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Recipe Sunday | Pad Thai

I had never eaten Thai food before I went to Thailand, and I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t know if the flavors were spicy or cheesy or if they used noodles or rice or pasta or tortillas. Really, its completely sad how little I knew. I had heard about this thing called “pad thai” running around the airwaves before we left, but had no idea what it involved. Not being a fan of seafood, I was actually pretty nervous that Pad Thai centered around fish and shrimp, or other unrecognizable things with eyes and heads on them….

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Lovers of Fried Chicken

We’re back. If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook, you already know it – The Youngrens are stateside once again. Jeff and I landed in LAX on Wednesday, which means we’ve been home for a couple of days now. This is the point in our trip where we do two things: (1) analyze just how well our bodies are doing with jetlag (“So am I tired because I’m bored, or because its 3:00am in Singapore?”) and (2) reminisce about everything we miss in Asia. For example, Jeff and I were driving to an engagement session yesterday (yup, we’re already…

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Jumping In

Right now I’m sitting at the little desk in our hotel room in Kuala Lumpur. Jeff is catnapping in the other room. I’m wrapped up in a robe, with my feet tucked inside those cushy white hotel sandals that you find in the closets wrapped in plastic. Its twilight outside. I am writing because I want to document this, right now, and put it inside our mental scrapbook. It’s cheesy, I know. It’s like shaping my fingers into a rectangle in front of my face and exclaiming “Click!” as I pantomime taking a picture of a dinner conversation. While winking….

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Our Last "Hurrah"

Jeff and I only have a week left in Asia, so what are we doing? We’re sleeping. And eating. And then napping. You know, before we go to bed again. Don’t judge. We’re on vacation people. In the middle of all of this extreme laziness, though, we have built up enough gumption to pull ourselves out of our Singapore coma and spend a few days in Kuala Lumpur, which is just a few hours north of us in Malaysia. We’ve decided to live it up in style for this last “hurrah” of a trip, so we booked a fancy schmancy…

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It's been two weeks

It’s been exactly two weeks since my last blog post. When I read that out loud, I feel a mixture of gentle relief and slight nausea. This is the longest gap of time with no posts on this blog since I can remember (which really isn’t that far back – I blame the humidity). Two weeks. A part of me is tied up in hysterical, stressed out knots. The other part of me wants to award me a medal. Which would be a good thing except that the medal would be for “Most Neglected Blog in 2010.” Ho boy. Rewind…

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