Szechuan Preserved Vegetable Soup And Steamed Green Brinjals

Thunderstorm/hailstorm is back! For the last two days, many trees were down, cars and houses were damaged. Last evening I was preparing dinner in the kitchen and I could hear hailstones dropping onto our back awning. Then all of a sudden I heard some crashing sound. Later we found out that one of our neighbour's roof tiles were blown off and came crashing down onto the back lane. This morning some workmen came to repair the roof. I will always remember that particular evening when our roof was blown off during a thunderstorm and water came pouring down our dining hall like waterfall. If you are interested to read about it, you can click here for the post.

Sunrise at 7:05am.

Sunrise at 7:10am.

Sunrise at 7:32am.

In my garden, I had 8 corn plants growing in 4 pots.

I thought they look small and were not ready for harvest so I waited.

So I waited....

I finally decided to harvest the corns on Sunday.

There were altogether 8 corn cobs but I only harvested 5 and left 3 smaller ones on the plants. I steamed the corn cobs and much to our disappointment it was over matured and were chewy. They were edible and our jaws and teeth had some good exercise. It was the same for the other 3 smaller ones.

For dinner, I boiled soup using pork rib, Szechuan preserved vegetable (char choy) and carrot. I boiled enough for 4 people to give half to our neighbour.

Steamed green brinjals or eggplants, drizzled with oyster and soy sauce.

This was our simple home cooked dinner.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul.

The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

(Psalm 19:7, New Living Translation-NLT)