Yarra Trail 4

Further upstream..

Steeper, wilder, bushier, rougher.

Yarra Trail 3

Yarra Parklands..

via a "Secret Garden"

in morning glory..

trekking biking barbequing jogging moonlighting

kayaking picnicking sunbathing stargazing

Yarra Trail 2

Retracing the Yarra Trail..

River views, overcast morning.

Yarra Trail 1

Morning walk jog...

Brisk walk up Saint James Park & down the Yarra Trail.
Passed Melbourne Girls' College by the Yarra River.

Girls practising rowing, cyclists and joggers.
Short jog down Saint James Park to home.

蓮子百合

Delicious dessert, served cold..

Ingredients 配料 :

Lilium lancifolium (Lily bulb) 百合

Nelumbo nucifera (Lotus seeds) 蓮子

Dioscorea opposita (Chinese yam) 淮山

Eucheuma cottonii (Coral seaweed) 麒麟藻

Double boiler 燉鍋  |  Ceramic cooker 瓷鍋

Lilium lancifolium 卷丹

http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&searchword=pid=B00340

Nelumbo nucifera 蓮子

http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&searchword=pid=B00245

Dioscorea opposita 薯蕷

 http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?lang=ch&channelid=1288&searchword=herb_id=D00226

Eucheuma cottonii 耳突麒麟藻

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/麒麟菜屬

JFK 1963~2013

22 November, 50 years ago..

JFK : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Role of Business, COP19

A new guide..

.. to corporate engagement on climate policy.

COP19 Role of Business at Warsaw : http://www.theclimategroup.org/what-we-do/news-and-blogs/cop19-the-role-of-the-business-community-in-warsaw/#!

Baby Scones!

Baby scones, by DM

Spotties with choc chips :o) organic apricot jam..

台南涮牛 越南湯粉

 Australian rump steak..

 

Thinly sliced, add ginger & boiling beef stock: 台南式涮牛湯

Add beef & tendon balls, bean sprouts, mint & basil: 越南式湯河粉

Hedy Lemarr, 100 years on

Unusual gifts of beauty and intellect in one.

Hedy Lamarr, born 9 November 1913

Mathematically talented, with composer George Antheil, Hedy Lamarr
invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications

and frequency hopping necessary for wireless communication
from the pre-computer age to the present day, WiFi..

Hedy Lamarr : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Secret Communication System : http://www.google.com/patents/US2292387

 

Coral Seaweed

麒麟藻

Managed to find coral seaweed at a market in Lahad Datu

at RM10 /kg. High in collagen, the locals swear by its

ability to restore bone cartilage & banish backpain.

Coral seaweed  |  Eucheuma cottonii 

Soak in chlorine free water at room temperature

for a few hours, until soft & translucent.

Served cold, with salad.

Coral Seaweed Kerabu :
 http://wendyinkk.blogspot.com/2013/05/coral-seaweed-kerabu-mff-sabah-6

Water has Memory

About water..

.. a complex system that remembers.