I'll Be Away!

Dear Readers,

I will be away from my blog for a little while. All our things will be arriving today and we will be at our new home. I am not sure when I am able to get Internet access there so I might not be able to update my blog for the time being. You can still leave me a message here or email me if you have any questions and I will get to it as soon as I can.

In the meantime, I've just posted some pictures of our move from PA at my other blog and you can go and check it out. I hope you have a wonderful day and for those of you who are still celebrating Chinese New Year, have a good time with family and friends. Take care and see you soon!

Meat Spring Rolls

Hi everyone!! Greetings from SF. Carlos and I are here already but still living in the hotel the company set up for us as our things are still on the way here. Hopefully it will arrive by this week. Anyway, hope all of you are having a wonderful Chinese New Year celebration especially spending time with your family and friends and not to mention all the yummy food. This year CNY is a very low key one for us. We just went out for dinner on the 1st day of CNY but I plan to cook something either on the 9th day or the 15th day of CNY once we are all settle into our new home. I will post some pictures here later on of our new home.

Now back to these spring rolls. I made these last month with some leftovers spring rolls wrappers. Instead of the usual vegetables filling I used meat instead. It tastes pretty similar to the Vietnamese fried spring rolls or the Filipino lumpia and goes really well with rice or you can serve it as appetizer. Some people do pre-cooked the filling first but I don’t. Just make sure you don’t put too much filling in it and fried them over medium high heat so that the filling gets cooked inside.

Happy New Year/Gong Xi Fatt Chai

To my dear family, friends and blog readers,

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you A Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year. May the year of Dragon bring all of you good health, wealth, happiness, peace and joy!!

Mixed Fruits in Honey Ginger Dressing

We are at the peak of our moves and I am just too tired to prepare anything elaborate. So it will be very simple meal like sandwiches or take out meal for us this week as all the pots, pans and kitchen utensils are all packed away in boxes. It finally sinks in when I see all the boxes everywhere that we are leaving this place we called home for 6 years. It is sad to leave our very dear niece Diana and friends. All our dear friends who had become our family over here, the stories that we share, and the good times that we have together will be forever in our heart. I hope all of you will come and visit us soon

Enough of my rambling and now back to this mixed fruit salad. I prepared this mixed fruits salad for our lunch over the weekend using whatever fruits that is left in the fridge. You can use any fresh fruits you have in hand.