Mom and Sharky
Sis and green beans
Akemi and bear-with-antlers sweater
Yesterday, we went shopping at the local C&T Chinese supermarket where Akemi was thrilled to pick up some natto and Andria was equally thrilled to pick up 6 jugs of corn oil (on special!) that my mother uses to cook. Well, I should say “fry” because she fries EVERYTHING! Looking forward to getting back to our “olive oil and roast”.
For lunch, we picked up some assorted items from the shop’s BBQ section: BBQ duck, BBQ pork, and wings. And green beans.
My mother has been feeling under the weather for weeks and hasn’t had the strength to make her annual friendship cake. So I ended up snacking on these marzipan fruit my sister got me for Christmas (along with two packs of butter rum lifesavers). I used to love these as a kid. Spoiler alert: Each piece of marzipan fruit tastes exactly the same.
After dinner, mom cooked up some chestnuts – only to have the lid fuse onto the pan. Despite best efforts, it would not disengage so we ended up putting it out on the back patio until, ten minutes later, Akemi heard a POP. Done! My mother found them too hard to clean and gave up, but Akemi is a huge fan of tedious chores and spent hours carefully separating them out. By the end, she was looking a little crazed.
Rain day today. We may head out to Victor Rose, a dog-friendly coffee shop in the air. Then, tonight, it’s dinner (our lone dinner out on this trip) at Montreal Plaza. Expect plenty of food pics tomorrow!
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My mother, while folding laundry, suddenly concerned: “Is this the type of underwear you wear now?”
She was holding up Akemi’s panties.
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