Chicken #3

Spring Festival sort of throws all timing off. It seems to be a week long holiday for many people, much the way Americans take December 24th-January 2nd. With traveling to Harbin the weekend before, we realized we hadn't really cooked in about 2 weeks. This was far too long, so we decided to have a few friends over and get back into the swing of things.

We tried making a loaf as described by The Fresh Loaf. Came out pretty darn well. We are looking forward to trying more of their recipes. Michael is also working on his presentation skills as you can see in his lovely chicken display above.

This is the 'before' picture.

In addition to these 2 items we made Oat Soup which actually has tomatoes, onions, and garlic in addition to the oats.

We had three guests over and two of them were anthropologists! Who would've thought? (For those of you not familiar with his history, Michael was once an anthropologist too.) Cara was delighted to have a chance to watch him interact with his own kind. Our guests kindly helped out with some cookies and a banana loaf which had ingeniously been cooked in a toaster over. Real people size ovens are hard to come by in China. Our kitchen with its full size oven, 4 burners, a full size fridge, a washer and a dryer, is the envy of all our friends.