Thursday, February 7, 2008

First Day of CNY- Da nian Chu Yi

Today is the first day of the Lunar New year. I woke up especially early to cook the sweetened dessert for the family. Joe loves it but the kids just like the Tang Yuan. The Ba bao Zhu they don't really fancy. Anyway, I think that is a great achievement already able to be up so early.
Yesterday was a rather busy day for me. I woke up and the sun was finaly up after many days of absence. I quickly did the 3 days laundry and even washed the bedsheets.

After that, I did a quick clean up of the house with Charlynn's help. Boys were busy playing at garden and I felt happier they were not at home making a din. I did the cooking in the late afternoon. I have 2 seabass and I cooked one sweet sour and the other Spring oinions and soy sauce. As for the cuttlefish, I fried it with celery. I also make some pork spring rolls. Ingredients just like the prawn dates except that I replace water chestnut with apples and no prawn paste. Children like it very much. I also fried the prawns which are to be eaten with Mayonaise. Not foregetting I have the fa cai hao shi- I cooked it in the morning and I stewed it for a couple of hours. We also have yu sheng after we did our dishes. We used smoked Salmon. Children love the yusheng very much.

Anyway, really enjoyed the togetherness and children helping out. Hope the children will be healthy, happy and honest persons for the new year..

Wishing all gong xi fa cai, sheng ti jian kang, wan shi ru yi and pin an kuai Le for the year of RAt.

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