因為發生了一些事, 好久都沒有更新, 希望大家沒有忘記這個部落格. 昨天, 有人問我:"今天是不是冬至?", 想一想, 好像是, 趕緊買材料做湯圓, 想說沒什麼準備, 內餡來不及做, 就做簡單的湯圓.
我不是很喜歡吃湯圓, 因為不喜歡糯米粉的味道和那種哽喉的感覺. 記得小時候, 紅白湯圓加上加了姜(沒記錯的話)的糖水, 沒有很吸引我, 所以, 我不是很記得"冬至".
想了想, 沒了內餡要用什麼去壓過糯米粉的味道? 首先, 先要把湯圓弄得美美的, 要有好看的顏色, 當然, 那一定要用天然的色素, 找來了紫萬年青屬, 楊桃, 紅蘿蔔做了三色湯圓, 做了不同的造型, 傳統單色圓形, 混色圓形, 圓柱形, 還有彩蛋 :)
湯底大概是只此一次, 下不為例. 舅媽送的紫竹蔗, 紫萬年青要我煮湯水喝, 那正好就拿來當湯圓的湯底好了, 沒想到意外的大受歡迎, 一大鍋沒剩, 大讚好吃. ^_^
我搞錯了, 今天才是冬至, 祝大家冬至快樂!!
Somethings had happened to me. I was unable to do the updating. Hopefully, people will still remember my blog.
I was asked yesterday :" Is today Dong Zhi?", I guessed it was, so I immediately prepared for making tangyuan (Glutinous rice balls) but I had no time for making fillings. Thus, I made some simple Tangyuan.
I don't really like Tangyuan because I don't like the taste of glutinous rice powder and the choking feeling of eating it. When I was kid, red and white tangyuan with ginger(if I'm no wrong) sweet soup did not attracted me at all. I guess this is the reason I always forget the Dongzhi festival.
After some thoughts, how to cover the taste of glutinous rice powder without fillings?First of all, I needed to make some beautiful tangyuan to make it more attractive. O! Color is important. No doubt, we must use natural colors. I used rhoeo Spathacea, starfruit and carrot to have three colors tangyuan.
I made different shapes for this year, single color traditional tangyuan, mixed colors round, cylindrical shape and colorful egg shape.
I only can make once soup base for this year because the ingredients are from my auntie's garden. She gave me some rhoeo Spathaceas and purple bamboo canes for making dessert. I thought it might be a good idea to make the soup for tangyuan. Unexpectedly, they love it, whole big pot finished and praising delicious ^_^
I was wrong the Dongzhi Festival is on Today not yesterday. Hope you all have a happy DongZhi !!
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