Red bean paste – yet another leftover from making the Chinese rice dumplings. Since the Mooncake Festival is still a couple of months away, I figured the best way to use up this ingredient is to stuff them into piping hot Chinese buns and serve them as a treat for breakfasts in the mornings.
Refreshing Water Chestnut Drink To Curb The Summer Heat
The summer heat is just a convenient excuse to explain why I decided to concoct this drink. The truth is that I bought water chestnuts instead of chestnuts to make the rice dumplings in my previous recipe… So now I know – chestnuts, which are real nuts, grow from branches which belong to the beech and oak genus; water chestnuts, on the other hand, are aquatic vegetables that grow beneath the ground.
No regrets though, because it’s one of the most cooling and refreshing drinks to gulp down after a busy work day.
Teochew Nonya Rice Dumpling To Unwrap The Dragon Boat Festival
Eating rice dumpling during the Rice Dumpling Festival a.k.a. Duan Wu Jie(端午节) a.k.a. Dragon Boat Festival is a Chinese tradition that has been going on since time immemorial. The festival takes place every year on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese calendar, which is also when the sun is the strongest during the summer solstice. The racing of dragon boats on this occasion is therefore symbolic since dragons, like the sun, represent masculine energy. The eating of rice dumpling, on the other hand, is based on the legend of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet during the Chu Dynasty who committed suicide on the 5th day of the 5th month after he was wrongly banished from the state for the crime of treason. In order to protect the body of Qu Yuan, the local people started throwing rice dumplings into the Miluo River where he perished in order to feed the fish. Such interesting stories make for a perfect excuse to give this traditional dish a whip and a try, especially since it is a dish embraced by the Chinese population in all parts of the world.
Easy And Healthy Oven Roasted Vegetables
The last time I ate a smacking good meal of grilled vegetables was back in February, at the Heroes Premium Burgers in Frankfurt, Germany. Everyone ordered the famously huge burgers except for myself; I chose a plate of grilled vegetables (gegrilltes Gemüse) at just 3.90€ to go with my bottle of Steini Beer. Till today, the mild sweetness and oven-grilled fragrance is still lingering in my mind.
Ich War Hitlers Letztes Aufgebot: Meine Erlebnisse Als SS-Kindersoldat
By Günter Lucks, with Harald Stutte as co-author
The content of this book is saddening and heart-wrenching, yet at times whimsical and amorous. The story unfolds itself right in the midst of World War II, in the year 1945, when the author, Günter, was only 12 years of age. He revealed how growing up in a socialist-oriented family had, ironically, strengthened his belief in communism, and how he trooped to the front line at the age of 16 with nothing but a patriotic divination to champion the rule of the proletariat. The five-year long journey as a child soldier and mostly as a war prisoner took him to places faraway from his fatherland – Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Russia (the Soviet Union back then) and Poland – before he was granted permission to return to Germany in 1950. It was this first-hand experience of war and the subsequent defeat of the communist rule that gradually got him critiquing his own convictions for communism.