Recent content by Phaedra

Finally found a supplier who can print such cake tags, sooo happy! One more thing checked :weee

This year's NichiNichi Herbal Tea N1 new blend Rose, dried in the greenhouse - I am so surprised that the color can remain so well. The temperature recently in the greenhouse can reach 45C at least during afternoon peak time The mother plant - as Rosa rugosa produces a lot of basal shoots, I...

It sounds like a very homy dish! For the Japanese toast I made, it just replaced the water in the recipe with milk. So I use carrot and apple juice to make the roux (water roux starter), and then milk and other ingredients to finish the dough. It's a kind of the bread that you can eat without...

Carrot and Apple Milk Toast

I made a stuffed cabbage rolls today, and we all love this dish - simple but scrumptious Tomatoes, eggs, minced meat, rice, cabbage, salt, garlic, water, cheese - all natural things, no artificial flavoring is needed. Dessert? Basque cheese cake, with only 6 ingredients: Cream cheese...

We have a lot of sunny and dry days recently, and hopefully, rain from the coming two days can be a little bit heavier. Most of the rain barrels reduced to half, and the recycling water is still a substantial supply (fruit trees got them majorly, 10-20L each time).

A day isn’t a verdict—it’s a mosaic. A collection of small moments, some warm, some thorny, some silent, some radiant. And you are the artist who chooses how to place those pieces.

The very first riped white mulberry this year.

I love my chamomiles - self-seeded, hand-picked, greenhouse-dried. So fragrant~

More berries! I made some black+red currant syrup today. It is special because all the black currant and gooseberry plants were propagated from cuttings in 2018 (from our neighbor's plants in Cologne). This is the first year we have a decent harvest - good enough for me to bring out the steam...

Day & Night Version

The last day of 5-day off, time flies. I finished most of the summer pruning and weeding, the rest should be done in another few days. Years ago I bought a black elderberry plant (Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’) - the flowers and foliage are both charming. Before I transplanted it, I removed some...

Time for rose

Homemade Pesto Then Pasta 🍝

A full-time gardener day - I guess I worked in the garden for at least 5 hours. I drank about 3L water, several cups of ice coffee, and half chilled melon :lol: Anyway, pruning, mowing, weeding, feeding, mulching -- all kinds of corners, all kinds of work and the reward? I ordered...