Canh Chua

A good sleep in, waking up to find D. bringing me up a nice strong cuppa. What a good way to begin a lazy Sunday! Did the Guardian crossword in bed, called mum (it's Mum's Day) and wrote a shopping list. Thought we'd restock everything for the week at least. Went to the markets to pick up all our stuff, which included a live fish, which was scaled, cleaned, chopped into four pieces and into our bag only minutes after being fished out of the tank. Home to some lef over curry and then started to cook tonights dinner. This Vietnamese soup tastes so good and feels so healthy. We started by boiling up five chicken carcasses for the stock (they cost us a measly $1). To this we addad cabbage, tomatoes, pineapple, the fish, prawns, fried chicken wings, various herbs and tamarind paste. Served with a plentiful amount of garlic oil, a dipping sauce of cut chilli and fish sauce, and plenty of rice. Yum! Plenty left over, so methinks this will be tomorrow-nights dinner too.