Food

Abundance All Year ROUND January 3, 2013

One of the New Year rituals we follow at home is preparing fruits. According to my grandparents, the fruits should be round and sweet. Round fruits symbolize wealth/money and sweet connotes close and loving relationship with family. I also included pineapple as according to friends, the numerous “eyes”, the pineapple symbolizes an eye for successful career and opportunities.

Food for abundance: Assorted fruits, chocolate coins, assorted candies, and queso de bola

Gold and choco coins to attract wealth

Childhood fave. I love eating milk choco coins!

Colorful sweets for a harmonious and lasting relationship

Red and round for hope and infinity

Food for the New Year is all about the color red and round shapes, I prepared sweet, savory and reddish meals for NYE dinner:

Steamed rice, ground sirloin beef caldereta, macaroni salad

More round and savoury food:

Carmelized Garlic Scallops on a bed of Mushroom Risotto prepared by my husband Tom

Tea time

Hot chai tea and assorted round cookies

I prepared some bubbly but decided not to open them…

Instead, we popped some popcorn for sobriety! Haha!

New Year brunch:

What is red, sweet and savoury?

TOCINO!!!

Mmm…

Pampanga's Best Fatless Tocino is my favorite!

Tom made the Epperson Signature Buttermilk Pancakes too!

Anatomy of a good pancake: textured (bubbly) surface, slightly crisp on the outside and moist and fluffy on the inside! Real maple syrup is everything!

I don’t know what happened to Dylan’s Mickey pancake but it got warped! Haha!

Our two-rear old son Dylan doesn’t mind.

Real sweetness do not come from perfect pancakes but from dad and son moments like this.

Wishing everyone an abundant 2013!

Shoppingero/shoppingera, what New Year rituals do you follow and why?