hail stones in my front yard!

2012 spring Sept.  after a hail storm . my front yard was covered with hail stones!

something new?

I have not been doing any posting for a long long time ?
so it looks like its  new to me , have to start all over again, hope I get it right?

This was taken a few years ago when  we went to  the Tumberine  mountains  in the Gold  coast .  what a beautiful bird !

This year 2014 in my garden

 

finger limes from Brisbane

 Silver beet from my garden

 lobak, tong ho from my garden

water cress, over grown coriander .

Home cooking

Th nonya's favourite, PONTAY  BABI,
cucumber sambal  salad.












Sambal blachan,  a 'must have' with any Nonya meal.

""Mee seen"  hand made noodles cooked with eggs and oysters, with  some choy sum. much better than the shops!!! Yum, Yum with sambal blachan.

Chili prawns, for this dish you have to use your fingers to really enjoy the prawns. Went very well with steaming hot rice!

home grown vegs.

A squash as big as a saucer!

A giant zuchinni

Trip to Singapore-August-2010

Emirates dinner at 11.30pm, couldn't be any better than any plane food!
























Nothing beats a home cooked meal. Prawn and petai sambal.

Fresh petai from the market in singapore

Baby bayam.

FOOD, FOOD , FOOD, in Kl food stalls

Chap Fun, a plate of rice with your choice of vegs.

cheap and nice, if you're after a quick lunch.

Menu, heaps to choose, everything looks so good!

KL, wanton mee with roast chicken.

A bowl of wanton soup, so ooo tasty!!

Good friday Lunch-2011

Good friday lunch was porridge with yeow cha kwai, eggs and chai po omelet

Salmon wings cooked with hum choy , chilies and choko.
So, where are the oysters, lobster, prawns and fish??
That should be on Easter Sunday? To celebrate!!

HOME GROWN

Home grown chokos from the garden.

breakfast, free range eggs, tomatoes from the garden.

Tomatoes, ready to pick.

The choko plant covering the cherry tree., looks like we'll have heaps of chokos this yr.

Roasting chilis

Figs and chillies seems to be ready at the same time. after picking the figs its now time to pick chillies.
So now its time to roast or pickle them, blend them , make some sauce.
In this tray, my home grown kum kat, tomatoes and chillies ready for the oven, after roasting it is bottle with oil and salt, ready for use.

cooking fig jam

Cooking fig jam, adding some rhubarb to the fig jam also makes the jam a nice dark red colour.
There's still figs on the tree, so there's more compote and jam to make.















Almost ready to bottle.

Fresh Figs

Cooking fig compote. This is great on ice-cream or just eaten on its own.

Figs are good in a fruit salad with yogurt.
you can also add them in your veg. salad.
The season for figs is short, once they are ripe, they don't keep well, maybe 2-3 days in the fridge.
you have to either freeze, cook or eat them, or they rot.
Figs are very expensive, so if you have a tree, enjoy the figs before the birds eat them up.!!

I Love Figs!!!

Its fig time again, March till end of April, time to pick figs off my trees.
Autum is here, starting to get cold.
The figs are ripening very slow, no more hot summer days, just cold mornings and nights.


I've been picking heaps of figs,
some as big as a sauce plate.

Rich, sweet and succulent figs
makes delicious chunky fig jam.

There's still figs on the trees, but the birds are ever ready to eat them before they are ripe!!

To get nice big figs , I have to wrap them, or it'll be the birds' breakfast!