While waiting to harvest the vegetables from my garden, I will buy some vegetables from the mini market after my early morning walk. I have used up all the home grown vegetables in my fridge except for one white bitter gourd. It is too small to cook a dish on its own. So I came up with my own recipe, and a weird one too! If my mother comes to know about it, she will shake her head in disbelief. Imagine adding bitter gourd to a pumpkin dish - a combination of sweet and bitter!
Pumpking and white bitter gourd cooked with dried prawns.
I love pumpkin because it is sweet. I don't know what to do with a tiny bitter gourd, so I just simply add to this pumpkin dish. No worry, as long as I am the one eating it.
Steamed Enoki Mushrooms
(Sprinkled with lots of fried garlic crisps, garlic oil, spring onion, scallop sauce and soy sauce)
Chinese Cabbage Soup
(cooked with all the little of whatever I didn't used up, and needed to be cleared from the fridge)
My simple dinner cooked with impromptu recipes using whatever ingredients I can find in my fridge.
Lovely morning at the park after a heavy downpour.
Sunset Bells from my garden.
The flowers and leaves are still wet with rain water.
Antique clothes irons found at the Flea Market.
A friendly discussion is as stimulating as the sparks
that fly when iron strikes iron.
(Proverbs 27:17, The Living Bible-TLB)
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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend
(Proverbs 27:17, New Living Translation-NLT)
I love your creativity when it comes to cooking: doing your your recipe with out fear of conforming. That's how new innovative food gets discovered:) I would be happy if you invite me to sit down with you to taste it all - any time, if only it's possible:) Have a lovely day today Nancy:)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Annie. Yes, if only its possible, we can enjoy experimenting new recipes together.
Delete...recently I visited an Amish home of the daughter was using old irons that she warms on the wood stove. Sometimes things don't change much. Thanks Nancy for stopping by, enjoy this special time of year.
ReplyDeleteThe old irons that need to be warmed on stove must be before my time. I have only used those which need to be filled with burning coal.
DeleteI am thankful I do not have to iron with one of those antique irons. That would not be fun at all.
ReplyDeleteYes, so true. The sparks from the fire can burn a tiny hole in our clothes.
DeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear.
DeleteI think pumpkin tastes good with your white bitter gourd. I would eat the whole dish plus your other two dishes without eating any rice. yummy!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mun. I ate most of it without any rice.
DeleteOh my, the food is heavenly. I want some of each dish.
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Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday, Nancy. ♥
Thank you, Sandee. Have a happy day!
DeleteOh very good dishes like always darling
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Thank you, Sakuranko.
DeleteI want some Enoki mushrooms! They are my favourite.
ReplyDeleteI like enoki mushrooms steamed this way.
DeleteHola Nancy, no se como estará de rico, pero el aspecto es para querer comerlo todo, Besos.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lola.
DeleteNice dishes made up with whatever available. Heavy irons !
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jeevan.
DeletePhoto of Steamed Enoki Mushrooms makes me hungry :D
ReplyDeleteThank you, Agata.
DeleteYou do have some interesting meals. There are always lots of those irons at the markets here as well 😊 Have a good day Diane
ReplyDeleteThank you, Diane.
DeleteYou are very creative trying out new recipes.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Alexandria.
DeleteThe Sunset Bells are stunning! They are the color of sunset. I don't think they grow in this country. Well, pumpkins are gourds, so the dish seems right!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ginny.
DeleteIt's good to be able to find new uses for the leftovers and little bits, so no food goes to waste.
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty flowers as you have!
Thank you, Mimi.
DeleteThe taste of your food only has to please you..it's how new foods are invented by people experimenting.
ReplyDeleteDo like your flower and those old irons are similar if not the same to the old ones we have had here in the past.
Thank you, Margaret.
DeleteSounds great! A nice combination for sweet and bitter dish :)
ReplyDeleteEnoki looks so yummy!
Thank you, Evi.
DeleteSedap sekali! Longing for homecooked food again!
ReplyDeleteYes, back to simple home cooked meals.
DeleteCabbage soup sounds good on a cold weather like this.
ReplyDeleteYes, I can consume a big bowl.
DeletePyszne jedzenie. Uwielbiam takie stare przedmioty jak te żelazka :) Miłego dnia:)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lucyna.
DeleteGreat series of photos!
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DeleteThank you, Francisco.
ReplyDeleteI like how you arranged the enoki on the plate.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stacy.
DeletePretty flowers!
ReplyDeleteThank you, William.
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