Years ago, we went to Bali for a whole month. It was an amazing place for a million reasons, but unsurprisingly, one of our favorite things about the place was the food. So much so that we took a cooking class while we were there. Now that our banana tree is really going, Adam has been trying recipes that call for cooking things in the banana leaves. Last night, we made something called "tum." It's basically a finely shredded mixture of meat (we used fish), garlic, chilies, and other spices, wrapped up in a banana leaf piece and steamed. The little packets are tied closed using strips of the banana leaf stem. The strips are surprisingly tough, sinewy, and cord-like! Once the tum were finished, we squeezed the juice from these tiny little oranges that are growing in our yard (they're kind of a cross between an orange and a kumquat) over the tum. It was delicious and spicy!