Photograph - Cassava vs Yams: January 2008

About Photograph

A Photographs (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process of creating photographs is called photography.

Photographs capture a life-like view of the subject whereas paintings were subject to the interpretations and level of skill of the painter. Thus, since daguerreotypes were rendered on a mirrored surface, many spiritualists also became practitioners of the new art form. Spiritualists would claim that the human image on the mirrored surface was akin to looking into one's soul. The spiritualists also believed that it would open their souls and let demons in.

Colorful, chewy, Tapioca Pearls!

Pearls multicoloured

These gorgeous multicoloured tapioca pearls because they were gorgeous and multicoloured. really

Tapioca pearls 1

Tapioca pearls conceal a mung bean interior. Dip these into a tangy, coconut milk dip to complete the effect.

Sweet Potato 1

Cassava for sale

Cassava for sale at market,
it is put into baskets made of wrapped-up banana leaf

Man Cham

It's one of the more popular thai desserts, called man cham.

cassava with coconut milk

It's cassava cooked in syrup then topped with coconut cream.

Pumpkin Soup, with Cassava chips

Tapioca Pudding

Last week, just before everything went bad, I'd taken a couple of photos of the mundane around the office. This pudding, from the Wedge deli, was surprisingly good.

Yam rice

What would you eat Yam Rice with ? In some Singapore eateries, or even hawker centers, yam rice is usually served with braised duck, salted vegetable (mustard greens) soup or with turtle soup. Yam and Taro, what is the difference ? In Singapore/Malaysia and other Southeast Asia countries, yam and taro mean the same thing; but here in the United States, it is taro here and yam is sweet potato.

Spicy Yam Chips

Makes a few handfuls. Can you eat just one?
These spicy, crunchy chips were dreamed up during a fit of chip cravings you wouldn’t believe!

Crispy Yam Fries

Here is a simple and easy to make yam fries in the Indian way. Serve it hot and crispy with rice or have it as a snack. I don’t know the perfect name of this. The grocery store label say this as Yam.

Stir-fried Yam Leaf

wondered what was yam leaf

Manihot esculenta 'Variegata'

Manihot esculenta 'Variegata'
EUPHORBIACEAE
tapioca / ubi kayu
Tropical America, brought to Asia in 17th cent. by Portuguese. Roots need to be grated, washed and cooked to make edible. Cassareep, a powerful antiseptic, is a by-product from boiling down the poisonous juice of bitter cassava.

Cultivar of Cassava

Farmers’ popular local cultivar of cassava used as a check in the disease resistance testing trials.

Cassava root rot mushroom

The bright yellow fruiting body of the cassava root rot mushroom, Polyporus sulphureus on a field to be cultivated with cassava

Sweet Potato Soup 1

Rutabaga Sweet Potato Soup with Fried Spaghetti Squash and Toasted Pepitas

Sweet Potato Fries 2

Sweet Potato Fries or 'Chips' as we say in the UK - From Vegan With a Vengeance
Cut the sweet potatoes into strips, add olive oil, sprinkle with cumin, paprika and coriander and toss until covered then bake in the oven for 20-30 mins. I am a convert.

Sweet potato fries 1

Sweet potato fries and blue cheese dip at the surprisingly bland Toast restaurant in Atlanta.

Purple Sweetpotato

Everything from Yomitan Village is this color - Purple Sweetpotato.

Yuca and cheese sauce

Cheese-stuffed yuca with an aji Amarillo

Yuca 1

Lots of Yuca everywhere

Manioc Leafs Curry

Glutinous Rice, Manioc Leafs Curry, Coconut Sesame Crackers

Meatless Cassava Oiled-Down

Extreme Cheap Street Eats 2

Eaten raw, cassava can put one six feet under.
Cooked, scattered with shredded coconut and salty peanut dust, it's not a bad belly filler, satisfying like a spud. It certainly put fire in the belly of Vietnam's soldiers in the wars they waged against the French and Americans.

Extreme Cheap Street Eats 1

Cassava is a root vegetable.
It sustained much of Vietnam during war and famine. It's used in the production of starch and that controversial fifth flavour

Rotted Cassava

Standing water has rotted cassava yet to be harvested from fields, leaving families with little food to eat this season.

Yam Fries

Yam Fries...........

Big family

These are yams.
At this size they can feed a big family for a week. they grow to the size of a cow and then the can feed an entire village.

Yams 3

Candied Yams 1

My aunt making candied yams for the Lunar New Year.

Yams 2

Yams, eine art kartoffel

Disease!

Dinner....yams,
pumpkin, veggies, beef, carrots, pineapples and cucumbers....
someone tell them its a disease!

Yams 1

Cassava greens

Dinner! Cassava greens (aka plasas or soup) and rice.
This is the most common form of food in Sierra Leone and their favorite.
It is said that a man has not eaten until he has had rice.