Grilled Banana Sticky Rice- Chuoi Nep Nuong

Today I finally try to grill these bananas in sticky rice. It's not hard just need patience when grilling. I used my smokeless indoor grill and it took at least an hour. I just let it grill and flip once in a while....while watching drama to kill time.😁 You can use airfry too but my airfry too loud and I didn't want to run that for an hour. You can also use a bbq grill or even bake in oven. After grilling the sticky rice will be chewy and crunchy...totally something I like to eat.😋

Keep them totally wrapped in banana leaves and only remove the wrap after the wrapper dried out.

I followed recipe from Nathafood. 

Lotus in Planter

Found a cheap yet small and light planter for my lotus! From Lowes only $10. Should be good enough for now. 💃💃💃

Fried Bananas - Chuoi Chien

My mom couldn't control herself when she sees beautiful bananas! She bought a lot so we are frying some. Have to think of other ways to eat these bananas another day.🤪

I'm using Bethkitchen's recipe. Instead of heating 2 tbsp sugar, I used 4 tbsp. 

Nelumbo Nucifera Lotus

Planting lotus seeds from 2006. They're still good!😆 Now I need mud and a bigger pot.💃 

Four seeds soaked in water since July 28. So it is 16 days and plenty of roots already.  To start off the seeds need to use a filer to file the pointy end of seeds then soak in water and change water daily.

Happy Birthday to Mom

My mom is 61 this year! We decided just do a family BBQ with my parents, brothers and his kids and my family. I was busy marinating meat yesterday so didn't get to assembly cake until today. I usually somehow always end up doing cake right on birthday so always rush rush. Lucky it still turns our well and mom says so pretty. 😆 A durian sponge cake since mom likes durian.