It’s just one of those parenting moments…
Sometimes, you just gotta pick your battle. Or so they say….
But sometimes, just sometimes, I really scream “AHHHH! WHAT THE HELL!” even China can hear me. Because, you know, just so I can be sure that they heard my point. It all depends on where that punctuations land.
Here’s to more great parenting! Wishing you a hell of a wonderful week. 😀
A straight-up carnivore like me cannot live without meat and I know I cannot live with all vegetarian diet. Well, technically I can do that but I would not be a very happy camper!
Like sleep, I also get grumpy when I don’t get my meat. It is no surprise that most, if not all of the dishes I whip out will no doubt contain some sort of meat. Or fish. It’s just the way it is. Food tastes better with them.
But, every once in a while, I’ll be challenged with the need to serve a vegetarian meal. This will inevitably leave me scratching my head to think of a no meat recipe so our guest would have something to eat and that we’d enjoy it too without me having to cook something for us separately.
Then I discovered a few one-pot recipes of Shakshouka – an Arabic/Tunisian/Jewish/Libyan dish with poached eggs in a base of tomato sauce, onions and cumin. They look pretty appetising and something I would definitely eat. The recipes came in variations using kale or eggplants but I had neither of those with me. What I had was a bunch of potatoes and capsicum.
And I had eggs! That would just have to do it. It was time to rumble Grubbecipe-style!
There was something satisfying with this recipe and the flavours took me by surprise. What I also love about making this is the part when I crack the eggs to poach it. I love seeing how they just bubble up and I imagine the egg yolks just running through the sauces when you start eating them. Too wonderful!
This post is in conjunction to Stomper Dad’s Taboo Challenge by not using the word “ON” today. Join in the fun as well and add your link to take part in the challenge!
E x p a t M a m a s A r o u n d t h e W o r l d is Christina’s – an Expat Mommy Blogger behind Just Blue Dutch – new project collaboration alongsideall the amazing Expat Mama community she knows from around the world. It is Christina’s personal gallery of interview stories of the different Expat Mothers, whom in her words:
could be the normal stereotype Mama you see in the grocery shop, in the park, commuting from work, always rushing & working their ass off in the office, while they turned into Super Moms in the kitchen whipping up dinners to feed their children while doing the laundry and still having time for herself.Eventually finding themselves strong, driven and passionate home maker, and as a woman of
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Being an Expat Mama herself (An Asian by birth that lived temporarily in the Middle East and now settled in Germany ), this new section featured in her blog is something really special for her and I am extremely honoured to not only be a part of her project but also being the first Expat Mama to be featured in her amazing expat mama blog.
Her questions cover from the quintessential background checks to living life in a foreign land (in my case, the Netherlands), being pregnant while being away from home and family as well as my thoughts on raising Third Culture Kids (TCK).
Pop over to Just Blue Dutch to read my take as an Expat-Mama in The Netherlands based on the questions in which Christina has posed.
But wait! Before you click away: If you are an Expat Mama and you want your special Expat story to be featured in Just Blue Dutch blog, please drop Christina an email @ justbluedutch@gmail.com , Expat Papas are welcome too! Send few photos of you and your Expat motherhood/fatherhood moments or a link to your Instagram feed if you have. And if you are an Expat Lifestyle Blogger, do connect along as she would love to hear your stories!
You see, I was not going to post anything today but the exposé by Christina has given me an excuse to link this up to Stomper Dad’s Taboo Challenge by not using the word “WITH” today. Join in the fun as well and add your link to take part in the challenge!
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