This is the break I needed after the vacation. A nice relaxing welcome-home weekend. The orderliness of American drivers and hearing American English everywhere just felt comfortable and familiar. (I don’t miss the sprawling parking lots and general inefficiencies of suburban strip malls though.) Yesterday we attended a cooking knife skills class to learn the basic skills of how to julienne, chop an onion, bell pepper, crack a coconut, cut citrus, and even how to hold a knife, hone it with a honing steel, along with what knives most cooks need and the varieties out there. It was a lot of information but very helpful as a basic class. At the beginning of class people went around to introduce themselves saying what they wanted out of the class. Several of them had fancy knives like Shun’s and Wusthof’s and didn’t know what to do with them. But they all knew never to put them in the dishwasher! Now I know. 
Since I have a Walmart knife, it goes in the dishwasher. And now that I know fancy knives can’t go in dishwashers I’m staying loyal to $15 knives. After the class we went grocery shopping and then Korean for dinner then more grocery shopping. Restocking the larder. We’ve missed some Asian cuisines like Japanese, Korean, and Indian not because they weren’t available during our trip, in fact they were everywhere, but we just haven’t had them in a while.
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