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The Bread Baking Babes having been baking (or should I say steaming, this time?) again and this month it’s Xiang Cong Hya Juan Bao! That’s quite a mouthful if you don’t know Chinese (I don’t) but these are very pretty looking steamed buns made with dough that has both yeast and baking powder.

I remember saving a recipe, quite a few years ago, for some steamed Chinese lotus buns. Not only did I

Today´s recipe is not really a recipe. I just wanna share with you that my culinary delight had taken a dramatic turn to eating flowers! Yes … the flower aka bloom. The ones that freshen and brightens up every corner of the room and dispenses out lovely smell that makes you dreamy. I … ate them. Exactly five days ago. Actually, it was not my first time eating flower. I remembered Mama Else (

Today´s recipe is not really a recipe. I just wanna share with you that my culinary delight had taken a dramatic turn to eating flowers! Yes … the flower aka bloom. The ones that freshen and brightens up every corner of the room and dispenses out lovely smell that makes you dreamy. I … ate them. Exactly five days ago. Actually, it was not my first time eating flower. I remembered Mama Else (

Manisha’s reviving Flower Fest and is going for a color-based theme this time around. She has picked purple as the first color.These are a couple of pictures that were taken at the Hershey Gardens in Hershey, PA earlier this year.I understand that these are Moss Verbena (Verbena tenuisecta) flowers.Moss Verbena for Flower Fest

I don´t know to laugh or to cry when Mama said that she eats only the Zucchini - the fruit of this plant and discard away the rest (all this while) yesterday. It was still fresh in my mind how excited I got when I first spotted them in her garden last Spring. There weren´t just one, but three huge plants with each bearing a few large zucchinis about the size of my shoe scattered around her garden