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Why It's Not Good To Freeze Lotus Root Soup

I have been making the same watercress soup each week whenever I get to buy fresh watercress in the Lip Sin wet market.

In the wet market, it is either lotus root or watercress.

While I like lotus root soup, it doesn't freeze well.

I usually make a large pot of soup and freeze the leftover portions in individual containers. If you freeze lotus root, its texture crumbles. When you reheat the soup, the soup still tastes great but the lotus root won't be as lovely to bite into!

That's why I stop myself from buying lotus root.

But watercress is different.

It keeps its texture and the soup tastes even better if kept in the freezer. My soup is usually drunk over the course of a week so that's the maximum I keep the frozen portions.

Anyway, watercress soup is always a taste of familiarity. It is a taste of homemade goodness and it is a soup that keeps our lungs healthy with lots of Vitamin C.

Nic and I have been kept busy with projects and now that he is a healer, he gets even busier! (To find out what he does, visit muditacircle.com where he chronicles his journey in the past 3 years as a spiritual healer. It helps that we're in the web design business - setting up a website is the fastest way to spread information quickly without having to repeat ourselves!)

Of course, the healing that he does is after work hours but even so, more and more people have come to know of him and this has kept him busy. Most people think that he only heals one or two or at most 5 people but he has a long list of people on his WhatsApp.

As he goes along in this journey, I have no choice but to go along.

So this is a short update but at least you know why I've been so occupied. Between business stuff, volunteer stuff, healing stuff and community stuff, I have very little for kitchen experiments. But I try to cook dinner daily if only to give me a sense of control over what I eat!


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