Wednesday 8 February 2023

Blanched Bitter Lettuce & Apple + Pear Soup For Dinner

After morning walk and breakfast, we walked home from the nearby coffee shop. The morning is bright and sunny. That morning, I need to go to the clinic to get my blood result. 

Sweet fragrant Gardenia from my garden.
Everything is good except for my cholesterol level. The doctor didn't prescribe any medication but advised me to watch my diet, avoid oily food and to exercise. I will have to go back in 4 months' time for another blood test.
It is time to harvest some of the bitter lettuce leaves for dinner. This is the 1st time I have planted bitter lettuce and I don't know whether the leaves will be too old and fibrous.
These were harvested from the 2 bitter lettuce plants. I washed the leaves under running tap water and the water just run off the leaves.
Blanched bitter lettuce for dinner. Drizzled with garlic oil and some soy sauce.
Apple and pear soup.
This is my first time boiling this soup. I don't have dried figs so I used honey dates and goji berries, 1 big red apple and 1 pear. For meat, I used chicken breast meat. Hubby was having cough so this soup is good for him. I like this soup too, very soothing for the stomach.


It is good for workers to have an appetite;
an empty stomach drives them on.
(Proverbs 16:26, New Living Translation-NLT)

42 comments:

  1. The soup sounds great especially during cold weather.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Your soup sounds wonderful. Hope hubby is soon better, hugs, Valerie

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Valerie. He is much better now. Hugs.

      Delete
  3. Beautiful plants and I always love your food.

    You're not on medication so you're miles ahead of the game. I know you'll do what you need to do to get those numbers down.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday, Nancy. ♥

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Sandee. I have to be diligent and discipline in exercising.

      Delete
  4. Hi Nancy, let me tell you that I have cholesterol despite being thin.
    A few years ago I wrote this post. In case you want to read it:
    https://siempreseraprimavera.blogspot.com/2012/03/que-debemos-saber-sobre-el-colesterol.html

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Norma. The cholesterol level all along has been a bit high and I have been trying to keep it down. I love fried stuffs so now I really have to watch my diet.

      Delete
  5. ...I can almost smell the gardenia.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thank you Nancy. The soup you boiled is so delicious! How does the bitter lettuce taste like?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Surprisingly the bitter lettuce is good. In fact, it is less fibrous than the bok choy. I am glad I have planted a few more plants in my garden.

      Delete
  7. Your Gardenias are gorgeous! They look a bit like roses. I have never seen a real one. I hope your blood test results came out good???

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Ginny. Everything is good except I have to work at lowering the cholesterol.

      Delete
  8. I would love to taste some of the bitter lettuce! Your gardenia looks very beautiful.

    ReplyDelete
  9. The lettuce is stir-fried well in the pic.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Lettuce is good for blanching and stir fries.

      Delete
  10. Tasty soup and excellent advice from your doctor!

    ReplyDelete
  11. I'd love to try the bitter lettuce, never seen it before. I do enjoy those bitter vegetables like bitter gourd, radish leaves and so on.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Glad your blood test is ok. No worries! Everybody's cholesterol level is high. So good of your doctor not to prescribe any medication. Most will insist the patients take everything!!!

      Delete
    2. I have not tried radish leaves yet.

      Delete
    3. Yes, I was surprised. Most doctors would prescribe medication.

      Delete
  12. Proper diet and exercise are often the best treatment for cholesterol, i do hope it works for you.

    The soup sounds delicious.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Mimi. I do hope it works for me too. Only think is I have to be diligent in exercising.

      Delete
  13. Lindas plantas, me parece rica la sopa. Te mando un beso. https://enamoradadelasletras.blogspot.com/

    ReplyDelete
  14. Yes, I started to do exercise, too :-)
    The bitter lettuce looks very good!
    And a very interesting soup. Very interesting. Wonder if it´s sweet?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Iris. Yes, the soup tastes sweet because of the fruits and honey dates. I didn't put in any salt.

      Delete
  15. Hope your blood results are ok.
    Like that gardenia.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Margaret. Everything is ok except need to work on the cholesterol.

      Delete
  16. i haven't try apple & pear soup before...So is it savoury or sweet soup?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. The soup is very tasty and sweet on itself, no need salt to flavour it.

      Delete
  17. The leaves look a bit like 'tong ho'.

    My blood results have ALWAYS come back with high cholesterol too.

    ReplyDelete
  18. I tend to have a slightly high cholesterol too (I love cheese too much!), but I've been trying to be more careful with my diet, so hopefully it will be down at my next blood test, and I hope yours is too! The apple and pear soup looks delicious.
    Julia x
    https://www.thevelvetrunway.com/

    ReplyDelete

Your visits and encouraging comments are greatly appreciated. Please leave me your name and blog link for me to visit you. Thank you.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...