Glutinous Rice Dumplings Coloured With Blue Pea

A friend delivered some home made glutinous rice dumplings to us before the dumpling festival. For the past few years she has been blessing us with her home made glutinous rice dumplings.

I steamed to heat up the dumplings for breakfast after we returned from our morning walk. The dumplings were not big, so I added 2 pieces of toast.

As you can see, half the rice used was blue (from the blue pea flower).

Very delicious and tasty dumpling.

Some of the ingredients used: Black eyed beans, dried shrimp, mushroom, diced pork, and etc.

Morning sky at 9:35am.

Hubby went out to buy Indian rice. The fried chicken from this stall is very popular with the locals. There used to be long queue but due to lockdown, the queue is shorter now.

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Dinner

There was another portion of stewed chicken feet with mushroom in the fridge, which I heated up for dinner.

It tasted better after being kept overnight in the fridge.

Blanched home grown sweet potato leaves and 1 last long green okra, drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Simple dinner with noodle.

Bauhinia Kockiana blooms from my front garden.

This is the most attractive plant of my garden.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Kindness makes a man attractive.

And it is better to be poor than dishonest.

Reverence for God gives life, happiness,

and protection from harm.

(Proverbs 19:22-23, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Made Mochi Snack

It was raining when we woke up yesterday morning, (76th day MCO). When the rain stopped, hubby went out to the nearby shop to buy his breakfast.

 Hubby's breakfast: Fried yee mee.

 I don't feel like eating noodle so I ate cream crackers with home made pineapple jam and peanut walnut butter.

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Lunch for 2 people

 Hubby went out to help a friend submit documents for some claims and the way home, he stopped to buy a packet of rice with 2 spicy chicken drumsticks from the Mamak shop.

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Home made snack

Out of the blue, I felt like eating mochi which is a kind of soft sticky rice cake rolled in crushed peanut and sugar.

Ingredients for tossing (can be prepared ahead)

• Fine white sugar or brown sugar
• Crushed peanuts (coarseness or fineness depends on your preference)
• Mix the peanuts and sugar together in a plate (sweetness according to your taste)

Soft glutinous or sticky rice cake

Simple recipe:

• 120 gm glutinous rice flour
• 10 gm cornflour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp cooking oil (or shallot oil if preferred)
• 200 ml water

Mix all the above ingredients together until the salt dissolve.

Steam the mixture for about 15 minutes

Using a pair of chopstick, stir the steamed cake until it reaches a sticky consistency.

• Take out a portion of the steamed sticky rice cake and rolled into the peanut and sugar mixture.
• Then using spatula, cut the sticky rice cake into small bite pieces, covering the sticky rice with peanut and sugar mixture.
• I have left over toasted sesame seeds and I added the sesame to the peanut and sugar mixture.

Mochi for our mid afternoon snack.

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Dinner

Kitchen was closed because the lazy cook don't feel like cooking. 

Hubby went to buy take away dinner from the Claypot Chicken Rice shop.

 1 fried mackerel fish 

Sweet sour kai choy or Chinese mustard.

Stewed duck or puppy duck (kow chai ngap in Cantonese)

Dinner for 2 people with home steamed multi grain rice.

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Late night snack

 Left over mochi for late night snack while watching Singapore Chinese Drama. At the same time, by watching these dramas I hope to improve my Mandarin language.

An antique telephone

I can't recall where I saw this phone.

 Caladium: Thai Beauty

This caladium died off and disappeared from my garden. Hope it will reappear some day just like some of my caladium plants.

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

In a race everyone runs, but only one person gets first prize.

So run your race to win.

To win the contest you must deny yourselves many things

that would keep you from doing your best.

An athlete goes to all this trouble just to win a blue ribbon or

a silver cup, but we do it for a heavenly reward that never disappears.

(1 Corinthians 9:24-25, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lovely Sunrise On 72nd Day MCO

This is one of the days that I woke up feeling fresh and energetic. And when I stepped outside for our morning walk, the sunrise was bright and beautiful. It seemed like the sky was smiling down on us.

Sunrise at about 7:00 am.

7:30 am

That morning, hubby needn't have to buy breakfast.

Friend A blessed us with the above steamed yam cake.

And friend B blessed us with 2 steamed buns and all I have to do is to warm them up and made a pot of Sabah tea without sugar.

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Lunch

Hubby and I took a walk to the nearby food court to buy food from the Indian stall.

Social distancing seating arrangement.

We bought 1 packet of Indian rice to share. The packet consisting of white rice, prawns sambal, cabbage, fried fish and 2 fried chicken drumsticks. This stall is known for its fried chicken.

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Dinner

I boiled corn soup with carrot, wolf berries, and chicken breast meat.

This is left over stewed chicken with chestnut and mushrooms from the previous dinner. It tasted just as delicious after being kept in the fridge overnight.

Small portion of steamed multi grain rice for hubby and no rice for me.

Simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.

My Bauhinia Kockiana vines covering the front of my house.

Linking to Friday Bliss and Skywatch Friday.

No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a bowl or

hides it under a bed. A lamp is placed on a stand,

where its light can be seen by all who enter the house.

(Luke 8:16, New Living Translation-NLT)

Pan Mee For Breakfast & Indian Curry Rice For Lunch.

We had taken breakfast at Restoran Bandaraya once before and 2 Sundays ago, we were back at the same restaurant again for breakfast. I heard from my friend that there is a new stall operating and the Pan Mee is good and the waiting time for the food to be served is long. We made sure we were there early because we will be attending church after breakfast and we do not want to be late. The following items were our breakfast for that Sunday morning.

A bowl of "Pan Mee" noodle (this is worth the wait). Ingredients: hand made noodle, minced meat, crispy fried anchovies, green veggie, etc.

A piece of Mei Tau Koh (black eye bean cake) - very good!

Small plate of vegetarian beehoon.

 Small bowl of peanuts + mussels porridge.

 I looked around and most of the customers were waiting for the "Pan Mee" noodle.

More tables and chairs at the side under the open sky.

 Restoran Bandaraya, Kg Simee - next to the Paragon Hotel.

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After church which is about 12.30 pm, we drove to Ipoh Garden South for lunch. We stopped at Kedai Makanan & Minuman Fatt Kee at Tingkat Taman Ipoh 6. Ipoh Garden South. The moment I saw the Indian curry rice stall, I suddenly wanted something spicy!

We ordered this plate for 2 persons. White rice, dried spicy chicken, a piece of deep fried black pomfret fish, sambal stinky beans, etc. It was a delicious and a satisfying lunch for a Sunday. Then it was time to go home for an afternoon siesta.

Happy are those who long to be just and good,

for they shall be completely satisfied.

(Matthew 5:6, The Living Bible-TLB)