More Healthy Eating

So, I've got a few friends and acquaintances of Chinese extraction, and the other day one gave me some food.

It looked like a bit of something hard, about the size of my hands clasping each other, wrapped with large bamboo leaves tied with string. I don't remember what my friend called it, but she told me that it had been pre-cooked and that I was to boil it for fifteen minutes to soften it again.

I hied me home, and put my saucepan (with water) on to boil, tucked my bamboo-wrapped parcel in it, and let heat and moisture Do Their Thing.

A quarter hour later, I had this wonderful green smell coming up from the pot and green colour coming out into the water, and a few nicks in the bamboo where grains of rice were peeping out.

On dissection, there was a great mass of rice, beans, chewy brown mushrooms (Yes, Steph, mushrooms) and hard-boiled egg yolk. It was slightly gluey, and slightly sweet, with lots of interesting flavours coming out.

Very tasty.

Thank you.

That's all.