Cooking, Gardening, Bless Our Home.
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Christmas Time  |
Doughnut Filled with Pecorino Cheese
Eggplant with its deliciousness.
Tomatoes: peel tomatoes for easy eating. Using the peeled tomatoes/
Dress with olive oil and herbs served as a salad, mixed with pasta and cheese.
Pasta with tomato and fresh herb, and Pecorino Cheese
Resoles, Sponge, Green Wajik
The useful gadget, the kitchen helper
Easter Time
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| Easter Crown |
A pretty place, so peaceful.
Beautiful Thing to mark Beautiful Day.
Quick mix bread
The proud baker
The best beast-rare roast beef.
Sourdough Bread with Walnuts
Loukoumades filled with Turkish Delight
Meat lamb and vegetable Croquette.
Birthday cake
Rice garnished with opor ayam.
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| Easter Crown |
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| Our Easter Crown for the Easter Brunch 2015 |
In the Kitchen
Summer sponge cake
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| Silk Scarf |
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| Fresh Fruits Sponge |
Rice and Tempeh, my favourite
The essential red meat
Working in the Garden
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| A Bouquet of Sixty Long White Roses |
When you are cooking scone, make the best of the heat to bake the pot pies.
Quick Bread-Green Tomato Herb Bread
The food fit to serve for a crowd
Dressed Dandy Carrot Cake
Sunny Day in the Backyard
Late Season Tomato
Use for Tomato Cocasse to add to Spaghetti
Anchovies, tomato and fresh herbs to add to pasta are simple but sweet, it's family favourite.
Celebrate Zucchini
Rice and the Garnish
Tea Cake
Working for the Dough
Fun Baking-Sourdough Bread
Love These Beauty.
Time is precious, use it wisely. Everyone has their own routine to fill up the days, for us who no longer in the job force, day to day is different from everyone else. From the basic daily need such as cooking, cleaning and gardening if these are your routine work, it can be done smoothly by job sharing between the member of the family. Cooking is fun for me, and it is an important part of my days, whether cooking for a daily meal or for a special occasion.
I am so proud that I or we have been working in a team as long as I remember, and the chore around the house is not different either for a girl or boy, our home duties run well that way, everyone is satisfied, we are at peace.
Housework such as washing the dishes, it is quickly done by hands. Ah, it is boring and must have a break, so a washing machine has to have. Indeed, even with the machine, we still have to work together. You know what all these dirty dishes, pots and pan cannot walk themself and sit on it to be washed and become clean. No, those things need us, someone, willing to put and fix in the washing machine. Well, of course, in a family, the time table has to be sat up, everyone has a turn. We do it very quickly as only the two of us, we are lucky to have twin dishwashers so we can have one each, we do not need to fight. It's a good idea to have them when the family comes home for a visit, the job could be done quicker and more comfortable.
This time I am talking mainly about the domestic duties, it got to be done regardless. Not far from this world that people depend on other people just to do housework or to do the garden, or even the grocery shopping, lucky you that can do so. Time is money that one of the reasons. Only recently, I learned that one of my siblings has a security person to open and close the gate. Could you believe it? What is that, modern slavery? It would be better to have an automatic gate opener powered by electric. I don't need to understand what she does.
The pictures above, taken randomly from my files, and it is good to look back that the times were filled with good fun, also to add other beautiful pictures of my survival kits. These days I cook less and less, only when the family comes home.
As long as we are in good health, day to day is never get bored, we like to create events or a new activity to make life more exciting. This way we could forget our physical pains, obviously you would not know if you don't have any.
I hope you are all busy and enjoy your days with eagerness, keep on smiling, greet the morning sun with joy, the time is yours.
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Here I leave you a tip on how to make a perfect pot tea.
HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT POT OF TEA
Empty your kettle, then fill it with freshly-drawn water from the cold tap.
- Put the kettle on and, just before it comes to the boil, pour a generous dash of the hot water into your teapot (glazed china of earthenware for preference), swirling it round and round inside the pot before pouring it away. (Warming the pot is not a meaningless ritual, but ensures that the water stays at the boiling point when it hits the tea, encouraging the proper opening of the leaves.)
- Dole out one heaped teaspoon of tea leaves for each person, and one for the pot, straight into the warmed teapot. (Large-leafed teas are comparatively light for their volume, so add an extra spoon or so of these.) The kettle will have reached a galloping boil by this time, so pour the water over the tea. Take care that the water is not long boiling; over boiled water loses its oxygen and results in a bitter muddy brew of tea.
- Allow the tea to stand and brew for anything from three to six minutes according to the leaf size (less time for small leaves, more for large ones).
- Give the tea a good stir and pour it using a strainer to catch leaves. If you take your tea with milk, you should add it to the cup, cold and fresh, before pouring the tea.
The tea they produce is simply not the same. Also, try not to add sugar to tea as it vitiates the taste. As Fielding wrote, 'Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.'
Based on The Art & Pleasures of Taking Tea by Helen Simpson.
Until Next Post
Susy
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