PANDAN TREE

Pandan ( P. amaryllifolius)

I have many Pandan Trees in my house. The plant has many uses.
Pandan Leaf is widely used in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The Screwpine tree is a perennial and needs to grow in warm, damp areas in partial sunlight. The soil must be kept moist. The tree grows to be twenty-six feet high. The leaves are used there like we use vanilla flavoring. This leaf also has medicinal properties. In ancient times, the leaves were used for making house thatching and women’s grass skirts..
The medicinal uses for this tree are as follows: The entire plant is used as a diuretic, the roots have anti-diabetic properties, and the leaves are used for treating diseases of the skin.
leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking to add a distinct aroma to rice and curry dishes such as nasi lemak ,dessert such as pandan cake.
In Indonesia, we put a fresh leaf on top of our steaming rice and We also use pandan to flavor various desserts.
Pandan leaves can be used to create a good fragance in your room. Just cut small pandan leaves and lay them on a bowl at the edges of the room. The room will refresh amazingly.

Recipe with Pandan Leaves

Sweet black rice pudding
Ingredients
cup black glutinous rice
3/4 cup white glutinous rice
2 pandan leaves
¼ tsp sea salt
5 cups water
¼ cup palm sugar
¼ cup water
1 400ml tin coconut cream
fresh bananas

Method:
Combine the black and white glutinous rice and rinse in a bowl three times to remove starch. Place rice, pandan leaves, salt and water in a heavy-based pot. Bring to the boil and simmer on medium heat.
Meanwhile, grate the palm sugar and add to the water. Bring to the boil and simmer until the sugar dissolves (about five -6 minutes).
When the rice has been cooking 30 minutes, add the syrup and cook for another 10 minutes.
Try soaking the rice the night before to cut the cooking time in half

To serve:
Serve warm on a wintry night with lashings of cold coconut cream and fresh fruit (try frying banana slices) or chill in cups for a balmy Bali summer's night treat.

Note:
Black and white glutinous rice can be found at Asian grocers. Buy fresh or frozen pandan leaves at Asian grocers. Or, instead of using pandan leaves, add a few drops of vanilla essence at the end of the cooking process.





Pandan Leaves for fragance

Pandan Tree

My PALM TREES

I have many kind of palm trees (Arecaceae or Palmae) in my house:

- Red Palm

- Putri Palm

- Coconut Tree

- Bottle Palm

Palm trees grow in places that are warm and have a lot of sunshine. The palms, cycads and tropical plants sections.palms tree relatively tall, erect, unbranched, regularly cylindrical.The flowers are borne on simple or branching spikes. The seed consists almost exclusively of endosperm, Upper portion of Coconut seed, albumen in a cavity in showing the embryo, embedded in endosperm, which is lodged the relatively very minute embryo.
Flower of Bottle Palm Tree

Flower of Palm Tree

Fruit of Bottle Palm Tree

Coconut Tree



Putri Palm Tree





Young Red Palm Tree

My BANANA TREES

I have many banana trees in my garden; I took that picture in the morning…..
My house like a jungle of banana.......

Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. In popular culture and commerce’ Banana’’ Indonesian name is ‘’ Pisang’’ usually refers to soft, sweet "dessert" bananas that are usually eaten raw. Mana kind of Banana in Indonesia:

Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple and red. Bananas can be eaten raw though some varieties are generally cooked first, here are over 400 varieties of bananas, in Indonesia for Example:

-Pisang Tanduk usually for fried banana or kolak (dessert mixed with coconut) (size long and big)
- Pisang Raja usually for grilled mixed with cheese and Chocolate or for kolak
-Pisang Ambon usually eaten raw
- Pisang Mas usually eaten raw (small)
- Pisang Kelutuk usually for Rujak… (Indonesian dessert mixed with other fruits like: Star Fruit, young mango and with palm sugar..)

My favorite dessert is Banana grilled :)

Bananas may also be dried and eaten as a snack food. Dried bananas are also ground into banana flour.

The leaves of the banana are large, flexible, and waterproof; they are used in many ways, including to wrap food for cooking.

A banana is a natural remedy for many ills. It has many protein, carbohydrate, phosphorus, vitamin A and iron, and the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around.

Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup toasted walnuts or pecans, chopped
3 ripe, soft, darkly speckled large bananas, mashed well (about 1 1/2 cups)
1/4 cup plain yogurt
2 large eggs, beaten lightly
6 tablespoons butter, melted then cooled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation:

Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease bottom only of regular loaf pan, or grease and flour bottom and sides of nonstick 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan.
Combine dry ingredients together in large bowl and set aside.
Mix mashed bananas, yogurt, eggs, butter, and vanilla with wooden spoon in medium bowl.
Lightly fold banana mixture into dry ingredients with rubber spatula until just combined and batter looks thick and chunky.
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan; bake until loaf is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack.
Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator for 4 days, on the counter for 2 days.

Young Pisang Mas

inflorescence partially opened (pisang Mas)

inflorescence being taken before the lower part opens.

Pisang Tanduk


inflorescence of pisang tanduk partially opened
a little bit difference with pisang mas
Long and not many inflorescene



Jungle of Banana Tree in My house

My Tropical Fruit 2

This is my other fruit trees in my house

Jeruk Purut ((English : kaffir lime)

God's Crown
Indonesia (Mahkota Dewa)

Squamosa
Indonesian Name: Srikaya

Manggo Tree

Indonesian Name: Pohon Mangga

Pineapple Tree

Indonesian: Pohon Nanas

Belimbing Wuluh

English: Bimbling plum, Cucumber tree, Tree sorrel

Sawo Tree