Archive for 2009


IMG_2129做腻了馒头,今天想尝试一下做做发糕。网上有不少菜谱,比较来比较去,其实都差不多,关键是要在蒸时让玉米发起来,变得松软,不要沉底。

所以总结出来有三个要点:一是要水开后上锅蒸;二是装混合物的容器要有透气孔;三是混合物一定要搅拌均匀,无颗粒。

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24 hours later after I had been to the famous annual Floriade Show in Canberra, my own tulip is at last in its position of blooming. Well, to solve the mystery of my last post about the size, I can tell you this one is definitely smaller than most of tulips on the exhibition, but [...]

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We finally went to the Show, just to walk around to get some fresh air and register ourselves to this annual event in Canberra and then be able to say “we’ve been there and done that!” Apart from the same oldies at the show – the beautiful tulips (plus other types of flowers) and happy, [...]

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It’s so bloody cold this morning. By this time of a year, I was supposed to be wearing my sandals, short sleeves, dresses or knee high skirts, but I had to put on woolly jumper and wrapped myself in a long scarf this morning. This is ridiculous! The weather has been not friendly in the [...]

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Now there is one thing I am pretty sure about….. That is, after all the waiting and “hard work” (not), my 3 red tulips are going to flower this year. The thing I am not sure at the moment is, I don’t know if they are going to turn out as the same size as [...]

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It’s not that I am so much into Kimono design, it’s just these cloth shoes are so cute and look easy to make, I have to have them (Pattern is here from Home Spun Threads). I found no problem making them – straight forward pattern cutting, basic stitching even with some curve lines, simple lining…. [...]

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