Good for me…

I’ve mentioned my Brazilian spinach in my blog a few times and yes, we’ve cooked it to eat time and time again.

I don’t know where my missus heard it from but she said we must tear the leaves into bits to cook with egg like cangkok manis and they even taste somewhat similar. Probably her sister-in-law told her that when she gave us the ones she planted and we saved the stems/stalks to stick into the soil to grow our own.

Well, I cooked some…

…the other day and yes, I saw cute little Ayden cooking it in Submerryn‘s Youtube video…

…sometime ago and no, he just fried them like that, no tearing, nothing and of course, I did not do that as well. That was because I did notice the last time my missus cooked it, she cooked the kind-of-thick and hard leaves a little longer and they all went nice and soft just like that.

I harvested the ones from a little plot in another section of my garden and I got a whole lot of the leaves…

I cut just the leaves only and threw away the stems and the stalks but I did keep those with holes…

– the ones not too badly eaten by pests. My missus says that when buying vegetables, it is best to buy the ones with holes as it shows that they have not used those harmful poisonous pesticides in the growing.  If those are good for them, they are good for me!

I fried some chopped garlic in cooking oil, added a tablespoon of sambal belacan (dried prawn paste) and a handful of prawns, peeled and cleaned before putting in the spinach straight from the basin, dripping wet. I fried till they have gone all soft and tasted the sauce to see that it was salty enough (from the belacan).  Yes, it was good so I dished it all out…

…and served.

Yes, it was very nice and I sure enjoyed it. The thing is we have so much of these leaves so right now, I am thinking of clearing some of the plots to plant something else. I wonder what else is as easy to grow.