Monday, December 29, 2008

tong yuan tradition

TongYuan

For the first time in 30 years, I went to school (aka: work) on Christmas day as did Lawrance.  In fact, since he didn't come home till after 10, there was no point in cooking a special meal.  So, in order to still do something special, after lighting our advent candles and opening gifts, we made tong yuan. 

We also made these sticky sweet dumplings right after we decorated our Christmas tree in late November. 

Below is a video of Lawrance showing you how to prepare tong yuan.

Dec 29, 2008 1:37:17 PM | christmas, food, lawrance, married life, my photos, newlyweds, video

2 Comments

Cindy

Great new tradition. Really enjoyed hearing about tong yuan and seeing the preparation. Would love to try both peanut butter and sesame.

Posted by: Cindy | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM

Mom

I want a bite!! Plan on making some when you come home to the US! Looks yummy, yum, yum...Mom

Posted by: Mom | Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 06:29 AM

The comments to this entry are closed.

NEXT POST
Merry Christmas from the Wu's We've had a great first Christmas! Hope your Christmas was wonderful too!! With love, The Wu's P.S. Below is our little gift to you . . . we had to practice a long time, but we finally got all the steps right . . . hope you enjoy our choreography! Send your own ElfYourself eCards Send your own ElfYourself eCards
PREVIOUS POST
a pictorial year in the life of amanda Continuing a blogging tradition that I started three years ago when I first started blogging . . . a month by month look at my 2008 using only one photo per month. (BTW, each month name below is a link to a calendar view of pictures taken that month and uploaded to flickr. Just in case you wanna see more than 12.) January: We Went on Our First Date February: And Dated Some More March: We Shared the Gospel Together April: I Turned 30, but I had Someone to Celebrate With Me May: We got Engaged June: I Got to Meet My Nephew for the First Time July: Smith Girl's Threw Me a Bridal Shower August: Lawrance Came to Texas and On the VERY Last Day of the Month . . . We Got Married!! September: We Honeymooned in San Antonio October: We Enjoy Married Life (ie. I learn to cook Chinese food and Lawrance builds some shelves) November: The In-Law's Come over for Dinner December: We Celebrate Our First Christmas as Husband and Wife So, this was one LIFE CHANGING year . . . awesome in every way imaginable!! We look forward to seeing what 2009 brings! Blessings! A Little History: The first year I did this, 2005, I had just started blogging which started because I had discovered 43things, flickr, and library thing. Flickr and the blog are the only two things that stuck. And, just like my non-virtual life, my flickr account is in need of a little organization. Maybe one day . . . Anywho, back to 2005, it was the year I discovered the freedom a digital camera offers. I have carried a camera in my purse since 1999. That's nearly ten years now. I wanted to be able to record moments of life as an exchange student. It became a haibt to always carry my camera with me. In fact, the non-expense of picture taking with a digital camera hit me so strong I took so many pictures that year, I was so overwhelmed I quit printing them out. Too hard to choose which ones to print. In 2006, my brother came to Taiwan and my sister and good friend (as well as three others) got married. And, I took over 9000 photos to record these awesome events. In 2007, even though my cousins came to Taiwan (which was awesome), I didn't even take half as many photos as I did in 2006--a measly 4,000 something. So, in 2008, life changing year, . . . wanna guess how many photos I took?

amanda p. wu

Ali Edwards
Molly Irwin

Search

My Other Accounts

Recent Comments