Sunblock please!
Rule #1: Never place an indoor plant outside in the direct sun.
If you insist, this is what will happen to the plant (ouuccchhhh). We learnt that the outdoor sunlight is more than 100 times more intense than indoor light and because of this, the water droplets inside the leaves actually boil, and magnify the intensity of the light and heat — and will burn the leaves permanently.
A big lesson today :-) We need some chlorophyll injections…
(psstt.. it was z…)
Step 4: Serve with hot rice…
Kadazandusun signature dish: bosou served with hot rice.
There you go! A simple 4-step cooking a Kadazandusun “super” dish – bosou!
Making bosou itself is quite simple. The basic ingredients are freshwater fish (we used javanese barb [malay: lampam jawa]), pangi fruit [malay: ketapang fruit], cooled rice, and salt. The fish is cleaned and the remaining water must be completely drained off. The rice , crushed pangi and salt are then added; and thoroughly mixed.
The raw bosou is then stored in an air-tight container for at least a week before it can be eaten (raw or cooked).
This is a dish that may shiver the tongue, if not the heart of visitors. The smell is strong yet the taste is something to remember as it is uniquely delicious — bosou is truly the king of kadazandusun traditional dishes!
Note 1: tuhau may also be added into the mix — caneeliea has a post related to sambal tuhau that she said ‘simple but yummy’. To me, tuhau is just like a salsa to tortilla chips. Read her post here.
Note 2: there is also a post by J Martin (possibly a guy with good experience in preparing bosou – and this is a compliment) related to bosou: you can go straight to his site here.
Cook till dry.. Yum yum
Define: yum yum – associated with consumption of a tasty food, indeed.
Step 3: Bring in the ‘Bosou’
bosou: yes, that unique fermented fish + cooked rice + chillies, a specialty of the kadazandusun. AND NOT that violent loa, a man with three horns in vodooism.
Until color turned golden brown…
Deep fry the onions and garlic for one or two minutes until it turn slightly brown.
Step 2: Fry ‘em
Fry the onion with the white chillies. You dont have to put much seasonings here as the bosou by itself should already by quite tasty, naturally.
Step 1: Prepare Ingredients
white chillies
garlic
red onions
Soon to join Mr. Bosou…
These are white bird peppers – slightly larger and longer in size as compared to the green or red bird peppers; and they are less hot. It does provide sufficiently hot taste; making it the best companion for bosou!
Kecil-kecil cili padi!
Another picture of the bird peppers (chilli padi) — small but the it is in fact, quite hot on the scoville scale. There is even a Malay expression of “Kecil-kecil cili padi” , literally means: do not underestimate its hotness though the bird pepper is small in size. So size doesnt matter? Just like David vs Goliath!
We also found a photo of cili padi on the net — almost about the same thing i.e. home-grown cili padi :-) Yay! You can read them here: http://pixen.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/chillies-chillies-more-chillies-d/trackback/
More albino chilies!
Capsaicin, the compound that gives hot chili peppers their zip, kills cancer cells in a test tube and slows the growth of pancreatic and prostate cancers in mice, two studies show.
A University of Pittsburgh Medical School team led by biochemist Sanjay K. Srivastava implanted pancreatic tumor cells from people into mice. The same day, some of the mice began receiving oral doses of capsaicin while the others got saline solution. After 38 days, tumors in the capsaicin group were half the size of the tumors in the mice getting saline. Although spicy, the capsaicin didn’t cause any gastrointestinal problems, says Srivastava.
In a similar study, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Los Angeles implanted human prostate-tumor tissue in mice. Some of the animals subsequently received capsaicin orally while others didn’t.
After 4 weeks, the tumors in mice getting the capsaicin were only one-fourth the size of tumors in the other mice, the scientists report in the March 15 Cancer Research.
The findings are provocative because this particular prostate cancer came from “quite an aggressive cell line;’ says study coauthor James O’Kelly, a pathologist.
“But we’re not advocating that people start eating a lot of hot peppers to treat their prostate cancer;’ he says.
Lihatlah kebun ku..
Still remember that popular childhood serenade? Though these are white chillies, its a great feeling to have them self-grown on your veranda!
Lihat Kebunku
Penuh dengan bunga
Ada yang putih dan ada yang merah
Setiap hari kusiram semua
Mawar, melati, semuanya indah
