Container Garden - A Cucumber Update

Sadly, cucumber seems to be the only one thriving.

Container Garden - A Thriving Update

It looks like the garden has an iron will to live and to thrive even though the weather has been crappy and I've not been able to give it the love and attention it needs.

Yummy fresh cucumber from the garden!

Chillies!

Capsicums!

Mint!

Container Garden - An Update

We harvested 5 cucumbers from the plant before it got destroyed by the cucumber bug.

The bugs even ate the pollinated cucumbers!

Fresh spinach from the garden! Little boy ate all of it. He just loves spinach stir fried with garlic.

The toad who lived in my garden and subsequently became a FAT pig. This is Terry the FATTY-LICIOUS TOAD!

Fresh herbs for my mum. I have lavendula, mint, peppermint, lemon balm and parsley(which died).

A harvest of herbs and okra! The okra just keeps on producing. 

Container Garden - An Update

Baby grasshopper!

The yam plant!

One of the three cucumbers in the garden! My first ever successful plant!

The okras are flourishing!

The garden soldier fly grubs who are composting machines. They chomp away at my decomposing food and produce compost for my garden! Amazing!

Terry the FAT toad sunbathing!

Spinach harvest!

Abundant spring onion harvest!

An Oleander Hawk Caterpillar in the process of turning into a pupa.

2 Orange Dog Caterpillars on the lime tree.

A Swallowtail butterfly on the orange tree.

My Home-Made Minced Chicken Chop

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of minced chicken
(*marinate with sea-salt, sunflower oil and 2 tablespoons of organic all-purpose flour)
2. Sunflower oil
3. Bread crumbs

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1. Heat a frying pan.

2. While the pan is being heated up, flatten the minced chicken into a large slice "patty-looking-chicken". Use a plastic spoon to create some "lines of depression or wavy-lines" in the chicken.

3. Then coat the chicken with bread crumbs.

4. Drizzle some sunflower oil onto the frying pan.

5. Place the minced chicken onto the pan.

6. Allow it to sizzle until it is browned on one side.

7. Turn it over and allow the other side to sizzle until browned too.

8. Serve hot.

Bon appétit!

I did not coat the chicken with enough bread crumbs. Will do so the next time I cook this. 

This is the little boy's meal. I served the minced chicken chop with my home-made instant noodles, fried egg and sliced cucumbers. I garnished the noodles with some fried garlic and shallots.