Blanched Bitter Lettuce & Apple + Pear Soup For Dinner

After morning walk and breakfast, we walked home from the nearby coffee shop. The morning is bright and sunny. That morning, I need to go to the clinic to get my blood result. 

Sweet fragrant Gardenia from my garden.

Everything is good except for my cholesterol level. The doctor didn't prescribe any medication but advised me to watch my diet, avoid oily food and to exercise. I will have to go back in 4 months' time for another blood test.

It is time to harvest some of the bitter lettuce leaves for dinner. This is the 1st time I have planted bitter lettuce and I don't know whether the leaves will be too old and fibrous.

These were harvested from the 2 bitter lettuce plants. I washed the leaves under running tap water and the water just run off the leaves.

Blanched bitter lettuce for dinner. Drizzled with garlic oil and some soy sauce.

Apple and pear soup.

This is my first time boiling this soup. I don't have dried figs so I used honey dates and goji berries, 1 big red apple and 1 pear. For meat, I used chicken breast meat. Hubby was having cough so this soup is good for him. I like this soup too, very soothing for the stomach.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

It is good for workers to have an appetite;

an empty stomach drives them on.

(Proverbs 16:26, New Living Translation-NLT)

Bok Choy & Bitter Lettuce From My Garden

If I am not mistaken, the rainy season started in November last year and has continued until today. I was about to go out to the garden to harvest the bok choy but it started to rain. I have to wait for about 5 hours for the rain to stop before I could go out to the garden.

Bok choy from my garden. Credit given to hubby for his effort.

Bitter lettuce from my garden. I will be harvesting the leaves for tomorrow's meal.

If not enough, I cut cut some from this plant.

A fun mural for today.

Animals spraying or gunning water at the female dulang washers.

A dulang washer is someone who pans tin sediments on the water's edge.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Sprinkle me with the cleansing blood and I shall be clean again.

Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

(Psalm 51:7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Edibles Growing In My Garden

These days, I have not been out for foodie hunt so today, I will share about the edibles growing in my garden.

Bitter Lettuce.

I got the seeds from a friend.

From the first sowing of seeds, only 2 seedlings sprouted successfully.

I thought the success rate was low, so I sowed all the remaining seeds and these sprouted. These are now grown in the veggie patch in front of my house next to my neighbour's.

Corn plants in the front veggie patch.

I have 4 yam beans growing in black plastic bags in the front garden. Hope there is something for me to harvest in the near future.

Skinny cauliflower plants.

Green brinjals.

Chili plants are still fruiting.

Snake long beans seedlings newly transferred to these big pots.

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We found the following mural during our short trip to Penang in 2022.

Children flying kites.

This mural was painted on the side wall of a corner shop.

Linking to Monday Mural.

The rich man thinks of his wealth as an impregnable defense,

a high wall of safety. What a dreamer!

(Proverbs 18:11, The Living Bible-TLB)