This is a blog post on Chicken celery and sesame salad. It is a Thai-inspired salad dish. It has got a bit of Chinese and Thai flavors which makes this salad appetizing. Like most Asian dishes this salad is great to serve with rice. It is simple to make and it makes use of supermarket-bought […]
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This is a blog post on natural printing on paper using leaves and onion skin. Natural occurring dye plants It’s my first time printing on paper this blog post is just to document that journey and experience. I am no expert on this topic but I did use the following method that made it work.
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This is a blog post on fabric printing with red vein sorrel. Fabric printing is also known as bundle printing. Red vein sorrel is a perennial edible green. It grows like weeds come May time. Once established it needs to care at all. Therefore it is a good excuse to cut down this green and
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This is a blog post on how to prevent tomato blight. Tomato blight is when the tomato starts to go brown before it ripens. It is devastating for the gardener as all the time wasted trying to grow the tomatoes and try to get them to ripen. It is can happen quite easily. I started
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This blog post is on growing and harvesting fennel at home. Fennel is a vegetable/ herb has got anaseed taste to it. It is a used a lot in Italian and Mediterranean cooking as it grows well there. If it is grown well the bulb blooms and contains lots of fluid. It is possible to
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting Eucalyptus. Currently, I am loving to grow eucalyptus as I am very much into fabric printing. Eucalyptus is one of those leaves that every natural printer love to grow. As both sides of the leaves print colors which is quite unusual. Also depending on the species,
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This is a recipe on how to cook Hong shou rou (Braised pork belly at home). It is a classic Chinese dish typically from Shanghai but it has been made well-known all over the world. While eating pork belly isn’t that good for you but it tastes so good. Every now and it’s ok. To
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