These lovely bright shiny birds seem to be around a lot in our garden at the moment, they come to eat the flowers on our big bush. I have no idea what they are, but they are fascinatingly bright. There were two faffing around out there earlier today, so I photographed them.
Today was a lazy Sunday, got up late and ate two lunches. Then we walked down to Rhodes to the IKEA, to buy a mixing bowl and a doormat. Mark is making his own honey nut muesli for breakfast, hence the need for a huge bowl to mix it all up in. He has toasted all the oats and nuts in honey in the oven and it tastes so good already.
Just had a tofu stir fry for tea, drained tofu for 45 mins then marinated it for 45 mins in teriyake sauce before frying today. It came out SO good. I love tofu, it is brilliant if done the right way, it can get so flavoursome. Mark started pondering how tofu was made and where it originated, so I looked it up on wikipedia. Apparently it originated in Ancient China, and is made from soy milk in a similar way to the process of making cheese from normal milk. Fascinating! I remember when we first came to Australia and were so amazed at the extent of tofu on sale. In the UK you could barely get more than one brand, tucked away in a weird part of the supermarket, whereas here it is awarded it's own section of the supermarket! Our grocery store has a whole aisle of tofu products even! We got addicted to the deep fried crispy tofu they have until Mark read the nutritional information and realised it was really unhealthy, so now we cannot have it anymore.
The Wiki article is here: Tofu on wiki and is very detailed and interesting. Who knew there were so many types of tofu ??!
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