My 1st Ever Bobby Chinn Cookbook!

Thanks to my DD#2!

Surprise Gift and wonderful find!

Will Torrent's patisserie at home
gifted by dearest sis! 

a wonderful find of Donna Hay's 'off the shelf, cooking from the pantry'
where else? amcorp mall!

Sunday last's book haul ~ Amcorp Mall

BookXcess purchases

Willie Harcourt-Cooze 'Wilie's Chocolate Bible'

Women's Weekly: Beginner's Cookbook

 Below: from the fleamarket stalls

John Mortimer's Character Parts

Paul Theroux's Blinding Light

Latest deliveries from TheBookDepository

John Irving's 'In One Person'

Kate Atkinson's 'Not the End of the World'

Montessori books by Maria Montessori

Anyone reading Kate Atkinson?

two more titles joining these six ... soon!

It's all green from my balcony!

Food and books ~ Amcorp Mall

Out with DD#2 and mother at Amcorp Mall yesterday

DD#2 had wantan noodles

while I had curry laksa 

Mother and I also shared stuffed tofu but totally forgot to snap picture :(

Scored the above two books from my favorite stall at the flea market on LG floor

Mrs Beeton - Puddings by Isabella Beeton and Gerard Baker

and 

Mr Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie

Latest book haul from BookXcess!

Gardening and reading

below: My 1st ever sweet potato plant (purple variety)

above: 7/29/13 

above: 8/3/13 

above: 8/7/13

 below: re-grow from kitchen waste (coriander)

 below: new purchase - pergaga 

 below: planted papaya seeds in toilet roll holder

 below: planted sweet basil cuttings doing rather well!

 below: more sweet basil cuttings and rosemary

 below: finished Kate Atkinson's when will there be good news

and starting on Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

and while at the doctor's read Nigella Lawson's biography

Ikea's Swedish Meatballs, finally!

 a couple of weeks ago, managed to grab a meal at Ikea!

Ikea has a lovely cafe lady who found me a table

complete with ready lunch companions

a lovely meal with lovely 'sharing table' lunch companions:

two young ladies (from Cheras) shopping for a project and 

a lovely couple (from Klang) out on Tea-Candles expedition!

If you ever want to make your own version of 

Ikea's Swedish Meatballs - do give THIS RECIPE a go!

Reading and Gardening

Just finished John Irving's Last Night In Twisted River

and starting on 'The Fourth Hand'

and hopefully 'Until I Find You' after that.

Seems that Irving has a new book out 'In One Person'

Below:  first time I seen little rosebuds thingy on my Latanas(?)

this is at my office

 

  

 Above: my herb garden at home

 mixture of herbs and flowers!

my sage are doing rather well for the first time! 

 Below: new pot of mint and rosemary 

 below: cuttings of 'sambung nyawa' doing well

Book Haul ~ Amcorp Mall @ 17.3.13

Lucky Me! ~ Look what I got myself for 2013!

a lazy susie

The Artist: PatzPlaze

From Amcorp Mall and currently reading...



The Patriarch by Yeap Joo Kim

and now reading

Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell

Alice Hoffman Reading Spreeeeee

from bottom upwards:

The River King, done

Here on Earth, done

Skylight Confessions, done

currently reading The Dovekeepers