Beautiful Sunset & Home Grown Chinese Cabbage

A friend sent me the following sunset shots which he took from his house on Monday evening. His house is less than 5 km from my house. I was busy cooking dinner, so I missed taking snapshots of the sunset that evening.

Sunset photos credit to: KC Boey

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I had this sambal shrimp paste for cooking stinky beans but I can't remember where I bought it from.

This is from a local manufacturer.

I used the paste to cook stinky beans with minced pork. As you can see, the paste was dark in colour. It is on the sweet side. I prefer the paste to be less sweet and more spicy. I used some oil to fry the minced pork before adding the paste. So, I ended up with a lot of oil and I will have to scoop up the oil from the plate before we start our dinner.

I needn't have to buy green vegetables since I had Chinese cabbage growing in my front garden.

 Just 2 plants is enough for a plate of green for dinner.

I blanched the vegetable in hot boiling water, drizzled some garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce over it. I added the remaining crunchy roasted almond chips on top.

This was our dinner with steamed brown rice.

The above photo was taken before I added the almond chips.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

The Lord's blessing is our greatest wealth.

All our work adds nothing to it!

(Proverbs 10:22, The Living Bible-TLB)

Braised Fall Off The Bones Pork Ribs & Blanched Chinese Cabbage

We were ready to start our morning walk and were out of our house by 7:10am.

Sunrise at 7:14am.

7:18am

7:19am

7:20am

7:21am

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Hubby's friend recommended a place for breakfast. We found the placed closed for that day so we ended in another nearby coffee shop for breakfast.

Hubby ordered herbal duck noodle in soup.

I took a walk around to look at all the stalls and ended up ordering the above fried mung bean noodle. This was a nice and decent breakfast.

I harvested another batch of home grown Chinese cabbage for dinner.

Blanched home grown Chinese cabbage and topped with crunchy chili oil and soy sauce.

Braised fall off the bones pork ribs using pressure cooker.

This was my first time cooking this and this was delicious.

This was our dinner with steamed brown rice.

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From my garden. These periwinkles are all self propagated.

White periwinkles.

Pink or purplish periwinkles.

Deep pink or purple periwinkles growing out from the same pot as the mother-in-law tongue plant.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

He personally carried the load of our sins in his own body

when he died on the cross so that we can be finished with sin

and live a good life from now on.

For his wounds have healed ours!

(1 Peter 2:24, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Grown Chinese Cabbage & Steamed Pork Rib

I have tried to grow some leafy green vegetables before but they didn't turned out well. There must be something which I didn't do right.

I didn't want to give up easily so I bought the above seeds to try again. I sowed the seeds in a small container. Once the seedlings sprouted, I prepared the vegetable patch. This time, I loosen the soil and mixed in with growth fertilizer and left it for a few days. We were in the midst of rainy days. After the seedlings have grown the 2nd leaves, I transferred them to the vegetable patch.

I finally have success in growing leafy vegetables!

Freshly harvested for our dinner.

Washed and broken into pieces, ready to be cooked.

Home grown Chinese cabbage simply sauteed with garlic and salt.

Pork ribs steamed with fermented black beans, chopped garlic and ginger, chilies, dark and light soy sauce, salt and sugar to taste.

Satisfying dinner for a rainy evening.

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The following photos were from the Antong Coffee Mill when we visit in June, 2016.

A statue of Dr. Sun Yat Sen in front of the house where he stayed in when he was in Taiping.

This house is next to the Antong coffee mill. Dr. Sun Yat Sen and Chen Cuifen stayed here when they were in Taiping.

Portraits and other artifacts are kept in the upper room. The ground floor is used for coffee tasting and selling of coffee products.

Linking to Image-in-ing, Tuesday's Treasures and Happy Tuesday.

For if you give, you will get!

Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure,

pressed down, shaken together to make room for more,

and running over. Whatever measure you use to give - large or small -

will be used to measure what is given back to you."

(Luke 6:38, The Living Bible-TLB)