box Mochiko sweet rice flour). Happy ChineseNewYear. It literally translates into "stickycake" or "yearcake" and is thought to bring good luck to your family during the newyear
One popular desert eaten during ChineseNewYears is Nian Gao (年糕). One of the reasons it's eaten during this time is because the words "nian gao (粘糕)", meaning "stickycake," sounds just like the words 年高, which means something along the lines of "growing taller every year
The heat is on for baking cookies and cakes for The ChineseNewYear Celebration. Baking during this time of the year for us here in Colorado is so welcome as the oven heat warms up the kitchen and the aroma from the baking perfumes the whole house (all windows and doors are closed so tightly to prevent the effect of Polar Vortex)
Some presents this year included a cozy Hudson's Bay throw and a beautiful, orange dutch oven pot which I used to make this turkey and wild rice casserole with leftover turkey and cranberry sauce
Last Sunday, I was invited by OpenRice (Singapore) to attend their first cooking demo class with ToTT (Tools of the Trade) on the ChineseNewYear Workshop - Good Fortune, conducted by Chef Eric Low
Great to snack on with a good old cup of hot Chinese tea. Nonetheless this stickyricecake or glutinous ricecake with red bean paste, was indeed very delicious especially when taken fresh from the pan
No-Frills Recipes ... cooking, baking & excerpts on travel
We’d recommend Moutai (Chinese liquor made from fermented sorghum), but it’s hard to find. Remove sausage from the pan and place on top of ricecakes in the oven
Immediately loosen cake from pan. Invert cake onto a towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll up warm cake and towel together, jelly-roll style, starting from a short side
Not that I didn't do much, just that probably this winter break was truly underestimated and the force by which it went by, all fast and furious made my visions of a truly dramatic newyear update, complete with magnificent pictures fly out the window
(The consistency should resemble a slightly runny pancake batter). In honor of tomorrow being the start of the Chinesenewyear, I see fortune cookies in your future
one is with chicken--made from purchased rotisserie chickenMartha Stewart gave us this recipe for a lighter version of General Tso's ChickenA generic Vegetarian Fried Rice--more of a technique than an actual recipeCarolina of the Uñas (fingernails), decorating the dessertAlthough I don't really like Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens appealed to me for this particular class
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