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Songkran – Thai New Year

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Happy New Year! Well, today is Thai New Year. Since it’s a “New Year’s Day,” it’s time to post something for 2024.

For New Year’s January 1st, I’ve cooked a lot of lucky foods.

1) Twelve fruits: pomelo, lemon, lime, apple, persimmon, kiwi, orange, grapes, pear, star apple, honey Grapefruit, tangerine.

2) Pork- pork spareribs adobo

3) Fish – Baked Maple Syrup and mustard salmon

4) Cornbread – Corn bread Muffins

5) Pork – Bacon wrapped asparagus

6) Lentils – Tasty bite madras lentils

7) Noodles – Jovial cassava spaghetti

8) Greens – Blanched Yu Choy

Six weeks later, Chinese New Year – Year of the Dragon.

I made more lucky foods.

1) Dumplings

2) Soy sauce chicken

3) Roast pig

4) Vegetarian pancit

5) Lumpia

6) Baked Maple Syrup salmon

7) Nian Gao

8) Shrimp Rice Noodles

Now it’s Songkran, which is celebrated in Buddhism throughout most of Southeast Asia. Unlike the 15-day festival celebrated in the Lunar New Year. This New Year is celebrated for three days. It is a religious festival where water is poured to wash away the old year. The day begins in the temple where monks are offered food in exchange for a blessing and words of wisdom. Then water is poured on top of the Buddha statue to purify and cleanse sins and bad luck.

I was doing some research on the foods to consume during Songkran. So far, I have found some dishes that is worth having during the water festival.

Prawn Pad Thai – Zabb Zabb
Satays – Zabb Zabb
Chicken Satay
Shrimp roll and fried tofu – Ayada
Som Tum- Ayada
Shrimp Pad Thai – Ayada

I am hoping that we get to dress up for Thai New Year. I can’t wait to share more stories and post on Instagram @tablespoonsandteaspoons.

Stay tuned and Suk San Wan Songkran! 

Let’s do this … 2023

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Happy New Year! 2022 was a transformative year as I became a new mom. I’ve been active on Yelp and Seated writing restaurant reviews and hitting up Michelin rated restaurants. I’ve been struggling with Meta, which consists of Facebook and Instagram. My post has not been reaching out to a lot of people and businesses as if I’ve been ghosted or blacklisted. I know it’s a very competitive market out there. So, if anyone out there can provide input to help improve this account, that would be great.

Since it’s Sunday, I began the game plan last night on New Years Eve 2022 with my traditional lucky foods menu. Thanks to Instacart and Food Bazaar, I was able to achieve that.  To start, I had my traditional 12 fruits, which I was able to obtain:

Oranges, clementine, banana, Apple, pear, plum, grapes, blackberries, blueberries, Kiwi, pomegranate, lemon and lime. That turned out I had 13, well to be fair. I had 12 pairs of fruits and 1 banana.

For my meals, I search recipes online to find inspiration with the ingredients I had to work with.  So I made the following:

Cornbread, baked lentil pasta with collard greens and ricotta, Cappellini with tuna, ricotta and peas, Smithfield apple smoked pork loin topped with bacon.

Today, the celebration continues with Pacific foods lentil soup and maybe dumplings. In addition, I’ll go through recipes with my Beaba baby food blender and make stuff for the baby, which I’m very excited about.

Check out my posts on Instagram at @tablespoonsandteaspoons. Stay tuned for an exciting 2023.