Happy Easter @ Home

The Family holds an Easter celebration every year at home. 

New Life, Resurrection, Freedom, Eternal Peace, Spring- we celebrate it all.

It is something we've done for over a decade now.

There's always lively music on the player. 

Sometimes it is the Evergreens of the 60s and 70s, sometimes it is the Cantonese music of Samuel Hui and Kenny Bee, on occasion we throw on the Christmas CD for good measure, and sometimes it is the music from Broadway. 

It varies. 

This Easter we decided to have the music from Broadway. 

So, Cats, Technicolor Dreamcoat and Phantom it was. 

We always have beautiful homemade decor to celebrate Easter and the Spring Season. This year, like years past, we had out on the dining table the bright yellow flowers, the little gold streamers which we pull from the Christmas bag, and the homemade paper decor sitting in its designated pewter vase. 

Below the decor were hardboiled eggs for the occasion, and right next to it were the foods that we had prepared, and the foods that we had bought. 

There were noodles- mine- in their wide dish- with the additions of fried wantons, fried seafood balls, halved tomatoes, vegetables, fish balls, cuttlefish balls, mushroom balls, and little round beef balls. 

Then there was the platter of fried wantons and fried seafood balls that, instead of refrying them, we'd decided to have them thrown into the rice cooker to steam. 

There were the dishes which we'd bought from the coffee shop downstairs. 

One Parent decided on the dishes. 

The Other Parent went down to buy. 

And I placed them nicely on the platters.

Of course, there was the platter of beautifully-arranged siew mais. 

One of the dishes that I look forward to every time a celebration rolls around, these store-bought, simple-looking siew mais have a flavor and a texture which appeal greatly to me and so make one of my favorites, especially when it reminds me of the occasion, and when we have it with ketchup, chili sauce and mayonnaise. 

The Parents prefer the chili and the ketchup. 

I go straight for the mayonnaise.

It is often late afternoon when our lunch finishes, but there can be no celebration meal without the presence of dessert, and for this year we had bananas, coffee, cups of chocolate and vanilla ice-cream, and a bag of Cadbury chocolate mini eggs specially bought because it is Easter.