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Month: January 2009
>新年块乐!
>To get with the spirit of the new year, I wanted to make something special to munch on. I mean, eating is the way we celebrate Chinese New Year, right? Well, no fish up here, and we are rained in again. I didn't much like the idea of killing the rooster for a special meal, …
>Adventures in pie
>So I got this email from Uncle Wei about my mom's trip to L.A. and it had all these great pictures in it. One of them was of this outrageous lemon meringue pie that my mom and Martha made. Well, I can't really look at a photo like that without wanting pie, and since today …
>indoors, outdoors
>When the weather is cold, we light the wood-powered water furnace to heat the house (and the water!) and shut the door tight against the chill. This was the way we lived for the first few days back home, while it was rainy and cold. Then, on day four or so, the sun banished the …
>stranded!
>We are back from a month in Istanbul and New York. I realize now that we timed our return very well; for three days following our return, we were showered with, alternately, drizzle, rain and apocalyptic hail (small stones, but lots of them). The result? The dip in our road is now a raging torrent …
