Late summer and fall is the perfect time to save tomato seeds to grow on your own. I find that the seeds from locally or home-grown tomatoes have nearly a 100% sprout rate. They are primed to grow well where you live. Enjoy! The details: Heirloom tomatoes are easy to grow at home and evolved …
Saving seeds to grow tomatoes at home: super easy and fun Read More »
In this post I cover Taroko National Park’s Shakadang Trail, a bit on Truku history, millet, weaving and Taroko trip planning. My day trip from Hualien to Taroko Gorge was epic. I went solo and on public transportation. I took 6 buses and hiked on 5 trails. By far my favorite hike was the Shakadang …
Unexpected Delights in Taroko, Taiwan: mountain millet mochi and more Read More »
One of my favorite ways to get to know a new place is to visit the local market and when possible cook or assemble a meal using fresh local ingredients. . I just visited my uncle in Zhuhai, a seaside city in Guangdong province between the financial powerhouses of Hong Kong and Macau. You can …
Gongbei market and seafood feast in Zhuhai, China Read More »
Summer may be over, but delicious tomatoes are still around. Don’t forget to save tomato seeds to grow next year! Here’s how: Heirloom tomatoes are easy to grow at home and evolved to be infinitely tastier than store-bought ones, which are bred for long truck rides and shelf stability. Tomato seeds are hardy, so if …
Here are my favorite pescaterian-vegetarian food picks on this trip to Vietnam… Top left: Chã cá, or table charcoal-grilled hake fillets with tons of fresh dill, turmeric, galangal, ginger, fish sauce and shrimp paste, at Cha Ca Thanh Long in Hanoi Top right: bánh khúc, mung bean dumplings with cassava and rice flour skins, my …
No visit to Taiwan is complete without a visit to a night market. Despite my exhaustion from jet lag and walking around Taipei in sweltering summer heat, last night I made it to the Raohe night market (饒河夜市) next to the Songshan MRT and local train station and was pumped enough by all the activity …
out of the Wuhan ashes… tofu, shrooms galoreorganic greens, local farmsnot cooked in pork fat … Wow!
It’s a jungle out there, folks. Here’s what grew out of those tiny little seeds we saved from farmer’s market salads last year… One of the vegetable beds our tomatoes are growing in (the one that is hidden in this photo by the tomato super-growth) was built by Young Whan this spring!
