My wife @sreypov and daughters the @kidsisters are still touring Cambodia with her ex-husband's family, and I am staying busy with lots of pickling and cleaning.
🧅🍋 Pickled Surprises & Reusing ♻️
Two of my favorite pickles are Indian-style lemon/lime and also the simple pickled onions commonly seen on the tabletop at various Indian restaurants. My wife particularly likes my lime pickle, so I made a huge jar of that because the previous one ran out too quickly. Eventually I will share the recipe, but each time I make it I forget to take pictures and document the process.
Plastic bags are a major environmental problem in Cambodia, and there is nowhere you can go without seeing these dotting the landscape. Even when we go shopping, we take reusable bags, but often times the seller just puts a plastic bag inside our reusable bag, defeating the purpose. When we mention we don't want plastic bags, sometimes the sellers become combative, so we just take them and go do avoid embarrassing confrontation.
No seller is interested in a plastic bag full of random plastic bags, but I've found if I flatten them and carefully fold the bags, most sellers are happy enough to not only take them from us and reuse them, but also give us a discount on whatever we're buying that day. It takes hours to fold and sort the bags, but it feels good knowing they're not going in the trash by my hands.
Yellow Fried Rice 🍚
Since I've been working so much, I've had little time to post daily and also cook the foods I love most, so made a huge batch of fried rice to get me through a couple of days. I put things like cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, dried chilies, cumin, mustard seeds, turmeric, and chili powder in my rice, the last two ingredients give the rice a beautiful golden color.
Almost Forgot The Sunset 🌅
The sunsets here are not easily viewed because the sun sets on the opposite side of the highway where we have no view because a huge slope blocks most of the visibility. However, that doesn't stop the sun from painting the landscape in yellow and pink hues, so I try and admire the mountains and river for at least a few minutes every evening around sunset time. This is a rushed post because I didn't publish anything yesterday, sorry for the lack of humor and rather bland content today.
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