Monday 8 January 2007

Halloween Fruit

The Secret Recipe along Bukit Bintang once sold the pumpkin cake in 2005. Ever since, the delicious cake has become extinct. Why aren't they making again? Right now, in the middle of my little garden "farm", this medium sized squash fruit is storing all the goodness of potential energy within its green hardy skin. We grew the plant on an elevated mesh structure to protect its fruits from the damp grass and hideous worms. When it's ripe it's going to end up on the dinner table :) Yum yum! A recipe from www.spywriter.com suggests a pumpkin soup. Here's how it works.

1. Boil chicken, celery, onion, carrots in 4-5 L of water. When done, remove onion and chicken. Blend everything else untill smooth.

2. Peel pumpkin, dice, cover with water and boil for about 1/2hr. Blend until smooth. Mix with chicken broth.

3. Add salt, pepper, to taste.

4. Add 2 Tbsp of cream per dish to taste (optional).

And even the seeds can be roasted to become "gua zi".

2 comments:

whirlmax said...

Maybe you can find the pumpkin cake recipe and show us the cake in photos... or perhaps show us the real thing! HAha or maybe treat us to your pumpkin cake one of this days!

Chau said...

It was such a long time ago...When we were first introduced to it, we were suspicious. It sounded a little disgusting...but our adventure turned out to be truly amazing. That cake rox! I'll hunt the pumpkin cake down when I visit Malaysia again. :)