For the vegan friend who came over for dinner, I look up on ideas for vegan dessert. Found this super easy chocolate mousse, simply 3 parts of blended warm silken tofu with 1 part dark chocolate. So easy to make, and so ‘creamy’, super healthy high protein dessert!
Easy to make vegan pizza, grated cheese added on half of the pizza when used.
五月到保加利亞旅遊前，查看地道食物資料時，知道當地的燜煮菜式，常用savory 香草。
對這個薄荷科的香料完全不認識，也是首次知道，原來表達好味道的形容詞savory，源自這香草。看資料，味道複雜，帶薄荷、百里香、牛至香草和些少辛辣味，好奇心大起。
旅遊時努力在所吃的餸菜中尋找這savory 香草味道，但吃不出頭緒。
在超市買了乾的香草，味道亦不特出。好高興在園藝店找到種子。回家即刻種下，異常細粒的種子，埋下十多粒，只有四粒發芽，苗葉亦細小，最後有兩株長大，可以種下。
細小的植物，葉片細碎瘦長，好特別，摘下頂尖葉片令其分枝，那新鮮葉片的味道，又的確如資料上的形容，複雜多樣性，似集合數種香草的滋味，唯一容易形容的，是後來的微微辛辣味道，真的精彩。
今早看到，種下才一個月，仍然細小，已經長出兩朶粉紫色，兩側對稱的花朶。一年生的植物，希望仍然繼續長大，有機會收成多些新鮮葉片用。
From my dwarf back mulberry plant, in this 5th year, there are more harvest and sweeter berries. Just that they grow in a clump below where branches from the main trunk, making it very difficult to harvest.
Growing cucumber again for the first time in a few years, mainly because it can be too productive and have too much harvest. Nice to have it back for a change, will try to harvest early when they are small to keep up with production.
Easy pickle in miso and umeboshi plum sauce for a day.
Every year we have very good harvest of raspberry, after eating fresh and turn into coulis, I found another way of using it up. By turning it into a savoury sauce with a lot of cinnamon and turmeric for use with Natto in breakfast. I always want to incorporate more cinnamon and turmeric in my meal and this is a good way to ensure regular daily intake.
Raspberries cook soft and sieve out seeds. Reboil season with soy sauce, brown sugar, cinnamon powder, turmeric powder, black pepper and other spices you like.
飯桌上女孩們有問有答，口齒伶俐，眼神天真無邪，無憂境界。其中一個問題是我是否也喜歡吃白色的兔仔？我腦海中閃出廿多年前初到法國，鄰居的小兒子，以古怪的眼神問我有否吃狗肉！回過神來，眼前女孩們笑意盈盈，原來是指大白兔牛奶糖，她們每次到唐人商店都要買的零食，大國掘起，時代真的變了。
近期天氣大好，她們天天都找可以游泳的地方，所以車上備有泳衣和大浴衣。飯後問准可以到湖內玩水，即刻飛快換好泳衣，一起走到湖畔，五名女孩嘻哈在水中玩樂，四名大人留守湖畔張看，那麼簡單，就已經那麽開心，真心感動。
上岸後到菜園走個圈，今早特意沒有收成士多啤梨和覆盆子，由得她們採摘，一面摘一面塞進口中，也就忙得沒說話。
離開時小朋友們再三多謝安排，其實是她們帶來的美好時光，最珍貴。
From end of spring until now I have been collecting Rugosa rose petals, the wild variety of rose with lovely fragrance and colour. They are air dried next to the window for 3 days and now have collected 2 big jars. These can be used to make hot drink, in dessert and stews.
Some petals are infused in diluted vodka and in cider vinegar. Will see later on how they taste like.
Seasoned lamb lap with Koji salt, black pepper for a day and on to spit roasting, for 1.5hrs, wonderful way to enjoy a gorgeous evening.
Koji give a lovely brown tone and unique umami taste to the tender juicy meat, really happy with the result.
Our yearly whole lamb purchase from neighbour’s family farm, to be cut up into portions:
-2 gigots
-2 front legs
-2 saddles
-2 laps
-4 racks of lambs
-2 chucks
-2 neck parts
-lamb fat, kidney and diaphragm
The kidney and diaphragm are cut up and stir fry with veg, nice tender morsels.
First warm honey combs at 40˚C for honey to run out, then pass through a sieve into jars.
The left behind wax still have a lot of honey attached, and is rinsed with cold water to dissolve honey, leaving cleaner wax behind. This honey water is kept in small paper cups in freezer to use as ice cubes in cocktails, hot summer treats.
