time to catch up with everything else that I neglected
the past weeks - friends, shop, blogs, garden and the
housework.
Two weeks ago a girl from my class has given me some
trouts - smoked and fresh ones - to thank me studying
with her. So, today I cooked trouts in a sauce mix of
tomatoes, chillies, rhubarb, lemon, lemon balm and
parsley. Yummy!
The recipe was a modified version of my mom's recipe,
in which averrhoa bilimbi is originally used for the sauce
(my mom got the great idea to use rhubarb instead).
The fish and the sauce mix are normally wrapped in a
banana leaf. Since I don't have any (I'm still thinking
of planting a banana in my garden just to have the leaves
for my Indonesian cookery :)), I put everything in a
casserole instead.
The next task is my garden. At the moment the spiders
and ants are about to take over my garden. Look at those
garden spider babies in my lavender bush! There must be
over a hundred of spiders - yikes!
I planted carrot and peas a few days ago, but on Friday
I got some veggies and herbs (and some chocolates) from
the girls in my class - so sweet! They simply know how
to spoil me :) My garden is now full (and so my stomach ;)).
3 comments:
Huh, rhubarb with trout? SOunds like such an interesting combo that I'll have to try it sometime. If I can get my hands on some rhubarb, that is. ;)
That's quite a nest of little spidies!
What an idea to use rhubarb instead of Averrhoa bilimbi! I just had to read back in Wikipedia... and learned a new word.
Ooh, the trout sounds wonderful. I always admire your recipes. I've never tasted rhubarb; no one grows it where I live. But my husband's mother grew a banana plant once. All she ever got were leaves.
^_^
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