Comments on: The Yard: Inherited Plants http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/ Official Organ of an American Muslim in Malaysia Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:48:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Bin Gregory Productions » Mysteries of the Coconut: Ketupat http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/#comment-5212 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:53:45 +0000 http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/#comment-5212 [...] Typically, they’ll be filled with standard white rice and boiled in water. Since the ketupat is stuffed full of rice, the grains press together as they expand, and in the end you have a solid mass of white stuff in the shape of your ketupat. This is removed and cut into cubes. Rice is always finger food in Malaysia, but these cubes are even more handy for dipping into rendang and popping into your mouth. In our case however, the ketupat was filled with glutinous rice and then boiled in santan. The green shown in the picture is a bit of Pandan leaf, which helps the flavor and aroma. Boiling glutinous rice in santan in a constricted vessel is another staple of Hari Raya, but is normally done inside sections of bamboo. The resulting cylinders of dense sticky rice stuff are known as lemang. In our case, what we would up with is ketupat lemang, I suppose. Ketupat comes in many shapes, with the most iconic being a flat square shape. The womenfolk in my house could only recall how to make the oddly shaped ones you see here. The excuse: weaving ketupat is the boys’ job. Of course, it takes a bit of time to weave, and tender young coconut leaves must be available. For that reason, city folk and busy people will buy ready-made plastic packets pre-filled with rice. Just steam, cut away the plastic, and serve. Like all fast food, you give up a lot: in this case, the color, the smell, the subtle flavor of the coconut leaf, and the spectacle at the dinner table. [...] […] Typically, they’ll be filled with standard white rice and boiled in water. Since the ketupat is stuffed full of rice, the grains press together as they expand, and in the end you have a solid mass of white stuff in the shape of your ketupat. This is removed and cut into cubes. Rice is always finger food in Malaysia, but these cubes are even more handy for dipping into rendang and popping into your mouth. In our case however, the ketupat was filled with glutinous rice and then boiled in santan. The green shown in the picture is a bit of Pandan leaf, which helps the flavor and aroma. Boiling glutinous rice in santan in a constricted vessel is another staple of Hari Raya, but is normally done inside sections of bamboo. The resulting cylinders of dense sticky rice stuff are known as lemang. In our case, what we would up with is ketupat lemang, I suppose. Ketupat comes in many shapes, with the most iconic being a flat square shape. The womenfolk in my house could only recall how to make the oddly shaped ones you see here. The excuse: weaving ketupat is the boys’ job. Of course, it takes a bit of time to weave, and tender young coconut leaves must be available. For that reason, city folk and busy people will buy ready-made plastic packets pre-filled with rice. Just steam, cut away the plastic, and serve. Like all fast food, you give up a lot: in this case, the color, the smell, the subtle flavor of the coconut leaf, and the spectacle at the dinner table. […]

]]> by: NSDS3 http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/#comment-499 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/#comment-499 Warning: Cobras seems to like serai. Warning: Cobras seems to like serai.

]]> by: lin or 9thM or whatever i can come up with http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/#comment-500 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.bingregory.com/archives/2003/11/14-the-yard-inherited-plants/#comment-500 Are you serious???? Is that a scientific proven ( by scientific here I mean whether or not it as been validated by our ancestors :P . they are way better at being scientist than what we have now) Whenever I was asked to go cut some daun pandan,my wild imagination would come up with terrible things such as a big big snake biting my hands. Do snakes like pandan? Are you serious???? Is that a scientific proven ( by scientific here I mean whether or not it as been validated by our ancestors :P . they are way better at being scientist than what we have now)

Whenever I was asked to go cut some daun pandan,my wild imagination would come up with terrible things such as a big big snake biting my hands.

Do snakes like pandan?

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