from my garden: December 2013

Home made cough syrup/drink .I plucked a few indian borage leaves, and limau nipis/local lemon.( hmm no lemon from my back yard today, heavy rain make it difficult for lemon flowers to survive and a few still hag in there:P )

A. Indian borage leaves .B. juice frm 4 bijik limau nipis in a bottle , honey and pot ( to boil the crushed leaves)

juice of 4 limau nipis(local lemon?), pot to boil crushed indian borage leaves and save a few pieces to put into honey lemon later,honey.

add equal amount of honey into limau nipis juice ,crush some indian borage leave, stir and keep in sealed bottle in the fridge. — with Wadiah Azhari, Asmah Azhari,Maisarah Mohamad, Abby Azhari and Munirah Mohamad.

add 1 table spoon of honey lemon mixture to sweeten warm Indian borage drink

Pelega batuk utk Che MahAsmah Azhari, air rebusan Indian borage and lemon+honey. Add 1 tbsp of honey lemon mix to sweeten Indian Borage drink.You can have it cold or warm . — with Asmah Azhari, Abby Azhari, Salsabilla Sofea, Amirah Azhari and Wadiah Azhari.

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Holy Basil -Purple stems kemangi/selasih ( Basil kampug Purple)

Purple stems local basil /Purple stems kemangi/selasih is different from Purple Basil. I love purple stems kemangi as ulam in laksa or as ulam cicah budu ,sambal belacan or tempoyak. Which ever available in my kitchen . or even basil in my tea.

Purple stem local basil grow every where in my back yard,especially during in raining season like now.The parent was given by my friend, I thought she gave the Purple Basil ( sister to Sweet Basil but with purple pigments). But to my surprised, mine in local basil /kemangi with purple stems. The taste is also different from Purple Basil, it has the daun selasih/kemangi taste.Alas, I thought I will be making purple pesto soon. So I bought Purple Basil seedlings, yes when they were young, the purple colour of their leaves are purplish, but since I planted them in the area which receives full sun light exposure, the leaves turn greenish like in pic below as they grow older,yeiks!!

purple basil leaves turning greenish at some one else garden too !!! so I don't feel so bad anymore.

Owh!! so many varieties of puple stem kemangi/basil!!!! mine is different from this one either!

Green/Purple/green basil trive in some one else garden-- I do hope my purple basil turn like this too.

plucked some young shoots of purple local basil and peria katak (a small bitter gourd) for my omelette filling

use the young shoots and wrap them in omelette. (hmm..the young shoots of purple kemangi doesn't look purple at all :P)

My breakfast this morning: Omelette with purple kemangi fillings and bitter gourd cicah tempoyak!!! DIVINE!!!

The seeds for the parents of peria katak/peria jantung bought fromtanamsendiri.com

http://www.tanamsendiri.com/2013/06/benih-untuk-dijual-peria-katak.html

Jom makan ulam cicah tempoyak :D

Here is more info Holy Basil http://rawedibleplants.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/holy-basil-ocimum-tenuiflorum.html

Bunga Telang dan keledek

Tok cik cook Tong Yuan and onde-onde (buah melaka ) for sahur . Dark Blue Tong Yuan made from blue extract of Bunga Telang, while the purple and orange Tong Yuan Balls made from sweet potato.https://www.facebook.com/adibah.azhari.1/media_set?set=a.726192327397292.1073741851.100000195931898&type=3

Pokok Bunga telan growing wild,every where during this raining season

mature pods of bunga telang

Frozen Bunga Telang . Some times I don't have enough fresh bunga telang to use, so frozen bunga comes to rescue.I normally keep a lot of bunga telang in freezer bags for using as food colouring. (For this recepi I used around 50 ), sips in hot boiling water for few minutes then mash/crush/squeeze the extract.

mashed steamed orange sweet potato mix with glutinous flour to make the dough

steamed purple sweet potato for making purple dough

mashed steamed sweet potato mixed with glutinous flour,knead into dough ,

dough flatten to add in coconut sugar as filling before rolled into balls

balls ready to be boil

dough , making into rose shape

ready to be cooked

in the Hot boiling water

cook until done, the balls will be floating

Cooked kuih will be having chilling time in cold water bath for a while

tong yuan in syrup

simply yummilicius tong yuan , Tong yuan balls serve in sugar syurup

we also have roses tong yuan too

(normally onde2 is covered with grated coconut, but my kids like plain,so here is or version of Onde2 in my garden)

more info on bunga telang herehttp://www.malaysiavegetarianfood.com/2013/03/29/bunga-telangthe-natural-blue-food-dy/

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Mango tree

Mango trees

I have 8 mangoes trees in my garden, 4 are around 6 years old and HUGE, and another 4 still below 2 years old.To my surprised all of my mango trees are getting back to alive LITERALLY with NEW YOUNG SHOOTS and one started flowering after 1 week applied of RES RinsonEpsomsalt+ fertiliser for fruiting given by my brother.So never dishearten if your Fruit trees seems giving up sometime, just add some RES Epsom salt to the soil with your regular fertiliser, It did magic in my garden and many other gardens too. Try it for yourself :D https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=759088684107656&set=a.740982932584898.1073741906.100000195931898&type=3&theater

Pokok bunga cina

Pokok Bunga Cina. Holds a sentimental value,reminds me of my childhood, sweet smells from bunga cina awaken my senses while taking shower from my grandma's well (telaga/perigi).No kidding,I miss dearly the memories of taking cold shower from her perigi/telaga,giggling or menggigil?????you are smart enough to figure it out!!! Chilling to my bone!!!! very early morning!!!But that's what I love,when I was in My granda's Kampong,especially getting " free shower" by standing behind the taller adult!!!

Very healthy young shoots after applied RES Rinson Epsomsalt

There are more than 20 young buds after RES,previously ,I have to wait very long time for my plants to bloom

2ndd weeks after using epsomsalt

(different flower from above) 3rd week after using RESepsomsalthttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=761233863893138&set=a.740982932584898.1073741906.100000195931898&type=1&theater

3rd week after usingRES Epsomsalt

week3 after RES

a lots of flowers matured

My sick Pokok bunga Cina,purposely didn't apply RES as a control plant. Will up date the result of this plant in 2 weeks time @watch this space

young shoots after 2 weeks RES Rinson Epsomsalt

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=714625888553936&set=a.714632348553290&type=3&t

Khasiat pokok bunga cina http://fazlisyam.com/2008/06/18/bunga-cina-cantik-dan-kaya-khasiat-perubatan/

Monday 2 December 2013

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