Vegetable Garden

Thank goodness Spring has finally arrived.  Last year, our tomato and pepper plants brought us great joy and flavorful, pesticide-free produces.   With last year's successful garden, we are starting our vegetable garden early this year. 

Last weekend, we went to Ace's Hardware to pick up grass seeds for the yard (or so we thought!  we picked out a bag with fertilizer and kills crabgrass, BUT no grass seeds in it.  So we had to go back and get an actual bag of grass seeds.)  While we were there, we saw some nice vegetable packs at the entrance.  So we picked up a few of those as well.  We are now growing bak choy, lettuce, and cauliflower.  

For bak choy and lettuce, we planted them in planters on our deck.  Our deck gets a lot of sun.  We planed to do cauliflower on our deck as well, until we realized they take a lot of space to grow.  So we put those under the deck.  (I have yet to take a picture)

Here's what they looked like when we first planted them in our planters.  Top picture - Butter crisp lettuce.  Bottom picture - one of our 3 pots of bak choy.

One week later...(today)
They've grown quite a bit this past week. 

I plan to document the progress of our garden here on this blog.  I can't wait for the harvest, and the start of summer vegetables. 

Orange Pork

Yeah~~! I'm back. I had been gone for a while since my computer broke down. This is the most recent dish, Orange Pork (香橙豬排), that I made on Thursday. I really love this dish. I remember that I had this dish couple times when I was young; however, I couldn't find it in the restaurant now. It's so lucky that I found the recipe for this dish one day. =]





Orange Pork
3-4 servings

Ingredients:

• 1 lb pork
• 3-4 oranges
  
  

Marinade:

• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 tablespoon soya sauce
• 1 tablespoon corn starch
• 1 beaten egg
  

Sauce:

• 3 tablespoons sugar
  
• 1 teaspoon corn starch
  
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 150 mL fresh orange juice
  

Directions:

• Cut pork into cubes. Then marinade pork for at least 15 mins.
  
  
• Squeeze juice out of oranges. Then mix with other ingredients of the sauce.
  
  
• Fry pork until it is cooked. Then set aside the cooked pork.
  
  
  
• Cook sauce until it is boiled.
  
  
• Add in cooked pork and mix well with the sauce.
  
  
• Serve with rice.