Sense of Community and Giving Back...

I am Chinese. And that makes me very proud.

With Chinese New Year just around the corner, the Year of the Golden Ox (my year), it adds to my self-reflection and humble affection towards things to come. I read, for the Ox it is a time to reap the benefits of the cumulative efforts made year in, year out. It sounds to be a positive year, where hard work is rewarded but regardless, and with the wrath of the current situation, we must always perservere to persist.

I am grateful for the work opportunities, collaborations and partnerships that allow me to creatively express myself while working closely with different communities. I am ExCiTed to be in an upcoming Chinese feature where I share my home cooking in an auspicious dish to celebrate our new year and to talk about some community things I am involved in and how I'm looking to do more.

Sharing a little bit of what I am working on... The Neighbourhood Table At Home rocks on with a further United Way grant to support a new six weeks Winter Program at St.Philip's Lutheran Church. This is a wonderful at-home initiative that started the past spring to help combat food insecurity in the Etobicoke neighbourhoods with volunteers from the church delivering to homes fresh produce boxes from @foodshareto. Similar to our fall program, this time we have two offerings every week- an online healthy cooking food skills workshop with me for 45 families, and a paper health assessment followed by recipes/tips and telephone call to 25 seniors conducted by my partner Sandy.

Here's to sharing good food at home safely together! Looking forward to our partnership again with Arab community @acctonline and East European community @polycultural!

The scene at the church on the first day of the Fall Launch.

I'm looking forward to sharing more good food recipes and practical tips families could use!

Awww, what a cutie!