Making food

Saturday's homemade buuz tempted me to cook and bake some more. So on Sunday I made buttermilk biscuits, apple crisp and tofu egg rolls (I made the egg roll wraps from scratch too!).

All turned out quite delicious. Side note on the word delicious: in Mongolia, people often ask me: "How's [insert name of whatever I'm eating]? Is it delicious?"

We've had to adjust our recipes a little because the food here is a little different and we can't find everything we used in Canada. Some spices are not readily available, neither is seafood and we haven't seen baking powder yet. If we really wanted them I think we could find just about everything here by looking a little harder but we would also find a higher price tag. There are many meals that used to be staple at the Aaron and MC household in Canada that have not made an appearance in our plates here. We expected this. We haven't made our famous refried bean rollups, pizza, curries and tacos for a long time now. We now often eat oven fries and fancy grilled cheese sandwiches, pasta, rice and stir-fried vegetables with tofu, and cabbage salad.

The cheapest and most commonly available vegetables are cabbage, potatoes and carrots. I used to have a hard time going through a whole cabbage in Canada but here we go through one almost every week!

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