My Kitchen Garden

This kitchen garden is a place to grow the things I bring into the kitchen. This enables me to use fresh herbs in my cooking. It is just right outside the kitchen door within easy picking distance. I often run to this garden to get the herbs while cooking.

This is a screwpine tree where pandan leaves are derived from. Pandan leaves are used to lend a unqique taste and aroma to many local dishes, dessert and drinks. They can aslo be used to wrap savoury foods, such as chicken and puddings.
My hubby always use this to remove odour from the car. Just leave a few pandan leaves inside the car for a night, and the next day, the odour will disappear.

This is a Thai Chilli. The plant doesn not bear a lot of chillies now, as this tree is quite old and I have not taken care of it, I just don't have enough hands to look after the garden.

As my hubby uses quite a lot of this in his food, we bought the seedling from the market so that we can have fresh chillies whenever we want.

This is a Thai Longan Tree. I don't use this in my cooking. This fruit is very sweet.

This a curry tree (should I call it a tree?) I use the leaves to add flavour to any curry dishes. I got this tree from my sister last year.

This is a ginger plant. Everytime I found old ginger in my kitchen with some buds, I just planted them here. I take this ginger only if I run out of stock.

This is lemongrass. I often use this in my cooking, especially when I cook fish, beef, chicken and Prawn. I think this is a must when cooking Thai Tomyam.

This is a tumeric plant. I planted this to get the leaves. The leaves are often used in my cooking to give aroma to the food. I often use this to wrap fish. The rhizome is used in cooking fish, beef or chicken dishes. Traditionally, it can also be used as antiseptic and often used in postnatal care.