She would stand at the kitchen range, stirring the porridge, tucking her hair back behind her ears as she did so; and he would wait for the moment when she would tap
the stick against the pan, pause, and turn her round, smiling face towards him.
TIPS: use skinny asparagus — it's more tender; to peel ginger root before grating, use the back of a spoon and scrape it off rather than use a sharp knife; after grating the ginger, it tends to
stick to the grater — to release, hold the grater over the fish and bang the grater
against something solid like the side of a
pan or dull side of a large chef's knife, and it will spatter haphazardly over the fish, which is what you want.