What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

[Barriehie]

Terasi/trassi - with fermermented shrimp paste, but you can use "normal" shrimp paste
Kacang/katjang - with peanuts
Ulek/oelek - raw, plain chili's and salt, although I have seen recipes with vinegar.
Even though it's raw, it lasts very long and is the base of most other sambals
Bajak/badjak - fried, very nice, don't know all ingredients off hand
Also sambal tomat, sambal peteh, sambal brandal, sambal tjabe rawit
Nice site is by a lady who is using an old Indonesian cookbook (in Dutch) as a base. Site is in Dutch and English +400 Indonesische Recepten

Cool! Thank you badjak! I've bookmarked this. I've a recipe for the fried one which I'm lined out to make already. I've got this shrimp paste I got at a Thai store and the owner made me smell it before she sold it to me! Smells like a cross between catfish blood bait and socks, almost like fish sauce but not quite.

 

[badjak]

Cool! Thank you badjak! I've bookmarked this. I've a recipe for the fried one which I'm lined out to make already. I've got this shrimp paste I got at a Thai store and the owner made me smell it before she sold it to me! Smells like a cross between catfish blood bait and socks, almost like fish sauce but not quite. View attachment 132073

Yeah, that's fine to use
Also good in nasi goreng!

 

[rascal]

Lawn man hasn't been for 6 weeks. He's due any day.
I have propagating 6 cabbage 6 caulis
Heap of lettuce peas and radishes
Peas are up..I did about 50 peas planted daughter will get half.
She gets half my corn later on. Spring is 3 weeks away.
I love spring.

Russ

 

[karadekoolaid]

The gardener came today and tidied up the front and side lawns, weeded the worst bits and generally made the place look a whole lot better. The only drawback of a tropical climate is that everything grows 3 times as fast.