中秋節 -- Moon Festival--Mid-Autume Festival

中秋節就在這個週日(9/14)，我家每年中秋節一定烤肉，在很久很久以前就有這個習慣不是跟隨流行，我講的是30幾年前我父親還健在時就開始的。說實在的中秋烤肉是只為了吃嗎？我想其實是讓親朋好友聚會時間拉長一點。今年就算颱風來訪，我們一樣會烤肉改在室內。
The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular East Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar), a date that parallels the Autumn Equinox of the solar calendar. This is the ideal time, when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, to celebrate the abundance of the summer's harvest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendarand is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. Accompanying the celebration, more storys and legendary on here.

In Taiwan, we have the custom holidy ,at this day, our own families will stay together to have B.B.Q and to eat moon cake in the moon-light filled garden to celebrate this festival.And we always eat shaddock.






我也作了一些蛋黃酥、鳳梨酥，作為送禮用。I bake some egg yolk pastry and pineapple pastry for gift.



迷你酥當然是自己吃的啦！ Mini pastry is for myself.
一口一個剛剛好。Small for a mouth.

蛋黃酥 -- Egg yolk pastry