New Dishes from Dali's Kitchen

Coconut milk and yogurt chicken with hot chili

Curry lo-mein with red bell pepper and mushrooms

Quan Zhou hometown meatballs with scallions and water chestnuts, garnished with roasted sesame

Enjoy!
P.S. Tim ate all the meatballs tonight. It was one whole pound of meat plus all the other ingredients. I was planning to eat them for the next two days. haha Tim's tummy is made of rubber, it could stretch however big it desires. =P

Recently

I blogged about my fish Mona earlier and I just want to show a picture of her recently. She has gotten a lot bigger now. Also ever since I changed water for her, she's starting to eat regularly again!

I also made some chocolate muffins last night and ate two while they were still warm. So guilty....>_< >_< >_<""

Then, I took some pictures of Tim. No purpose, just for fun!


I am finally getting more and more students lately! I am teaching 5 days a week and plus babysitting a neighbor's two kids. It's good to get me out of my solitude since the miscarriage. God is good! He knows what I need and when I need.

New Pictures Available

Check out http://dalingphotography.blogspot.com for new pictures of my two weeks in California.

Basamic Glazed Lamb Chops

I went to Whole Foods today and got two lamb chops and some potatoes and some green beans. All organic!!! Tim loved his dinner tonight. He ate like a barbarian. Haha, that's why I only do this once a (very long) while, so that my husband doesn't become a savage. Arrrr...

Mona

Mona is my female beta fish, aka fighting fish. She lived alone for 2 years in my home. I've feed it 4 tablets of fish food every morning. The longest that I have left Mona hungry was a week and a half when I went back to California with Tim.
Mona has a long life. Most female beta fish would only live up to 4 months, but she is still alive and well for 2 years now. I've only changed water for her twice within these two years. She doesn't like new water very much. She forgets everything when she's put back into the fish tank.
Mona is not as pretty as the more popular male beta fish because she doesn't have nice shimmery tails like they have. She's simple, non-troublesome and careful with everything that she sees.
If you watch her eat, then she wouldn't eat. If you watch her swim, then she wouldn't swim. If you change water for her, then she would stay in one position for a long time until she feels comfortable enough to explore the whole tank. If you give her food at that point, she would take them, but spit them out and observe them before she eats them again.
What a funny fish I've got. I hope she'll accompany me for as long as I live in Boston...

Sharing Bad News

I was on the phone with a friend yesterday. She had recently found out about my miscarriage and was asking details about it. Later she mentioned that in Taiwan, the tradition is to not tell people you're pregnant until after 3 months because stuff like my case could happen and so they can save the embarrassment. I was thinking about that, and yes I did tell people before three months because both Tim and I were really excited, and also I was glad that I told people when I miscarried, because so many people called and wrote and emailed and visited me when I was at the lowest point. Without them I don't think I would survive that awful, dreadful time and recovered. So in the end, I concluded that it was a good thing to tell people news, even when they are bad news, so that you can get the support you need and maybe you can also find out who are your true friends. I think I would do the exact same thing if I were given a chance to choose again, of course regarding only on this particular subject and not the miscarriage itself.

The following was what I saw on the plane rides between Boston and Oakland. I was amazed by God's creation and felt that we are so small compare to the mountains and the skies, yet He loves and cares for us. Isn't that something to think about?