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After winter season, spring and summer comes. Spring is the ideal time to plant your own herbs. This is not a bad idea, as fresh herbs have a much more intensive smell and taste than dry ones and will give the food you cook this extra 'freshness'.
The easiest way is to start with a herb planting kit, it consists of seeds, a paper container, tags, compact soil in a seal bag in a planting box:
A legendary 4000 yrs fruit from a life tree in heaven. A peach of immortality is one of 3 gifts from the Dragon King of the East Sea in the chinese mythology "The journey to the west" and in Japanese fairy tale "Momotaro" or "The Peach Boy":
An Italian food that has similar shape like Venus's navel, called " Tortellini". It is made of pasta sheet wrapping with meat, Italian ham called "prosciutto", spinach or cheese. As we know, Venus (Roman) is goddess of beauty and love = Aphrodite (Ancient Greek) :
Christmas is coming again! Let's go to Milan and try Italian Christmas bread or leavened cake called "Panettone". Milan is a capital of fashion and design in Europe. It is a very busy city starting when you arrive at the main train station like other metropolitan cities:
The interior of this building looks very nice and clean:
Do you have a hard time deciding what you are going to add into your food? Curious? What are the ingredients and usages? Let's look at the basic types of dark sauces:
Size: 3 cm
Height: 2.5-2.8 cm
It looks like a sweet mini sandwich, generally composed of 2 pieces of sweet meringue-based confection and 1 layer of ganache with other ingredients such as champagne, chocolate, vanille, exotic fruits and nuts. What is it? Let's go to Luxembourg:
Curiousity about a well-known mineral water led us to visit a town called "San Pellegrino". This sign post confused tourists as it did not point to where the visitors should go. It points to the entrance only for the transportation of the company. (Do not follow this sign post!!!)
A Chinese origin soup which contains wolfberry, it is a fruit of Lycium barbarum (Lycos = wolf in Greek, Barbarum = somewhere else) or Matrimony vine from Ningxia where the majority of "Goji berries" are harvested and produced there. It has many other names such as wolfberry, boxthorn, Himalayan/Tibetan Goji (Gojibeeren/Bocksdorn = Thorn of goat or Getrocknete Bocksdorn-Beeren in German, Baies de goji séchées in French, gugija in Korea).
It's Christmas! People in western countries enjoy baking breads & cookies with many Christmas special ingredients such as cinnamon, anise, almond, haselnuts, candied fruits, raisins, chocolate in many shapes, especially a gingerbread man:
The name of this spread is Nam prik Pao in Thai, Nam prik = Chili paste, Pao = burn. In English, it is called Thai Chili Paste which has light spiciness in comparison to most "Nam prik" in Thailand.
