Noodles and luncheon

I did make my wife dinner..

And we were both full. Even too full to eat cookies!

This is the recipe for the noodles that I made last night: 

NOODLE AND LUNCHEON DISH

INGREDIENTS: 

3 packets of noodles (including the noodle flavouring sachets)

about 100g luncheon (chopped finely)

about 1 cup frozen veggies

boiling water

METHOD: 

1. Prepare the ingredients (chopping the luncheon on a chopping board for meat, very carefully so you don't cut yourself).

2. Get out a big glass bowl (or something that can go in the microwave), and boil the jug (in other words, put the kettle on).

3. Break the noodles while still in the packet, then open the packet and tip the noodles out straight into the bowl

4. CAREFULLY pour the hot jug of boiling water over the noodles (JUST enough to cover the noodles), then add the sachets of flavouring.

5. Give a little stir, then add the luncheon and veggies... 'drown them in the noodles' so they can soak into the water and get defrosted properly

6. Microwave on HIGH for 3 minutes

7. Check if the veggies are soft and the water should be all soaked into the noodles. 

8. Bob's your uncle! There's your noodles and luncheon! Yum Yum

I said to pour the jug of boiling water CAREFULLY, because I have accidentally burned my left hand while making my Dad a cup of tea by pouring hot water into the cup, and it missed the cup and landed on my hand. 

It was very scary. 

I still have a little scar between my thumb and finger . 

I had to put gel on my burn, and I learned to use a liquid level indicator so I could tell when to stop pouring! 

Good to the last mouthful :) 

Every story has a beginning

Hello, my name is Rhys.
And I am the blind baker from Toowoomba Cookies.

I was born and bred in New Zealand, but was born very premature, and my parents were told by the doctors that I "might not make it".


But I did!


I'm sitting on the chair right next to my wife, who is helping me write my story.


As a young child I also had meningitis, which is the cause of me losing my sight.
I have had so many operations, I don't know all the details of.
I don't know when they happened or why I needed them! I would like to find out one day.


My koro thinks I am very brave for having all the operations I did, and when he needed to have a surgery he thought "if Rhys can do it, I can too!"

My aunty told me that I needed to get rushed to hospital after having a migraine one day.


I know that I have had two 'shunts' which my wife says are to drain fluid from around my brain. The scars are behind my ears. My shunt really hurts if I get a migraine. Pain killers don't even help take the pain away.


My nan and koro looked after me until my parents came back from Canada. I love my grandparents, but I miss my koro. I remember seeing him when he was very sick, then he passed away when I was eight or nine.


I love all my family. I have my Mum, Dad, siblings, heaps of aunties, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, "the works"... and now I am getting to know my wife's family as well!


I have three sisters and two brothers, but mostly I lived with my brothers and two sisters.


I did my schooling at Dominion Road Primary, Mount Roskill Intermediate, and Mount Roskill Grammar in Auckland.


I found mainstream schooling hard.


I couldn't keep up. I had to get special work sent up from Wellington. I got different work from everyone else. That's how I started reading audio books (on tape!)... I remember hearing the phrase "when you hear this sound, turn the page"... 'DING'.


I enjoyed the tapes... Listening to the stories, pointing to the words with my finger.


When I moved to Mount Roskill Intermediate I was in PDU (physically disabled unit).


I made friends and still keep in contact with some of them. I visited my school last time I was in Auckland, and the teachers all remembered me, and got to eat some of my cookies for afternoon tea!


I learned how to cook noodles with prawns, shrimp, and frozen veggies with help from my Occupational Therapist. That was my lunch for the day!


My wife thinks I make the best noodles, even better than she does (they come out really fluffy and flavoursome, and she likes that I put veggies in it).


I used to play drums for the school band. We performed a production in the school hall one night. Parents and children came to watch. I wasn't scared. We even got recorded for a CD version of our production.


I think I gave mine to my uncle.


Who knew I would grow up to be a baker? (not a chef)
Some people don't have patience to bake. I do.
I love baking.
I enjoy what I do for Toowoomba Cookies.
I just wish my wife would be a bit more patient with me when I am trying to measure the cups of flour or sugar! It's hard on my eyes to see the colours on the glass measuring jug.



I told my wife that I would make our dinner tonight, so I better go do that, or there will be nothing to eat !!