HARVESTING CASSAVA LEAVES

This week, we were lucky, we got some fresh green vegetable.

It's came from our own cassava plant (Manihot utilisima).

The one and only cassava plant remain.

The leaves looks so fresh and tender.

Then we picked all the leaves, and keep the main branch to produce new tender shoots.

And the last... we boiled the leafy greens and served with ground chili sauce (sambal) and deep fried catfish.

A simple dish for lunch.

Thanks GOD

DIVERSIFYING LOCAL PRODUCT

From our special event yesterday, Celebration the World Food Day, we found some mini booths that preserve so many products which made from cassava and fish.
So various dishes and snacks made from fresh cassava, cassava flour (tapioca) and modified cassava flour (mocaf).
The texture and character of mocaf is almost similar to wheat flour, but it's gluten free. 
So mocaf is healthier.
Both of traditional and modification food all exposed here.
We can taste them.
Lots of dishes and snacks for free...
These are a little amount of various dishes that served.
Lets check it up...

The main cassava booth

Before the crowd...

Mocaf-pie and muffin

Mocaf-brownies, cheese cake, banana soft cake, black velvet cake

Mocaf-Pizza 

Mocaf-Fried Noodle

Mocaf-Noodle in chicken soup

Various snack...

Hoping next year we will have an even like this...

TIDYING UP THE HEDGE AND COOKING SOME

This was a view of our front yard several days ago.
Look... the hedge is so dense... or ... so messy!
It must be disorderly...
The hedge was up to 1.5 meter, so high... (it was almost as tall as my body...LOL).

Actually it was too late to be tidied up.
The cassava plants on the end of the hedge looks so thrive.
So fresh...

Then we cooked it the young and tender leaves, and make a green curry from these greens.
So delicious and spicy...
An edible hedge...

GIFT OF THE WEEK : POTS, CASSAVA, STRAWBERRY AND MORINGA

Last week, I got lots of gift from my friend and also neighbors.

Look... I got bountiful unused plastic jars from my friend.

These are great for pots.

He knew that I like gardening and usually reuse old stuffs for gardening.

Another day, I visited my neighbor to know about her fish pond.

And I went home with a bag of cassava roots.

On the way home I met my neighbor that she was weeding her strawberry patch.

So... she shared me some strawberry plants.

The special thing was a rooted cutting of Kelor (Moringa oleifera).

A very interesting plant cause it has lots of benefits for our health.

Thank you friends for your gifts...

GREENS FROM THE HEDGE...

Just a limited time on gardening...
Yes, I should do pruning on my hedge on the middle of May.
The cassava leaves grow so healthy, and I should pick this edible hedge as a greens.
Look the colorful hedge on May 9...

You can imagine the height of the cassava plant two days ago, so high... more than a meter.
The hedge also took over some part of the path way.
This is the hedge today...

I picked the shoots and young leaves, and cooked it on boiling water with a pinch of salt until the leaves became tender.

It was eaten with rice and salty fish.
Simple dish from my hedge.
Reader, do you cook a special dish from your hedge too?

HARVESTING GREENS FROM THE HEDGE

My 'hedge' looks too messy...
Time to 'cut' it.

I planted cassava stems on a row on my front garden.
I have planned to grow edible hedge on my garden.
Look... two months after planting I can pick the young tender leaves and shoots.

I will boiled and eat it with 'sambal' (hot spicy chilli sauce) and hot rice.
After cutting the shoots, the plant will produce more shoots on the leaf axils.

I have thought to grow other edible hedge on my garden.
A productive and useful hedge.

Reader, do you grow edible hedge too?

GIFT OF THE WEEK : KATU AND DAUN SINGKONG

This week I got a lot of  'gifts' from my neighbors or family.
Last Sunday, I got some greens from my neighbor.

Yes, there were Daun Katu (Saoropus androgenus) and daun singkong or cassave leaves (Manihot esculenta).
Very fresh greens from my neighbor's hedge, an edible hedge.
So... very productive hedge.

Actually my family really love daun singkong, we use to boil it and eat it with sambal (traditional ground chili sauce).

Daun katu is so great for soup both of clear and gravy soup.
Thank you so much for the gift friend...
I think, I should make my hedge more productive too...