Author Archives: threewisdom

Last month I prepared my first homemade pickled plum. Since it has been fermented for one month, now it is time to proceed to the next step, sun drying. I put my plums on the tray and put the tray onto my garden chair in my back yard. I concerned about any bugs being attractedContinue reading “Homemade pickled plum – sun drying 10/3/2018”

We have a jalapeno tree in our back yard. We bought a young plant this spring. It grew to a tall tree after summer. Now we have been enjoying the harvest of jalapenos every day. I water my plants every morning. Yesterday when I checked the jalapeno tree, I saw one grasshopper perching on theContinue reading “Grass hopper 10/2/2018”

Back on February 10th of this year, I prepared my first homemade miso. The miso has been fermented for eight months since then. I used two different types of beans; soy beans and black beans. It came to three glass bottles for the each bean miso. For these past eight months, I checked my misoContinue reading “First homemade miso sampling 10/1/2018”

As I mentioned before, I have been studying macrobiotics through the online course. The first study materials (the DVDs and textbooks) arrived at my house on August 28th. Since then, I have been incorporating the cooking techniques that the instructor shared with us. It has been more than a month passed. I noticed several differencesContinue reading “More kitchen time 9/30/2018”

October is around the corner. My daughter’s school will have a one-week off for the autumn break in October. My daughter has been counting days until the autumn break. She feels great about the break and it is a “thumbs-up” event. I secretly feels it as a “thumbs-down” event as I won’t have my aloneContinue reading “Autumn break plan 9/29/2018”