Went for a very special ladies only night to M on the Bund for my friend's birthday! She is pictured in front of the dragon truck- she knows the cool spots, makes amazing food, and is one of the people who saved our lives in Sept!
Fast forward 1 week to today. Preparing for thanksgiving. We (15 of us) will be getting our turkey from the marriot, comes with potatoes and pies....so what to make?
I begin with the idea for cocktail shrimp, simmered in tangy spicy broth. Being pre-dinner and highly delusional I failed to realized how small the shrimps in my bag were. They ranged from small to teeny... so once I removed them from their zesty broth, I realized I had hardly anything to serve as an appetizer. (though delicous, I started at them for 20 minutes telling myself to "be creative" and figure what to do with them. [I just finished reading Paul Arden's "Its not how good you are, its how good you want to be" Where they talk about different interpretations of "Creative" p104, but I'll get into that later.
So after chatting with T, we though making into a spread/dip was the best way to salvage our thanksgiving contribution. Cream cheese, mayo, plus some of the broth lent to a greatgreatgreat spread!!! (We'll see what everyone thinks tomorrow)
hooray!
Ok, now rewind to Sunday. I wanted to end the post with this image, of our friend singing a solo with this church choir. Although he's trained to sing italian and french operas, we had the honor to hear him sing in Mandarin (At least one of us could understand). It was beautiful, they had a strings section (8 violins and one cello) and did about 15 songs, some with audience participation. I managed to pick up one song, because it was actually just one line sung over and over and over again. "zai Ye su li, wo men shi yi jia" It was a big room, full of people robustly singing, and really magnificent to experience the energy and enthusiasm.
