My dear Mommy is really a greenfinger person. All the vege & flowers that she planted so subur! You feel so good to look at them. Let's me share her kacang botol @ winged bean plant for this entry ya
The purple bloom of winged bean
Cute baby winged bean started to turn out after sucessful pollination process
Tadaa......the winged beans is now ready for harvest!
Look Like a green wall or natural green curtain tak?
The harvest! memang all panjang-panjang & besar!
My favourite dish with winged bean is kerabu kacang botol dengan ikan tongkol!! You just need to slice the winged bean thinly, and mixed well with roasted meat of tongkol fish, cili padi, lime, chopped onion, tomato, tamarind juice plus salt & sugar for taste!
You may find me at eesuqi@gmail.com if you are interested to buy the winged bean seeds ya
It is very interesting to see different shape
& size of bitter gourds/peria katak grow from the same batch of seeds
This type of peria katak has the longest length
(about 5 inches) and has a very smooth surface. I think this type of bitter
gourd is most likely to get the better price in the market …
Second type of peria katak is slightly shorter in
length (about 3-4 inches) and has a narrower shape with pointed ends. They look
so unique to me.
Last but not least, the 3rd type of
mini gourds is the cutest, very mini in size (1-2 in) and oval in
shapes rather than oblong
.
What about their bitterness? Don’t ask me…as I
cooked all of them together. =p
Really not sure whether variation do exist in
their bitterness or not, even though they are differ substantially
in their shape.
But I am very sure these peria katak are bitterer
than the commercial size (big & long) of bitter gourd (peria kampas) that
we get from the market.
I like the bitterness
in bitter gourd….what about you?
If you want to give your beloved cat a lovely
birthday gift, please look for kucing galak plant. Cats are crazy for this
plant. Kucing galak plant (Acalypha
indica) can be considered as local “catnip”, as it receives similar intense
attraction from the cats.
Effect on cats
When you leave the bruised leaves or stems or roots of kucing galak
plant to cats, they will: rubbing on the plant, rolling on the ground, pawing
at it, licking it, and chewing it. These behaviours are very similar as catnip is given to cats. Manage to find a numbers of videos about cats playing and eating kucing galak plants from youtube...here i share 2 of them...Thanks to Zakaria Abu Bakar & Zarcont for the video.. .. pinjam yer
It is actually edible for human.
From reading, kucing galak plants can be used
to treat mouth ulser, skin disease, increase body energy and diseases related to
respiratory system such as asthma, bronchitis and cough. Please read more in Google
before consuming the plants k.
I am selling kucing galak plants at RM10.
Email me at eesuqi@gmail.com if you are interested =)
Ya...is all about bitter gourd @ peria katak harvest again! I took a trip at middle of the October month and come back to Malaysia after 2 weeks!
Before i go travel, the weather was so hazy & dry. The first harvest of peria katak was so poor. You may see them in my previous entry.
After i came back from travel...i was "WOW" when i saw lot of cute size bitter gourds hanging on the fences, waiting me to pluck them! The haze is gone and it rains a lot!
So now the bitter gourd plants happily bear more & more fruits! I give them away....tak sempat nak masak... ada guests in the house!
I have about 3-4 bitter gourd plants.There are actually 2 type of bitter gourds in the pictures below, one of them are bigger and longer in size. While the other bitter gourd plants bear super cute size bitter gourds.
Well, i do not mind...what size the bitter gourds are, as well as they are GREEN with pesticide free, i am satisfy enough!
Harvest Date: 6 Oct 2015
Harvest Date: 14 Oct 2015 (i harversted the all the undersize bitter gourds before i go travel. All the bitter gourds will be over ripe & burst if waited untill i come back from travel trip.)
Harvest from the mini garden of mine…maybe last
month cannot remember the exact date. I have ginseng jawa leaves, papayas, mulberry,
white and blue multilayer blue pea flowers.
Using the mulberry and multilayer blue pea
flowers from the garden, let’s make a healthy, nutritious and colorful coleslaw
salad!
The ingredients needed are super simple, we
need finely-shreddeds raw cabbage and carrot, mulberries, blue pea flowers & a small
pack of mayonnaise!
Just mix all the ingredients…there you go!
I serve
it with roasted chicken, french bread & ya, I know you saw the sambal petai
too….So, it is sort of fusion food already. Last month was petai season in
Malaysia…how could I miss this delicious delicacy right
Peria katak plants are not doing so well this
time. They fruit less and their sizes are smaller. Due to the haze problem, I have
reduced the frequency to go out to look and check on my plants.
Sometimes the
peria katak is over ripe and become “peria bunting”…haha…Am I using the correct
term?
Beside this peria katak, I found another
smaller type of peria katak growing in kampung. It is just about half the size
of our thumb. Not sure they are bitterer than the peria katak above or not.
They are still in my fridge now. Any idea what is the name of this type of
bitter gourd?
Interested with the seeds, you may find it here =)
