My Lunar New Year

Wow... what a week it has been. I have been so busy baking and cooking straight out for a month flat before the lunar new year that I was so looking forward to a quiet holiday but of course, that didn't happen haha...

It was noisy, boisterous and busy with lots and lots of cooking. Non-stop by my BIL. And I had to help too, of course.

Here are some pics of the stuff I made.

Here's a chocolate mud cheesecake my friend ordered for her nephew's birthday :-)

This is our reunion dinner spread. This is just part of it as things were still being cooked/warmed-up as I took this pic. The table is an 8-ft long one and I could not fit everything into the frame. Half the food was prepared by my BIL and the other half by me :-)

Here's a pic of the tempura I taught my BIL to make :

There were lots more food, of course, like the goreng pisang, the yu sheng which we shredded by hand ourselves, the pork sausages we made, the kueh etc etc. But I don't have pics of them so we'll just have to do with what we do have ;-P

Gong xi fa cai to you and may you have a very blessed and happy Year of the Rat!!