CNY – New Year Feast (Year of Tiger) – Year 3
14th February 2010
For myself; the best bit to celebration any festival is the feast part. Here comes the Chinese New Year and the seasonal vegetable is the Mooli Radish, they are big, real large pieces on sales from most Chinese Super Market. I’ve tried to grow at the plot but not as big as they are last year, but I shall try again this year… The bumper harvest of the Spaghetti Squashes has been in the dinner menu in many time and in many method. The last squash has been made use in desert too….
Mooli Radish Cake
I have recorded the procedure of how to make the Mooli Radish cake (蘿蔔糕) and like most Chinese cuisine the preparation takes lots to do but the cooking is quite simple… just steam it….
Spaghetti Squash + Pineapple Puff
Discover another version to use all the Spaghetti Squashes, I use my last Spaghetti Squash to mix with pineapple to make up the fillings and sandwiched in puff pastry. The baked result tasted really yummy….. also the seeds of both Spaghetti Squashes and Pumpkins seeds are my best mate to accompany me for all these winter nights movies watching…
Chinese New Year Dinner
The focus of the photo was not perfect as the sight of the food has been taken over the concentrate through the lens… found that long table is best with western dining while the round table is best with Chinese dining as the dishes of food can be access in all sides….
Dumplings = Nuggets
Another favourite of using the chives that I have been frozen at week 33 – year 2, was to make lots of dumplings during the CNY, the chives mixed with pork, pawns, Chinese mushrooms and young bamboo shoots as the fillings of the dumpling. Both soupy and fried version are my top favourite…..
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I am so surprised that you can grow veg. however, my english is poor, can I ask whether you can read and write chinese so that I can learnt from your experience. I am planting some mooli now and dont know whether it will be succeful. hv u tried to grow mooli before? thanks for your advice. and have a good harvest this year. P.S. I also grow spagetti squash and Pak Choi and mangetout this year on a trial basis.
Thank you for your nice comment… I am still a learner in this growing veg field but it does give me great pleasure in doing so. Yes I do write and read Chinese and nowaday the computing technology does give us easy access to most information. I did grow Moli last year just follow the seed packet, the result was not as big as those one they sell at shop but still a little success for me. I was planning to grow this again, but there are so many new veg to try on and this year I am extremely happy to my Mangetouts, Pak Choy and Choy Shum, they are magniificent and have a bumper harvest. I have just plant out my Spagnetti Squash and Mini Pumpkins. At the mo, we have a dry spell here and am very busy watering and wetting my other plants such as climing beans, runner beans, courgettes, sweet corns, tomatoes, spinach, lettuces, potatoes, turnips, onions, spring onions and some flower plants. I was so busy that have not upload my latest posts for sometimes and must squeeze sometime to do so. Again thank you for browsing my blog.