Fruitful Bottle Gourd Plants In my Garden

There are 3 bottle gourd plants growing in a big pot in my garden.

After harvesting the 1st batch of bottle gourds, more bottle gourds appeared on the vines.

Some of the gourds have different shapes.

But mostly, they are shaped like the above.

I love to see the gourds hanging down from the vines.

There was one hanging down right in the middle of the walking path and hubby and I sometimes get knocked on the head by the gourd. Recently, I harvested one of the biggest gourd and found that it grown a bit old. The skin got very, very hard to cut.

So, I quickly went out to the garden to harvest the above 6 gourds before they got too old. Fortunately, the flesh is still edible and haven't got fibrous. I have used 2 of the gourds for cooking our dinners and given away the other 4 gourds to friends.

1st dinner: A one dish dinner with steamed brown rice.

A self invented dish. I don't have a name for this dish. I made minced chicken breast meat + fish paste patties. I fried the patties. I lightly brown some chopped garlic in the pot, add the cut gourd and water and let it cook. When the gourd is soft, I add the patties and let it simmer a short while, add salt to taste. I forgot that the gourd will release water so it looks like a soupy dish. We finished the whole dish.

2nd dinner: We had boiled gourd soup, steamed Chinese sausage and steamed brown rice.

Ingredients for soup: Bottle gourd, pork rib, carrot, red dates, goji berrries and dried cuttlefish.

Steamed Chinese sausage with casing removed.

Chili and soy sauce dipping.

Visitors to my mini bottle gourd farm.

My friends were wowed by the size of the gourds.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Don't be impressed with your own wisdom.

Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

(Proverbs 3:7, New Living Translation-NLT)