Hey, it's Sunday today and the weather today is unbearably hot, 22C but the garden loves it. It is more like summer time temperature rather than spring. The 22 C rise up to 29 C in the afternoon. WTH! Yeah "what the hell!" We're being fried!
I did what I can do today such as gardening expansion (Part 2) of the floral bed right beside the wall of the house. It felt like the dahlias, sunflowers, daisies and one potato plant is being suffocated when it comes to space. The pineapple didn't survive. I first thought it would be a miracle if that tropical fruit will survive, but no...sorry. We're not in a tropical island for this pineapple to grow and thrive.
The sunflowers are growing healthier, about 16 inches tall in height and the rest of the sunflowers are only 10 inches in its measurement. Irregularity in the way they sprung out from the soil. What could be the problem? I discovered too many woodbugs, ants and slugs. Sprinkle some slug baits to get rid of those pests. Uhm, I wonder why in THE MARTIAN movie the astronaut/botanist Matt Watney (played by Matt Damon) didn't encounter any problems in growing the potatoes. Except of course when the closed space indoor potato garden's door was blown away and the negative zero temperature put the plants in death zone. Whatever! Have to remember that the movie is fiction.
The two photos were from yesterday (Part 1) when I started the expansion of the garden.
Anyway, enough of those obstacles. What's for lunch?
My husband bought a package of springroll wrapper last week and only today that I have the good mood to wrap the fresh fillings. I used a wok to heat the cooking oil to deep fry the springrolls. We have the right deep fryer but don't like using too much oil. I used the Mazola (corn) cooking oil brand. You probably use the canola or vegetable oil. We used the canola oil for sometime because of its affordable price.
The best dipping sauce for springrolls is the "sweet chili sauce for chicken" however too great sauce for any kind of meat beef or pork even for shrimps and prawns.
Curious about the ingredients of springrolls?
Ingredients: Ground pork, chopped shrimps, shredded carrot, chopped celery, onions, thin slices of spring onions, chopped garlic, chopped cilantro, salt, ground pepper, add one egg and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. All these ingredients are the stuffings inside that wrapper. 1 1/2 tablespoon of stuffing per wrapper.
While having springrolls and enjoying its delicious flavor, better to watch news on TV:
RAPTORS heading to NBA Finals. Yey! Then the lower bottom news? Magnitude 8.0 earthquake has struck Almazon jungle in Northern Peru. Really?! Wow!
Raptors player Leonard Kawhi being admired as the most valuable player in the game.
So that's the morning news on Sunday. RAPTORS! RAPTORS! RAPTORS! Congrats Toronto Raptors! They really deserve to win and they WON.
