End of springtime

Most springtime flowers are gone expect bright red poppy’s. This is the time to aggressively prune some bushes, because I missed the opportunity in March, and weed undesirable plants. Everything grows so fast. This also is the time to prune early bloomers like brem and sering.

Sweet and sour pickled vegetables from Bogor, West-Java.

Julienne carrot and half-ripe papaya.
Slice cucumber.
Dice ketela rambat merah (sweet potato) and bengkwang in small cubes.
Cut white cabbage in strips.

Make a spice paste out of 100 gram ebi (dried shrimp), 0.5 liter water, 5 red lombok, 100 gram sugar. Before making the paste soak the ebi in the water. Reserve the water.

Grind the soaked ebi, lombok and sugar to a paste and mix with the water and 100 milliliter vinegar. Add some salt.

Mix everything with the vegetables and let it pickle for al least one night. Before serving fry some peanuts and sprinkle over the asinan.

The grass in the front yard was getting really high. I postponed mowing the grass as long a I could for biodiversity and the insects. So many tiny flowers!