February is Celebration Month with Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day...

 

Gung Hay Fat Choi! Sun Tai Geen Hong! Soon Soon Lay Lay! Greetings and many best wishes to those celebrating Chinese and Lunar New Year a prosperous, healthy one with only good, smooth and sweet things to come 🏮!

Hosting my first CNY celebration at my new-ish home with extended family with Singapore Fried Noodles, and Red Bean Purple Rice Coconut Tapioca Soup Dessert 🥣! 

Singapore Fried Noodles

The family potluck spread

But of course we cannot ring in the year entering the Dragon without the legendary dragon himself Master Lee (handcrafted statue created by my super artist brother Marten Go @mgo.preserveddragons🐉🙏).

Mirroring my brother's sentiments, the year of the Dragon brings abundant energy, vision and growth. Being the most powerful and auspicious animal, it is the reason to pursue your dreams, express your ideas and expand your horizons this year!

"When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible..." "Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do" -- Bruce Lee

Let's Go Dragons 👊💥!

Our Newcomer Kitchen Willing to Work winter term is well underway 💨. Introducing our very diverse groups of women- evening program Seven Senses Kitchen and daytime group Cuisine Connections.

Seven Senses Kitchen

Cuisine Connections

Working hard and having fun producing a total of 100 gift bags for a Valentine's Day ❤ event for our longtime partnering school at Crescent (a private boys middle school). Calling our bags Hugs and Kisses, buy one or buy both to seal the XO. This is part of the experiential learning for our lesson on product to market from production, labeling to packaging.

Which bag would you buy?

HUGS

🇳🇬 Abigail's Nigerian chocolate coated chin chin
🇦🇫 Samurai's Afghani jalebi
🇨🇴 Vicky's Colombian Alfajor dulche de leche cookies
🇮🇶 Nada's Iraqi orange and chocolate cookies
🇦🇫 Sahar's Afghani sheer pira milk fudge with dried fruit
🇮🇳 Shatavisa's Indian ladoo date and fig balls
🇮🇷 Hamideh's Persian sohan saffron tahini biscuit

KISSES

🇵🇭 Carolina's ube purple yam jam served with Skyflakes crackers (Philippines origin)
🇵🇰 Samina's Pakistani chana dal bars with dark chocolate
🇳🇬 Blessing's Nigerian seasoned plantain chips
🇲🇦 Hajar's Moroccan dark chocolate dipped fingers with rose petals
🇸🇩 Omnia's Sudanese kahk cookies filled with pomegranate Turkish delight (lokum)

❤ Happy Valentine's Day ❤

Delivering our Hugs and Kisses gift bags to Crescent School for the boys and their families to pick up and enjoy. This was a collaboration on the theme "Love Letter to the World" where each student wrote on hearts what their message of love is to the world ✍💌

With the very diverse groups of women we are working with this winter term, what great synergy it is to have the symphony of love in the form of treats... from the world to them in these great giftable bags 🤗🥰! 🇸🇩🇲🇦🇳🇬🇵🇰🇵🇭🇮🇷🇮🇳🇦🇫🇮🇶🇨🇴