Stick a fork in me, I'm done!

I had a meal of epic proportions today, and it is blog worthy. Yes, I like me some good food. No need to psychoanalyze please. 

My friend Susan that I work with is Taiwanese. She grow up in Taiwan and left in her teens. She invitied a few of us from work to come to her home today for a home-cooked chinese meal.

OMFG can she cook. I haven't eaten this much food since my last vacation.

She went to a local chinese market this monring amd bought all fresh ingredients, and we we showed up, she put the four of us to work. We were happy little sous chefs. It was fun and educational - practically like taking a class in chinese cooking! There were also several bottles of chardonnay and merlot consummed. 

I can now roll a very tight and well tucked eggroll, but my dumplings (potstickers) are ugly as sin. I can't be good at everything, right?

So, here's what she made that we ate up like death row inmates having their last meal:

Stuffed Cucumber Soup
Chicken Dumplings
Shrimp & Chicken Eggrolls
BBQ Pork Chow Mein
Sake Soaked Chicken
BBQ Duck
Garlic Mushroom Shrimp
Sauteed Pea Shoots
plus assorted cookies and pastries she had bought at the market

It was also so nice to hang out with Susan, Marynell, Paula and Sharon and talk to them and get to know them better, because we "see" each other at work, but never really get to talk due to our scedules and proximity to each other.

Hope everyone out there is having a decent weekend. =)

I gotta go burp now.....