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The Garden.

Ever since I fell sick, and the weather hasn’t stopped raining, I haven’t really been taking care of the garden. I checked them out a few days back and found that some are growing well, but some, are a little sad.

The Italian Parsley almost died a few weeks back. But look at it now. Growing bigger and stronger. The leaves are so much bigger compared to weeks back!

New leaves are growing out for the Rosemary as well. I still don’t know how to transplant and grow more of them. Anyone?

The basil was huge and full a month ago, but look at it now. Sigh. They kinda died after I transplanted them into the new box. I suspected it’s because of the lack of drainage holes. I’ve poked more holes and hopefully it will grow back. I really love the refreshing basil tea!

About 2 weeks ago Coco dug out my cherry tomato plant. Yeah, dug out. I’ve planted it back immediately and it’s been growing up and down since then. I notice that when it rains, it grows. When the sun comes out, it kinda ‘shrinks’. Probably an indication of ‘more water, please’. :)

I’ve then planted 4 more pots of new plants. The cherry tomato seedling is out. The rest, as usual, nothing happens. Sigh.

The Jamie Oliver’s Fever.

Ever since I’ve successfuly baked a brownies with the recipe from Jamie Oliver’s website, I’ve been looking for more recipes that might suit me there. My main concern was certainly the difficulty level. lol. When I came across this roasted chicken breast with cherry tomatoes and asparagus, I said to myself, OK I’ll try this.

I wanted to cook this for darl so he could bring to work but his working hours this week just couldn’t fit into my schedule. And tonight since I was alone at home, I’ve decided to make myself this dish, with a bowl of rice to go with.

Preparing the dish.

I skipped the white wine and instead I added a little bit of rice wine, simply because I didn’t have any white wine in hand. But the rice wine certainly didn’t make any difference to the taste. :D

About 25 minutes later.

I would say it’s tasty and yummy. The only thing is that I’m not used to the taste and smell of rosemary. It’s just not a commonly used herb in Chinese cooking. Oh and I skipped the balsamic vinegar too. I’m really from a traditional Chinese family. :D

But for a dish that is simple, easy, and healthy, I think this is one of the good ones.

P/S: I wonder why Jamie’s rosemary can still look so green after the roasting. Mine turned into dark brown. Hmm… :/

Productive Sickness III – Half A Day With Mr Pandai.

Yesterday I was still sick. I don’t know why but I think this virus is hooking up to me too long. So long that I nearly can’t remember the first day I got sick. @.@

Anyway. I happened to IM Charles and he told me that he is in Penang – again. Since I wanted to go to so many places – yeah although I was sick – and DARL didn’t have the time to go with me, I asked Charles if he want to spend a day with me. With Charles, sometimes it’s really easy to get yourself a companion, and a driver. :D

He picked me up at around 3:15 PM. Since he said that he can stay with me for the whole day, I told him that I wanted to get myself a Rosemary plant. Well, I wanted to get one for some time. I read somewhere on the WWW that it’s a natural mosquito repeller and recently there were really A LOT of mosquitoes in my house and in the garden. So I thought maybe planting Rosemary would help…

Anyway, we first went to GardenKu near Botanical Garden, and they didn’t have it. On the way out, Charles suddenly remembered about the Tropical Spice Garden at Teluk Bahang, and insisted to drive me there. OK lor someone wanna drive me there, of course OK. :D And this was when he started to call himself Mr Pandai, because he thought he was so clever to come out with the idea. @.@

So we reached there about 20 minutes later and OMG the place is so COOL and I was so damn regret that I didn’t bring along my camera. So all the photos here were taken by my Nokia 2630 camera phone. @.@ At this point Mr Pandai was even more sure that he was too pandai to bring us to this place. @.@

The pond at the entrance of the Tropical Spice Garden.

The pond at the entrance of the Tropical Spice Garden. And Mr Pandai said the shot from another angle will be nicer…

Look at the boat in the middle of the pond!

We walked up to the Cafe and Shop area, which doesn’t require us to pay, otherwise entrance is RM13 per person. They have this simple yet unique table top deco that I simply love!

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