How To Cook Bitter Melon/ Bitter Gourd

Bitter melon is a popular vegetable in Asia, disliked by most children because of the bitter taste, it is packed with nutrients and also used as medicine to treat diabetes, infections, and immune disorders. In this video I harvested bitter melon or bitter gourd, called "ampalaya"in the Philippines, "karela" in India, and cooked them two ways - with mung beans "ginisang mongo" and with eggs/omelet "tortang ampalaya."

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What to prepare for Thanksgiving dinner?

What to prepare for Thanksgiving dinner? Turkey of course! Here are some snapshots from last year's Thanksgiving. We roasted turkey and cooked the typical side dishes - green beans, mushroom, potatoes, sweet potatoes and gravy. The herbs were freshly-picked from our small edible backyard garden -  rosemary, sage and thyme. 

Thanksgiving dinner was prepared with help from my little sous-chef.  

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Celebrating Oktoberfest At Home

Celebrating Oktoberfest or German-themed dinner at home with grocery haul from our favorite German deli - sausages, (Münchener Weisswurst and  Frankfurter Würstchen), sauekraut, marinated beets and beer. We also made pretzels with the pretzel mix we got from World Market.

 

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Green Thumb Nursery - Fall and Winter Gardening

A tour at Green Thumb Nursery to check out the plants for fall and winter gardening. We bought some seeds - different varieties of kale, snow peas, carrots, beets, rutabaga, radish and English lavender. As well as some lettuce  (Amanda and freckled) and sugar snap peas seedlings. The lavender seeds will be scattered in the front yard for next season.

 

Walking around the nursery was quite a workout. We started in the seeds section, then went on to the veggies section, the herbs, roses, fruit bearing trees, drought tolerant plants, succulents and the indoor plants. There's also a pumpkin patch and of course, Joshua's favorite section where there's a family of deer.

 

Then, there's another section of the nursery where you can drive-thru so they can load the bags of soil. We got 4 bags.

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Planting A Fall And Winter Vegetable Garden

Planting a fall and winter garden in October is what I have been looking forward to. Fall is a season of change. The hot summer days are slowly changing to a refreshing chill in the air, as are the leaves on the trees. Then the autumn sun will shine through the golden foliage and very soon the leaves will fall. And down below is our lush vegetable garden filled with salad greens, peas and root vegetables.

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