Meet Miguelin

This is Miguelin, a 6.5m tall animated baby that Spain has created for its pavilion, at the super-super crowded Shanghai World Expo 2010. A couple of family members went to Shanghai and visited the expo and had to endured hours of waiting in line before entering many countries' pavilions. The visitors, who were mostly people from mainland China at this point, according to the two loved ones that went there, mostly were waiting in line by utilizing their own culture i.e. pushing and shoving....

I am glad I was not there. I'd love to go, but if I have to wait for eight hours to enter one Saudi Arabia pavilion and five fours to enter Japan's, I rather stay back here in my cozy place, looking after my boring plants and watching NCIS marathon on TV. Adios.

Thanks DH for the picture.

Propagating ZZ Plant

We were into ZZ plant around Chinese New Year. Everywhere we went, we saw these plants being sold, with some red ribbons around it, of course. Prosperity and money. ZZ plant can be propagated by using leaflets. I planted two leaves that I got and after four to five months of waiting, I finally started to see something come out from the ground. Yipee!!!!

Popping Red...

These are from other Chili plants that I have. They are small but truly hot. They are ripe and ready for consumption.

Pesto On The Pizza

Having pesto is handy. We used it as a base for our pizza. Keeping it simple by putting some cherry tomatoes and a little bit more basil leaves and some cheeses of your choice. We put a combination of grated emmenthal and mozzarella. That's it. And it's a hit.

Jessica's Daily Affirmation

I wish I could do something like this every morning.... The video was taken in December 2001, which is about nine years ago and recently uploaded, it has nearly 1.5million hits.

This is good for a Monday motivational talk!

Moving House...

There are too many potted plants that I could wish to handle, so it is about time - using the financial term that I know well - to consolidate. I moved three potted basil plants to the ground, replacing the little Zinnia plants that grew on their own, and knocked down by the recent strong wind. I am doing a lot of re-arrangement of the plants too as I feel it's getting too much of my time to look after all of them.

Sorry kiddos, mommy has limited time. My paper works have been a little neglected as the "Mister"that said "will take care of them" has been taking care of them his way. W hich to me is really confusing! Time to untangle the papers and know where each piece is located.

Pesto And Bread!

By now, with so many basil plants around the house, we have so much basil leaves that we could ever use. We simply can't use them fast enough. Nearly on daily basis, I trim the plants and use them in many dishes that I prepare. But that's not much, I am feeding only 2-4 people at once.

This morning, I decided to make pesto. After all, we had everything we need to make that. Basil leaves, - checked. Pine nuts, garlic, olive oil, parmesan cheese -- all checked. Salt and pepper to taste. Got them!

Earlier on, I made a loaf of bread with flax seed too. Good to go with the pesto!

Sweet Potato Chips

It is almost self explanatory. We had one sweet potato left and Miss K decided to make chips of it. We both love the chips, they are crunchy and not too sweet. Peel the sweet potato, slice them and deep fry. Just like that!

Wordless Wednesday: Rosemary

After The Rain, Turmeric Leaf

Shot this morning after light rain in the early morning. Turmeric leaves are considerably big compared to ginger's.