Wednesday 30 March 2022

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.


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)

38 comments:

  1. I like boiling the Szechuan preserved vegetables with pork rib. Very appetising. I just boil this soup last weekend.

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    1. We love this soup too, something like salted vegetable soup.

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  2. I would drink your Szechuan Preserved Vegetable Soup And eat your Steamed Green Brinjals without any rice. Tasty! I love to eat corns. I wouldn't know when to harvest them too. So do know when to harvest them after this experience?

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    1. Thank you, Mun. Will have to wait till I harvest the next batch.

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  3. So nice, you even plant your own corn. I always buy from the shop near my house, LIGO sweet corn, around 4 for RM6, if I remember correctly. I think this variety is the nicest.

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    1. When I first saw these white corn in Cameron, it was selling 1 for RM4! Love the sweet juicy corn.

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  4. It was disappointing about the corn cobs. I am glad you didn't have any damage from the thunderstorm this time.

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  5. my fav soup! nice to go with rice!

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  6. ...I'm not familiar with white corn.

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    1. White corn is new here and first time growing in my garden.

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  7. I remember that post about your roof. Scary stuff.

    I always enjoy your food. Today is no exception.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday, Nancy. ♥

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  8. I read your post about the waterfall into your house. My God, how awful! I am glad that did not happen this time.

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    1. Thank you, Gigi. Hope that is the last time.

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  9. Your sunrise photos are wonderful...and don't you have a marvelous green thumb!

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  10. Too bad about the corn! I have not attempted to grow corn yet. Wow...I relate Nancy...we had roof issues the last year, and finally got ours done last week. I'm so glad you got yours fixed!

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    1. Thank you, Rain. Every time there is a thunderstorm or strong wind, I will be praying for protection for our roof.

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  11. What a frightening evening you must have had!

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  12. Very dramatic skies. It's rare to get lightning in our winter, but not unheard of. It's probably been since the fall that we had any serious storm of that type.

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    1. Thank you, William. Thunderstorm is common here.

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  13. The skies are beautiful, i am glad the roof was repaired quickly for your neighbor.

    It's not always easy to know just when to harvest a crop.

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  14. Lindos choclos. Te mando un beso.

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  15. The weather is not good where you are, hope you don't get anymore bad weather.
    Never heard of white corn but it does look good..well done for growing in pots.

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    1. The thunderstorm is not over yet, hope no more damages.

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  16. Good no one was injured that day - your roof looks beautiful btw! Different from ours.
    Your own corn! Sad it was but an exercise.

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    1. Thank you, Iris. Hope for better harvest in the near future.

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  17. If the corn turns out chewy again, can boil them in a soup.

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    1. Thanks. I never thought of it then. Maybe I was determine on enjoying it steamed. I love corn soup.

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