Drunken Prawn Soup For Dinner

This was a Tuesday morning in April.

Sunrise at 7:12am

Starting out on our morning walk.

After a round of morning walk, we stopped at one of our regular coffee shop for shredded chicken noodle (kai si hor fun).

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Home cooked dinner.

Drunken Prawns Soup, great for rainy days.

(Prawns, home made glutinous rice wine, wood fungus, goji berries, ginger)

Minced pork with belimbing buluh, dried chilies, garlic.

Sauteed home grown green amaranth with garlic and salt.

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One morning, we were in town and hubby made a stop near the GreatWall Cafe at Jalan Lau Ek Ching. I was waiting for him in the car and I happened to turn my head and saw this mural on the side wall of the cafe.

When hubby returned to the car, I got down to take a few snapshots.

Hmmm....smelling the nice aroma of coffee.....

On the side wall.

An appropriate mural on the side wall of the Greatwall Cafe.

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)

Meat With Belimbing Buluh Strips & Fried Fish With Ginger

This was sometime in January this year before the Chinese New Year. 

Morning sky at 7:30am.

This snapshot was taken halfway during our morning walk.

Morning sky at 7:35am.

Facing the Kledang Hill, 7:40am.

Same as above.

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Our friend's belimbing buluh or cucumber tree has started to fruit.

The above are the belimbing buluh fruits. Belimbing buluh is known as Averrhoa bilimbi and some of the common names are bilimbi, cucumber tree or tree sorrel. The fruits do look like mini cucumbers. It is a small tropical tree native to Malaysia and Indonesia, and can reach up to 15m in height.

Belimbing buluh is a fruit bearing tree.

The fruit is used for its natural sour or acidic flavour. The fruits can be pickled, eaten raw, or added to cooking. I received some belimbing buluh fruits from our friend and was taught how to use it to cook an appetizing dish.

These are the pretty flowers of the belimbing buluh.

This is the dish cooked with belimbing buluh.

Instead of using pickled vegetable (hum choy), just replace it with belimbing buluh cut into thin strips. Fry chopped garlic in oil, stir fried meat strips (I used pork), add in belimbing buluh, chilies, onions and seasoning such as oyster sauce, salt and sugar to taste. Add in some cornflour slurry, taste and serve. Best served with white rice or porridge.

We also had fried fish served with ginger strips and crunchy chili oil on the side. It was a very appetizing dinner eaten with plain white porridge.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God.

He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.

(Matthew 5:6, The Message-MSG)