Quay Po Cooks: very good recipes

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Winners for White Christmas Challenge

Thank you to all participants of White Christmas Challenge and Congratulations to the 5 Winners. They are:

Jessie of Jessie Cooking-Moments
Naked Plate
The Hedonista
Bubbule in Cucina
Croccanti

One of the winners above is my blogger friend Jessie of Jessie-Cooking Moments who entered the competition via QPC. She won 1st place with her entry: My Magical Gingerbread Boxes! BRAVO!!

A big Thank You to my friends who participated the challenge through QPC. Thanks a million for your support. All your entries are CREATIVE AND FABULOUS!! I love them all! Each of you will still receive the ROSEVELT's Album 17:35 from me eventhough you did not win a prize from Savory Spice Shop. To me, YOU ALL ARE WINNERS IN MY HEART!! Please email your address to quaypocooks@gmail.com so that I can mail the CD to you.

Participants via QPC:
Jessie - My Magical Gingerbread boxes
Elisabeth - Linzer Cookies
Lena - Christmas Tree on Potato and Yeasted Apple Strudel ( Strucla Jablkami )
Shirley - Cute Egg Faces For White Christmas Recipe Challenge
Vivian Pang - Flower Steamed Buns/ Sponge Dough Method and Caramel Oatmeal Brownies
Alice - White Xmas Log Cake and Noel Nut Balls
Ann - Christmas Snowball Cookies
Bee - Christmas Matcha Cookie Tree
Ping - Blizzard Bread

If I a have missed anyone, please email me to let me know. You know how "LUCY" I am, right? LOL!

CHEERS and HUGZZ!!

A LITTLE ABOUT THIS QUAY PO

Before I was married to my "Quay Lo" (Guaylo) husband, I did not know how to bake or cook. Subsequently I learned some baking and cooking Western cuisine from him, and providing his food for him launched an interest in cooking in general. Many of my Chinese friends and family told me that "Quay" is the wrong spelling for devil in Cantonese. The right spelling should be "Kwai" or "Guay". Well, somehow I like the spelling "Quay" better although I have to agree that it does not sound very Cantonese. Try asking a Westerner to pronounce "Kwai" and you will probably hear "Quay" haha. Whether is "Quay" or "Kwai" or "Guay, just know the devil woman is me when you see Quay Po Cooks. My hubby said if people pronounce "Quay" as "Key" is even better because I am the key to his heart. LOL!

Only now, have I started to learn the traditional Cantonese cuisine of my Mum. She cooks fabulously and all her specialties are divine. These two interests, my husband's Western food, and my mother's traditional food, prompted me to document them so they will not be lost.

Here, I wish to share my cooking and baking experience with my readers. I also hope to inspire those who do not know how to cook or bake to do so because, trust me, if I can, you can too.

Something I'd like to mention is that I find that many people are rather unwilling to share their recipes. However, for me, I think differently. I think good recipes should be shared thus allowing as many people to enjoy it as possible. Unless those recipes are for doing business, I don't see why we want to keep them all to ourselves. So if you are generous in sharing your recipes, you are welcome to share on my blog. Send the recipes to me and better still with pictures of the final products and I will be very happy to post them them with credits to you of course.

Our cuisine is a deeply embedded part of our culture. When two cultures come together under the same roof the results in the kitchen can sometimes be comedic, sometimes confrontational, but more often it is a journey full of surprises and discovery. There is joy in our food. If we think upon this, it is intuitively obvious. This blog is a journey of joy and sharing, reflecting what the French like to call "joie de vivre" (joy of living). No one could be more different from one another then my husband and my mother. Yet one thing they share in common is knowing intuitively that food, cooking, and sharing can be avenues of joy in life itself. So herein, help yourself, to a little joy and , if you like it, share it with your own family and friends. Joy is something that should be shared.