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 Lunar New Year is on Sunday and we are so excited to celebrate in some simple and nostalgic ways. Growing up I received red envelopes from my Chinese grandparents and so we continue to keep their heritage alive through this time of celebration. We are planning to gift the kids a red envelope and a little gift and then we will go out for Chinese to share a meal together.+ Red envelopes: you can buy these online or at Asian grocery markets. I snagged these at Target at their Lunar New Year booth in the store. In the past I...

This post contains affiliate links which we are compensated for if a purchase is made. Using links costs you nothing and helps to support the ongoing creation of content.Here's a very old video to show you how fun and cool it is to see the dough inflate. Sorry for the shakiness. Deep-frying with one hand and recording with the other was quite tricky.  What is Bánh TiêuBánh Tiêu is one of my favorite Vietnamese desserts. It’s a Vietnamese hollow donut with a crispy sesame seed crust. The dough is flattened into a small disk and then deep-fried in oil until golden...

Tattoos are a wonderful way to express yourself and to show the world who you are as a person. You’re wearing your heart on your sleeve in all of its inky glory. There is a big ‘however’ lurking here…However, not all tattoos are inked equally well. It takes a skilled tattoo artist to bring your idea to fruition. And that only works if your idea works in the first place! You might be the most charismatic, athletic, and kind person on Planet Earth, but if you’ve got a misspelled word inked on your arm or a wolf tattoo with crossed...

Putin now stands at 78.4%, according to a new poll just released by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, says this polling result coming during the “Special De-Nazification Operation” to liberate Ukraine was joined by world-renowned French historian Emmanuel Todd at the National Institute for Demographics in Paris assessing: “If the Russian economy offers long-term resistance to sanctions and manages to bleed the European economy white and manages to survive with Chinese support, United States monetary control of the world will collapse, and with it, the United States’ ability to finance its mammoth trade deficit for next to nothing…This war...

Author Leigh Bardugo is the author of, among many other things, the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology. The Netflix series “Shadow and Bone” is based on her magical Grishaverse. Her latest novel is “Hell Bent,” the sequel to “Ninth House,” is in stores this week, and she responded to the our questions as she embarked on her latest book tour. Q. Is there a book or books you always recommend to other readers?  “The Shadow Hero” by Gene Luen Yang. It’s the story of the first Chinese superhero, told in a very Golden Age of Comics way....