Arrowroot + Lotus Root Soup & Steamed Brinjals

When we stepped out of our gate for morning walk, a lovely sunrise greeted us.

Sunrise at 7:07am.

Since I am already feeling very much better, I spent some time tidying up the garden.

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I haven't been cooking since my gastric problem started. Feeling energized, I decided to cook dinner yesterday evening.

Arrowroot (fan kok) + lotus root + carrot + red dates + goji berries + pork bones.

I had some home grown green brinjals and 1 purple brinjal in my fridge. Normally I will steamed the brinjals and later peel off the skin.                                    Compared to the purple brinjals, the skin of green brinjals is thin which makes it difficult for peeling. When cooked, I left the skin on the brinjals, slit them in half and drizzled them with oyster and soy sauce and garlic oil down the centre. The brinjals were soft and nice but the single purple brinjal took a longer time to soften. If you don't like to eat the skin, you can easily scrap off the soft flesh from the skin.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

Since we, God's children, are human beings - made of flesh and

blood - he became flesh and blood too by being born in human form;

for only as a human being could he die and

in dying break the power of the devil who had the power of death.

(Hebrews 2:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dim Sum Breakfast & Arrow Root With Peanut Soup For Dinner

 This was the 2nd Thursday of July. 

Sunrise at 7am.

Setting out for our morning walk.

This bird on the tip of the branch (opposite my house) was happily and loudly chirping away.

Sunrise at 7:03am

Sunrise at 7:10am

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We bought breakfast from the Dim Sum Restaurant.

Do you think we can finish all the above items?

First, we started on the glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf.

Next, we ate the "lam yee" pau or steamed bun with pork belly.

Between these 2 above, we chose one.

We chose the yam puff. It is only nice to eat when the outer skin is still crispy.

We kept the above 2 items for lunch.

Steamed bun (san yuk pau) and chicken pie (kai soh).

Pretty chive flower from my garden.

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Home cooked dinner

Soup: Arrowroot, peanut, carrot, red dates, goji berries and pork rib.

Stir fried broccoli and carrot with garlic and salt.

Fried egg for hubby and tuna with chili for me.

We accidentally bought this tuna with chili.

 Kept the leftover to make sandwich for next day's breakfast.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

In every battle you will need faith as your shield

to stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan.

And you will need the helmet of salvation

and the sword of the Spirit - which is the Word of God.

(Ephesians 6:16-17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Arrow Root Pork Rib Soup & Sambal Canned Sardin For Dinner

This was 1 week before Ipoh starts EMCO (enhanced movement control order). As usual, we did our morning walk and the following bird photos were taken during our walk home.

Birds in a line on the roof.

Birds in flight.

On the ground, we did our walking exercise.

Up above, the birds are doing their flying exercise, circling above us.

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Back home, I took out 2 glutinous rice dumplings from the fridge which hubby bought from the night market the day before and steamed them.

Dumplings (bak chang) in their leaf wrappings.

Our simple breakfast with 2-in-1 black coffee.

Both the white and black dumplings are equally delicious.

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Simple lunch

I bought these 2 vegetarian bean curd rolls from the roadside stall on our morning walk. I unwrapped one and cut for lunch.

Hubby's lunch.

I took out the previous night's leftover soup, heated it up for my lunch.

I took 2 cream crackers with strawberry jam with soup for lunch.

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Dinner

I boiled soup.

Ingredients used: arrow root, carrot, pork rib, red dates and gojiberries.

I used canned sardine to cook sambal sardine.

This can of sardine was bought during the 2nd MCO for cooking assam laksa but somehow it didn't happen.

I used up the remaining lettuce and capsicum for salad.

Steamed rice for hubby. No rice for me so I ate this plate of salad.

Only a small portion of sambal sardine was eaten so I kept the rest to make sardine sandwich for my breakfast.

Dredging buckets used for tin mining.

These were displayed at Palong Tin Mining Museum @ Kinta Riverfront, Ipoh.

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

Worship the Lord with the beauty of holy lives.

Let the earth tremble before him.

Tell the nations that Jehovah reigns! He rules the world.

His power can never be overthrown. He will judge all nations fairly.

Let the heavens be glad, the earth rejoice;

let the vastness of the roaring seas demonstrate his glory.

Praise him for the growing fields, for they display his greatness.

Let the trees of the forest rustle with praise.

(Psalm 96:9-12, The Living Bible-TLB)

Blessing From My Neighbour

Early Saturday morning, we drove to Bercham for our favourite beef soup. For 4 people, we ordered 4 bowls of beef soup (ngau lam tong) and 1 plate of fried beef noodle (ngau hor) to share.

Beef soup consisting of beef brisket, tripe, tendon and daikon. So far this is the best ngau lam soup that I have tasted.

2 figs harvested from my garden.

I managed to save my figs from the birds by using a bigger plastic bag.

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My neighbour blessed me with the following items.

A comb of green bananas. Will take some time to ripen.

Tiger prawns.

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My simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.

We had arrow root soup and home grown angled luffa with steamed rice.

Let your toots grow down into him and

draw up nourishment from him.

See that you go on growing in the Lord,

and become strong and vigorous

in the truth you were taught.

Let your lives overflow with joy and

thanksgiving for all he has done.

(Colossians 2:7, The Living Bible-TLB)