Fresh nutmeg with the seed and mace - The nutmeg is now blended as fresh nutmeg juice. It is absolutely delicious but not every coffeeshop knows how to do that. You can get nutmeg juice
from this bak kut teh place too.
Pickled nutmeg (the lower whiter one, the top is pickled mango)
Dried nutmeg seeds and dried mace - The seeds are broken and used to flavour duck and salted vegetable soup.
Pickled nutmeg with liquorice (Kumchoe) - Good for repelling the winds from your tummy
Besides the above, the mace can be grinded into powder and they are usually sold in bottles. Nutmeg is best for fish dishes. When I prepared my baby food with fish, I added a pinch of it into my baby’s porridge because it takes away the fishy smell. It also gives flavour and hence, no salt is required.
The mace is also steeped in oil and makes a good rub for aching joints and repelling wind.
The fresh nutmegs can be brewed with rock sugar for several hours to make a nice syrup and it becomes a very refreshing drink.
Where I come from, there are lots of nutmeg trees on the hills of Balik Pulau. I hope they don’t make way for development and wipe out these trees. Remember that our country become what we are because of the spices we offered? Cardamons, cinnamon, nutmeg and more.
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I have fun taking pics of these strawberries from Cameron Highlands and hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I took them.
I just bought a Nikon flashgun SB600 and now I have no problem taking micro photos with my Nikon micro lens 105mm f2.8. No more lens shadow, woo hoo!
I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Crowds, jams, tourists and drastic price hike made me cut short my stay in Cameron. It is much more relaxing staying at home. Really.
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I blogged about the chempedak in Food Haven two years ago. However, I have a much more flattering photos this time so I am just going to share the photos. If you wish to read more about chempedak, please surf over to my post on chempedak in Food Haven.
Modern agricultural technology has made the chempedak a lot more appetising. The flesh is thicker, juicier, sweeter and sometimes, the seed is very tiny too.
We just need to make a slit at the top and tear the skin apart. Then, we managed to pull the middle stem and all the fruits came off nicely.
One of the reader from another country commented that the fruit looks like an alien! Well, chempedak not only looks ugly on the outside, it has a very strong smell as well.
But I love it. Both fresh and cooked as fritters.
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Once again, I had caused Tuesday to fly by. But never mind, Thursday starts with a T too.
This time I am going feature yellow and orangey fruits and vegetables. The above is the varieties of mangoes from Thailand. My dear hubby loves to style them like those served by the five-star hotel. All you need is to scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Nice, eh?
Mangoes and pineapples are two of the most popular tropical fruits and often featured as icons of tropical stuffs. The above is the most delicious, sweetest and juiciest pineapple. If I am not mistaken the pineapple is from Thailand too. Sometimes, I wonder why Thailand’s agriculture seem to be much more advance than us and their fruits seem to be tastier?
Yellow corn. Love to steam them or eaten raw.
Fresh yellow dates from Saudi Arabia, found only during the month of Ramadhan. I wish they import fresh dates all year long because they are so tasty.
Yellow jackfruit or nangka. Stinky and nice.
That’s some of the yellow coloured photos I found on my Flickr set for Fruits and Vegetables.
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Weekend is here and it is best spent pigging out on these seasonal fruits. Many people tend to fall sick after taking too much of the mangosteen and rambutan (the hairy red one). It could be due to the sap but the Chinese said it is due to ‘heaty’.
Sometimes, we will have four types to eat at one go. Rambutan, manggis, langsat and durian. It is fruits galore all day long.
The ugly toad looking mangosteen. I believe it is a very popular health drink in the Western countries. Not sure what it does. Over here, we eat the fruits fresh.
Red hairy rambutan the size of an egg. My second favourite fruits after durians.
Have a nice weekend to all!
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Lilian | September 18, 2007
