[Pictures] Flowers & Plants at Yang Ming Shan, Taiwan 2013 台灣陽明山花卉

Taiwan Flowers & Plants at Yang Ming Shan

2013

台灣陽明山花卉

[Pictures] Taiwan Sakuras at Yang Ming Shan 2013 台灣櫻花(陽明山)

Taiwan Sakuras at Yang Ming Shan

 2013

台灣櫻花(陽明山)

[Pictures] Callas at Taiwan Yang Ming Shan 2013 台灣陽明山海芋

Callas at Taiwan Yang Ming Shan

 2013

台灣陽明山海芋 

[Pictures] Taiwan Sakuras at Tian Yuan Gong 2013 台灣櫻花( 天元宮)

Taiwan Sakuras at Tian Yuan Gong   

2013

台灣櫻花( 天元宮)

Vegetarian Dish: Riceballs with Melting Chocolate (Dessert)

The 15^th day of Lunar New Year is known as the Lantern Festival & Chinese Valentine’s Day. For this year, the day falls on 24.2.2013. People generally appreciate lanterns & play riddles written on the lanterns. Sweet Riceball is the most popular festive food of this day. People put their favorite sweet fillings e.g. sesame, red beans in the rice dough to make a dessert. In this article, I’ll introduce the making of Riceballs with Melting Chocolate. 


Ingredients

Glutinous Rice Flour (180g for 18 dumplings) (flexible)

Chocolate

Add warm water little by little to the flour & rub it into a strip/strips

Divide the strip into small pieces in equal size



Press each small round dough & put a small chocolate piece onto the center of it. Wrap the chocolates with the doughs & rub them into balls with  palms

 

Boil a bowl of water with level about 2 inches higher than the size of the balls . When it boils, put the balls in & continue to cook them in boiling water. When the balls float, they are ready to serve. The chocolate fillings have already turned from a solid to a smooth & yummy melting state. You may also put the riceballs into a fluid dessert. Enjoy.

    

1st & 15th day of Lunar Months

Some non-vegetarians have the practice of eating vegetarian foods on the 1^st & 15^th in every month (days with a Full Moon) of the Lunar calendar. People pursue such practice for different reasons but anyway it’s not a bad thing to do so. You may also design your own schedule such as eating vegetarian foods on the 1^st & 15^th in every month of a Gregorian calendar (Solar calendar), or on the 2^nd & 16^th etc. This practice serves as a reminder of eating less meat & replace meat with vegetarian foods at regular intervals, and is a good start of going vegetarian or flexitarian.

Here is a list of dates indicating the 1^st and 15^th day of the Lunar months in 2013 from February to December. 

  

	1st day	15th day
February	10  (Chinese New Year Day 1)	24 (Chinese Valentine’s Day)
March	12	26
April	10	24
May	10	24
June	8	22
July	8	22
August	6	21
September	5	19 (Mid-Autumn Festival)
October	5	19
November	3	17
December	3	17