From The Garden To My Dining Table

All my edible plants are grown in pots because I do not have much space in my garden. The most I grow is 2 to 3 pots of each type of edibles. Since they are grown in pots, they cannot produce much. Sometimes a single harvest is enough for a plate of vegetable for our dinner. Sometimes, I will accumulate 1 or 2 days of harvest to cook a plate or I will mix together whatever I can harvest from the garden. Below is one example of my home cooked dinners using whatever greens I have harvested for that day.

 2 pieces of fried fish, fried fish paste, and blanched home grown vegetables.

 I grow potato leaves in 2 small pots.

 I used the cut stems from each harvest to regrow the potato leaves.

Just loosen the the soil and stick the cut stems into the soil. New leaves will grow from the stems and very soon a new batch of tender leaves can be harvested for dinner.

 That morning, I also havested these winged beans and red okras. I added these to the potato leaves to get a plate of blanched greens.

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What I cooked for one of my dinner.

2 pieces of fried fish with some home made spicy sambal paste added on to the fish. The spicy sambal paste consists of fresh chilies and curry leaves from my garden.

 Home fried fish paste. Paste bought from the mini market.

These were eaten with sweet sour Thai chili sauce.

Blanched home grown vegetables consisting of sweet potato leaves, winged beans and red okras. When cooked the red okra turned pale green. When tender, there is no need to peel the leaves stalks. For this dish, I sprinkled some fried spicy sambal (dry version given by a friend) on to the vegetables.

Some mornings, the harvest is small just like the above.

The black seed pod will yield seeds for future planting.

A timely Bible verse to remind myself:

The person who does the planting or watering isn't very important,

but God is important because He is the One who makes things grow.

(1 Corinthians 3:7, The Living Bible-TLB)