We’ve been keeping chickens for over a year now, and seeing the fresh eggs each day is still quite a nice surprise. It is a really good feeling to eat what we produce on our little homestead. But the first chicken coop version had a lot of negatives. The roof was too low so I…
Spirulina culture failed
I posted a while back that I was trying to see if I could culture my own fresh spirulina, but after letting the whole setup sit for about a week, it is clear that it failed. This isn’t a bad thing. It was only an experiment, and as I wrote when I started, there was…
Seeing if we can culture spirulina
After our tour of Professor Marasri Ruengjitchatchawalya’s algal Biotechnology Lab at KMUTT, I decided to see if we could culture our own spirulina. I haven’t yet gotten a good supply source for the culture, so I figured I would experiment first with some store bought fresh spirulina paste. I have been eating the Skyline brand…
Restaurant review: Agalin
A number of years ago, Praew and I went on vacation to a resort named Agalin in Loei, a province in the north of Thailand. It was one of the most beautiful vacation experiences we ever had. The entire resort was several rai in size, and it was covered with amazing gardens. The rooms had…
Touring an algae research lab
Recently, I have become interested in growing spirulina at home, so I’ve been doing some internet reading on the subject. But while there is a lot of information out there, none of it is very complete. So I’ve been stuck with a number of questions, including where to source the culture and culture medium in…
A week of Thai cherry recipes
Praew and I spent the last week harvesting Thai cherries off the ground each morning and then experimenting with different dishes over the course of the day. It was a very interesting culinary week. 🙂 Last week I posted about our Thai cherry tree harvest and the possibility that Thai cherries are a “superfood”. So…
Revisiting the humble Thai cherry
Back in July of last year, I wrote about our new Thai cherry tree. The tree had come with a few cherries already on it, and I tried picking them and eating them, and while they were edible, they were sure sour. The tree has come back into full fruit, and it is dropping more…
Our new coffee grinder (Random)
I ordered a new coffee grinder from Lazada (think Amazon for Southeast Asia) in order to grind the flaxseed I eat for breakfast into meal. It is much easier to source whole flaxseed here than flaxseed meal, and a coffee grinder seems to work just fine for grinding it up. And this one “Perfectly fits…
Trying to eat our home grown sunflower seeds
After drying the sunflowers for a few days, I finally got the chance to try eating the seeds. I normally eat almonds and walnuts raw (but store bought) in my breakfast, so I figured I would try eating our home grown organic sunflower seeds raw too. Well, it didn’t work so well. The seeds were…
Drying sunflower seeds
We planted sunflowers mostly for decorative purposes back in November… And as sunflowers do, they grew up, and then died out. So of course we decided to dry out the seeds and see if we can eat them… I’ll let you know once we try tasting them.
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