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Real Chinese Cooking

Last night for our Youth Activity Night…(for some of the 14 and 15 year olds in our church) we had a good friend of ours come over to teach the kids about Chinese cooking.

Carrie who works with my husband is Chinese….born in Hong Kong but she grew up in Costa Rica…Carrie speaks Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Spanish, a little Korean, some French and is completely fluent with almost no Asian dialect in ….English! Carrie is one amazing woman and boy can she cook!

Carrie made us all kinds of incredible dishes…Chicken cashew stir-fry with green onions and red, yellow and orange peppers.

Fried rice noodles with carrots, green onions, eggs and ham sliced into narrow ribbons

Eggs made like omelets then chopped into fine ribbon like strips to stir fry.

then…. she whipped up some ground pork with those really cool noodles that puff when you pop them into the pan with oil.

She also made some steamed rice, snow pea leaves with a sauce made from bamboo pith, the most incredible sweet and sour pork made from boneless country pork ribs and one whole Tilapia fish that she steamed with fresh ginger and green onions

This is Carrie busily peeling the skin off the ginger while the men in the background are gobbling up the food faster than she can prepare it!

We must have had 13 youth…boys and girls and 5 adults before the night was over.

Using their chopsticks to eat the delicious food.

The kids were even taking photos of the food with their phones.

We learned so many interesting things about the Chinese culture and about how they cook their food. Carrie was amazing….. cooking and teaching and having a blast with all the kids. One interesting thing we learned was that the Chinese believe that if you eat the eyeball of the animal or fish you take on the power of the animal or fish and it is a great honor to be offered the eyeball. Carrie ate one and this boy (see below) ate the other…. gross but cool.

THANK YOU CARRIE FOR DOING THIS FOR ALL OF US IT WAS THE BEST NIGHT EVER!!

Karins Kottage

Welcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with! You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too! I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!

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Laura @ the shorehouse. says:

January 19, 2009 at 3:08 am

Um...I would like Carrie to move in with me. Even for just a week. :-) What a spread!! She looks like an amazing cook and I think it's great showing the kids the culture, the cooking, the FUN!
Shauna says:

January 18, 2009 at 5:11 am

YUM! I am hungry now :)
sandra/tx says:

January 17, 2009 at 5:33 am

That looks like a lot of fun. A great way to learn about the Chinese culture.
Katie @ makingthishome.com says:

January 16, 2009 at 4:49 am

What an incredible experience. It's always cool to try different foods and expose young people... but to give them the opportunity to watch the cook and talk to her? How cool! That's one of the most wonderful things about Youth Group and the adults that get involved.
Katie
Anonymous says:

January 16, 2009 at 1:57 am

Wow what a great blog!! I loved reading about this wonderful youth activity and the pictures are so great!
beth at aunties says:

January 16, 2009 at 1:05 am

What an absolutely FUN activity!!!
I enjoyed seeing the delicious food and it's awesome you are sharing these activities. It doesn't look like he was so honored to receive the eyeball;)
Carrie is great...does she travel?
We serve with the YSA's on the stake and regional level with my husband as the H.C. rep so we enjoy three wonderful activities a month with these awesome youth!

Next month we rented Soldier Hollow, for snow tubing which is one of the sights of the 2002 Winter Olympics.