Full-Moon festival and my little self-treat ;))

Jelly Orange and Watermelon jelly

I'm a terrible terrible terrible cook :S I sometimes feel sorry for my husband since he had to put up with me during the last two years. With a busy Uni schedule, i seemed to neglect all the kitchen works which I am supported to do. *Brain-fart*

Thank God for giving me such a wonderful husband <3 He never complained about any of my food, or my creativity or my trashy looking dishes. He tried them all and gave them all kudos * I know sometimes he was just being nice* And thank God for giving me such a wonderful mother-in-law who did all the cooking for us <3. I love all her dishes, healthy, clean, tasty yummilicious lol She is into a good lifestyles, being active and stuffs. Living with her, you are no where nears heart diseases or diabetes ^^"

However, It's selfish of me to keep relying on her. There is no way a daughter in law makes her M-I-L cook is considered a good thing. Hmmm to be honest, I myself would like to cook my family a nice meal and there were many times i offered that. However, my mother-in-law has a specific taste in food since she only eats a certain kinds of food, mostly home-made. She barely goes out to eat.  So i guess my foods must be too much for her. Even though she was too polite to try a bit of them, with all the past food problem, plus being confessed about my cooking skills ^^", she of course should be over-protective of herself when It comes to my food lol

Jelly Orange

The dish above is "Jelly-Orange", one in many of my sudden inspiration :P Today according to Vietnam's Calendar, it is "Full-Moon festival" (the name gives it away so i think you might know why we are having it :P) Basically we have this festival for every children in the country to have fun before a long school-year starts ( In Vietnam, school starts in early August- September and finishes in May in the following year, weird huh? I asked myself the same thing when i was doing schooling there :P). Anyway, for a Full-Moon feast, children were given lots of fruits, lots of candies, sweets and special "Moon-cake" (basically it is a sweet baked cake with mungbeans (green beans), red beans filling or meat, nuts and salty-egg yolk filling). Also, parents will buy them a colorful lantern to carry around the hoods, singing along in the moon light ( How romantic!)

A typical Full-Moon's table of fruits. There also is a puppy made from Citrus maxima (pomelo) in the very left

Lanterns in Full-Moon feast

Moon-Cake

Since I'm married and old and broke, I don't favor this festival much ( might not be relevant but i like to state it :). However i did when i was 15 and under :P I guess kids like everything sweet, nice and colorful.

Back to me not celebrating full-moon feast, I didn't prepare Moon-Cake. However, i would like to make something nice, creative and EASY. Well there is an orange tree in my back yard and no one really cares about its existence, me included :P Seeing oranges dropped down on the ground somehow made me sad. What a waste! And I can't stand waiting. As soon as I woke up this afternoon ( it's my thing :P), i immediately went to the back yard to pick oranges (that's right! Just woke up, haven't brushed teeth, haven't washed face, all i thought was ORANGES ).

If you know how to make jelly, good for you! You must be a very good cook then, at least a better cook than I am. If not, don't panic, "Aeroplan Jelly" is just right for you lolololol ( I should have got paid by this brand actually tsk tsk tsk tsk).

 It is instant favored jelly powder, all you have to do is to mix 1 pack of this powder with 250ml of boiling water and another 250ml of cold water. Mix them real good then pour them in any shaped bow you like, then leave them in the fridge for about 1.5 hour. Yes, THAT EASY!!!

The jelly powder I used

To make my jelly orange, i used orange skin to shape my jelly instead of a bow. All you have to do is

1. Buying/picking an orange or more, as many as you can afford.
2. Rinse them well WITH WATER. 
3. Cut them in half vertically. 
4. Use a spoon or a knife to separate all the oranges out of their skins.
5. Watch the skin with cold water and leave them in the fridge for 15 mins. 
6. When you have your jelly liquid ready,  pour the jelly in each half of prepared orange skin and put them back in the fridge, allow them 1.5 hours to set.
7. When the jelly all set, you can cut them (very carefully friends, very carefully^^") into slides and serve them with orange juice or anything your kids might like.
8.  (Optional) You can use orange separated from the skin for more favor or just squeeze them hard to make orange juice :P.

Jelly in the making!

Hubby helping me to slide up the jelly. Tricky tsk tsk  tricky

Tadahhhhhhhh All is done! You are a lots clever than me, so your jelly will come out better looking and will taste nicer too ;)
Good luck and have an awesome Full-Moon festival!