Grilled Stingray For Dinner

The rainy season is here and we have been having rain almost daily. Moderate rain is good for my plants and it helps cut down on electricity bill.

Morning sky at 7:06am.

On the reverse side, misty hills.

Simple breakfast consisting of Chinese crullers, ma keok and black coffee.

These angled luffas were harvested from my garden 2 days earlier and I gave some to my sister and a friend. 2 luffas is enough to cook a dish for 2 people.

2 days later, I harvested the remaining luffas from the garden before I removed the vines.

The final harvest of angled luffas.

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Rice and peanut porridge for lunch.

I almost forgot about the last few small taros in the fridge. They were still good and can be eaten. I boiled the small taros and removed the skin. Then I poured the leftover gravy from a dish over the taro. Boiled all 3 salted eggs because they have been sitting in the fridge for a long time.

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Dine-in dinner in a food court.

It was only 5:20pm and not many people around.

I thought of ordering the pandan rice but there were people queuing up. Hubby ordered curry noodle (no photo to show).

Hubby ordered grilled stingray so I decided not to order any food for myself. I made a cup of milo for myself before I went to bed.

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 The following photo was taken at the Antong Coffee Mill in Taiping.

Old fashioned grinding stones or pounding stones. Many of these are still in use. These were made from granite stones.

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

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,

even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

(Proverbs 27:22, New Living Translation-NLT)

Steamed Chicken With Dang Gui, Red Dates & Goji Berries

After our morning walk, hubby went out to buy his breakfast.

He bought steamed rice roll with yam bean filling (chee cheong fun). He added fish cake, fish ball and he opted for curry gravy instead of mushroom gravy.

I stayed home to make coffee and re-heated 2 curry puffs in the oven for myself.

Remaining strawberry apples and kiwi fruits for lunch.

The tiny apples were very crunchy and sweet.

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Home cooked dinner.

Steamed chicken, angled luffa and steamed rice.

Steamed half a chicken (seasoned with some salt) with red dates, goji berries and ginger slices.

Home grown angled luffas with dried shrimps.

Saw this pair of garden snails while on our morning walk.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

When the Lamb broke the third seal,

I heard the third living being say, "Come!"

I looked up and saw a black horse and

its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.

(Revelation 6:5, New Living Translation-NLT)

Hor Hee Or Fish Balls Noodle & Prawn Noodle

When we eat the same food too often, we can get bored. We have been limiting ourselves to the food found in our area and after a few months, we started to think of food which we don't have in our area. So for this particular morning, after we have finished our morning walk, we drove to Menglembu.

Hor Hee or Fish Balls Noodle for hubby (on the left)

Prawn Noodle for me (on the right).

Both without their soup.

Our breakfast.

Both noodles with their soup added.

Since we can't go to Penang Island for Prawn Noodle or Hokkien Mee, this prawn noodle will do to satisfy my craving. Instead of pork slices, they give fish cake slices.

I harvested the above from my garden: angled luffa, deep purple brinjal and some green brinjals. I gave the angled luffas to a friend and my sis, and kept the brinjals for myself.

Later in the morning, a friend came over to give me some of her home grown mulberries and banana.

Pisang awak has soft texture and not very sweet compared to other types of banana.

Chinese art murals painted on the wall surrounding a Chinese school.

More murals on the wall surrounding the Chinese school.

One of the Chinese art murals painted on the wall.

Linking to Monday mural.

Blessed is the Lord,

for he has shown me that his never-failing love

protects me like the walls of a fort!

(Psalm 31:21, The Living Bible-TLB)

Chicken Rendang With Mantou For Dinner

We started our morning walk early on this particular day. 

6:39am

Pink sunrise at 6:40am.

Hardly any traffic on the road on the right side.

Since we started out early, we finished our morning walk early.

We drove to Menglembu to buy breakfast. Our preferred coffee shop was closed, so we went to another coffee shop to buy takeaway curry noodles. Curry noodle with bbq pork and pig skin (dry version) for hubby. Curry noodle (soup version) with 3 pieces of yong tau foo for me.

2 angled luffa harvested from my garden for dinner.

Cut pear and gold kiwi fruit for lunch.

Late afternoon: Received a call from our neighbour telling me not to cook dinner. They have ordered 2 sets of chicken rendang and mantou from a Chinese restaurant for us. 

I only cooked this angled luffa + green okra dish with dried shrimp and egg.

This critter was fluttering here and there in my garden. It stopped and I quickly took out my handphone and took a snapshot from a distance. I had to zoom in because if I get too near, it will fly off again.

After the 1st shot, it fluttered off again and landed on this plant behind some flower pots. This is the best I managed. Not sure if this critter is a moth or a butterfly.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,

an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

(Proverbs 26:2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Chinese Herbal Soup & Stewed Pork Shoulder

I am sharing 2 days' short posts in this post.

DAY #1

Sunrise at 7:22am.

Morning sky at 7:23am.

Sunrise at 7:33am.

Green brinjals (eggplants) and ladies fingers (okra) from my garden.

I steamed all the green brinjals and ladies finger for dinner.

Drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce. 

Boiled Chinese Herbal Soup with pork soft bones.

Passed a portion of the soup over the fence to our neighbour.

This was a no rice dinner.

DAY #2

Sunrise shot on our morning walk.

Buttercake from a dear friend.

Only remember to snap photo after making the cut on the cake.

Stewed pork shoulder with potatoes, carrots and tomatoes.

Home grown angled luffa cooked with dried shrimps and egg.

Steamed rice for hubby.

For me, I ate toast with the stew.

Yums! I really enjoyed my dinner.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Everyone enjoys giving good advice, and how wonderful

it is to be able to say the right thing at the right time.

(Proverbs 15:23, The Living Bible-TLB)