Starry Acres

15/06/2026

Saba Shioyaki Teishoku 鯖塩焼き定食
- Salt-grilled mackerel
- Tofu, Chickpea, Onion Miso Soup with Shungiku
- Spiced Carrot
- Air-fried vegetarian Gyoza
- Steamed Rice with Edamame & Multi grain mix.

14/06/2026

Building Update - pergola project 14 June 2026.
Assembling of the pergola showing chemical anchors. This completes Phrase 1.
The next phrase will be pathing the Alfresco area with pepples and sealing them.

14/06/2026

Pink Guava , they are larger in winter.

12/06/2026

08/06/2026

A busy day to clear out the fridge.

03/06/2026

Singapore style Chicken Curry.
The star of this dish is not the chicken because almost always the complaint is "potato not enough".


#新加坡派

01/06/2026

I was defrosting precooked Thai Style Chicken Mince when Joe bought a bucket full of Rhubarb yesterday. I chopped them up and freeze 2 packets. I left out 350g of fresh Rhubarb for my experiments.
Rhubarb 食用大黄 is rarely used in Chinese cooking so I researched hard to find out how to turn them into savoury Asian soup.
I made a Chinese Hot & Sour Soup for lunch. He needs some soup with bread for dinner so I turned another batch into Rhubarb Tomato Soup.
Recipe in first comment.

29/05/2026

Rosella - seed saving

29/05/2026

Chinese home cooking that you probably never get to eat outside.
- Iceberg lettuce with garlic ginger sauce
- Pan-fried Spanish Mackerel steak
- Chives & Egg
- Miso Soup

25/05/2026

We experienced heavy frost for 2 nights and many vegetables called it a day. I ended up having to pick small Bitter melons, 2 kg of Rosella and 1.8 kg of green tomatoes.
I tasted the green tomato decided it will be great in a salad so I adapted the Burmese Green Tomato Salad to use whatever available in our pantry and garden.
Recipe in first comment or you can google "Burmese Green Tomato Salad"
Note:
- I cooked the onion because raw onion gives me digestion problem.
- can substitute dried shrimp with fish sauce
- can replace peanut with toasted sesame seeds