Monday 29 June 2020

Winter Melon & Aloe Vera Sweet Drink And Home Cooked Dinner

On Sunday morning, we walked to our regular coffee shop. Hubby had a cup of unsweetened black coffee and I had a bowl of herbal tea with a hard boiled egg. After that, we walked back home.
  Later in the morning, I warmed the steamed buns for hubby's brunch.
And I had cream crackers with home made pineapple jam.
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Lunch
A friend gave me a winter melon the size of a football. I used half of it to boil sweet drink or tong kwa tong sui.
 Ingredients: winter melon, aloe vera, dried longan and cane sugar.
 This sweet drink or tong sui tastes better when it is chilled.
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Dinner
Initially, I planned to steamed rice but last minute, hubby wanted noodle.
Fried threadfins fish or ikan senangin with ginger strips.
Since the fish was thawed, I went ahead to fried the fish even though we didn't intend to have rice for dinner.
 I reheated the leftover stewed pork belly
 Instead of steamed rice, I blanched napa cabbage and cooked dried Cintan noodle.
 We ate the noodle with leftover stewed pork belly and the fried fish.
 Simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.
 Setting sun at 6:50 pm.
Evening sky at 7 pm.
According to the weather forecast, it would rain in the evening but there was no rain.

Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.
If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
(Ecclesiastes 11:4, New Living Translation-NLT)

50 comments:

  1. Delicious dinner :) Have a great day :)

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  2. Love those steamed buns and the fried fish looks so flavourful! Have a great weekend, Nancy!

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    1. Thank you, Angie. Have a great weekend too.

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  3. I like your simple home-cooked dinner. Noodles with pork and fried fish, yummzz!

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  4. Hello dear Nancy!
    Gorgeous pictures of the beautiful sunset!
    I like all your home cook meals especially the fry fish and the noodles!
    Have a happy week! Stay safe! Hugs!
    Dimi...

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    1. Thank you, DIMI. Happy week to you. Hugs and stay safe too.

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  5. ...I've never heard of drinking Aloe Vera!

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    1. Must remove all the green skin and rinse off the yellowish sap before using for cooking.

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  6. Beautiful skies Nancy.
    Take care.

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  7. Those are beautiful sky pictures...

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  8. Hello, the pineapple jam and your dinner sound delicious. Beautiful skies and sunset. Enjoy your day, wishing you a happy new week!

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  9. Crackers with peanapple jam look so delicious. I would like to try them.

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  10. steam buns so appealing for me...yummy.

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  11. Great post, Thanks for sharing, x

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  12. The tong sui looks so delicious! Your morning breakfast - is it hard boiled egg in the sweet herbal tea? Or are they sold separately?

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    1. Hard boiled eggs are sold separately. I don't usually take herbal tea with the egg. This is one of the days when I feel like eating the hard boiled eggs.

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  13. You really have such pretty dishes. And the food looks good, too.

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  14. Oh my the food looks fabulous. I'm hungry this morning.

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    Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week, Nancy. ♥

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  15. Once again another beautiful meal. Tasty.

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  16. The noodle dishes look especially good!

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  17. Lovely photos and lovely food my daughter loves noodles

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  18. I would love to try pineapple jam. Pineapples are so expensive around here, like their golden color, I wouldn't dare try it :-)
    Amalia
    xo

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  19. La puesta de sol se ve bonita. Nunca hice mermelada de piña y se ve muy buena. Besos.

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  20. Lovely skies and I would love to try those steamed buns. Have a good week Diane

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  21. Pretty skies, and lovely meals!

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  22. Simple yet yummy dinner as usual.

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    1. One of these buns is enough to fill the tummy of a small eater.

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