Pandan Leaves

I have a lot of pandan plants. This is how they look like after some trimming section. It's not easy to trim them as their plants grow so vigorously.

On and off I cut two or three leaves for cooking. The leaves have very strong smell. Very nice aroma in cooking. Adding the leaves while cooking rice create aromatic white rice! Asian desserts use a lot of these leaves to create nice smell and as green food colouring! 

How do you use this leaves in your cooking?

Chilli seedling

Three little chillies growing up on the vegetable bed.

They are suppose to produce long red chillies. I never have luck with them in past year due to white bugs.

Hope I can fight the bugs before they attacked the chilli plant this time!

Lengkuas

My first attempt on lengkuas or Galangal. This root vegetable is commonly used in curries. They look similar to their cousin the ginger but but harder texture!

It has a lot of medical benefits too. It's believed to protect cancer cell growth, to treat rheumatic and many other medical treatment too. Besides medical, its used as one of the ingredient for cosmetic!

Jambu Air - another hit!

This is the 1st time Jambu air tree produce mass fruits!

The tree was full of fruits . I share them with neighbours, friends, relatives and animals like squirrels, ants and others. It was so abundance!

We had Jambu air for lunch and dinner. It taste sweet and juicy! 

Finally we could not finish it up. So I make 2 bottles of  jambu air cordial! My own invention!

Then jambu air pie....similar to apple pie! I should pattern the recipe and become rich! hahahhaa...

They taste so good in pie too!

Now the plant is back to only leaves! But the harvest will last long in my memories until it fruits again in future! ;)

GBBD - May 2016

Very soon we will be going into half of the year 2016. Now is the 5th month! time flies so fast!

Costus have sent out many red pagoda flowers! They look striking red in between the green leaves!

Wrightia white flowers!

Everlasting flower!

They last for almost 2 weeks!

My favorite childhood flower! Adenium in full bloom!

This flower is long lasting too!

Hibiscus blooms are red and vibrant as always! I love looking at them!

This is my entry for GBBD May 2016. For more flowers, visit http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/

papaya & WIshes!

Papaya fruits are getting bigger. I have 3 papayas to harvest if all goes well!

While I was young, papaya was very cheap fruits sold in wet market. I can buy one big fruit for RM1 but now it's weight and priced per kg!  1 small fruit can cost almost RM4 !  I wonder why the cost went so high . It's just another local fruit!

I should open a papaya farm and I will get rich fast! hahahha...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOM! Have a great day!

I use Turmeric a lot in my curry cooking. Fresh turmeric taste good!

I planted 2 turmerics that I bought at wet market. It has produce beautiful light yellow flower.

I'm not sure the purpose of this flower since it does not have any smell. Never seen any insect on them too! The flower last long! more than 2 weeks!