Turmeric Chicken Leg For Dinner

This was last Thursday. It was drizzling when we woke up but after a while it stopped.

It was 7:08am and still dark when we reached the school.

7:14am

8:07am - having completed our walk.

8:10am - facing Kledang Hill.

Yellow ginger or turmeric leaves from my garden.

Yellow ginger or turmeric flower (old image taken in 2017).

Yellow ginger or turmeric harvested from a single pot - Nov. 2021.

After air dried, I removed the tiny roots from the turmeric rhizomes and wrapped it with paper tissue and then into a plastic bag to be kept in the fridge.

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Home cooked dinner without rice for 2

I took out some yellow ginger or turmeric, pound it with some garlic and shallots, added in some salt, chili powder, oyster sauce and honey. I used this paste to marinate 2 chicken legs.

Thinking back, I should have deboned the chicken legs since I decided to pan fried the chicken legs. Plus, it will be easier and shorter cooking time.

The napa cabbage had this colour is because I used back the same oil for frying the chicken legs to saute the napa cabbage.

Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years,

doing the best for us that they knew how,

but God's correction is always right and for our best good,

that we may share his holiness.

Being punished isn't enjoyable while it is happening - it hurts!

But afterwards we can see the result,

a quiet growth in grace and character.

So take a new grip with your tired hands,

stand firm on your shaky legs, and mark out a straight,

smooth path for your feet so that those who follow you,

though weak and lame, will not fall

and hurt themselves but become strong.

(Hebrews 12:10-13, The Living Bible-TLB)

Roast Turmeric Chicken & Bitter Melon With Salted Black Beans

On this particular morning I didn't have to water the plants because it rained heavily the night before. I only have to water the few pots that are placed under the shelter away from the rain. I have plenty of time to do some weeding and trimming of the plants.

 One of my yam or taro plants in a pot.

The small plants you see growing in the pots are the Plantago Major (herbal plant) or the "Teen Koon Choe" which is good for cleansing the urinary tract and bladder. Due to the wet season, the plants are sprouting all over the pots.

 Rain water collected in a taro or yam leaf.

 Chive flowers

 I adopted this Adenium plant from an ex-colleague. It was cut bald when it was given to me. A friend gave me the 2 Adenium babies. I have to keep reminding myself not to over water the Adenium plants.

So far, so good. Looks like my adopted Adenium plants are adapting well to my garden and my care.

 This Begonia plants will appear during the wet season.

They grow wild in between the pots and some sprouting out from the soil in the pots. 

 Recently, I harvested some Turmeric ginger from my garden.

 I used some of the home grown Turmeric to roast 2 chicken legs. Ingredients: fresh turmeric ginger, shallots, garlic, salt, pepper & some oyster sauce.

 I also used a home grown white bitter gourd or bitter melon to cook the above dish. Ingredients: salted black beans, dried prawns, garlic, dried bird's eye chilies since I don't have fresh red chilies.

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I snapshot the following image at the National Museum.

 The necklace made of brotia costula and brotia spinosa shell was found in the Gua Harimau or Tiger Cave in Lenggong, in the state of Perak, Malaysia.

Linking to Happy Tuesday, Image-in-ing & Tuesday's Treasures.

But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward

to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this,

make every effort to be found spotless,

blameless and at peace with him.

(Hebrews 4:13-14, New International Version-NIV)

Growing Yellow Ginger Or Turmeric In My Garden.

I started growing yellow ginger or tumeric plants because it is good to have the leaves available as a cooking ingredient anytime whenever it is needed. I usually need about 3 to 4 leaves only, It will be very convenient if I could get them from my garden without having to drive all the way to the main wet market in Ipoh for the leaves. It is especially so whenever I wanted to cook chicken or beef rendang (a Malay dish). Yellow ginger or turmeric is known as kunyit in Malay. 

I started with a few yellow ginger roots or rhizomes. I grow them in a shallow pot.

The shorter plants surrounding the yellow ginger plants are the common plantain. They are harvested for boiling herbal drink.

The fresh leaves are cut into fine strips and added to the rendang dish for its aroma. I took this photo under the hot sun, so the leaves are a bit curled up.

Most homes will have these useful yellow ginger plants growing in their backyard, garden or in pots.

I harvested the first batch of yellow ginger grown in a pot from my garden. Yellow ginger roots/rhizomes are used both in the fresh form or in dried powdered form as an ingredient in some Asian dishes. They are also used for their health or medicinal benefits which you can read about in the internet. 

These were from the first harvest. I used the pounded fresh roots/rhizomes to marinate cut chicken pieces or fishes for deep frying. Fresh or powdered form are also used for cooking yellow glutinous rice and meat curry dishes. When working with yellow ginger roots/rhizomes, it is better to wear gloves and careful of your clothes to prevent staining your hands and clothes.

But you must be careful not to brag about being put in

to replace the branches that were broken off.

Remember that you are important only because

you are now a part of God's tree;

you are just a branch, not a root.

(Romans 11:18, The Living Bible-TLB)