by jeroxie
February 25, 2010
Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days. There is almost a different event for each day of celebration. Vegetarian meals are eaten on some days and certain Gods need to be prayed to on others. The seventh day is the birthday of all human beings. In the past, farmers in the villages will gather and make a almost vegetarian dish that consists of a green soup and seven different types of vegetables to celebrate the occasion. So I thought for this week’s challenge, it will be a good idea to introduce to this really amazing peasant dish that was prepared and cooked by a friend’s mum.
These days many Chinese dialect groups will celebrate by having yeesheng. But the Hakka still have the tradition of having luicha for this occasion instead. The soup is made up of mainly basil, coriander, mint, peanuts, sesame seeds, dried anchovies (ikan bilis) and tea leaves. They are cooked, blended together and then placed in the middle of the table.
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by jeroxie
February 18, 2010
After so much eating and drinking over the weekend, I was feeling a little drain. So going meatless was welcomed with open arms. The original idea was to make a green risotto as inspired by Citron & Vanille but with the mad rush on the weekend, I forgot to get any spinach. I shall have to leave this to another day.
This is a basic risotto. I always have frozen peas in my freezer. It is like my back-up greens. Sad to say but I will feel quite lost without my bags of peas in my freezer. And I must have my frozen pesto cubes. I usually make big batches of pesto mid autumn and use it through winter and spring till the next batch of basil is in the garden.
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