Category Archives: Cooking and Gardening

The Garden of Lost Secrets

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Cara is sent away by her Mum to live with her aunt for a while and this aunt is very strict as she tells Cara what she can’t do though she was to make herself useful. This aunt has also insisted that Cara calls her Mrs Gilbert and Cara worries about how far behind she will be when she returns to school.

Although Cara gets to know Will and Robert and she has confided in Will about a letter that she has found that is unopened and it is about her brother.

Will tries to advise Cara to open the letter and read it but she is worried that if Mrs Gilbert finds out that she has the letter that her aunt will be angry, at her. Cara also breaks quite a few of Mrs Gilbert’s rules and no doubt that is another thing that she is afraid that her aunt will discover that she has done.

Miso Pork, Vegetables, and Brown Rice

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Ingredients:

1 pkt of pork mince

! chopped brown onion

2 tblspns olive oil

2 tblspns minced garlic

2 tblspns white vinegar

1 tblspn miso paste

1 tblspn honey

1 tblspn of sesame seeds

1 red chilli chopped

500 grams of frozen vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and beans)

250 grams of green peas.

1/2 cup of brown rice

Method:

  1. Put two tablespoons of olive oil in a saucepan and add the chopped brown onion, garlic and chopped red chilli, then the white vinegar and honey.
  2. Add the pork and mix well and then add the miso paste and the mixed veggies and green peas then cook the brown rice and when it’s ready to eat enjoy.

Busy Buzzers

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This audiobook is by Nancy Loewen and is written for young children. Though the information it contains about bees is useful for older readers too.

Such as, not all bees live in colonies and that worker bees are females that look after the eggs that are laid by the Queen. Also, each beehive is made from the wax from bees and each beehive has one Queen Bee.

Then if other Queen Bees are born, they are either killed off by the original Queen Bee. Or they are taken away to form other colonies. Then the bees that collect the pollen can loosen the pollen by vibrating their wings.

As that what makes their buzzing sound.

Also, the pollen they collect just attaches to their legs, which enables the bees to fertilize the plants, or they give the pollen they collect to their young.