Archive for the ‘Special Occasion’ Category
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
The night before Chinese New Year is like...having Thanksgiving dinner, but with emphasis on having symbolic food for dinner.Yes, we have symbolism for dinner. It's pretty awesome.This year, though, Mom toned things down by a lot. Randy stayed upstate since he has school there, so it was just me and ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
What better way to put the newly remodeled (all done by my Dad) than to bake with a good friend? Hang came over and we spent hour after hour in the kitchen working on the chemistry known as baking.He bought measuring cups. Don't ask how, but I managed to do ...
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
After two weeks since the first concert, the second one came.
And unlike the first reception, we had money left over to purchase goodies for the reception.To get into the holiday spirit meant more than just singing traditional carols and holiday songs about dreidels, mistletoe and snow. It meant bringing out ...
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
I have decided that my creative outlet for managing stress is cooking. Cooking, when done properly, seems to take away a lot of other worries and allows me to meditate.Since Thanksgiving at home this year was a small crowd (just my parents and me; my brother stayed at school to ...
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
I'm in this club at school that does concerts and I always feel that food and music are very much correlated. After a concert, we always have a reception for our guests.
So what do you do when the club only has a limited amount of money and you have a ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The reference, of course, to Oregon Trail. (I can't begin to tell you how many times I had typhoid, low food supplies and risked drowning by not caulking my raft when fording the river...) If you're still wondering if I really do have oxen in the city...no. None at all.So ...
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
Call me crazy, but I always wanted to get my brother cream puffs from Beard Papa. (Cream puffs are his faaaavorite at Veniero's.) And after having lunch, we had room for more and decided that room must be for dessert.After strolling through the courts one more time, I talked him ...
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Saturday, August 12th, 2006
Since it's Dad's birthday today, I spent a lot of time in the kitchen. For dinner, I spent time at the kitchen counter with Mom who had a lot going on. Naturally, I helped and could not resist taking pictures along the way.FIrst, there were crispy, fresh string beans in ...
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