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Neomarica longifolia, Trimezia martinicensis
(Yellow Walking Iris, Apostle Plant, Martinique trimezia): I have three pots of this but they are not flowering yet, most probably due to insufficient sunlight.
Excerpt: The yellow walking iris blooms from spring to late autumn. The inflorescence arises from the base. When each inflorescence is finished flowering, it produces plantlets and arches toward the ground. The plantlets root and will bloom in a year.
This plant can be used indoors as a lucky bamboo or lucky mangrove. It is a unique plant since it tolerates both drought and flooding, so it can be grown in a container with water, terrarium, aquarium or just a small dish. It tolerates full shade as well, thus can be kept in low light conditions as a house plant.
For more information: toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?uid=Neoma...
Benefit for Natalie Holmes at Mason Hall on Sat. April 21, 2018. The Order of Eastern Star in Bristol held a benefit spaghetti supper on Sat. April 21, 2018 for Natalie Holmes. This young lady is the granddaughter of Bristol residents Joe and Kathy Livings. She is also the 2018 Riley's Champion. Kathy Livings is an Eastern Star member. There was also a silent auction for donated prizes.
Both Mason Lodge 325 and the Order of the Eastern Star (OES) plan to hold homestyle meals at the Hall. Both the OES and the George Washington Lodge Masons meet at the Temple Hall and hold frequent fund raising events, such as the dinners, open to the public, to help support the building expenses and activities, posted on their sign. Don’t miss out on these great and inexpensive family dining experiences in the comfortable dining room on the Main Street of Bristol.
ER's fond memories of Seletar Camp and Jalan Kayu from 1971-1973...especially the Friday night market (pasar malam), Doris fish & chips, Camp Cinema 'The Astra', NAAFI (Navy, Army Air Force Institute) and Camp Taxi service... Here's more about Seletar Camp and Jalan Kayu
may and i had brunch today at homestyle hong kong cafe again. this time we shared an order of beef slices congee and beef brisket noodles.
i'm using this as my "connected" photo because i believe that may and i are still connected because we share the same culture, religion, values, love of food, etc... i've already known her for more than 10+ years and i hope to know and love her for more years to come. :)
Thickening milk into semi-solids using full cream milk.
Milk Kova Recipe: cooking.jingalala.org/2013/03/how-to-make-khoya-mawa-fres...
Prawns are sweet and have an enticing flavour. Undoubtedly, they are one of my favourite ingredients. They may be caught in salt water and fresh water and they are being farmed too.
There are prawn farms in Singapore. One such high-tech marine prawn farm is located at the sea front on Pulau Ubin. This farm produces both black tiger prawns and white prawns all year round. Due to intensive cultivation, black tiger prawns are harvested every 120 days at the farm. Annually there are two and a half cycles.
Usually prawns caught from salt water are more expensive. Although shelled prawns or shrimps are available from chiller or freezer of the supermarkets. I prefer to buy them fresh and raw from the wet market because more flavour is retained. When using prawns in your dishes, overcooking should be avoided as this makes the prawns tough. To avoid this, it is always better to sauté the prawns till just cooked and then set aside. Add them back to the dish at the last stage of cooking.
When purchasing prawns, look for glossy, undamaged shells, legs and tails, plump and shinny black eyes. They should be no signs of dark or discolouration. Refrigerate as soon as after purchase. For convenience, divide into quantities required for each meal or recipe and keep them in plastic bags before freezing.
Before cooking prawns, whether they are used with shells intact or shelled, remember to remove the intestinal veins. Prawns shells are segmented just bend the shells to expose the joint, make a small incision in each prawn’s back and carefully draw out the dark vein. A toothpick is a handy tool here. When recipes call for prawns to be shelled, retain the last segment of shell and the tail fins to give a more decorative appearance to the finished dish, as shown here in the picture.
Shells and heads of prawns make good stock. To obtain this, fry them in a little oil on high heat, add just enough of hot water to cover, and boil for 10-15 minutes. Strain, discard shells and freeze the stock if not immediately required. . This type of stock is used in our local fare, prawn noodle soup.
It is also known as the "king of fruits" locally. However a Taiwanese friend once remarked that one has to be "courageous" to taste it! :)
Excerpt:
Tips on how to pick a durian:
Look: Check that the tip of the stem looks young and white on the inside. Overnight durians – ones that have not been picked that very morning – have stems that are hard, wrinkled and brown.
Feel: The prickles must be very stiff and sharp. Stale durians have prickles that are blunt and slightly tender. Also, make sure that the durian feels light. A heavy durian tends to be overripe.
Hear: Place your ear to the durian and shake it. You should be able to hear, as it means that the fruit is ripe.
Smell: From the tail-end of the durian, trace the “seam” where the two segments meet. Smell along the “seam”. The durian scent should not be too overpowering as it means that the durian is overripe. It should emerge slowly yet surely.
More about Malaysian durians:
D24 or “Sultan” – its flesh is superbly creamy and bitter. Its biggest characteristic is the meaty portions of the flesh. Two pieces are enough to fill your stomach.
Mau Shan Wang or “Cat Mountain King” – has a thick, dry consistency that almost glues your lips together. It flesh is golden yellow, very smooth in texture and has no annoying fibres. It taste sweet at first bite, but bitter when you swallow.
D13 – this variant is usually smaller and rounder in shape than most other durians. Dark yellow in colour, the flesh taste sweet, lipsmackingly moist and wet, and has no fibres. The seeds are large, thus yield less flesh.
XO – the shell tend to be brown and thin, its flesh is pale yellow and its texture is so soft that it almost runny. The seeds are small. Taste is uncompromisingly bitter from all other varieties.
Hei Zhen Zhu or “Black Pearl” – It flesh is slight grey tinge and each piece is small, like a pearl. Shape like a ruby ball, each fruit yields flesh that is smooth and creamy. The taste is slightly bitter.
D2 – has long and irregularly shaped shells. Its bright yellow flesh tastes sweet, is moist and extremely creamy. The seeds are small but have mesh-like fibres.
Hong Xia or “Red Prawns” – the individual pieces come in firm, well-defined lumps, and the flesh is sometimes reddish in colour, hence its name. It is characterized by an extremely creamy texture and a bittersweet taste.
Jin Feng or “Golden Phoenix” – this variety has light, milky coloured flesh that taste sweet but with a hint of bitterness. It texture is extremely creamy and its seeds are shriveled and flat.
Qing Zhu or “Green Bamboo” – it has a mild taste, which is not sweet and not bitter at all. The flesh have a texture which is extremely creamy and fleshy. Each piece is covered with a thin layer of springy skin
Merah or “Red” – The texture is wet, its seeds are tiny, plenty of flesh. The taste is a little sweet, a little bitter, with a lovely hint of milkiness.
D1 – the pieces are small and the taste is sweet and slightly milky. The flesh slips off the seeds easily and has a little crunch on the surface.
Footnote:
Durians names affix in chronological order with a D-prefix, like D1, D2, D13 and D24 were given by the Malaysian Agriculture Department when they were registered. Newer species with new like red prawns, green bamboo…were given by the plantations were accorded to the distinctive shapes or colour of the durians
Extracted from the Sunday Times
Small threads bags, small pouche, pincushion and Christmas ornaments.
book: Sew Pretty Homestyle
Small threads bags:
model: Tilda
patch model: Sanrio (Hello Kitty), Dolci Fusa(cow)
fabrics: Debbie Mumm & GS Scampoli
Small Pouche:
model: Tilda
fabrics: GS Scampoli
Pincushion:
rose model: Tilda
shape model: Dolci Fusa
fabrics: GS Scampoli
thread: Dinky Dyes silk
Christmas ornaments:
model: seen at Patchwork Pottery
fabrics: Mumm, Tilda and various
The amazing display of giant dancing moon fairy, Chang E along a stretch of the main roads - New Bridge Road - Eu Tong Sen Street, Chinatown, Singapore
The Mid-Autumn festival falls on Friday, October 6, 2006. This display in Chinatown area, part of a 5 km Light-Up that cost S$500,000 in total for Mid-Autumn Light-Up this season was reported in a local newspapers. There are about 300 street stalls, stage shows and lantern riddle-guessing contests to add to the festival celebrations. From a TV show, the Light-Up at the Chinese Garden was so stunning, dazzling and beautiful too. The last time we visited it was in 1994 together with Astrid and her family.
Updates: Thursday, October 5, Rika and I went to meet ER at Chinatown to buy mooncakes and b-b-q sliced pork again this evening. There was a short queue at Tai Thong Cake Shop. Later, we had dinner of fried dumplings; assorted stuffed beancurds with rice noodles and curry noodles at People Park Hawker Centre. We were delighted to find that fried dumplings we ordered were similar in taste to our homemade ones and paying S$5.00 for a dozen was value for money, so we thought… ER caught sight of people ordering clay pot braised fish head and he wanted to eat it in our future visit. The food centre was not too crowded during our visit.
Pattern in Sew Pretty Homestyle
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My wife and I joined my Dad for supper at the Staunton, VA Cracker Barrel. I had the Sunday homestyle chicken with macaroni and cheese, and baby carrots.
My decision to switch to use olive oil in daily cooking came from the advice of a friend whom I speak to often. Among other things, her relative was being advised by the doctor to use olive oil for heath benefits after an operation to clear a clogged artery.
Olive oil is produced from green olives. It is interesting to know its flavour, colour and consistency varies just like wines mainly due to the different olive varieties, location and weather.
Extra-virgin olive oil has less than 1 % acidity and is produced by first pressing of the olive fruits through the cold pressing process. The other being virgin olive oil, which is made from riper olives than those, used in for extra-virgin oil and is also produced by the same process. Among others that I have seen on the supermarkets’ shelves are pure olive oil and the light and extra light olive oil.
My interest lies in the extra-virgin olive oil. Besides being a healthier choice of oil for cooking, I find it versatile. It is more expensive, mainly used to dress salads and suitable for low and medium heat cooking. Thus it is not good when using high heat or for deep-frying.
I used it for stir-frying. While most of us would heat the cooking utensils and then pouring in cooking oil before adding in garlic or other ingredients, with olive oil, you can start out with a cold frying pan with olive oil and garlic and then apply heat. This does not affect the taste of the food. My experience is that I could start off with less oil in the beginning or less than the amount required by the recipes because extra-virgin olive oil could be added at any time during the cooking process. In this way, we could more effectively control the amount of oil used, which in turn is a health benefit. I noticed one setback though, the taste of my oyster sauce chicken changed when I used olive oil to cook it. So, for most of my chicken dishes I am still using other brands of cooking oil.
For more information on olive oil and other health stories, click this: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/616661.stm
I found these images of an antique Burmese silver repousse bowl on YouTube in a popular UK TV series | Dickinson’s Real Deal | Season 10 Episode 8 | HomeStyle. The vendor sold the lot for which he had paid £5? to a dealer for £120. The dealer was born and schooled in Putao, the town in which the bowl had been hand made.
STUNNING Burmese Silver Repousse Bowl | Dickinson's Real Deal | S08 E29 ...
Putao is located towards the northern part of Myanmar in the state of Kachin. The State is very close to the borders between the Myanmar and neighboring China and India. Putao is at a distance of 1,120 km from the countries capital city, Naypyidaw. The town Putao is surrounded by dense flora and fauna and also bounded by snow capped mountains. The geographical coordinates puts the place at 2600’ N and 97030’ E.
As per historians, since ancient times there existed a trade route between the Chinese rulers and Myanmar in this region. On 12th February 1947, an agreement known as the Panglong agreement was signed between the then Burmese government and the states such as Shan, Kachin along with the Chinese. In the year 1948, the Kachin state was created without British run government districts of Myitkyina and Bhao along with Putao in the north. Drawing of clear territorial boundaries especially in the northern part of Myanmar took place in the year 1960, keeping in view of the Chinese governments methodology of capturing most part of Upper Kachin state into their boundaries. The army belonging to the Kachin state was once part of the Burmese army until the year 1962 wherein the Kachin army withdrew their support and formed what is known as KIA (Kachin Independence Army) with the support of KIO (Kachin Independent Organization).
People & Culture of Putao:
Languages spoken by the people of Putao are Burmese, Jingpho, Kayah, Karen and Chin. However, Burmese is the official language of the country. Singing and dancing forms an integral part of the country. There are different religions worshipped in the country, Myanmar. Majority of the population of Putao, worship Buddhism, while others either follow Islam, Hinduism or Christianity.
Food and Shopping at Putao:
Putao is one of the ancient towns in Myanmar and various religion people stay in the region and offers authentic and traditional Burmese and Chinese cuisines both vegetarian and non-vegetarian, cuisines and Mohinga is considered the national dish of the country, Myanmar.
I spotted some Burmese muslims marching east on Bloor Street West.
Use and purpose of alkaline water:
Alkaline water, also known as “gan sui” in Cantonese and “air abu” in Malay, is a clear solution of the salts sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate, and sometimes sodium phosphate.
Because it is often called “lye” water, it is frequently confused with lye or caustic soda, which is sodium hydroxide, a much harsher chemical that has limited culinary applications in the West.
In the Asian kitchen, alkaline water has few and specific uses. The characteristic springiness of Hong Kong style “mee” noodle is due to “gan sui”, which is added to noodle dough to firm up its texture, and give it a yellow tint.
It does the same for glutinous rice in “kee chang” (yellow alkaline glutinous rice dumplings) and in their Malay cousin, “kuih lopes”.
Steamed rice-flour dough, for example, in Nyonya “kuih kosui” and “ang koo kuih” skin, can also be given a firmer consistency by carefully measured amounts of alkaline water.
Dried cuttlefish or squid are sometimes briefly soaked in “gan sui” for the opposite effect - it makes them more tender when rehydrated.
As Asians do not fancy the slightly sour, acidic flavour of slowly fermented bread dough so beloved in the West, dim sum chefs add alkaline water to buns “pau” dough to neutralise any yeasty, sour overtones.
Alkaline water is sometimes used as a rising agent in the same way that baking soda is. For instance, it is stirred into “ma lai kou” batter, where it reacts with acids in the brown sugar to produce bubbles that yield a light, fluffy steamed cake.
Tips extracted from Sunday Times
My wife and I joined my Dad for supper at the Staunton, VA Cracker Barrel. I had the Sunday homestyle chicken with macaroni and cheese, and baby carrots.
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The amazing display of giant dancing moon fairy, Chang E along a stretch of the main roads - New Bridge Road - Eu Tong Sen Street, Chinatown, Singapore
The Mid-Autumn festival falls on Friday, October 6, 2006. This display in Chinatown area, part of a 5 km Light-Up that cost S$500,000 in total for Mid-Autumn Light-Up this season was reported in a local newspapers. There are about 300 street stalls, stage shows and lantern riddle-guessing contests to add to the festival celebrations. From a TV show, the Light-Up at the Chinese Garden was so stunning, dazzling and beautiful too. The last time we visited it was in 1994 together with Astrid and her family.
Updates: Thursday, October 5, Rika and I went to meet ER at Chinatown to buy mooncakes and b-b-q sliced pork again this evening. There was a short queue at Tai Thong Cake Shop. Later, we had dinner of fried dumplings; assorted stuffed beancurds with rice noodles and curry noodles at People Park Hawker Centre. We were delighted to find that fried dumplings we ordered were similar in taste to our homemade ones and paying S$5.00 for a dozen was value for money, so we thought… ER caught sight of people ordering clay pot braised fish head and he wanted to eat it in our future visit. The food centre was not too crowded during our visit.
Saturday was Ian's sister's birthday, so we gathered Sunday afternoon at their dad's house to celebrate with dinner and a cake. Ian and I got the cake made at Julia's Homestyle Bakery in Murfreesboro, who are so good at making all kinds of cakes and baked goods. They have anything from cupcakes and cookies to $10,000 Ace of Cakes-style custom cakes.
I don't know where I will be during this year's middle autumn festival, which is one of the most important Chinese traditional festivals. I made "ZongZi" in last traditional festival, DuanWu. This time, it's MoonCake.
Read story and background about Middle-Autumn Festival, please go here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
See how moon cake actually looks like and how many categories it has, please go here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_cake
We actually saw a mooncake pattern in an old Chinese grocery store, but we didn't buy it. Really really regret that. We searched/looked for it in different places recently, but failed.
Anyway, simply use some replacements, we can still make homestyle snowy moon cake. It was really successful, and far far beyond our expectation.
Inside is Red bean.
Here is another classic Cantonese homestyle dish, onion braised pork chop in tomato sauce. The sauce is sweet and tangy from the use of ketchup (gasp!), tomato paste, worcestershire sauce, vinegar, lemon juice, and a bit of sugar. The pork chops remain juicy and tender by first sealing in the juice with a quick sear.
Read more at Dessert By Candy.
Excerpt: Solutions to problems with nuts that concern health:
1. Shelled nuts if roasted, may remain fresh longer if they are kept in the refrigerator. If planning to store them longer than six months, consider putting them in the freezer.
2. Sliced and chopped nuts will go bad faster. So, whenever possible, buy whole shelled nuts and cut them up as required.
3. Discard any spoilt/mouldy nuts. Mouldy nuts contain aflatoxins which are cancer-causing agents produced by a fungus
These are the Chinese herbs listed on the packing: 菊花 [ju hua, chrysanthemum], 夏枯草[]xia ku cao], 茅根 [mao gen], 芦根 [lu gen], 甘草 [gan cao, licorice root], 竹叶 [zhu ye, bamboo leaves], 千层紙 [qian ceng zhi] and 紫草绒 [zi cao rong].
After boiling and simmering the herbs in water for 1 ½ hours in a pot, the contents were removed. Additional chrysanthemum was added in and continued to simmer for another 10 minutes and then removed before rock sugar was added to sweeten the herbal tea. This herbal tea has a cooling effect.