Suffering in China (with great food)

by Jimmie on February 8, 2010

Yeah, don’t you feel sorry for me? I’m just suffering here in China with nothing decent to eat. (That’s sarcasm.)

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Scenes from a simple meal at the home of friends. They are from a coastal city, so seafood features prominently.

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A pickled turnip dish. Yummy!

jelly fish and cilantro salad

Cilantro, jellyfish, and mushrooms are the main ingredients in this very tasty salad.

pork and fish fried fish

Amazingly, I didn’t even like seafood until I moved to China. That’s when I started to eat fresh seafood, cooked well. Then I discovered how wonderful it is.

Do you like fish and seafood? Would you try the jellyfish salad or just stick with the crispy fried fish?

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Looking for an American History Curriculum?

by Jimmie on February 4, 2010

My latest curriculum review is up at The Curriculum Choice. It’s a review of Winter Promise American Story 1.

If you’d like an overview of this literature based history curriculum, go check it out. It’s been a good fit for us, and we’re using American Story 2 right now.

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Creating with Flowers

February 1, 2010 crafts

In doing some blog organizing, I found this post from the fall of 2009 that never got published. Actually, all I had here were these photos of Sprite arranging flowers.
It’s dreary winter in China, so let’s enjoy some summertime flowers, why don’t we?
Back in the fall, I realized that with all our creative projects, Sprite [...]

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Painting on Canvas

January 30, 2010 drawing

Sprite snatched the paints and a drop cloth and disappeared in her room one night with the one remaining canvas. I had no idea what she was creating. I was far too busy getting my Taobao account set up. I’ll be blogging about that later, I’m sure. It’s basically a Chinese Ebay, but I’m getting [...]

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World War 1 Notebook or Lapbook

January 28, 2010 history

Another period of history is complete; this time it’s World War 1.
We used the Eyewitness WW1 book as our main resource, and I pulled a few chapters from True Stories of the First World War. The stories were not as good as I’d hoped. They had more of a textbook style than narrative style. Some [...]

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Lincoln Chicken Snacks

January 27, 2010 living in China

Honest Abe turns up in the oddest places in China. I’ve seen him on a couple of apartment complex billboards.
But this is a first for me — snack foods.

These are crunchy snacks that are supposed to taste like fried chicken.
They actually taste like oil. Heavy, artery clogging, old oil.
They are honestly bad. On your next [...]

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Celebrate Chinese New Year with a Contest

Thumbnail image for Celebrate Chinese New Year with a Contest January 25, 2010 contests & giveaways

Chinese New Year is on its way! February 14th is the first day of the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year.
Goodbye Ox (2009).  Hello Tiger (2010)!

In honor of China’s most important holiday, I’m hosting a contest!
To enter, just celebrate Chinese New Year in your family in your own unique way. Then blog it. You [...]

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Theodore Roosevelt President Study

January 21, 2010 history

I have a new favorite president. No wonder this guy is on Mount Rushmore! I can’t remember ever studying Theodore Roosevelt in school. Where was I? Did we just skip all the interesting things in history? Surely we did because I was a “good” student. If it was taught, surely I heard it. But I [...]

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Math Poetry

January 19, 2010 Uncategorized

A Challenge was issued by Math Mama to write a math poem, one that showed math in a positive light.  That fits in perfectly with our living math studies and our poetry studies. So here are our attempts at math poetry.
Untitled, by Sprite
Dividing is divine,
And four plus five is nine.
Adding is just fine,
Four plus five [...]

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International Creamy Strawberry Pie

January 18, 2010 cooking

Meet Strawberry Bavarian Pie, an international miracle.

Local strawberries, butter imported from New Zealand, digestive crackers (graham crackers) imported from Spain, and Rich’s non-dairy whip(ped) topping from China.
Yes, the recipe calls for uncooked egg whites. What can I say? We live on the wild side. Sometimes you’ve got to take risks in the name of [...]

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