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Grocery shopping and cooking has actually been a fun and interesting adjustment. Well, I guess it’s an ‘adjustment’ because I didn’t do a whole lot of it in the US!  Having a nice kitchen with a dishwasher and oven that actually functions correctly also makes cooking more appealing. 

Two things I want to learn and master are cooking seafood and Thai food. Ingredients for both are plentiful here, as you might suspect. For example, lemongrass, curry leaves and paste etc are standard fare at the major grocery stores. Back home these kind of ingredients are usually at a specialty Asian food store. I experimented with a coconut chicken curry dish tonight and it actually turned out great.  Go me! Although, mastering the art of how much hot chili equals ‘mouth on fire’ is still a work in progress. A few nights ago I made a noodle dish with WAY too much kick…for me at least, Mike was loving it!

Using Celsius for baking has been easy to get used to, but ordering up bulk foods (like deli meat) in grams has been a little trickier to get used to. Being an indecisive shopper, I’ve actually found it more enjoyable and efficient to grocery shop here because there’s only a few brands/types of each product to choose from. And, it didn’t take us long to rule out the generic ‘home brand’ products. In the US I bought these all the time, but here the quality is most definitely compromised. 

Well, those are my musings for now. Below is a photo of our fridge after our first trip to the store..$90 later. Pretty comical. The second is of the lovely coconut chicken curry.