Jan. 08: Mysterious Vegetables

I have no idea what these are:
But they taste pretty good stir-fried with carrots and seasoned with sesame oil and salt.

I got them from the obasan (old lady) at the market who grows her own veggies. They were a bit more expensive at NT$15 for the bunch -- I thought they were chayote sprouts/dragon's whiskers at first, but they're firmer and have a bit of slime, like okra or enoki, but not as much as okra -- it's really more like enoki.

Also got these greens for NT$10 for the bunch:
Similarly delicious stir-fried with carrots!

On a completely unrelated note -- Chocolate Lava Cake:
SO GOOD. Made it at work for dinner with a VIP. I LOVE OVENS.

Most of December, in a Nutshell

These past three weeks have been SUPER busy putting in loads of overtime -- I was put in charge of one of our VIP students for a week and a half. I'll be getting two weeks off at the beginning of February though, so that'll be nice :)

Finally had a 'normal' week this past week, but things are picking up again 'cause now I'm in charge of making the food for the company Christmas party -- more overtime yaaayyyy!!!

Anywho, here's what we've been up to in the interim~