Our Winter Solstice & Xmas Eve Dinner

Hubby is a traditionalist whom takes extra efforts to celebrate the Winter Solstice where "tang yuan" is served and eaten together with family members to symbolise wholesomeness in a family and that every individual is said to be a year older as well after this day. This year, hubby invited my family over for dinner despite it was a working Thursday and he whipped up a simple meal for all. Hubby even intended to make the glutinous rice ball a.k.a "tang yuan" served in sweet ginger soup from scratch but i stopped him as it involves too much work. Later on, i regretted for not allowing hubby to prepare the dessert as i craved for it for days! ;-p

Pictures of the red sauce pasta hubby cooked for my family of nine. It was a very heart-warming celebration and i feel truly blessed to have my parents, sisters, nieces and hubby to enjoy this dish together.

Next on are pictures on our Christmas eve dinner we had at my parents place with my aunts whom came to visit. We had a wonderful dinner and i enjoyed every single dish that night .Again, i feel very loved and blessed to be surrounded by my loved ones and all the good food.

 -Curry puffs from IKEA-

- Mom made these delicious cucur udang with yam-

 -One whole roast duck-

 -Fried rice balls with red bean, lotus paste and peanut fillings coated with sesame seeds + fried yu tiou to go with the red bean dessert soup (picture as below)-

 -Soya bean with cincau-

- Tuna sandwich with cheese-

 -Mom's signature Fried rice-

-Super juicy & sweet watermelon-

After dinner, my nieces opened their presents and look at their happy smiles. From right, that's my eldest sis daughter, Jojo (7 yrs old), 2nd sis daugther, Zi Yan (5 yo) & 3rd sis baby, Cheryl (3 yo).

Hubby & I gave each of them a gingerman cookie to munch and a sand art to play with as wrapped up above.

My nieces with their completed art work. They did a good job don't they?

I hope everyone had a happy and blessed Christmas too!

Love, Mic