Family Reunion Dinner

 

vegetarian yusheng

2011 Chinese New Year, i have a different feeling which i never feel before mean i don't have the any chinese new year mood like there is no new year it just a normal day, because my grandmother passed away this year jan so we can't celebrate chinese new year. Anyway we still have our reunion dinner the food are all vegetarian is a different food which were not appear on the table during our past chinese new year, what we have for our past reunion dinner are like shark’s fin, abalone, fish, chicken, crispy roast pork belly(my favorite).

This year we have vegetarian duck curry(my favorite), fish, prawn, mushroom, white mushroom, pork, tofu, shark's fin, yusheng, almond dessert and are this is order by my dad from a vegetarain restaurant their food is pretty yummy. The white mushroom is cooked with some sliced strawberry which give the white mushroom some pinky colour this is the part i find it interesting.

vegetarian shark's fin

 

 Almond dessert

 Ready to start our dinner~~

 toss and toss and toss "tossing up a good fortune"

I wondering why they toss for so long..then my small aunt said: "finish shooting~ come here and toss with us if not we don't dare to stop."haha okay okay so i went over and toss with them~

Chinese New Year "Almond Cookies"

 

Chinese new year is coming..now full of new year recipes i want to try so excited so i decided to try this almond cookies.when my brother,dad and mum tried the cookies they said it super nice and very fragrant...feel so happy haha..because my brother said taste better then outside sell and he said i baked so many type of cookies this is the best cookies..and my family told me to bake this for the chinese new year..hehe..it a easy recipe. 

>>YUMYUM~~use red food colouring to dot it on top of the cookies to make it more nice<<

INGREDIENTS:

A

120g almond powder

180g plain flour

120g caster sugar (i reduced to100g)

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

B

120ml corn oil or sunflower oil

METHODS

1. Combine ingredient A and B in a mixer and mix to form a dough.

2. Roll out and arrange on baking trays.

3. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 15-20mins until lightly browned. Cool well before storage.