【客家咸汤圆】Hakka Savory Glutinous Rice Balls Soup

2020年终于到了年末，今年真是很不一样的一年，希望疫情尽快过去，大家可以过点安心日子。

这款咸汤圆其实是去年冬至时候做的，却一直没时间写食谱，一等又是一年。今年就把食谱整理好，用这款客家咸汤圆祝贺大家冬至快乐吧！

It is the week leading to Christmas, 2020 is finally coming to an end. I am truly wishing that with the New Year coming, we will also celebrate the end of this very eventful year and welcoming a peaceful year of 2021 full of joy and health.

It is Winter Solstice today, so I decided to write this savory glutinous rice balls soup to wish everyone a happy Winter Solstice.

【南瓜苗咖喱】Pumpkin Shoots Curry (Gulai Pucuk Labu）

冬天的时候我家前院处于休耕状态，我会在天气比较暖和的时候翻翻土把厨遗埋到土里堆肥。去年冬天堆肥时埋下的日本南瓜种子今年春末时钻出土长出两棵小苗，我把一棵给了朋友，自己留了一棵种在前院里。

殊不知夏天时它越长越壮，不但把我前院覆盖满了，还开始蔓延到邻居的地里。某个周末趁有空我就把分支的苗修剪了和一些雄花一起做了这个素咖喱，非常开胃美味。

Sometimes during the winter last year I bought a Japanese Kabocha pumpkin to cook and buried the seeds and rinds in my raised bed to compost. The seeds germinated and gave me 2 seedlings mid-spring.

I transplanted one of them in my front yard and was doing really well, the plant began to bloom around the end of June/early July. When one pumpkin plant was about to take over my entire front yard, I had to start trimming some shots and leaves to make it manageable. 

With that, I also harvest some young shoots and male blossoms to make this pumpkin shoots curry.