First Blog.

Hello everyone! This is my first blog and I don't really know what to write about. I've been bombarding my friends and families on facebook with my gardening activities and cooking postings. Then I figured I don't want to annoy them anymore. Thus I've created this blogspot and those who are interested can come here to read all about it. This also gives me the opportunity to go into extensive details about my many frugal projects. This will also give me more room to post recipes and step by step instructions, from my many food dishes that people's been wanting. Yes I have MANY things going on in my life. :-)

I love cooking, eating, and trying out different ethnics food. My favorites are Korean, Laos/Thai, Vietnamese, and Indians. Note they are all spicy foods. :-) We also have picky eater in our house my husband and 2 year old son...and one 6 year old who had decided to be vegetarian. Our vegetarian son decided a few weeks before he turned six that he don't want to eat meat anymore...and so far he's been a vegetarian for over 4 months. I'm proud of him and his decision especially at how responsible he is about it too...he has no problem with refusing foods with meat in it. So this makes my cooking a little bit more interesting. I also like to have colors in my dishes and I've been experimenting with different type of edible flowers. i.e. flowers from these plants...radish, broccoli, mustards, violas, pansys, apple blosom, cherry blosoms, arugula, various rose varieties.

In this picture we have one of my dinner dishes. Spinach Quiche (spinach from the garden) topped with my fast growing radishes (these guys matured in only 1 month!). Freshly picked salads sprinkled with some daikon flowers, arugula flowers, and mustard flowers. Yumm! Add my famous sesame dressing and you're in heaven. :-P

I'm new to gardening and I absolutely LOVE it! Every time I talked about gardening I get really excited and can go on about it forever. I also love listening to people as they talk about how they grow their own foods. I believe people are starting to see the light and are taking a step back in time. How did people survive without a grocery store back 200 years ago? I think everyone should have the knowledge to live with the land, even if we don't need to use it. It'll make us more secure to know that if we do need to, we can do it. I'm also an advocate for organic gardening and had been studying Masanobu Fukuoka style of farming. As a mom I am very concerened about what goes on my family's dinner table. And at the same time we are a single income family and it's not very frugal to buy all things organic and greens.

I have lots of pictures of my garden..from late February to now. I don't know if I should blog about how the garden began or my past food postings from Facebook? It might be too repetitive for some, but if you guys are interested I could post pictures of them and talk about it a little? Or we can just start it all fresh and new now...:-)

So....here we go...ENJOY!