Wednesday, 3 August 2022

Fish Balls Noodle Soup, Roast Chicken Wings & Home Grown Vegetable

We set out on our morning walk late because we overslept. 
Morning sky at 7:10am.
When we have walked enough, we stopped to buy the above Nyonya kuih. Tapioca cake on the left and glutinous rice with sambal shrimp and grated coconut wrapped in banana leaf on the right.
Then we walked to Bai Nong White Coffee for breakfast. We ordered a bowl of rice vermicelli in clear soup, fish balls and 2 stuffed bitter gourd for sharing.
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Back home in our garden.
This is hubby's project. After watching some youtube videos, hubby came up with this idea of planting vegetables. As we don't have much space in our side garden, this vertical method will help us save space if the project is successful. He filled the pvc pipe with garden soil and took some of my vegetable seeds to sow in these openings that he made in the pipe.
Since hubby didn't install the self-watering system, he has to water the plants manually.
This is how it looks like now. These are green amaranth (yeen choy). Very encouraging to see the vegetables growing well. Thanks to the success of hubby's project, we can now grow more and different types of vegetables for our own consumption.
This is also green amaranth (yeen choy) which are planted in the ground in front of my house. Some of these are due for harvest and I cut enough for dinner.
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Home cooked dinner.
Plain blanched green amaranth (yeen choy). I was lazy to make garlic oil so I didn't use any.
I roasted 10 pieces of chicken wings.
The chicken wings were marinated with soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey and some sugar.
I cooked dried noodles. Since there is no garlic oil available, I used chili oil and soy sauce to mix the noodle.
This was our dinner. For appetizer, we had some pickled ginger from the fridge.


You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God.
He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
(Matthew 5:6, The Message-MSG)

36 comments:

  1. Wow! I really like your hubby's vertical method of planting vegetables! It is so decorative too. I love your home cooked dinner especially the beautifully browned chicken wings.

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    1. Thank you, PH. We are glad that hubby's project is a success.

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  2. That is a great idea to plant the seedlings in the pipe! The chicken wings look delicious.

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  3. I love the fish balls noodles...and the chicken wings and the nyonya kuehs too!!! Your own-tossed noodles look like our kampua mee or kolo mee kosong.

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    1. Your hubby's an expert at gardening too. So nice to plant one's own vegetables, 100% organic, pesticide-free.

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    2. Thank you, STP. Have a wonderful day.

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    3. I am glad he has the interest in gardening now. We are buying less vegetables now since we have our own supply of greens.

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  4. Lots of great food, my mouth is watering. Love your hubby's vertical planting, what a great idea. i could do that on my balcony! Hugs, Valerie

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    1. Vertical planting will be great for your balcony. It won't take up much space.

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  5. You have a really cool garden! The vertical planter looks great.

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  6. Your hubby's effort looks fantastic, and he's a talented artist to make it look decorative as well! I could clearly see how much green it had generated. Wonderful dinner combo!

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    1. Thank you, Jeevan. It is a great and productive way for hubby to occupy himself.

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  7. Nancy compliments your husband on the container he has made for planting. It would be interesting if you published the link of the video through which he learned how to do it

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    1. He can't remember which videos he watched but he said you can just google for "vertical planting tower using pvc pipes" to give some ideas.

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  8. Love they sky shot and you know how much I love your food. Now I'm hungry.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday, Nancy. ♥

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    1. Thank you, Sandee. Have a beautiful weekend.

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  9. You have a very clever husband. I am impressed. I really like glutinous rice and could eat it every day.

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    1. Thank you, Gigi. I too love glutinous rice but can't take it too often.

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  10. Nice way to get more food grown. My husband remembered when we ate strawberries I had planted on side of single wide trailer we lived in New Mexico. It would be a good idea to do it again. Have a blessed day.

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    1. I would love to plant strawberry but our weather is not suitable, too hot for strawberries. Have a blessed weekend.

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  11. Oh, I would so like to taste a banana leaf - you eat that, right? Or is it more like a "plate"?

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    1. The banana leaf is for serving, to line a plate or act as a plate when eating Indian banana leaf rice.

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  12. Thank you Nancy for opening our eyes on your husband's ingenious vertical vegetable garden. Was it easy to cut openings in the pipe?

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    1. Thank you, Mun. He did it all by himself. He did spend time thinking how to go about the project and cutting and making the holes in the pipe.

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  13. Oh my goodness, he made the pipe GORGEOUS!!

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  14. Ricos fideos, genial maceta . Te mando un beso.

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  15. The food look really nice. What a great idea growing veggies up a PCV Pipe....well done to your husband and you of course too Nancy.

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  16. Ohh good job on that pvc pipe garden.

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