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A random mention.. I chanced upon a fruit loaf recipe the other day and so bought the ingredients which includes this wholesome vine mix, which is a mix of jumbo raisins and sultanas. I kept telling my family they are the biggest raisins I've ever seen in my life so I have to take a picture of it to show them.


Amazing right.. the bottom left hand raisin is the usual ones we see but fwahh compared with the rest of the jumbo ones... is it just me who hasn't seen such huge ones?? haha


Another random mention. We had extra mushrooms the other day and M introduced me to eating mushrooms, the Korean way. She accompanied her grandfather for some concert in Korea a few years ago and she learnt that over there, they bake the mushrooms and apparently after baking, the mushroom would "collect" water in the middle. You drink the water (healthy I was told) and then eat the mushroom. Very interesting I thought. She seasoned it with salt and pepper after the mushrooms were done and wow, it was so easy and taste good too. And I gave it a go last night. Using my mini toaster oven (I think this is an amazing kitchen appliance to have. Can cook salmon, and now mushrooms a la Korean style haha)

See the water collected in the middle?

My pot of basil plant in the kitchen

Having guests Jos and Chris over for dinner on a Friday night, followed by baking our Lady Grey infused fruit loaf using the huge raisins u see above.

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