Our plants gave grown so big that we ran out of place on the kitchen top. Then we added more plants to our collection. So we moved it out to the balcony.
We have 2 pots of chillies, basil and parsley, 1 pot of lavender, spring onion and an unknown flower.
The parsley and basil is growing very fast. I have to harvest them almost every 3 weeks.
Check out our chilli pots. It’s like a mini jungle!
Lots of chillies waiting to be harvested.
The lavender was dying and drying up. So we changed the soil and move it to a bigger pot. Now it looks healthy and finally growing well.
I decided to make marshmallow cupcakes yesterday nite to cheer me up (see previous post).
I came upon this recipe when I was browsing The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook by Tarek Malouf and The Hummingbird Bakers. Now if you have not heard about Hummingbird, you should! Especially if you’re into cupcakes. I believe it’s American and it has several branches in London. But it is VERY FAMOUS for its cupcakes.
Anyhow back to my attempt to cheer myself up.
So after dinner I started making the cupcakes. Marshmallow and cupcakes are definitely my all time favourite junk food (right on top of the list!). Therefore I thought the sugar high will lift my spirit. One bite from the cupcakes and I thought I could have instantly become diabetic! It was WAAAYYYY too sweet for my liking (and I’m a person who likes her sweet desserts!). Imagine I didnt even follow the full recipe, it will be even sweeter if I had melted the marshmallow and poured it into the cupcakes.
If you’re interested to try, you can get the recipe here.
Mixing the marshmallow with the frosting. Never again will I make anything with frosts.
End product. Excuse the picture quality. I was using my iPhone.
Where have the time gone? It has been almost one year since we last picked blackberries from Wimbledon Common.
Dav and I have been hoping we could pick more this year and thus we have started going to the Common every weekend to check the progress… For the past 2 weeks, there was barely anything and the blackberries were either green or red (i.e. not ripe). Yesterday we were more successful. Although there’s lots more bushes where the blackberries are still not rip, we did find a few bushes with very big and black berries.
My father in-law was very excited and we could hardly stop him!
We managed to get a container full of berries. Hopefully that would make one jar of jam. We are already planning to go back again next weekend to get more.
Anyone interested to come along?
Blackberry plant. It has lots of thorns which makes picking slightly more difficult and sometimes painful.
One container full of blackberries.
Last Wed, a colleague decided to arrange to go for afternoon tea after work at The Wolseley. Now this is the second time I’m going to afternoon tea in a week. It’s never enough really… hahahaha
The food is served in a 3 tier tray but cant be refilled. They have really cute tea pots and the atmosphere is great. I would definitely recommend this place. The price is really reasonable too!
Love the macaroon dipped in chocolate.
My tea set.
Another cute little tea pot. Can’t believe they serve teas in different types of teapots.
The chillies are growing. Let’s hope it wont be too long before we can harvest it.
The chillies are popping out one by one after the flowers dry out. The plant is 3 months old.
More flowers means more chillies! Hopefully…
Basil, 2nd harvest. As we dont use much basil in our cooking, I’m harvesting them to make pesto.