Suman cum laude

What do you do with the excess material from the thanksgiving feast preparations? One option for the unused banana leaves, which was intended for the boodle fight 2 days ago is to heave them onto the dumpster. The second and better option is to use them to create another feast - of which there shouldn't be anymore leftovers.

Yeah, SUMAN! A Filipino recipe using sticky rice, coconut milk, salt and sugar mixed together and wrapped up in banana leaves.

Another indispensable component of this recipe is a couple of doctors on vacation who want to get their hands messy. The photos will tell the rest of the story.

 The radiologist found it awkward at the start,

but soon got into the rhythm

 the first fifteen pieces were uniformly small

and slender at the onset, but they started to

get bigger at the homestretch. Apparently the fingers

were tiring and the only way to get it done faster

was to make bigger suman.

 WIP - taking a break to stretch those arthritic fingers

 all that's left to do at this point

is to add water and let boil for

over an hour.

...and after all is said and done this

is what you get. Noah just wished there

was some ripe juicy mango somewhere

around the block.