Lotus Root with Dried Oysters and Black Moss Soup
How Cassie Started Cooking
My family and I love to eat, so naturally, in order to feed this habit (no pun intended), I learned to cook. I never tried until I first started dating my future husband. During one of our first dates, I surprised him one night in his graduate student dorm kitchen with watercress soup, Cantonese style stir fried lobster and Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce, while the rest of the grad students were eating ramen noodles slathered with chili sauce, and eyeing our meal ravenously. That was my very first attempt, and I would say it was a success because we were married four months later, and have been for almost 20 years.
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