Mid-Autumn Moon Festival 2024

It was a rather low key celebration tonight. We did have Vietnamese food for dinner, ate moon cakes, and looked at the moon, which was very bright. 

But about those moon cakes. Y., knowing that I had moon cake molds, decided she wanted to try making out moon cakes this year. So she read all about the process and planned when she needed to begin in order to have them ready for tonight. I suggested she make pineapple filled cakes because those are my favorite. (It turns out I'm in the minority and many other family members prefer red bean paste. Who knew?) 

On Sunday, Y. began the salted eggs which are part of the filling. 

Those are egg yolks sitting on salt and we're then completely covered by salt and put in the refrigerator for 24 hours. On Monday Y. was able to pick them up and add them to the filling inside each cake.

Here they are made, but unbaked.

After they were all made, they were baked in the oven.

Pretty impressive, huh? They then needed to chill in the refrigerator for another day. 

We enjoyed them after dinner. They were very good.

After our moon cakes, we forced encouraged everyone outside to observe the moon. I suggested frolicking, but I'm pretty sure no frolicking occurred. We also had no lanterns. Maybe lanterns are the key and I'll need to make sure I have some next year. 

The Moon Festival does always make the H-S Family and P. Family since we spent so many years celebrating the holiday together.