Today is Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon, both myself and my youngest were born in the Year of the Dragon.
{this is Pearl the Dragon}
I love reading about Astrology and find that the Chinese Astrology holds very true to my personality. Here is a description of people who are born in the year of the dragon.
The Dragon of mythology was a creature of inaccessible places, high mountains or underground caves, breathing fire and ready for battle. The Dragon has been a symbol of deep desire, of wisdom and of luck, and has often been used to ward off evil spirits. Powerful, brave, obstinate, enthusiastic and always lucky, if you were born in the Year of the Dragon you can accomplish things that others consider impossible. Nothing is beyond you, but you're not easy to live with. You can be cranky and demanding, and upset others with your blunt way of speaking, but you're scrupulously honest, and genuinely very charming.
If you were born in the Year of the Dragon, you enjoy the company of those born in the Years of the Rat, Snake, and Rooster, but there could be problems with those born in the Year of the Dog, as well as other Dragons!
This is a pretty accurate of my personality characteristics. I can be difficult to live with sometimes, you can ask my family. I'm very enthusiastic and when I was younger quite relentless in getting my way, this has mellowed out a bit now that I'm older. In the Chinese culture because the Dragon is a symbol of power and optimism there is a baby boom during the years when it was the "year of the dragon". I also posted here and here about Chinese New Year in the past post if you'd like to check them out. What do you do to celebrate with your family? Do you order out for Chinese Food or do you cook something at home? I've always wanted to make my own homemade fortune cookies and put my own fortunes in them. This recipe looks doable I think we will give it a whirl. Speaking of fortunes....
About a year ago when we ordered out and MacKenzie opened up her Fortune cookie this was her fortune how cool was that? And within that year we found our Cottage on Cullen St. It was meant to be, as they say.
In honor of Chinese New Year I thought I'd post one of my favorite recipes...
~~~~~~~~~~~Chinese Chicken Salad~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ingredients:
5-6 chicken breasts
1 medium head of Nappa Cabbage
8 green onions
1 cup of slivered almonds
2 pkg. of chicken Ramen noodles
2TBsp peanut oil
Dressing:
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup of peanut oil
12TBsp rice vinegar
1 flavor pkg. Ramen noodles
Directions:
Cook chicken and cut into bite-size pieces. Mix dressing ingredients and add chicken pieces to dressing. Saute Ramen noodles and almonds in 2 tablespoons peanut oil. Cut cabbage and mix with onions. Just prior to serving combine almonds, noodles, chicken, and dressing. Then toss.
*You can also marinate chicken in wishbone oriental dressing for 3-4 hours then grill.
This recipe is from one of my Mom's club ladies who made it for every potluck we have, it was a winner everyone looked forward to her salad.
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