Buns & Bread And Sweet Sour Pig Trotter

There are mornings when the sky is just gray with no sign of sunrise in sight. Then I will be looking for some other interesting things to take snapshots. There is one newly renovated double storey corner house that we used to pass by.

The new owner has planted these decorative trees and grass on this raised up area.

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Breakfast

We had steamed buns (from neighbour) for breakfast.

2 buns with bbq pork filling and 2 with chicken curry filling.

These 2 baked buns with bbq pork filling were for mid morning snack.

For lunch, we had Campbell's chicken soup and bun with garlic butter spread.

These corn on cobs were for afternoon snack.

I bought some century eggs and I remember I have pickled ginger in the fridge. Century egg drizzled with a bit of sesame oil is best eaten with pickled ginger.

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Home cooked dinner.

Sweet, sour, and spicy pig trotter dish. 

Just this dish alone is enough to go with steamed rice.

Sunset at 7:15pm

This lovely sunset made up for the lack of sunrise.

There is one public pay phone booth still standing in front of the row of shop houses. On a closer look, one can see that it is no longer working because the receiver is missing. These days, hardly anyone would use a public pay phone. Almost everyone has a hand phone.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

So get rid of all that is wrong in your life, both inside and outside,

and humbly be glad for the wonderful message we have received,

for it is able to save our souls as it takes hold of our hearts.

(James 1:21, The Living Bible-TLB)

Chicken Soup And Fried Fish Slices

This was last Saturday when younger son was back with us for the long weekend before the movement control order was enforced. As usual, hubby and I got up for our morning walk. 

I don't feel like eating noodle, so I bought 2 pieces peanut pancake at RM1 per piece. I was able to finish 2 pieces because they were not very big pieces, approx. about 2x3 inches.

Stopped on the way back to take a snapshot of this red hibiscus (our National flower) by the roadside.

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2nd home cooking dinner for son.

Boiled chicken soup.

Ingredients used: free range chicken, onions, white peppercorns and salt to taste.

Sauteed long beans with garlic and salt.

A friend gave me the long beans.

I had leftover meat balls from the previous day's dinner.

I cooked the meatballs to make another dish using pineapple, water chestnuts, carrot, oyster sauce, sugar and some water for the gravy.

Deep fried grouper fish slices and drizzled with ginger strips and soy sauce.

Men have trained, or can train, every kind of animals

or bird that lives and every kind of reptile and fish,

but no human being can tame the tongue.

It is always ready to pour out its deadly poison.

(James 3:7-8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Curry Noodle & Chicken Arrowroot Soup On A Cool Day

Last week, both of our regular coffee shops were closed for 2 days. Coincidentally, the rest days of both the coffee shops fell on the same days i.e. Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, we went to another nearby coffee shop for breakfast after our morning walk. On and off, we will have breakfast at Restoran Kee Tuck Seak because hubby likes to eat the wat tan hor or the flat rice noodle with thick egg + cornflour gravy.

Whenever he comes to this coffee shop, he will order this wat tan hor and unsweetened black coffee.

This is my first time ordering the curry noodle. For drink, I ordered unsweetened coffee with evaporated milk (kopi-c kosong).

Multi layered petals yellow hibiscus.

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Home cooked dinner for 2 people.

Hubby got so bored with eating angled luffa from our garden. He will just eat a few spoonful and the rest will be finished by me. I love angled luffa for its natural sweetness.

Arrowroot + peanuts + chicken soup.

To soften the peanuts, I boiled the peanuts with water in the pressure cooker. Then I add in the arrow root, red dates without pit, goji berries, carrot, chicken legs to boil again. Some people will drink the soup without eating the other ingredients but I love to the drink as well as eat the soften peanuts and carrot without eating any rice.

I saw these posters at Kapitan Kongsi Hotel, Malacca.

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

My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret,

when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw me when I was formless;

all my days were written in your book and

planned before a single one of them began.

God, how precious your thoughts are to me;

how vast their sum is!

(Psalm 139:15-17, Christian Standard Bible-CSB)

Chicken Soup, Sambal Petai, Steamed Pork & Angled Luffa

This is another one of our shared and combined dinner with our friend that we had in my house. I prefer to cook because I need to use up the produce from my garden when they are fresh harvested. If kept in the fridge for too long, they lose their freshness and natural sweetness.

My friend wanted to contribute a pot of chicken soup. She bought a free range chicken to boil this delicious soup for 4 people. 

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From my kitchen....

Sambal petai and home grown okra.

Steamed minced pork with preserved vegetable (tong choy).

Home grown Angled Luffa with prawns and egg.

It pleases me to have all the dishes finished and no leftover.

Morning sky during this rainy season.

Red and purple bougainvillea from my garden.

Antique copper tap and fire extinguisher mounted on the wall of a restaurant.

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

Another time he asked,

"Who ever heard of someone lighting a lamp

and then covering it up to keep it from shining?

No, lamps are mounted in the open where they can be seen.

(Luke 8:16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Cooked Chicken Soup & Noodle For Dinner

It was a Monday and we were expecting guests. Our friends dropped by our house for a visit before they proceeded to their hometown.

Our friends love sweet dessert (tong sui). I cooked sweet oatmeal (bubur gandum in Malay). I like to add fresh corn to the oatmeal porridge and I am glad that they like it too.

On Sunday we passed by this fence with the bougainvillea plant in full bloom.

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Most of our towns and cities were covered with haze and we tried to stay indoor. Even though the sky is hazy, it was not hot and humid. Here is one of my simple home cooked dinners.

I cooked soup using chicken bones stock. I added 2 chicken leg, enoki mushrooms, homegrown spring onions, and smashed ginger.

We each had a big bowl of chicken leg soup. It may look plain but delicious when eaten with chili oil.

A plate of noodle for hubby. He likes his noodle mixed with dark sauce, light soy sauce, garlic oil and some chili oil.

Antiques: Photo of typewriter, camera, binoculars and others taken at the Flea market.

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

And now that I am old and gray, don't forsake me.

Give me time to tell this new generation (and their children too)

about all your mighty miracles.

(Psalm 71:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Cooked Chicken Soup & Veggie For Dinner

It looks like the rainy season has started. No morning walk whenever it rains in the morning.

Gloomy sky since early morning and was drizzling on and off the whole day.

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Below, I am sharing home cooked dinner for 2 evenings.

1st dinner

Chicken soup boiled with shallots, smashed ginger and smashed peppercorns.

Since not eating any rice, added in 2 pototoes that were beginning to sprout.

Steamed French Beans and served with spicy dried shrimp paste (home made).

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 2nd dinner

 Stinky beans & minced pork cooked with home made spicy dried shrimp paste. This portion was kept in the fridge and re-heated and the beans not so green.

Using the remaining home made spicy dried shrimp paste to stir fry asparagus and home grown okras.

Nice and neat concrete fence or wall with part metal grille from a residential area.

Linking to Good Fences.

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have.

Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless - like chasing the wind.

(Ecclesiastes 6:9, New Living Translation-NLT)

Chicken Soup & Salad For Dinner On A Warm Evening.

This morning I went to the post office to post a letter. It was a bright, sunny morning. It was still early as you can see the vacant parking places.

This is our main post office, near the Ipoh Railway Station.

Buttercup flower from my garden.

These flowers brighten up my garden.

Red and purple periwinkles also add colours to my garden.

These were harvested from my garden.

Midday sky with white floating clouds at 12:45 pm.

Blue sky and white clouds in the afternoon at 4:25 pm.

I have decided to cook chicken soup and make a simple salad for dinner.

I steamed the 2 eggplants and 1 lady finger that I harvested from my garden and added them to this lettuce and tomato salad.

Simple salad with Kewpie Toasted Sesame dressing.

Chicken soup

(free range chicken, ginkgo nuts, shallots and crushed peppercorn)
Dinner without rice for 2 people.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but not crushed and broken.

We are perplexed because we don't know why things happen as they do,

but we don't give up and quit.

(2 Corinthians 4:8, The Living Bible-TLB)