Mitwah posted:

Do you have a recipe for ripe karailas?

Misty, what the heck is this? 

Is the red or yellow (or both) edible?

VishMahabir posted:

Mitwah posted:

Do you have a recipe for ripe karailas?

Misty, what the heck is this? 

Is the red or yellow (or both) edible?

The red coating on the seeds sweetish.

Vish, I use the fruit and not the seeds. I have only used the green ones fried with dhal. I found a recipe to use the ripe ones as a slurpy. The ripen fruit is not bitter as the green ones. Anyway, this fruit is good for anyone with diabetes.

Did you finish your studies?

Hey Mits, can you design a course outline for Karailalogy? We'll hire y22 as tutor.

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, can you design a course outline for Karailalogy? We'll hire y22 as tutor.

Perhaps members can post their recipes. 

Mitwah posted:

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, can you design a course outline for Karailalogy? We'll hire y22 as tutor.

Perhaps members can post their recipes. 

Here's a book on karaila aka bitter gourd. The author is Ji. Could be yuji.

https://www.amazon.ca/Bitter-g...El6cL&ref=plSrch

Mits, I am very sorry. I honestly do not have a recipe for ripe Karila. I only know about fried green Karila and Veggie Kaloungie.

Gilbakka posted:

Mitwah posted:

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, can you design a course outline for Karailalogy? We'll hire y22 as tutor.

Perhaps members can post their recipes. 

Here's a book on karaila aka bitter gourd. The author is Ji. Could be yuji.

https://www.amazon.ca/Bitter-g...El6cL&ref=plSrch

Is Ji not supposed to be a person of respect or Holy man, mainly in Northern India and Punjab, where part of me heart dea dea.

Are you indicating that  Yuji is a pandit pan GNI   Because sometime he sound Holy.  

yuji22 posted:

Mits, I am very sorry. I honestly do not have a recipe for ripe Karila. I only know about fried green Karila and Veggie Kaloungie.

You ever ate ban/bhan karaila? It's small and spherical and grew wildly in the sugarcane fields.

Gilbakka posted:

yuji22 posted:

Mits, I am very sorry. I honestly do not have a recipe for ripe Karila. I only know about fried green Karila and Veggie Kaloungie.

You ever ate ban/bhan karaila? It's small and spherical and grew wildly in the sugarcane fields.

Got some seeds. Will try it next year.

yuji22 posted:

Mits, I am very sorry. I honestly do not have a recipe for ripe Karila. I only know about fried green Karila and Veggie Kaloungie.

Was away for a week. Got 10 ripe ones... got some Japanese recipes. I will try the smoothie tomorrow AM. 

Anan posted:

Ban/bhan karaila. Thanks, Anan.

 Uncle Bookman 

Mitwah posted:

Vish, I use the fruit and not the seeds. I have only used the green ones fried with dhal. I found a recipe to use the ripe ones as a slurpy. The ripen fruit is not bitter as the green ones. Anyway, this fruit is good for anyone with diabetes.

Did you finish your studies?

Yes, thanks for asking.

Just started the Fall semester...

Karila leaves are good to make tea which  is very good  to combat diadetes . I dry the leaves and share them with friends,as for the vegetable I cook in the oven with garlic and lime juice plus salt and pepper .

How do you prepare the leaves to make the tea?

Mitwah posted:

How do you prepare the leaves to make the tea?

 

1stly, yuh pour some wata in one teapot. 2ndly you put de  teapot pon de stove. 3rdly yuh light de stove. 4thly yuh throw some dry karaila leaf in de teapot. 5thly yuh bile am just like yuh bile green tea. 6thly yuh strain de wata and add some suga if yuh want. 7thly, drink am.

I believe today I will cook karila fuh me and me pickney dem!  

Gilbakka posted:

Mitwah posted:

How do you prepare the leaves to make the tea?

 

1stly, yuh pour some wata in one teapot. 2ndly you put de  teapot pon de stove. 3rdly yuh light de stove. 4thly yuh throw some dry karaila leaf in de teapot. 5thly yuh bile am just like yuh bile green tea. 6thly yuh strain de wata and add some suga if yuh want. 7thly, drink am.

You made me smile  Anyway, I saw how tea leaves were prepared in China. So my question was really to find out the process to stop the oxidation., forming the tea and drying it out. Else the leaves would continue to compost  and ferment. At this time there are spores and fungi in the air and they embed themselves in the pores of the leaves. So, preparation is important. Just plucking the leaves and following your method above can be unhealthy. We can end up doing more harm.

There will be a difference in the quality of the tea based on the maturity of the leaves.  In the China, they pick the young baby shoots at the tip and these are used in the most expensive tea.

I will wash the leaves with a light antibacterial soap, steam them and then oven dry them at a very low heat to stop it from composting. 

Baseman posted:

I believe today I will cook karila fuh me and me pickney dem!  

Good luck getting them to eat it. 

yuji22 posted:

Mits, I am very sorry. I honestly do not have a recipe for ripe Karila. I only know about fried green Karila and Veggie Kaloungie.

Can you post the recipe for the Veggie Kaloungie! 

Leonora posted:

Baseman posted:

I believe today I will cook karila fuh me and me pickney dem!  

Good luck getting them to eat it. 

Tell the girls that it's good for their skin and complexion and tell the boys it's good for muscles and sports.

Actually , I will experiment with a muffin; substituting the ripe karaila for banana. The kids love muffins.

Gilbakka posted:

Mitwah posted:

How do you prepare the leaves to make the tea?

 

1stly, yuh pour some wata in one teapot. 2ndly you put de  teapot pon de stove. 3rdly yuh light de stove. 4thly yuh throw some dry karaila leaf in de teapot. 5thly yuh bile am just like yuh bile green tea. 6thly yuh strain de wata and add some suga if yuh want. 7thly, drink am.

Reminds me of reading a Trindad's author. The name skips me right now. With all of the am(s)

@Django

Dig up the archives and pull up that sugar industry report showing how Bookers & GuySuCo secretly embedded bhan-karaila plants among canes to give cane cutters extra bonus at harvest time. Also, find that British parliamentary report on the transplantation of karaila culture from Calcutta to Canje. Make it snappy.

Gilbakka posted:

@Django

Dig up the archives and pull up that sugar industry report showing how Bookers & GuySuCo secretly embedded bhan-karaila plants among canes to give cane cutters extra bonus at harvest time. Also, find that British parliamentary report on the transplantation of karaila culture from Calcutta to Canje. Make it snappy.

That's a big job,will look.

Interesting,never thought about embedded ban-karilla plants.Always had the thoughts the birds spread the seeds.

How about the baby cucumbers,did they planters embedded that too ??

Django posted:

 

How about the baby cucumbers,did they planters embedded that too ??

Baby cucumber = Dill

Perhaps DDL embedded dills to top up the bonus.

Chinese calls it Bitter Melon. 

My Chinese neighbor who speaks Mandarin  calls it  Kǔguā

Mitwah posted:

My Chinese neighbor who speaks Mandarin  calls it  Kǔguā

I see they label the product as bitter melon in the Chinese grocery store. 

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Now you starting trouble. 

kp posted:

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Now you starting trouble. 

Fold your arms and stand aside. Don't get involved. You know you and he conkey don't boil.

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Maldives, Bali, Singapore, Thailand are next on my bucket list. Had to cancel due to an emergency with one of the members in the group.  Anyway tea again with Mr. T and draught beer with Sunil is possible since we will make a stop over in England. 

I am having Goya Champuru for supper. 

Mitwah posted:

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Maldives, Bali, Singapore, Thailand are next on my bucket list. Had to cancel due to an emergency with one of the members in the group.  Anyway tea again with Mr. T and draught beer with Sunil is possible since we will make a stop over in England. 

I am having Goya Champuru for supper. 

Any substitute for the pork belly ?

Mitwah posted:

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Maldives, Bali, Singapore, Thailand are next on my bucket list. Had to cancel due to an emergency with one of the members in the group.  Anyway tea again with Mr. T and draught beer with Sunil is possible since we will make a stop over in England. 

I am having Goya Champuru for supper. 

Good for you, man. You're one lucky bloke.

Django posted:

Any substitute for the pork belly ?

Would suggest Papaya juice and prune juice. 

Gilly with the batch I picked today I have enough squirreled away for a year. I grow them on my fence which is about 20ft x 6ft. Back in the day, Reid had the bright idea of encouraging youth farming.

Gilbakka posted:

Mitwah posted:

Gilbakka posted:

Hey Mits, you serious about karaila recipes? That book I mentioned, BITTER GOURD by Ji says, has recipes. It costs only CAD$6.44 on Amazon. Why yuh don't spend de blasted money and buy de book, eh? Yuh got plenty money to reach the Maldives and to promise to drink tea with Mr T in Britain, but yuh prefer to bug GNI peeps for freeness? Awee ah watch yuh.

Maldives, Bali, Singapore, Thailand are next on my bucket list. Had to cancel due to an emergency with one of the members in the group.  Anyway tea again with Mr. T and draught beer with Sunil is possible since we will make a stop over in England. 

I am having Goya Champuru for supper. 

Good for you, man. You're one lucky bloke.

...and we r two broke blokes.