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)

Wan Tan Noodle & One Dish Home Cooked Dinner

Last Friday we went out to buy prawns.  There is a stall that will only open on Friday morning.

That Friday, this roadside stall was crowded with customers waiting to buy fish and prawns for the Chinese New Year celebration.

Fish and prawns selling like hot cakes.

I didn't want to wait around. I quickly bought 2 kilos of prawns at RM60 per kilo. A friend wanted 1 kilo and 1 kilo for myself.

After cleaning, I was too tired to cook dinner so we went to Buntong village for wan tan noodle.

That evening I only want a bowl of minced meat dumplings (wan ton) because I was not very hungry.

I have seen mother-in-law plants flower but so far the ones in my garden have yet to flower.

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I have harvested some bok choy from my hubby's vertical garden.

I had a small taro in my fridge. I cooked the taro with garlic and dried shrimp and added the bok choy to the taro. This is the 1 dish dinner with steamed brown rice on a lazy evening.

Saw this cat outside a shop. Just look at how it sat.

I saw this cat outside a restaurant and it look sleepy.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

My son, obey your father's commands,

and don't neglect your mother's instruction.

Keep their words always in your heart.

Tie them around your neck.

When you walk, their counsel will lead you.

When you sleep, they will protect you.

When you wake up, they will advise you.

(Proverbs 6:20-22, The Living Bible-TLB)

Harvesting Home Grown Veggie For Dinner

After about a week plus without rain, it has started to rain again. This time, it usually rains in the afternoon or evening.

Sunrise at 7:25am.

Hubby's vertical garden.

Bok choy growing in hubby's vertical garden.

Some were ready for harvest.

These were harvested for dinner.

Minced meat with egg patties, ginger slices and bok choy in soup.

Sitiawan mee sua or wheat noodle in soup for dinner.

Mee Sua will always reminds me of my childhood years in Sitiawan.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

For the reverence and fear of God are basic to all wisdom.

Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.

"I, Wisdom, will make the hours of your day more profitable and

the years of your life more fruitful."

Wisdom is its own reward, and if you scorn her,

you hurt only yourself.

(Proverbs 9:10-12, The Living Bible-TLB)

Curry Noodle & Clear Soup Noodle At Kedai Kopi Ah Chow, Ipoh

This was a Sunday (yesterday), so instead of morning walk, we were preparing to attend Sunday church service.

Sunrise at 7:35am

We were on the way out to Ipoh old town for breakfast at Kedai Kopi Ah Chow.

Rice vermicelli with bbq pork, chicken and prawns in clear soup for me. The prawns were hidden under the noodle.

Hubby ordered curry noodle (dry version) but he didn't specify "dry version", so he was served the usual curry noodle. Poor me drooling over the curry noodle. I am still being a good girl, refraining from spicy food.

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We attended 2 church services at different churches and after the 2nd church service, we attended a sponsored buffet lunch at one of the Salvation Home For The Aged near our area. It was a triple celebration (Christmas, New Year 2023 & Chinese New Year).

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Home cooked dinner.

I finally get to cut down and cleared the bottle gourd vines from my garden. Ingredients for boiling soup: Half bottle gourd, 1 corn on cob, carrot and soft bones.

Hubby's bowl of soup without carrot.

My bowl of soup without the corn. I love corn but have to avoid because it may cause indigestion and wind/gas.

I harvested some home grown siew pak choy or bok choy from the garden. I just plain blanched it.

This is fermented beancurd (fu yue). This is hubby's favourite whenever I cook porridge at home. Recently, I found a way to enjoy this with my rice. I just take a cube and mix it with my steamed brown rice so that I don't get the flat taste in my mouth.

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I found the following mural in the Heritage Town Cafe Gopeng which we visited in June, 2022.

Some chairs covered with black plastic were blocking part of the mural.

Hope to revisit Gopeng soon in the near future.

Linking to Monday Mural.

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.

They are plans for good and not for evil,

to give you a future and a hope.

(Jeremiah 29:11, The Living Bible-TLB)