Pandemic Cooking

Dear children,

During last spring's lockdown, you did a lot of baking of cookies, brownies, and I made....chicken wings.

Now it's winter so I like to make soups, guks, chigaes, and 계란찜 steamed eggs, chorizo tacos with caramelized red onions and mushrooms to cut the salt. Butter chicken was high in rotation. Caramelizing red onions definitely is worth the time to make this dish super special. Also, add coconut milk or cream. We like it so much that I started using two packets of Kitchens of India butter paste. I usually buy from www.vitocost.com

 

My mom's ginger and date tea (ginger and dates blended together) has been such a wonderful treat everyday. My dad's lemon tea has been nice but I don't enjoy it as much as my mom's tea. 

I also tried the feta pasta which was super trendy and we thought it was just okay. But my tastebuds remembered Maggiano's Rigatoni and made something similar!

Thank you all for being such wonderful independent children and being able to make sandwiches and copious amounts of toast with butter and jam. Thank you my eldest for baking salmon so often. During the scary time that ahpa worked the Covid unit, my second daughter said, "I trust God that he will protect Dad. Look at how much he has protected us thus far. Even when there was a tornado, only our house was okay. God is faithful." And my super affectionate eldest who loves to hug has not hugged a friend for almost a year. Even though your friends sometimes gave you some difficulties that your mom is so strict about social distancing and no to playdates, you still obeyed your parents even through your tears. It means so much to me my daughter. And my little two youngest who are two peas in a pod and even dress up in the same outfits, you are still so cheerful and kind. Even though we have lost loved ones during this pandemic, some that we have not even grieved properly, God has given us the grace to walk together as a family. May God reveal himself to you in a deeper way to each one of you.

umma