You know you are in a foreign country...

It's been a while but I hadn't seen anything interesting or out there in a while, until today! So...
You know you are in a foreign country when the local grocery store sells chicken uterus! No kidding! Look.

Hungry?

That's right, a post all about food! One of my favorite things, obviously.

So, I seriously have issues with my oven. At first it didn't even work. I would turn it on and the breaker would trip. So of course I would call the guys out who are supposed to fix those things. They came out and after about 5 visits, replacing 2 of the burners, standing around scratching their heads for an hour, and telling me NOT to use the broiler, they finally thought to change out the breaker itself. Amazing! I could have done that myself, the 1st time. But that's not what my taxpayer dollars pay for. :)

Flash forward a few months and the broiler is the vain of my existence, at least in the kitchen. 

Here is my latest debacle:

 

 It's the stupid broiler! EVERY TIME I put something under the broiler, I forget about it until it's too late. This is like the 3rd time I burnt the garlic bread. This makes me SSSOOOOO mad since I like to make my own garlic bread and so much work goes into it. AND, this ruins the best part of garlic bread: the soft, mushy, buttery, garlicky center. I warned you that I liked food.

I now have a maid and she cooks for us on Mondays and Wednesdays which is so exciting to me. I don't care what she cooks as long as I don't have to 2 days a week (not including our Friday pizza nights and dinners out after our late evening Mass on Sundays).

  So far she has only cooked for us 2 days but it has made a world of difference. The kids will just have to warm up to Thai food.

 I love it!

Yummy Stir-Fry and Panang Curry

Fried Chicken, Chicken and mushrooms, and more Curry

I told the kids this was chicken and noodles, they actually ate it, kind-of.

I do manage to get a few things cooked every once in a while. My new friend A is inspiring me to cook more often, she is like super-mom. I made some yummy (to me) Chicken and Dumplings a few weeks back, from scratch.

I have some cinnamon rolls rising in the frig over night. Hopefully they turn out OK.

I got the icing down, no sweat. It's these yeast things that sometimes throw me off.

I'm so worried about these in that oven in the am.

You know you are in a foreign country if...

...you move your fax machine to plug it in closer to the US phone so that you can fax something to the US and then plug it straight into the wall! Doh! Bye Bye Fax/Printer/Copier. Time to buy a 220V one.