Make Your Own Take-Out on the Grill

Have you been working from home since the pandemic started? Even you may get away from your computer for a few times during the day, you may tend to forget keeping yourself hydrated. If you work from home with children staying with you may even worse because you get more distracted.

So, how do I tackle this challenge? We will cover it in our Tip/Idea section.

Your Exclusive Page Password

A shopping list of patriotic holiday cookout was added lately. Make sure to check it out.

Password: (You should have received it in your welcome email. If not, please email me with your email address that you used for signing up our newsletter. Thank you!)

Your Exclusive Page Link

Tip/Idea

Hydrate and Re-Energize

Here’s what I have been doing with myself and my son. We each have a water bottle with us on the desk throughout the day. It is leak-proof and it is right in front of us and keep reminding both of us, “Drink me. Drink me.”

If you are very specific with the water temperature, use an insulated water bottle.

Fun Culture

What's the relationship of Chinese food and number 8?

Do you know that this number is an all-time favorite in the Chinese culture? If you don’t, it is totally ok. Once you understand its meaning, I bet you will start to fall in love with it, too.

"8" is pronounced in Cantonese as “baat” and mandarin as “ba”. It is very closed to the pronunciation of a Chinese word which means “prosperity”.

On a Chinese dining table, only big family gathering or special occasions where you will find 8 dishes being served. However, many Chinese love to choose dishes which consist of ingredients with their names pronounced like the Chinese word "8".

Featuring Recipe

Chinese Stir-Fry Vegetable

Product I Recommend

Make Your Own Take-Out on the Grill

Since we are talking about Chinese sir-fry, I bet you would love to use wok. I have been using wok to cook for almost 20 years until I moved to the States.

The best way to use wok for any stir-fry recipes is to use it on top of a real fire, such as gas stove-top. Not electric stove. If you have a gas grill, that would suffice.

The reason is that no matter how high the temperature of your electric stove top is, the design of a flat stove top vs traditional wok design does not allow the entire wok to absorb the heat. At the end, the food is being slow-cooked. The negative consequence of this leads to dryer meat and soggy vegetables. So, use your grill to do the work for you if you have an electric/ceremic stove. Buy It Now

Be Safe and Healthy

But I keep reminding myself that my child will grow up one day. He will get independent and leave the house to explore the world. We, as parents, want to treasure every moment with our children.

I want to end this month's newsletter with this Biblical quote from Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Happy Summer! Be safe and healthy.

Your Support

If you make any purchase in Amazon.com, I encourage you to click on any link on this website. Even buying a Harry Potter book, it will give me a small percentage of commission, but does NOT cost you anything.

You can also click on a "PayPal" button on the site or the link here in this newsletter to make a small donation.
Make A Donation

Any little thing you do will help this website tremendously. Thank you very much.

Spread The Words