Happy Chinese New Year and Valentines Weekend!.

Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year
or
Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day...

oh, boy!.

Which one is your favorite one?
I still cannot decide which one is my favorite.

What I do know, is that I wish you celebrate this special amoroso, tender, loving weekend with your family, and your loved ones playing silly card games or mahjong; watching romantic movies, and eating plenty of good food.

oh, yes, please, please!
have lots of delicious romantic and prosperous good food,
during this weekend

I'm channeling dumplings, steamed fish, turnip and rice cakes for CNY and luscious Chinese Fice Spice Chocolate truffles and champagne for Valentine's Day.

Hope you get them all!.

This little tiger and her little rabbit, wish you Gong Hey Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year!

.....and have a wonderful loving weekend.

gambei! cheers!

A few fun nice post from around the web

Choc-o-lait a la taza! via Una mosca en la luna (Spanish)

since it's almost Valentine's....kissing check list (I will SO start mine!!)

beautiful Rose Barrettes by the purlbee (diy)

retro but trendy family portrait: Michael+Elizabeth+Elodie via MaxWangerBlog

an edible puzzle !! (Spanish)

a wedding dress...to eat..

Note: these pictures are from a belated celebration of Western New Years' diner party from my husband's young Pastry Brigade (if you're new to this blog, my hubs works here). I decided to post them because this is what (at least to me) CNY is all about: family, friends, good food (that was the best hot pot ever) and great times!. (And frankly, all my CNY pictures were pretty awful if you want to know). But also, because these guys (and 1 gal), they work really, really hard day and night; to nurture us, and for that my friends; we should all be thankful.

Note: this post was supposed to be published last Saturday, but somehow it never saw the light until today. Sorry; won't happen again.