Commercially bought vs home grown

In addition to yesterday's harvest, I noticed something interesting.

As pictures speaks more than words, I'll let you see it for yourself. 

So happens that I have both lime n tomato from shops to compare. Those I've grown are so much smaller!

Kcan

Tomato harvest

My little tomato harvest from the garden.

After many months of watering, fertilizing, chasing away the possums, and jet spray away the white fly, here's the fruit of the labour. 

Have you had fresh tomatoes? They smells so good! Full of flavour, unlike the ones you get from the shops. 

A good tip, never store your tomato in the fridge. It will loose all it's wonderful flavor.

Kcan

Painting!

Our first painting job in the new house. We started at the master bed room.

From this 

To this! Almost there. We took a lunch break and this is what we achieved after 3 hrs of painting.

What a difference!

Can't wait for all painting job to be done. 

Kcan

Ducky duck!

I made stew duck( lo shui duck) for the first time on Saturday!

First marinate the duck overnight.

Slice up shallots, galangal, ginger, lemon grass. Whole garlic.

Pound the ginger, galangal and lemon grass.

Have bay leave and cinnamon stick handy.

Cook the duck in the sauce n spices for 1.5 hrs.

Tada! All chop up and ready to be serve.

Chilli dip to go with the duck. 

And salads and veges. 

The duck sauce is so versertile and we had it for many days later with beancurd and hard boil eggs. Yumm!

I even kept a bottle in the freezer for future use. 

Kcan