. I lost the spray feature, but I still have the flexibility of a hose.<\/p>\n Proud to say that I installed the new faucet myself!<\/p>\n September had a huge milestone. A lady posted to a Facebook group that she was looking for head scarves for a family member undergoing chemotherapy. Now that I have a mostly full head of hair for the first time in my life (THANK YOU MODERN MEDICINE), I don’t wear scarves anymore. I gifted her my entire scarf collection. That was quite an emotional day.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n