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I also started cooking soup again since the weather has gotten cooler and I wanted to use up some bittermelon leaves from the garden before the frost gets to them. Check out the Mung Bean Soup I cooked up.

We also finally got some rain the last couple of days! This is after an almost 100 day stretch of no measurable rain fall. We have been on a severe drought status for the past month, and officials have been saying we were down to 60 something days of drinking water left. I don't know that the rainfall we've been having will make a huge impact, but I hope it raise the water line on our lakes a little bit.

What's Cookin' in our Kitchen

Sometimes we eat so much chicken my family swears they will soon start growing feathers. I get so tired of cooking chicken sometimes, I am just don't know what to do with them anymore. This is was during one of those uninspired moments where I was just fresh out of ideas and could do nothing more than recycle old ideas. I decided to use a treatment usually reserved for beef on chicken, and I have to say it was quite successfull. The family enjoyed it, maybe you will too.

Click here for the recipe for Chicken Bistek.

Starters

We usually start our garden from seed, starting to buy seed packets even before the last frost is pushed away by the warmth of spring. This year however, many of the seeds did not come up for some reason. So earlier this summer, when we just happened to be walking through the garden center at Wal-Mart, without intentions of buying anything, we spotted these Japanese Eggplant seedlings and, of all things, sweet potato plants!!

Well who knew they sold sweet potato plants! Usually I start my sweet potatoes from sweet potato roots saved from the fall harvest, or if I can find it, from stems that I occationally find at the oriental market. I usually make a salad out of the sweet potato greens and the tough stems that don't go in the salad, I stick them in the ground and get more green tops and in the fall, some pretty good sweet potato roots.