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Udon Noodle Miso Soup

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Week 51 – 2020 This is another post from the series “I tried something new this week”. My partner and I like to try a lot of new recipes and new techniques when it comes to food. Every now and then we pick something that we are not comfortable cooking and we try to do it. We always put our own twist to it and if turns out ok we iterate on it, we alter the recipe after our own taste and we just make it better after a few tries. This week we made a soup with udon noodles and miso. When we saw this recipe we thought that some of the ingredients in this soup have never actually made their way into our cooking. A good reason for us to try. It turned out really well so I am going to share our adapted recipe here. We made 2 generous portions of soup. Ingredients 2 spring onions 250g shiitake mushrooms 1 Pak Choi 300g cooked udon noodles 1 tablespoon grated ginger 3 tablespoons …

Stopping the Time with Short Stories

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Week 50 – 2020 This is another post from the series “I tried something new this week”. I have written a few blog posts about trying something new each week and they were mostly about food but last week was a bit different. I wanted to start focusing on something that I wanted to do for a long time – learning how to write short stories. I am a big fan of short stories, I read anything that I can my hands on. From Chekhov to Neil Gaiman. I recently re-read some of the Grimm stories. I am particularly passionate about mythology and folklore stories. And I always wanted to learn how to write my own. In all honesty, I am not sure I am good at it, I have started to write and develop quite a few ideas, from stories that I heard as a child from my grandmother to fantasy stories that I came up with during my travels. There is only one way to find out if I am any good at …