In TaiwanDuck’s new garden, a new greenhouse, lots of fruit trees
We recently moved house to be somewhere sunnier and with less rain and to have a large garden too. We got a place on the Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire border, this is the vegetables and flowers capital of England! The region we are in is actually called “South Holland”. Over the last 2 months we have been busy...
Summer Raspberries are here, making jam and smoothies 覆盆子果醬和冰沙
It seems like raspberries 覆盆子 are getting ripe enough to pick now. We went out to the countryside a couple of days ago and picked quite a lot of beautifully dark red raspberries. Filling a couple of good sized sandwich boxes with the fruits. We have now decided the raspberry is superior to the strawberry...
A Glorious Summer Fruit and Vegetable Garden, July 2011
Hello everyone, we are really happy with our garden now, it’s been so very productive. We are now on our second set of vegetables, which have provided a good side of vegetables to most meals. Our working garden isn’t so big, it’s just about a quarter of our back garden! The area is probably less...
How to cook Taiwanese Stir-Fried Vegetables – Pak Choi or Spoon Vegetable 青江菜
A good Taiwanese meal is nearly always a made up of several dishes and at least one of them is a plate of stir fried vegetables of some sort. Here is just one kind of vegetables – Taiwanese Stir-Fried Vegetables – Pak Choi, 青江菜, also known as Spoon Vegetable due to it’s shape. This is...
Grow your own Taiwanese vegetables in a month! 一個月內自己栽種台灣蔬菜
Wow, it’s just three weeks ago that we last showed you our seedlings coming up in the garden and today we are on our second variety ‘harvest’. Yesterday we had some yo-tsai (油菜) from the garden and today we are going to use some a-tsai (A-菜) in the evening meal. Here is some before and...
Keeping chickens in the garden – home grown chickens and eggs 如何養雞
Yesterday we went to the livestock auctions in Chelford, near Knutsford, Cheshire. We were interested in the poultry, which is auctioned starting about 10am every Monday, there are about 300 lots in this auction every week! As well as poultry there are Monday auctions for cows, sheep and pigs of various varieties. A few lots...
Spring is here – grow your own vegetables! 春天來了
春天來了-種植自己的蔬菜！Previously we talked about Taiwanese greens and vegetables and where is best to buy them. Vegetables are very important to Taiwanese cooking and also great for your health. Today I am going to talk about another way to get some hard-to-find vegetables for your cooking. “Grow your own.” Spring seems to have arrived here in...
