Wednesday, September 17, 2008

For twin girls

Prepared these since the day they were born. Just had not enouth time to really make it work. finally, here they are! I hope they will fit the precious twin girls.

This is the design I made for the twin girls.


Put both of them together to see if they are good enough for the girls.

With the sweaters, they liik better.

MY little models are working!

Look! The Dad bear is trying to pretend he is the "mother"!



He acturally looks nice with the lady's dress on!

Dad and Son becomes "Momy and daughter"! hahahahah!

Baby boy pretend to be a baby girl. He looks very cute!

The look of the back. Don't you love it?


The closer look of the back.
The baby's back. Is it nicer than the 'Momy"s back?


Put the sweater on their shoulder, Do they look more relaxed?


Take a closer look of it.
What do you think?


Change a baby model. Do you like her better?


Sorry, If I messy with the pictures.



Look! How lovely they are!
They are so cute even the man of the house wants a picture with "her"!

Here they are!

Cute!




So Cuteeeee!

How lovely!



Ah.................
She is just perfect!!!

"She" is beautiful!


Together, They look so nice!

The whole family getting together and have a picture!

The beautiful back!

The earlier pictuer with the flower bottons.

Knitting with Love!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

How to Make Tang-yuan dumplings (The rice ball)

To make Tang-yuan dumplings, there are few ways to do it.

You can buy sticky rice powder from any Chinese grocery store or you can make it yourself using raw sticky rice. Here we are introducing a method to use raw sticky rice to make rice dumplings:

Ingredients: sticky rice, rice, white sugar, sesame paste, peach seed (crushed), sesame,melted lard.

Steps:

1. Mix sticky rice with rice (5000 g sticky rice with 1000 g rice), soaked in water for 1-2 days, mill with mill, put into cloth bag, hang and make to powder.

2. Mix evenly with white sugar, sesame paste, peach seed, melted lard and flour powder, make cubic stuffing ready for use.



3. Put some cold water into flour powder to make a dull, take a bit to nip it and flat it, put in some stuffing and rub into ball shape.





4. After boiling off the water, put in rice dumplings, turn heat to mild to medium. After rice dumplings float onto water, wait a moment, then you can fish out the rice dumplings and serve with soup.


For Deep fry:
  • Using needle pinch some little holes on the rice dumplings to protect blow up.
  • Heat the cooking oil to medium, put the rice dumplings in to the oil.
  • When the dumplings look light yellow, slightly stir them so they will get evenly cooked.
  • Keep fry till the dumplings become golden brown and take the dumplings out and put in a plate. Spike some table sugar on the dumplings and serve.

Monday, September 08, 2008

For twin boys

I start this knitting about month ago, It is for twin boys of my classmate in nursing school. But I am not sure if they are still fit them. They are already over a month old.



Put on my little model looks just perfect!
Both Dad and son are here, but son is too small and the outfit is too large. Sorry.



Dad wear it is soooo handsome!


Son with the big out fit sitting on the stairs with Dad.



Worked hard all day, I looks tired.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Grocery Shopping

Today my husband took me for grocery shopping. It made me so happy! I want to show all of you some pictures here:

1) After my traditional breakfast: Mung bean soup, Garlic purselaine and Duck eggs Chive stuffed Chinese steam buns, we started our journey to the Grocery store.


2) At this special grocery, I found the seeweeds I love, and it is the first time I see how seaweed grows!


3) Look! She has beautiful long hair! And that is my favorite vegetable! And her tale is sooooo long!!!

4) After my husband cut the hair out, I took them with me with my walk on the beach.


5) See how happy I was!


6) WA! In this grocery store, there are fresh jelly fish!

7) "HI! Hurry! you guys are behind!

8) Walking in this big grocery store has always been my favorite way to relax!
9) Here is another one even fresher! Too bad I do not know how to cook it!

10) Look on these coco nut tree seaweed! They are the most delicious ones!


11) Putting back to the sea if there are any living beings on the root. Everyone deserve a chance.
12) Another jelly fish.

13) My coco nut tree seaweed are home!

14) D0 you think they really look like a coconut tree?

15) Together, they are so beautiful!


16) From their root, you can tell they live in the bottom of the sea or a rock.

17) I almost thought I were back to the South China Sea!
18) The stem of the coco nut tree seaweed as good as the leaves.

19) Here is the bottom of the coconut seaweed, the empty shells.

20) Here are the traditional seaweed!

21) Don't they look beautiful together?
22) Even with the sand of the beach, they still look delicious!

What do you think? Did we do well on our grocery shopping? I am going to enjoy my sea vegetable for at least a couple of months!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Daily Wisdom (4)



There are many afflictive emotions such as conceit, arrogance, jealousy, desire, lust, closed-mindedness, and so on, but of all these, hatred or anger is singled our as the greatest evil. This is done for two reasons. One is that hatred or anger is the greatest stumbling block for a practitioner who is aspiring to enhance his or her altruism and attain a good heart. Second, when hatred or anger are generated they have the capacity to destroy one's virtue and calmness of mind.