Fill a piping bag with the red bean paste. If you want to have it crispier I’d suggest you deep fry it but for me I am happy to settle with the baked version. The sweet filling and the crunchy skin made a nice Olympic game snack for me. I made this red bean rolls on the fly so I had no idea how they would taste but they did taste good. What’s more can I ask?ĭrawing the inspiration from Cindy’s asparagus rolls, I made these sweet red bean rolls after I found out I still had leftover sweet red bean paste from making my own mochi and some wonton wrappers from making this golden crispy cheese wantons. And I get to watch the games while I snack on the crispy snacks I am about to share with you. And the result? I am happy to report that by avoiding the social media spoilers I still find the same excitement and suspense when I watch the delayed coverage as if I were to watch it live. So in order to stay away from all the spoilers flooding the digital world, I have been reluctant to not read news on my favorite news website and tried to completely avoid the sports section of the data feeds I use for work. The broadcasting network here does provide live-steaming on its website with subscription, however for now I’ve been trying hard to avoid that because I can never enjoy games while I try to be productive at work (yes I don’t live off this blog). While I am used to this kind of time-delayed coverage after living in the States for all these years, I can never forget the times when I lived in China and I had to follow the entire event at odd hours. Unlike many Olympics viewers around the world who watch the games in real time, most of the US viewers are put on time-delay coverage where most of the prime events are shown in the later evening. With the gold medal count for the summer Olympics reaching the 30s for the leading countries, the 2012 London summer Olympics in full swing. What resulted was always a delicious fiber-rich mush used for mochi, eight treasure rice, ice cream, and bao (recipe to come).Warning: Parameter 2 to wp_hide_post_Public::query_posts_join() expected to be a reference, value given in /home/yirese5/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 287 Also, let’s be honest, homemade always wins.Īfter dried red beans are soaked overnight and then cooked a pot or rice cooker to soften, Po-Po would then sauté the mushy beans in a wok with some sugar to thicken and caramelize the paste. I had to dilute the sweetness with water. I thought the same in using it for some of the desserts. Po-Po always made hers from scratch because she thought the canned stuff was too sweet. Not too long ago, I developed red bean dessert recipes for Refinery29 and had a chance to play with both canned sweetened anko or red bean paste and my homemade version. Super sad love story aside, red bean or adzuki bean is actually chock full of heart-helping vitamins and minerals, improving cardiovascular health and aiding with stroke prevention. But I love red bean soup, so any excuse to eat it, I’ll take it. Because of this, it’s become customary to eat red bean soup at Chinese weddings, as if auspicious foods could steer someone with a roving eye away from committing adultery. This myth and iterations of it have come to symbolize a kind of punishing but enduring love and unwavering devotion. The tears she continued to shed turned into blood and then mysteriously transformed into little tiny red beans, readying the earth with seeds to sprout the first ever red bean tree. And with no Netflix, burritos, or ice cream to ease the heartbreak, she just sat on the mountain and cried. Her optimism regressed into soul-crushing sadness. But surprise, surprise–he never returned. Every day and night while he was away, the woman waited patiently for him and then took her waiting to a mountain top where she’d stare deep into the horizon for her beloved’s return. Her cattle farmer husband had gone off to fight a war. Chinese legend has it that there was once a woman who, while mourning her deceased husband, cried tears of blood.
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