It has been a while since I wrote a blog post on making things at home. Now here is a blog post on making a scrunchie/ hair twist at home. I got long hair therefore, I use a scrunchie hair twist to tie my hair most of the time. Normally I would just go out […]
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting courgette tromboncino. Last year I have grown it in my garden. I must say it is a great courgette variety to grow. Courgette Tromboncino simply in Italian means Trumpets. It is also known as Courgette Albenga. As this variety of courgette resembles the trumpet. At the
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This blog post is on how to bake pineapple buns (Hong Kong bakery style). Also known as bolo buns (港式菠萝包). It doesn’t contain any pineapples. Some recipes use Roux which is basically a thickening sauce. I have omitted the roux in making milk buns base and just all the ingredients together. These pineapple buns are
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This is a blog post of making pumpkin soup. I harvested some curcubita pumpkin in my garden in Autumn. Now it’s winter and i have decided to make some soup of these pumpkin I grew. It is much smaller compared to the ones seen in the shops as it is homegrown in my garden in
This is another series of my experiences in natural fabric printing on madder this time. Madder is a quite an old dye plant that can be grown in the UK or colder climates. It yields a lovely pink hue red. I have just recently acquired a madder plant and don’t really want to start using
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