I create a blog for posting gardening tips and recipes upon friends' request. There are not much post yet. You are all welcome to give some suggestion or any request.
The link is,
http://gardennkitchen.blogspot.com/

Last week or the week before, we got an DVD from the library called "Ace cake".
We was amazed by how those people make cake and what kind of cakes they made.
I was trying to get my art major cousin to consider a new career in cake decorating. So I get online to find some link that I can show her. Then I come across this video.
www.foodnetwork.com/ ( Read more... )

That's the environmental geek’s way of saying we started to eat the vegetable from our garden.
The vegetable we have now are bai tsai(Chinese cabbage) and buk choy. I collected the seeds last year when the weather got too hot and both of them started to flower and make seeds. I actually forgot that I have collected the seeds until I found the seed ( Read more... )

Here is my challenge to everyone. Find one true environmental friendly item in your house(or garden). That truly help save the energy and resources without require extra energy/resource. And post it on your journal/facebook/online album and tell us how it is truly environmental friendly. Please post your link in comment. We will see what people can ( Read more... )

It is earth day today. Everywhere, you can see advertisements for green products, telling people that they have to spend more money in order to show that they are concerned about the environment.
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from one of chain store, Target, stating that they have a week long sale on “green products” as contributes to the earth day. I ( Read more... )

Recently I got some kefir from someone in this town to make "kefir yogurt". It turns out much easier than the regular yogurt making process. And the result is great. We have been having tasty smoothies, and turn the extra into cream cheese ( Read more... )

Since we are moving. Now it is time to start thinking about preparing our house for sale and looking for the new place.
What we do now is to look at the site Zillow to look at the property for sale. We did find lots of forclosure houses.
One of the house, when David check on the details of the house, he found a rather interesting feature come with ( Read more... )

David has a new love--Lisa ( Read more... )

This summer, my former adviser Alan retired. At the summer meeting, there was a section to honer him. I was invited to present a talk, but unfortunately I was not able to go to Canada to present it. I did work with David to put the entire talk together.
Here is the quote from the summer meeting note of Dave Van Domelen. It is kind of interesting to ( Read more... )

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