living taxes

charles sent me a one word email the other day:

DONE!

he had bought me the slow cooker!

it is divine.

tomorrow it gets it's inaugural performance.

wednesday it also will be used - i have to make a green chicken curry for 16 women. it will be another crock pot attempt.

i went shopping for the supplies today. shopping carts in hong kong are much smaller than they are in north america, and eight double chicken breasts and condensed milk comprised most of the carts entirety. i chose to shop at chi fu, not because the park n shop there also has a wet market which sells flowers and i needed lillies, but because this park n shop is cheaper than other park n shops.

this is a very odd thing about hong kong. although park n shop and wellcome are chain grocery shops, each shop individually prices its items. the most expensive shops tend to be in the most expat centred locations. the price difference between baguio villa and chi fu is substantial, although the distance between the locations is less than 10 minutes.

same product, different deomographic of shoppers, so different prices.

welcome to hong kong.

Comments

[Dad aka Grandad Blake]

And if you walk there you can save on gas!!
Love to all....Dad

[Boulder]

Oh boy do I have recipes to share! Enjoy your inaugural dish & boy do I wish you'd start using that fancy camera phone of yours (do I sound like Tertia?) to take some pictures of your local haunts to put in a post or two.

xoxo

[Auntie Pammie]

green chicken curry, are you trying to torure me? I am drooling as I type this. I hope your new crock pot gets the proper work out it deserves..
Hungry in Edmonton,
Auntie P xoxo

[Flower Fairy]

Same story in the UK. Maybe it is a left-over colonial thing.

[Jennie]

Please share the green chicken curry recipe! I can find curry recipes, but not yummy green curry. Thanks in advance.

[Amy]

I would also love the green curry recipe (and the chicken adobo) -- if you are willing -- they BOTH sound good. I love my slow cooker but most recipes I've seen here in the U.S. are much more plain. Thank you so much! :)

[Suzanne]

The curry sounds yummy - sounds like you need to post that recipe!

We haven't yet reached the stage of not liking veggies at our house (our baby is only 8 months old and will eat anything) but I did get the Jessica Seinfeld book about hiding veggie purees in food to sneak vegetables to your kids. I've made a few things for myself and they're not so bad. I would think with something like a green curry you could add a broccoli puree since it's the same color.