Chinese New Year celebration

旺旺旺…年！

年初一早上，一定是素食。

我媽在時，雖然她不是真正的佛教，但她信觀世音，每月的初一、十五日持素至下午五點。

一大早年初一，她就準備素食菜給全家，要我們至少持素至中午。那時代的素食還不盛行，她就買罐頭素料，如素鮑魚、羅漢齋…

我的兄姐各自的家庭都跟隨她的傳承。

我也不例外。

炒絲瓜蘑菇九層塔，煎豆腐、素白帶魚。

吃着吃着… 配上絲絲的念親.. 味道。

對了，給紅包。我的洋相公也有傳承.. 

每年，他有給我紅包，我也回給他紅包。

Steve: I wanted to cook something for Chinese New Year, so chose a very traditional dessert - chocolate financiers! (Okay, so maybe it's a French petit-four, not a Chinese dessert, but no one has complained yet.) Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen recipes have never let me down.

"Mise en place" - everything out and ready to start mixing.

Dry ingredients ready.

After mixing the molten chocolate, butter, and espresso powder into the dry ingredients. Now, the batter sits for 20-30 minutes.

Time to fill the mini-muffin pan.

Fresh from the oven.

It's so hard to wait for them to cool before sampling. All should have a little dome in the middle, like in the upper right corner. I don't know what went wrong with some - I'll just have to keep making them until I get it right. :-)

Steve: I have no idea what the texture of a financier is supposed to be like. These turned out slightly crispy on the outside, like the edge of a brownie, and a little like fudge on the inside.

Steve 做了甜點，叫什麼 chocolate financiers，很甜，我不喜歡。

每次告訴他要減糖，他就不聽。

盆菜，近幾年馬來西亞流行新年吃盆菜。
好，就來做一做。噢不，是做二做。

這麼巧，各有两位朋友邀請我們去慶祝新年。

一家三點的因有某些素食者，所以我做一盆全素的。

另一家五點，我做一盆葷的。

除了两位 ang moh 及小弟弟在美國出生，我們都是馬來西亞人。
噢，還有两隻狗狗，是美國狗。
We had a wonderful Chinese New Year celebration dinner in Ling & David's house.