Foodarrific

When the weather is absolutely scorching like it is now, I usually have no appetite to eat. There’s nothing like a bowl of clear soup to go with the meal, I tell ya.

My favorite uncle from New Zealand was here recently and brought me a huge pack of snow (white) fungus from his vacation in China.

I have this really bad habit of stashing stuff away and forgetting all about them. So I thought I’d better use my snow fungus in a soup with fishballs and lettuce before I forget all about them or they expire.

I boil 4 or 5 chicken carcasses in my crock pot the night before. I have two crock pots, one that I bought from a sale and the other was a housewarming gift. For a busy mom like me, I’m thrilled for the time they save me.

So by morning, I have a lovely pot of chicken stock to which I add fishballs and my snow fungus. I have 2 types of fishballs here – one is the regular round one and the other looks like a meringue which the kids love because of its fancy shape.

I add the lettuce leaves at the last minute before serving as I don’t want to overcook them. Add salt and pepper to taste, and I have a deliciously appetizing clear soup to go with rice, or noodles. I like mine with lots of pepper .

If you have cilantro or spring (green) onions handy, go ahead and chuck some in chopped.

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