Finally, after trying many different things, I think I managed to cook a "home made stir-fry" that tasted alright...Mind you, it's not Chinese Restaurant perfect, and not as tasty or greasy, but it does taste good enough to quench a craving when mixed with some Chinese noodles and sesame oil.




I looove Chinese food, and wish we ordered in more often, but I don't even have a phone number for places close to ours, and have not tried any of them. There was this little Chinese joint close to campus in my old town (where Mariachi claims one of his friends once had a huge cockroach in his stir-fry) that had the best hot and sour soup ever, I still sometimes crave that soup and have yet to find a place that makes a soup that tastes similar (yeah I kept going to that place to get hot and sour soup even after I heard about the cockroach, it was that good). Most of the soups I tried here and elsewhere are either not sour enough or hot enough, or just plain don't taste the same...

There are many things that I used to love that I try to stay away from now, the hardest to stay away from being sushi...Everything was fine until I ate sushi back in September. I got a severe headache the day after and vomited the whole day, and I had some kind of red bumps that appeared on my body. That day I did not think it was the sushi, because Mariachi had the same stuff and nothing happened to him. Another time at another place, the same scenario came to pass: sushi followed by headaches, vomiting, red bumps next day...And Mariachi was fine again. I doubt the chances of me getting poisoned by sushi twice in a row, at two different places, when nothing happened to Mariachi are a bit slim. And just a couple of weeks ago, the same thing came to pass, this time with home baked salmon. :S So something is definitely not right here...I've always been sensitive to seafood, and tried not to over do it, avoid fish eggs etc. etc. but now it's gotten to the point where I have to avoid it or I become very miserable for at least 2 days. Funny enough, the same red bumps, without the headaches, appeared again when I ate spinach. I don't get it, they are big, itchy and painful at the same time, filled with some type of fluid, and I've never had anything like this in my life before...I mean every now and then I'd get small pink bumps, but not this often, not this big, and definitely not with almost everything I ate! I think the first thing when I get my health card might be going to the doctor to get a referral to an allergy specialist. It is becoming very annoying wondering if I'll react when I eat something. Apparently chocolate, ice cream, and any combination of both are out of the question now, too, as I scratched off a huge piece of flesh from my foot the other night...in my sleep!