Well, maybe these things don't mean anything. There are approximately 6.1 billion people in the world, and if we assume an even distribution of births over a twelve year period (which we cannot, but....) that means over 500 million people are going to have a crappy year.
Just in case, I put away my aversion to cooking and made soup yesterday. In Korea, people celebrate the New Year by eating dumpling soup. It is supposed to bring good fortune for the year. So maybe the two things can cancel each other out.The following is the recipe in case you get the yen to cook something lucky
Ingredients
Soup bones - I use beef bones. Some people like chicken, or mushrooms.
1 clove of garlic
Duk - Korean rice cakes. The soup kind are shaped like ovals.
Dumplings - you can make your own or buy the frozen ones (reccomended)
non seasoned Geem (Nori)
eggs
scallions
Boil soup stock with garlic. It is best to this step a few days ahead so you can defat it. Add duk and dumplings to broth. Drop in an egg. Serve with chopped up scallions and crumbled seaweed on top.
4 comments:
I didn't realize Koreans still celebrated Chinese New Year. Thanks for the ingredients.
Pet peeve. It is NOT Chinese New Year. It is the LUNAR New Year. Many countries other than China celebrate this day.
"Anonymous" is a racist. (Good going, Ken)
If G and I ate Indian food on the Lunar New Year, does that mean that we are double ignorant because we thought the New Year pertained to Asian countries and India is sometimes but not always considered Asia? It's international food week in our house anyway-- tonight tacos from Mexico, but the kind you ate as a little kid, with the Old El Paso brand hard taco shells .
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