Cooking Bitter Gourd With Fried Dace + Black Beans

In my area, there are 4 pharmacies. They are close to one another, as close as about 2 to 3 shops away or just across the road. The furthest one is only 200m away. I can easily reach any one of them in 3 minutes if I drive but if I were to walk, it will probably take me about 10 minutes. When the latest or 4th pharmacy opened, hubby and I visited and we came back with some nice free gift.

We each received a gift bag and each bag has the above items.

For every purchase of a certain amount (I can't remember how much), we get a free spin and both of us received the above toothpaste. These 2 tubes of toothpaste will last us for some time.

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Back in my garden.

Bitter gourd or bitter melon.

This round the bitter gourd plant was skinny and only produced 3 bitter gourds.

This was the first fruit and the biggest.

I harvested the first fruit and 2 long okras.

For dinner, I cooked the bitter gourd and okra with a tin of fried dace + black beans.

We had some leftover waxed duck from the previous day's dinner.

That evening, we had porridge with the above 2 dishes.

Linking To Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

A song to sing on the Lord's Day.

It is good to say thank you to the Lord,

to sing praises to the God who is above all gods.

Every morning tell him, "Thank you for your kindness,"

and every evening rejoice in all his faithfulness.

(Psalm 92:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Stew, Blanch, Steam, Fry & Bake Just For 1 Meal.

This is another pot bless or pot luck dinner we had with our friends. We informed each other what we were going to cook. We usually used whatever we have available in our fridge to cook the dishes. Here are the dishes I contributed to the dinner.

Stewed pork and home grown white and green bitter gourd with salted black beans and salted soy beans.

Blanched home grown white brinjals (eggplants), okra and French beans given by a friend.

Steamed egg and tofu.

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The following dishes were contributed by our friend.

Fried otak-otak.

Fried white pomfrets.

She also baked and brought along some cup cakes.

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We had dinner at about 4 pm because we didn't had any lunch. After washing up after dinner, we watched TV, chatted and then we droved over to the nearby food court to have some chilled dessert.

Hubby and I shared this cream corn with ice shaving.

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Sharing some plants photos here.

Found this spotted caladiums by the roadside.

Water Jasmine (multi layered petals) flower from my garden.

Water Jasmine (single layer petals) flowers from my garden.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

It is possible to give away and become richer!

It is also possible to hold on too tightly and lose everything.

Yes, the liberal man shall be rich!

By watering others, he waters himself.

(Proverbs 11:24-25, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pre-Merdeka Day Celebration With Home Cooked Dinner

We woke up early last Sunday morning and we went for our early morning walk. After a light breakfast, we walked back home. Then I swept the porch area, fed my guppies and watered the plants.

Cockscomb flowers in front of my house.

I noticed many baby plants around these plants. Will be expecting a lot of cockscomb flowers when they started to grow and flower.

Harvested 2 bitter gourds from my garden.

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Home cooked dinner on eve of Merdeka Day (Independence Day).

We celebrate Independence Day on the 31st August.

Pan fried soy sauce prawns.

I used one of the home grown bitter for stuffing with fish paste and minced pork.

I cooked 2 home grown angled luffa with prawns and egg.

Pre-Merdeka Day / Independence Day celebration with a simple home cooked dinner.

Linking to Garden Affair.

So let us celebrate the festival,

not with the old bread of wickedness and evil,

but with the new bread of sincerity and truth.

(1 Corinthians 5:8, New Living Translation-NLT)

Monday's Mish Mash

Yesterday, we woke up to another rainy morning. Hearing the pitter patter of the rain on the awning rood, I went back to sleep and woke up about 7:30 am to prepare breakfast. Initially, I thought of just having bread but later remembered that there were leftover steamed pork ribs and pumpkin from the previous day's dinner.

Breakfast

Noodle with leftover steamed pork rib + Nescafe for hubby

Oat porridge with leftover pumpkin, walnuts and cranberry for me.

Tiny white flowers from a Daikon plant in my garden.

I harvested a pale green bitter gourd from my garden. It is about 6 inches long. Could this be a cross between the green and white bitter gourd plants which I planted side by side? I can see a tinge of yellow, a sign of ripening.

Mid morning sky, on my way out to the grocery store.

When I returned home, my neighbour gave me this papaya.

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Dinner on a rainy day.

I checked the fridge to see what I have to clear. I took out an old cucumber to boil soup.

Old cucumber soup with pork ribs and carrot.

I pan fried half a packet of sweet meat.

Simple dinner with steamed rice, comforting on a cold and wet evening.

My bigger than palm size yellow hibiscus.

I took this snapshots under the midday sun.

He died under God's judgment against our sins so that

he could rescue us from constant falling into sin

and make us his very own people,

with cleansed hearts and real enthusiasm

for doing kind things for others.

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

Spending 2nd Sunday At Home - 12th MCO

This is the 2nd Sunday spent at home under MCO. Since the MCO started, instead of attending church, we have our Sunday worship at home. Thanks to the internet, we can go online for the Sunday message.

Beautiful Sunday morning @ 6:45 am.

 6:57 am

 7:20 am

 The sun rising from behind the mountain @ 7:27 am

 7:28 am

 On the opposite side, facing the sunrise.

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Breakfast on 2nd Sunday, MCO.

 Hubby bought "wat tan hor" or flat rice noodle with egg gravy from the nearby coffee shop. I made for him a cup of milo.

Special home made breakfast and a cup of hot cocoa for me.

3 pieces of bacon and cheese sandwiched between 2 pieces of wholemeal bread, wrapped with egg omelette.

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Lunch

 I boiled red beans and mung beans "tong sui" or sweet soup

 Pan toasted garlic butter bread.

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Dinner

Green bitter gourd cooked with oyster mushrooms.

Ingredients used: garlic, ginger, preserved black beans and dried prawns.

Corn soup with carrot, goji berries and chicken

 Bird's eye chilies, shallots in soy sauce dipping for the chicken meat. 

 Our simple home cooked dinner.

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From my garden.

Angled loofahs hanging from the vine.

 I have to mind my head when I go in and out of my garden.

Pretty white fairy lily flower.

The Girl: "I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley."

King Solomon: "Yes, a lily among thorns,

so is my beloved as compared with any other girls."

(Song of Solomon 2:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)