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Posted on January 8, 2015 January 9, 2015 by Grace Utting — Leave a comment

9:30 – 11 am Bread Making – Elizabeth Archer | Less Is More Festival 2014

Elizabeth smiling behind a trolley with the bread dough which have risen in a bread pan in front. — The amazing Elizabeth Archer our lovely presenter for this bread making workshop!

bread dough which have risen in a bread pan — One she had prepared earlier

the baking ingredients on the table — The ingredients used

Elizabeth holding out a bottle with the mother with her right hand — showing off the starter

workshop participant taking a closer look at the mother in a bottle — workshop participant inspecting the starter close up

Elizabeth showing a ingredient with her left hand out stretch — Elizabeth showing a ingredient

The recipe to make bread — The recipe for the bread

A guy on the right grabbing the ingredient — A workshop participant trying his hand at bread making

Elizabeth the presenter measuring ingredients and putting it in the mixing bowl with workshop participants watching — Elizabeth measuring out the flour

A close up of the freshly baked bread out of the oven which has a nice crust — Bread baked during the lesson

Elizabeth holding the bread with a cloth as it is hot — Elizabeth showing off the freshly hot baked bread

Elizabeth the presenter mixing the ingredients in the mixing bowl with workshop participants watching — Elizabeth stirring the ingredients in the bowl with workshop participants watching on

lots of people crowd around the mixture in the bowl — workshop participants coming up for a closer look

a lovely lady cutting up the bread — Volunteer helping to cut the bread

a lladies buttering and cutting the bread — Volunteers helping to cut the bread and buttering

a lladies buttering and cutting the bread while looking at the camera — two lovely volunteers helping to cut the bread and buttering and posing for the camera =p

Elizabeth holding the bread pan on its side with another lady on the left watching — Elizabeth showing a workshop participant how to flour the pan

one lady in the background handing out the cut and buttered bread while the lady in the foreground is cutting more bread — Volunteers cutting the bread and handing it out.

Elizabeth scooping the mixture from the mixing bowl into the bead pan with people watching her on the right — Elizabeth scooping the mixture into the bread pan with workshop participants watching

three ladies buttering and cutting the bread and putting on jam while looking at the camera — three lovely volunteers helping to cut the bread, buttering, jaming and posing for the camera =p

three ladies buttering and cutting the bread and putting on jam. — three lovely volunteers helping to cut the bread, buttering and jamming

three ladies buttering and cutting the bread and putting on jam with people crowding around them — Workshop participants eager for a taste of the freshly baked bread out of the oven with butter and jam spread by the lovely volunteers

three ladies buttering and cutting the bread and putting on jam while laughing and smiling — Workshop participants eager for a taste of the freshly baked bread out of the oven with butter and jam spread by the lovely volunteers with a cheerful smile

in the foreground there are workshop participants with smiles on their faces while holding the bread — Going by the happy faces eating the bread, it was a success!

a close up of the mixing bowl which has some residue mixture in it with a wooden spoon sitting inside the bowl — The empty bowl..

three sacks of flour with measuring cups in the bottom right bag — the flour and the measuring cup used.

a happy and smiling Elizabeth holding a tray of bread and spread — The amazing Elizabeth Archer our lovely presenter for this bread making workshop looking pleased with the out come of the bread and the workshop

Elizabeth cutting up more bread on a trolley outside the workshop — Elizabeth cutting the bread to entice more people to try it =p

Elizabeth giving bread to a passer by — Passer by giving the freshly baked bread a go.

a room full of people sitting behind a large desk with Elizabeth on the left which is the front — A panorama of the whole workshop.

For more photos from the Less Is More Festival

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Grace Utting — Leave a comment

Re-Grown Store bought Gai Lan Gen2 | Home Grown

Woo Hoo! Successful 2nd batch of store-bought re-grown Gai Lan after my 1st batch died when I was away =(

Gai Lan off cuts in a pot of soil outside — 18/12/14
Day 26 : Transplanted outside

Scroll down to see its progress from Day 1

Curious about its latest progress?

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Posted on January 5, 2015 January 19, 2015 by Grace Utting — Leave a comment

Pan Xi Restaurant in Guang Zhou| Jonace World Travel

Famous Pan Xi Restaurant in Guang Zhou, China. They were packed full but decided to make a table for hubby and I. Hmm.. Hubby reckons it’s the BEST dim sum he has ever eaten!

Something my grandma made when I was younger..

Posted on January 5, 2015 February 6, 2015 by Grace Utting — Leave a comment

Day 07 Guang Zhou to Xiamen| Jonace World Travel

These are just some happy snaps of going from Guang Zhou to Xiamen. Rather pretty water feature fish pond set up at Xiamen’s airport.

Really cool airport trolleys at the airport which have a computer monitor on each of them!

More technology! Free changing and wif stationsi 🙂

Here fishy fishy.. Right place, right time:)

Posted on January 4, 2015 January 6, 2015 by Grace Utting — 1 Comment

Re-Grown Store bought Gai Lan Gen2 Attacked | Home Grown

After my 1st batch of Gai Lan failed, I endeavored to try again with much success [will upload progress later]

However this morning I saw this….. HELP!! what is it that is attacking and killing my re-grown babies?

a pot of re-grown gai lan struggling and being attacked by something =(

re-grown Gai Lan plant with weird patterns on the leaf