Dong Zhi Festival 冬至快乐 , and a bloggers gathering

Happy Dong Zhi, the Winter Solstice Festival to all my Chinese blogger friends and readers. I am sure by this moment, you all have enjoyed a bowl of Tangyuan. I have been very busy for the last two days (sorry for not visiting to my blogger's friend blog, but i promise will drop by soon) , because i was busy make preparation for Jessie KL gathering at my house yesterday.

A spread of good foods..

Homemade roast pork (Siew Yok) from me..

Popiah (crepes with vegetables filling) from me..recipe coming soon

They were all enjoying making their own Popiah, see Yen's husband Craig so creative to draw a Chritsmas tree using sweet sauce and chili sauce ^_^

A vanilla buttercake (Madeira Cake ) from Yen....I was enjoyed this nice cake with a cup of coffee.

very nice Chee Cheong Fun and Tauki sheets that Quay Po bought from a famous shop nearby her house

Homemade Yong Yau Fu (brinjals and ladyfingers) from Quay Po..I espeically love that brinjals, yummy..

Sauces for Yong Tau Fu

Nama chocolate from Yen (Eat Your Heart Out) (she adapted recipe from Nami Just One Cookbook)..My 1st time tried this type of chocolate, it was very good, gonna to make this by myself one day..

Japanese gyoza by me..Jessie wanted to learn how to wrap dumplings, so I purposely prepared this and taught her on wrappping method..

Egg tarts from me...recipe coming soon..

Pandan Xiang Xi chiffon cake from me , i made using homemade pandan paste..

A sweet end from me, Tangyuan in pandan and ginger soup. They all have fun making Tangyuan..

Jessie's daughter Isabella- she is such a cute girl..

Jessie and her son Ethan, like mother, like son

Jessie's family with Quay Po Veronica



A group photo..
My great pleasure to have Jessie (Jessie Cooking Moments ) whole family came to my house, in view of her tight schedule of visiting many places during of her short visit ..And nice to have Quay Po Veronica visit me again (even she still lost her way to my house on this 2nd visit, hehehe) and also Thanks her given gifts to each of my family members, and nice meeting with Yen (Eat Your Heart Out) and her husband Craig...



Jessie also brought a box of nama chocolate from Royce,  and a MasterChef board for me..

She said i deserved to have this MasterChef board..You will seeing me using this board to take photos very often from now, hehehe..

I just prepapred this savoury Tangyuan soup for lunch in this Dong Zhi day. My mom use to prepare this savoury type of Tangyuan soup when i was a kid, and now i prepared for my family who 1st time trying savoury of Tangyuan..

Tangyuan (汤圆) Glutinous rice balls in soup
(recipe source: by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover)

200g glutinous rice flour
1tsp caster
150g hot water (why hot water? in order to have QQ texture)

your choice of colouring


Method
1. Add glutinous rice flour and sugar in a mixing bowl.
2. Slowly pour in hot water, lightly knead till combine.
3. To roll Tangyuan into balls, cover it before cooking.


Sweet Tangyuan in pandan and ginger soup

1. Boil pandan and few slices of ginger with water.
2. Add in sugar and taste accordingly.
3. Drop in Tangyuan balls, once it floating on top, dish out and serve.


Savoury Tangyuan soup

Chicken stock- ( I boil chicken meat, soy bean and onion with water for 2hours)
mushrooms, sliced
pork meat, sliced (marinate with salt, light soy sauce, sesame oil, peeper and tapioca flour)
Green vegetables, your choice
Garlic oil

Method
1. Add chicken stock and mushroom slices in a pot.
2. Once stock boiled, add in vegetables, Tangyuan and meat slices.
3. Once Tangyuan floating on top, dish out and serve hot.


Oh, i have to go prepare another gathering tonight, my husband's friend whole family going to have dinner with us. If today really a Dooms day, so we all Cai Cai (together) go to heaven at the same time, hahaha..