Last evening my family joined three other families for a Chinese stir-fry dinner to celebrate an exciting trip that all of our boys will be taking…an adventure in China! This wonderful opportunity is offered to students through the Chinese Bridge-Summer Camp–sponsored by the Confucius Institute Headquarters in cooperation with Confucius Institutes in the US. Our kids will explore China, learn some language skills, and enjoy many cultural experiences…I’m so excited that our University takes part in this program! An opportunity that otherwise might not be experienced within our family! But as fortune has it, our oldest son and several classmates will be taking this trip of a lifetime! One of my friends (who has a son also traveling) decided to host a celebratory dinner…with Chinese food in mind! This gave me the opportunity to try something that I’ve always wanted to do…make home-made fortune cookies! How festive to make over-sized cookies with personal messages inside for each boy! Fun, right? Well, let me tell you after several attempts I quickly realized that if you can bake a fortune cookie that looks and tastes like what you get in the restaurant…you are seriously talented!! I’m a decent baker…not professional by any stretch of the means…but I have been known a time or two to bake up some tasty treats. But this trial in the kitchen was a true disaster…however, from every mistake comes enlightenment! So today I will share what I learned…
