Oregano

Unlike some plants I have in my terrace this Oregano plant amazes me. It could stand several days without being watered. It could survive the heat of the sun.  I have some of this plant in pots and put them inside the house.  I like the aroma of its leaves.  I would gather some leaves put them in small box or small basket and leave them to dry inside the house. When the leaves are totally dried out I would put them in the pots of the other plants as fertilizer. I use the fresh leaves as seasoning for my cooking. I made sure to gather the fresh and greenish leaves. 

How to prepare as seasoning for cooking? Wash them thoroughly in running water. The leaves gather dust easily. They should be cleaned properly. Soak the leaves in water with salt to get rid of some impurities for about ten minutes. Slice the leaves thinly in chopping board.  Poured the thinly slice leaves over pork chop or fried chicken for not more than twenty minutes before the cooking is done. I also put these leaves on scrambled eggs, together with onions and tomatoes. Dried Oregano leaves are sold in groceries in bottles or plastic pouches. 

Care for a Cup of Coffee?

Hello World Wide Web! Good morning everyone! Never mind what time you are reading my blog. I want to great you all, good morning. Morning is the start of a brand new day, a new beginning, a brand new hope. What a wonderful world, isn’t it? 

Coffee is great when shared with friends.

The past week was just fine. Thank you my friends for making me smile with your blog posts. I am grateful too, my friend is safe from his mission and now back at his office. His silence for almost two weeks made me nervous however I can not do anything. He loves his job. It is a profession for him and I respect that. I can only pray for his safety. He is a professional soldier assigned by his country in Afghanistan.

I had a bad allergic attack for three days this the past week coupled with slight fever. No worries folks, both were taken care of. I have a pretty good immune system. I did not take medicines yet when I started to feel pain in my throat whenever I would shallow. You could call me stubborn and I agree. I thought gurgling with lukewarm water with salt would cure my painful throat. However, when the dry cough started, I accepted the fact I could not stop my allergy anymore. 

My antihistamine cough medicines did help, plus the non drowse cold medicines. I am grateful to whoever invented these medicines. If you have allergic cough like me, you would know the discomfort for coughing non-stop. It is dry and painful cough. Nope, I did not stay in bed but went to work. I got lucky I did not lose my voice. I just had to press the mute button of my Avaya phone every time I would cough with a customer on the other line. Whoever uses my headset when I am not in my work station should have a good immune system, too. 

I slept too long Saturday morning. I thought of babying myself once in a while. I woke up feeling refreshed. No more fever, the cough had lessened. If you by any chance read about the 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines, no worries, the place is too far away from Manila. It happened in Cotabato City the southern part of Mindanao. Mindanao is the Philippines second largest island. According to the news, there was no casualty.

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