Grouper Slices + Bitter Gourd Soup

For the time being, this will be the last post for the home grown white bitter gourds because we have removed all the old vines from the garden. As the plants age, the fruits become smaller and smaller.

We used to get big bitter gourds, much bigger than the one above. As the vines get older, the gourds become smaller.

We have been sharing our bitter gourds with friends and neighbours. I have used bitter gourds for different ways of cooking so that we don't get bored.

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Soup for dinner.

I even used bitter gourd to cook soup with grouper slices instead of using pork or chicken meat for a change.

Ingredients used: Bitter gourd slices, carrot slices, grouper slices, old ginger slices, chicken stock, home made glutinous rice wine and salt to taste.

And sambal belacan with some lime juice as dipping sauce for the fish slices.

White bitter gourd vines before they were removed a few days ago.

Plants are like humans. As we grow older, we have many problems. Don't know what caused the gourds to have the rusty colour spots and patches, or probably fruit rot. For a change, we are now looking forward to plant other edibles and white bitter gourd will have to wait its turn.

If he sows to please his own wrong desires, he will be planting seeds of evil

and he will surely reap a harvest of spiritual decay and death;

but if he plants the good things of the Spirit,

he will reap the everlasting life that the Holy Spirit gives him.

(Galatians 6:8, The Living Bible-TLB)