Happy Year of the Golden Pig!

Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!

My older brother is expecting a child around September. I am so excited for him. I just heard that my “baby” cousin (only 4 years younger than me) is engaged to be married this year. It’s a great year! 🙂

Let’s see… On Saturday, Seppo and I cooked up traditional rice cake & dumpling soup (’cause the rice cakse look like round full moons), jap chae (literally breaks down to the roots “assorted/various/miscellaneous” and “julienned things”, and it is literally that), and bulgogi (bought pre-marinated from Koreana) with blanched cabbage leaves and ssam jang (“wrap” + “sauce” — mixed up at home from primary ingredients). We also had seaweed salad and some seasoned fish cake that we bought pre-made.

Max and Amanda joined Colin, Seppo, and me at our house. They brought Meyer lemons and seltzer water, which we mixed up with our Meyer lemon syrup. We also had a fantastic sparkling blueberry juice, coutesy of Colin.

We wrapped up the evening with little walnut-paste-filled bitesized-cakes-shaped-like-walnuts and a melonball scoop of Dulche de Leche ice cream. Hee hee.

And because that wasn’t enough, we all walked over to the newly opened L’Amyx tea bar and hung out there until shortly before closing.

Yesterday was all about a trial run for Saturday’s dinner. I’ll upload the pics for Saturday and Sunday’s efforts and post about them on the food blog this week. Bonus: I’ll change the stupid food blog template so that it’s not all messed up anymore.