A Little Trivia While We Wait

So not much is happening right now.

I am sort of in a holding pattern - waiting for the team to finish being assembled and plane tickets to be purchased. 

I could write a post (and maybe will eventually) about Peter walking on water, having faith, being anxious (things I have been thinking about recently)

But right now that isn't as fun as celebrating the Chinese New Year and posting about something I love-

FOOD!

So first,

HAAAAPPPPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

I like this kind of New Year!

I mean, midnight in China is like 10:00 am here!  I can do that.  It sure beats trying to stay up until midnight on our New Year's Eve.  (Yes, I am getting old - long gone are the nights I stayed up WAY AFTER midnight working on college papers or hanging out with friends. )

I just read this article in our local paper.  It is all about Chinese food!

Cantonese food to be exact.

What is special about Cantonese food, you ask?

Canton is the old name for Guangdong - the province that I will be traveling around when I am in China.

Apparently (according to the article) it has some of the finest and freshest food in China.

SCORE FOR ME!

(I mean it did mention things like shark's fin, dried scallops and water snake but I'm pretending I didn't read about those things)

It turns out one of our family's beloved dishes - chop suey - is frequently eaten in this region.  I don't know that our family makes it correctly though....

the article says that the original versions contained "pig innards." 

(Ya, I can't see members of our family, who claim this meal as a favorite, eating pig innards!)

Anyway, here's to the Year of the Goat and delicious stir fry...

Which I plan on eating, dedicating each bite to my husband and his bachelorhood fondness for cheap homemade stir fry.  I am certain that the authentic stir fry will beat out his chicken breast/frozen vegetable/soy sauce concoction of days gone by.