The lightness of the pandemic (2) – getting fat shamelessly
4/11/21 the awesome marker did make a difference! See how smooth this skin is!
When I am getting old, happiness becomes the most important thing. That means I deal with everything naturally, including getting fat! My deal readers, if losing weights is your current priority, I recommend you don’t continue reading this post. I don’t want to mislead you, haha.
During pandemic, my eating business is expanding significantly. For example, see these cute Chocolates from Japan,
as well as these tasty ones (from Royce)! I also bought Venchi and Caffarel, the Italian ones for a while. These are not as sweet as American chocolate.
My mom heard that I no longer go to grocery stores during pandemic, so she delivered the giant boxes from China, as if my parents moved the entire supermarket from my hometown. I looked at those shipping slips —- even the shipping costs hundreds of dollars per box. Aww, I am still spoiled as an old daughter (happy).
In addition to the online grocery/snack shopping, I also use an awesome online takeout app. I now can order very good Chinese takeouts from flushing NY and so on, including bubble teas, snacks, cakes, breads, buns, restaurant dishes, hotpot ingredients (authentic ones aligned with the market in China). The shipping is weekly with cooling. One time, I ordered 40-50 dollars of duck feet/wings/necks (sorry, my dear American friends, haha) from a few stores from different parts of US and intended to select the best one 🙂
When the tasty food boxes arrive, me and my son will have a “rotten party” —- we indulgently eat different food and maybe watch our favorite shows for a few hours.
Besides buying the food, my another food source is the vegetable garden and fruit trees in our back yard. I only buy seedlings that can get fruits or smell/looking good, very practical 🙂 I still spend a lot of time cooking at home and my food album has 762 pictures by now, covering all random styles of Asian food, from Shanghai, Sichuan, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese …
Last year, I saw these peppers were rotten in the garden, so I made some fermented peppers using some made-up-by-myself recipe. It turns out to be super tasty and useful cooking ingredients.
I once grew some bean spouts, totally not very successful. A lot of work but very little spouts …
I like to make things from scratch instead of buying from frozen sections of the store:
Here are some soup collection from my food album:
noodle soup 
tofu mushroom soup 
turnip soup
miso soup 
spinach soup
This is the trick I learned about cooking instant noodles. It is simple but may be useful for many people who need quick food from time to time: when you cook instant noodles, it is recommended that you cook one noodle block a time. You first put the noodle block in the cold water, and when it is heating up, you keep stirring the noodle using forks or chopsticks. Then you put the seasoning package in a bowl, when the noodle is boiled one or two minutes, you can put the noodles and some water in the bowl. I followed this process for a few times, it makes good texture ramen noodles.