50 Today

    Today is your dad birthday, you boys are working, and didn't get to have lunch with us. Any way your dad turns 50 today...boy! I knew that he feels very old...being fifty is not bad dear..you'll grain more wisdom..lol... It seem likes not long ago when we were younger, but time just fly so quickly. That why I felt that we should not wait our precious time away and not doing anything good  for our life and the the life that around us. Every minute is important so make it wise used for the benefit of yourself and to leave behind a precious memories when life come to the end. I loved all of my family..including my in-law..I loved them all, for they are wonderful people. We might not spent a lot of time together, because we all have our own busy schedule with work and kids.  

     Yesterday we went to eat at his mom's house. She wanted to cook him some lunch for his birthday. Many of his family didn't show up cause they were sick with flu...aw... We have some good lunch. they made beef salad, BBQ chicken and pork...and  green chicken curry with sticky rice. I didn't get chance to take the picture of the food, we didn't very prepare cause we still working, but I have a picture of him blowing his birthday cake...He feel very funny  and embarrassed to blow a cake..Oh well, we missed you boys yesterday...But I have one picture for you to keep as memory when we are no longer with you all.  This is our love from us to you and we hope that three of you will keep and treasure its.

 

Happy Birthday dear..

golf after ward..but this pictures were taken last summer..

Last ride on your moto cycle....

Today lunch; grilled chicken with apple and mushroom sauce, Spanish rice, boil collars green, salad and apple

We loved collard green, 1 cup of boiled collard green has 266 mg of calcium.

Apple and Mushroom sauce recipe

Pan grilled your season chicken in 1 Tbsp. of sunflower oil till chicken fully cooked. Removed from pan, dump of any access grease from the pan and leave just 1 Tbsp of grease onto pan. Into that pan add 1/2 apple chopped and sliced mushroom according to you desired and let saute and cook in that grease. Dash of Season with sea salt, black pepper and 1/2 tsp of chicken bouillon, 1/2 tsp of brown sugar stir together and add 1 cup or so of water. If you have chicken broil you can use it and omit the chicken bouillon. This is light sauce no flour.

Benefits of Mushrooms

Mushrooms themselves provide you with lean proteins as they have zero cholesterol, fats and very low carbohydrates. The fiber and certain enzymes in them also help lower cholesterol level. Moreover, the high lean protein content in mushrooms helps burn cholesterol when when they are digested.

Mushrooms is very effective in preventing Breast Cancer & Prostrate Cancer due to presence of Beta-Glucans and conjugated Linoleic Acid having anti carcinogenic effects. Out of these two, linoleic acid is particularly helpful in suppressing effects of estrogen is the prime reason for breast cancer in women after menopause. The Beta-glucans on the other hand, inhibit growth of cancerous cells in cases of prostrate cancer. Selenium in mushrooms is very effective in inhibiting cancerous cells.

 Mushrooms also boosting up immunity and it also help with weight lost

There are 8 types of mushrooms that you can read on this site.

http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/8-types-of-mushrooms-and-their-health-benefits.html#b

Lord, I thank for special day as today. Thank you that we still have life in us today to celebrate you great creation in Suchol's life. I am grateful and thankful for him, even their are times that he gives me a bad headache...hehe!! But in your time, your season life changing in all of us. Forgive me also, for I am too, gave him some bad headache as well..lol..  I do appreciate very trial and circumstances that we go in life together, for it is became our school master. Thank you for your loving kindness and forgiveness that You shew in my life. Last that I pray that You will keep my other half in good health and that "Let there be Light in him". I love You Lord...Thank You heavenly Father in Jesus Mighty great name I pray 

Coconut and Purple Potatoes Pancakes

This is also one of my recipe that I created. Your dad doesn't like plain pancake so I try different type of fruits and nuts, sweet potatoes, purple potatoes-that's he likes, even with peanut butter. Since our family like to eat coconut so I decided to add in coconut flake  into pancake mixture for quick and easy. It looks like one of Thai dessert, except different taste to the flour.

Start with 1 cup of milk or coconut milk

 some brown sugar (maybe 3-4 Tbsp) or honey

 Whisk it together and taste to see if it will have some of the sweet as you like. This type of pancake does serve with syrup. It is a pick and go pancake. 

After you got the sweetness that you desire, then into that add in 1 egg and whisk till blend in. *Do not taste you milk liquid after you add in raw egg. Don't recommended eating raw egg this day.  Then start with 1/2 cup pancake flour mixture first and stir, into that add in coconut flake, mix it well. If too liquid slowly add more pancake mixture to ticker it up as in the picture. * Optional, can add a drop of Jasmine flower extract or vanilla. Don't be afraid to make any experiment in your pancake mixture as you like, such as you can add in nut mate, cinnamon, banana, steam pumpkin, steam sweet potatoes, steam taro root or different fruits jam or jelly as you like.....This will enhanced and created your pancake with more nutritional benefit instead of just plain flour that only had just carbohydrate and as you know that carbohydrate break down into sugar and sugar goes straight down to your billy....Try to use less sugar, too sweet is bad for your health..with my concern...from me to you. I hope for all of you to have better health. If we don't take care of ourselves then who well???  

I fry my with a dash of coconut oil

My coconut pancake, it is softer texture. 

This is Ka Num Bar Binn similar to my coconut pancake, but it is much more tastier and the texture from the sticky rice flour give more sticky taste and crunchier because it's bake.

I leave you with this recipe also, just incase that you would like to try to do some experiment...

Ka Num Ba Binn

1/2 cup sticky rice flour

1/2 cup of scraped coconut flake from flesh coconut 

1 cup of coconut milk

start with 1/2 cup of brown sugar first or organic sugar

1/2 cup starch or แป้งท้าวยายม่อม

1 egg

1 tsp. Jasmine extract 

Direction

Mix together sticky rice flour, starch and flesh coconut flake, sugar and coconut milk together until the coconut mix it well. Tasted to see if it sweet enough for you before add in egg. **I don't care for too sweet, so I slowly add sugar little at a time. 

Place the flour mixture into pot and cook on low heat, vocationally stir until the flour cooked and thicken, but not cover cook 

grease baking pan, pour mixture into the pan and bake in 375 degree F for 20-25 min, or till golden brown

     Another of our favorite is the purple potatoes pancake with coconut. Same menu as coconut pancake except less pancake flour to have more of potatoes taste to it.  Steam purple potatoes and smash it or use a mixture. Don't need to be all smash, leave some chunk, than add in milk, brown sugar, egg and coconut flake if desired...etc...

Health Benefit of purple potatoes;

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/purple-potatoes-nutrition-2182.html

http://www.naturalhealth365.com/tag/purple-potatoes

    Heavenly Father, I thank you for all of the good food and recipe that you place in our mind to invent or experiment new thing for ourselves and family to enjoy and for our good benefit. Healthy food build healthy body. Thank you for all of Your blessing, with all of my grateful heart to You. In Jesus Name I pray

                                                                          

Mom's Chicken Noodle Soup

   Tic tak..tic tak..Hmm...what should I cook for lunch today?  Since the weather is very cozy outside, soup is on my mind. But what kind of soup should I make.......many different soup flow in my head, but it just not what I really wanted..Everyday I have to think of what I'm going to cook for lunch and dinner.  Sometime it a last minute meal. Dad doesn't like to eat sandwiches or fast food.  He like real food..... Sometime it get to the point that I "can't think"..
     Ah ha!  Finally, Chicken noodle soup sound yummy for the weather as this since we all love noodle. It's simple and very easy for lunch : (
 This is my recipe to you and it is very simple to made, hope that you will enjoy....

Ingredients
1 chicken breast and 3 chicken thighs (if like dark meats)
1 small onion
2 stalks celery chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup of dice carrots
1 cup of green pea
1 cup of corn
1 cup of dice potatoes
3 fresh thyme spring
2 bay leaf
7 cups of water
1 Tbsp. of chicken bouillon
sea salt, black pepper
*1 tsp. of sugar optional
2 Tbsp. of butter or 1 Tbsp. of light olive oil

Direction
Place a soup pot over medium heat and coat with butter or olive oil.  Into that add the onion, garlic, celery  thyme and bay leaf.  Let it cook for a few minute, add the chicken breast and thighs stir. Let the chicken meat cook in with the butter and vegetable for just few minute. Pour in the water and turn up the heat on high and bring it to boil and turn down the heat to medium low. Add salt, black pepper and chicken bouillon and sugar and let it cook for at least 45-1 hour cover led with little opening . Remove the chicken from the pot and let it cool down then cut into smaller pieces.
In the soup pot, add in hand full of Canton Dry Noodle, corns, carrots and green peas and let the noodle cook.  Taste to adjust  to your desire, garnish with chopped onion and coriander.

       Canton Dry Noodle, this is the noodle that I used, sometime I make my own noodle, but this is quick and fast.

Slice oranges after meal.  This is orange from our own tree. Its make many oranges this year.

Orange have 40 benefits, I like to know and learn of what I'm putting into my body, you can read from this blog;

http://imanassal.blogspot.com/2011/12/orange-benefits.html

Dear Lord, I thank you for such delicious food and great oranges.  Thank you for the air that we breath and for the ground that we stand and thank you for the roof on top of our head.  Thank you for every little things in our life. I have nothing to complain about, but instead I appreciated every things in my life, good or bad, for they bring experiences into our life. Thank you Lord, with all of my grateful to You. 

2013 Blessing

     Have not been on blog for sometime now.  After our holiday, we got so busy with our work and Wadee got me start on Korean drama since it has been raining for this couple few weeks....my favorite Korean series is "the moon that embraces the sun". It's back in time drama and it's sad love story but happy ending. There is no bad scene or cursing in it and that's one thing I like about this drama.
We went on to visit my parent in Georgia for holiday and we had wonderful time with them. Yet, we didn't do much just chatted, ate and watched movies, but we had great time with new memory to added on to remember....Oh! I learned how to make jewelry. Mom made many beautiful jewelry for Wadee and me. Timm and her husband didn't get to go, they have to fly to Thailand  in urgent  due to the lost of his dad...  :-[  They both still over sea, Thom & Thay met us there in Georgia, and now they are home alone without their mom for the first time. They are older boys now and able to take care of them self.  There probably a lot of frozen food in the freezer.....


                                                            Todd and his dog, Nick.

It rain a lot from Marrianna, Florida all the way to Georgia , we got to see beautiful double rain bow in the sky somewhere past Tallahasee.  It was big rain bow run across the sky in front of us.  Have to see it with you own eyes,  this picture cannot compare to the real thing

Mom (grandma Lott) is making earring for Wadee 

This is sweet Num

Dad (grandpa Don in his computer room play game...hehehe

Me and my beautiful mom, we haven't wash our face yet :(

Handsome Nick in his santa clause suit...

The boys are bedding out in grandpa living room

Mobil, Alabama

   I hope and pray that you all will have a great and success of 2013, old things are pass away and let all thing that about to come into your life become great with prosperity, success in all spiritual and physical. Let lay down every pride in our life and put on the meek and humble spirit...a spirit of truth heart. A heart of love and forgiveness, heart of pray and sincere. I pray that every chain be broken off from all of us and that we will walk in the spirit of freedom. A freedom that Christ had given to us with knowledge and understanding, wisdom and truth. Last I pray that from this day on let there be Light in our life...

     Heavenly Father, I thank You for all that you have done for us. There're nothing that can be compare to You Lord. There no word can never be speak to show the appreciation in our heart enough for You greatest love toward us....thank you and thank you again , with all of my grateful heart to You, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

My first drawing

    Since it very cold outside today and it is getting close to christmas, I'm going to give myself a break and some free time to relax. I very enjoy my note book specialy writing and drawing. Finally i have one little skatching that I did. I love bird, all kind of birds even cartoon bird I like them too. Your grandma Lott & grandpa Don, they used to raised birds & their name are; Mai lucy & Mar ne sie.  First Grandpa brought a male and he name is , Mai lucy. He name start from grandpa asking grand mom "what do you want to call him ?"  Well, grandma replied back in Thai language by saying "mai lucy" which means, I don't know. Grandpa assume that's his name. Ever since then grandpa kept calling him,  mai lucy. A few month later grandpa went and brought a female bird, again grandma called the birds to come to her by saying, "ma ne sie," mean come here, grandpa like how it sound and so it became her name. They are a very smart and friendly birds. Grandma would let them out out of the cage and they would stay around us and sat on their shoulder. They hardly made any mass in the house, only in their cage. They are great pets and leave good memory in the deep of our heart. We very enjoy having those birds.

Here is another grateful heart to You oh Lord. I give You all the thanks and glory back unto You
                                 

I don't know how to turn the picture around in my note book, as for now you have to look side way...sorry

"Herbs Garden"

    I been working in my herb garden for sometime now. I don't have much time to work on it duing to my busy  nursery work, only few hour after work if I have left over meal to eat. I used to planted all my vegetables and herbs on the ground inside my green house. Ever since we raised chicken, its got inside of my greenhouse, and damages many of my herbs and vegetables and also we have low land. It will take so much bark to fill the green house to build it up higher. So this past summer i planted most of my vegetables and herbs in the bucket.  Some of them on the ground but raised bed by using old broken cups and bucket.  I stacked them together and created into edging around certain area that I wanted. It looks a lot better than before. My papaya trees are loaded with papaya. I picked a lot at Thanksgiving time and brought to my sister to share with her and her friends.

      In very part of Asia, papaya tree grows every where.  It is a tropical fruit. Here in US, most of Asian family planted papaya tree around their house for harvesting green fruits in the summer and fall. The papaya tree will die in winter if it is not plant inside greenhouse. But if you cut the tree down and leave about 1 foot stem above the ground and cover up around the stem with thick blanket or heavy sheet of plant cover and when spring comes the new shoot will grow from the stem of the tree and you will have a new papaya trees. My old papaya tree that I cut down grew out 4 stems. You can cut thee tree off from the stem in order for your tree to have larger fruits, but I like them as it is. Papaya has many benefits you can read more info on these site;

http://www.traditionaloven.com/articles/124/papaya-sweet-pawpaw-answer-to-well-being-and-health

http://www.znaturalfoods.com/Green-Papaya-Powder-5-lbs

              Here are my papaya trees, protected from the cold inside of the greenhouse

My papaya trees during the summer

   Thai and most Asian people love to eat spicy papaya salad called som tum. Som tum can be eaten by it self in hot afternoon as something to snack on or it can be serve as side dish.   It is great with sticky rice, fry fish and Tom Kai gai- Chicken in coconut milk with galanga root soup, and many more. Some like to eat with boil noodle or stir fry noodle.

Every arrangement flowers herbs are edible. These are all my collection

Som Tom are great with sticky rice 

    I collected many different herbs and spices. I love gardening, it is very relaxing to me. Ever since I were a teenager I enjoy working in my mom's garden. Mom always make her garden every spring and Iwill always go in her garden, pulled weed and water vegetables' for her. I love the feel of the dirt in my hand and every time I shovel and dig the ground I kept hearing the small voice inside of me saying "you are the good earth".  The story of the Good Earth comes back into my memory. This was one of my favorite book when I were a teenager. It is an award winner, by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931.

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1. Justicia gangetica, the young leaf are edible (เบญจรงค์ ๕ สี) with many benefits. It is very easy to root and it had beautiful purple flowers all year long.   2.   Passion fruit brushes

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1. I have Asian sugar cane I used it in certain soup for nature sweet, 

2. Yaa Naang for chlorophyll, this is one of best healing medicine in Thailand, very popular for many of years. The juice is use in cooking certain food.

3. I have 2 coco trees that I purchase online  and cash crew nut tree, dragon fruits, black pepper tree vine, vanilla plants and many more.

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 1. parsley, Jewels of opar, hot chili pepper, 2. asian small cherry tomatoes, 3. bay leaves tree

This herb is a gift to me my my friend's mom,    sweet basil

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Butterfly Pea Blue Pea Mussel - Shell Creeper ดอกอัญชัน   single and double flower         thai vegetable (Angled gourd)

Red long bean, in summer are loaded with hanging.  You'll find  long bean in many Asian's home, either green, purple or red in colors. I have 2 buckets. 

I am going to redoing this area for my aloe Vera  plants, whenever I have time. I want it to grow alot more than this  because I eat them almost every day, for health. There are many benefits of Aloe Vera that you three should know about and I hope that you all will be interesting and wanted to learn how to a good care  take care of yourself for better of your health. If you don't take care of yourselves then who would???  Do not neglected your body.  There are info about Aloe Vera on this site that you can read and learn about

http://www.naturalnews.com/021858_aloe_vera_gel.html

Wadee special chicken, and he name is Hansel. He is the only chicken that let Wadee pick him up without trying to escape at all. He is always be around us.

Our lemon trees from last summer

I have five trees and it loaded with lemon every years and it has us so much juice . Every year I cut the lemons and give it away to family and friends and keep only just what I need. I squeezed the juice out and put it in zip lock bags and freeze it for  many use. I loved lemon I like to add slice in my drinking water or make lemon green tea. Don't like lemonade because it load with sugar.
Here are 16 Health Benefits of Lemon that you can read and learn
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/16-health-benefits-of-lemons.html

Dear Lord, I thank you for my land and I thank you for every herbs and plants that we have for they are healin to our body.  Thank you for putted in my son heart to be interesting in herbal medicine and Your plane will be accomplish in him.