Baked Chicken Wings, Corn Soup & Malabar Spinach

 This was one of the rainy days in the monsoon season.

Starting out on our morning walk at 7am.

7:05am

7:10am

7:15am

My breakfast at one of our regular coffee shop: croissant with butter+kaya and unsweetened black coffee. I was about to start eating the croissant when I suddenly remembered that I want to take a snapshot of my breakfast. Hubby ordered this usual: shredded chicken noodle (kai si hor fun).

Walking home after breakfast - 8:10am.

8:15am.

A friend coming to collect some pineapple baby plants from me.

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Home cooked dinner.

Baked chicken wings.

I cut each chicken wings into 3 parts. I kept the tips of the wings for boiling soup or for stew. I collect the drummets and mid-section and marinated them with salt, oyster sauce and sugar before roasting them in the oven.

Blanched malabar spinach which I bought from the roadside stall.

Delicious soup on a rainy evening.

Ingredients: 2 corn on cob, carrot, goji berries and pork ribs.

This was a no-rice dinner for hubby and I.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

We glide along the tides of time as swiftly as a racing river

and vanish as quickly as a dream.

We are like grass that is green in the morning but mowed down

and withered before the evening shadows fall.

(Psalm 90:5-6, The Living Bible-TLB)

Salted Egg Yolk Chicken, Fried Chicken, Chicken Curry, Corn & Daikon Soup

This was on a Monday morning. It was nice and cool because it rained the previous night.

Breaking of dawn - 7am.

Sunrise at 7:26am

That morning I was thinking of nasi lemak.

When I was at the stall, I bought 1 nasi lemak and also bought 1 nasi kunyit (turmeric glutinous rice) with chicken and potato curry. We shared the nasi lemak and nasi kunyit.

I found a packet of prawn cracker (not yet fried), given by a friend before EMCO, followed by FMCO. It was not a big packet so I fried and gave some to this friend.

Our neighbour was so kind and thoughtful. When they went out to buy their lunch, they bought 2 sets of lunch for us as well.

Set 1 - Nasi Lemak with egg and fried chicken.

Sambal sauce for the nasi lemak.

Set 2 - Salted egg yolk fried pork & egg with rice.

Salted egg yolk sauce for the fried pork.

They also bought the above crunchy pickled papaya for our snack.

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After such a heavy and filling lunch, we wanted something light for dinner.

So I just boiled soup for the warm evening.

Ingredients for the soup: Daikon, corn, carrot, big onions, goji berries and meat.

A bowl of soup for hubby.

I love carrots so you will notice that my bowl had a lot of carrot.

Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow,

do you see how essential it is to live a holy life?

Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival.

The galaxies will burn up and the elements

melt down that day - but we'll hardly notice.

We'll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens,

and the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness.

(2 Peter 3:11-13, The Message-MSG)

Steamed Buns, Glutinous Rice In Lotus Leaf & Father's Day Treat

This was Monday, a day after Father's Day. I thought of cooking something special for Father's Day but hubby told me to keep it simple.

Sunrise at 7:35am

Sunrise at 7:40am

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On our way home from morning walk, we detoured to the Dim Sum Restaurant to buy steamed buns for breakfast and for lunch.

Hubby didn't want steamed bun so he bought fried economy noodle from the roadside stall. I ate the "kai woh pau" which is steamed bun with a layer of glutinous rice at the bottom.

My breakfast with 2-in-1 black coffee.

Inside of the "kai wor pau".

Steamed bun with chicken and mushroom filling on top of a layer of glutinous rice.

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Lunch

We had lunch with warm honey lemon drink.

Glutinous rice wrapped in dried lotus leaf.

Glutinous rice inside the lotus leaf.

Steamed bun or "san yuk pau".

This is hubby's favourite steamed bun.

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Our friend called up to inform me that she has ordered fried noodles and the noodles will be delivered to my address. Its a belated Father's Day treat for hubby.

Father's Day dinner which could easily feed 4 people.

I had already boiled soup.

"Wat tan hor" - 1 portion.

Flat rice noodle with thick egg gravy.

Fried rice vermicelli or beehoon - 1 portion.

Blanched beansprout.

Meatballs in clear soup.

Sambal belacan for the noodles.

My friend took advantage of the special promo by Tuck Kee Restaurant.

We realized that the food plus the soup was too much for us so we decided to keep the soup for next day. We managed to finish most of the food except for half of the fried noodle.

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A friend sent me the following photos of an iquana that visited her brother's back yard.

#1

#2

Don't you think it looks pretty in this pose.

Photos credited to: AshleyJ / Nyappy#

Thank you, dear friend for sharing these photos.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years,

doing the best for us that they knew how,

but God's correction is always right and for our best good,

that we may share his holiness.

Being punished isn't enjoyable while it is happening - it hurts!

But afterwards we can see the result,

a quiet growth in grace and character.

(Hebrews 12:10-11, The Living Bible-TLB)

Glutinous Rice Dumplings & Corn Soup For Dinner

Yesterday, a friend dropped by to give us 4 glutinous rice dumpling aka "bak chang". The dumpling festival or the dragon boat festival falls on the 14th June, 2021 (today). There are many versions of glutinous rice dumplings and each dialect has their own version using different types of ingredients to make the dumplings. These days, we can conveniently buy and enjoy bak chang throughout the year and need not have to wait for the festival which is celebrated once a year. Okay, let's get back to my post for today.

A pair of pigeons on the power cable above us on our morning walk.

Our morning walk will take us pass a roadside stall selling nasi lemak and economy fried noodle. Hubby ordered a packet of economy fried rice vermicelli and collected it on our way back. This way we needn't have to wait with the other customers.

Economy fried noodle is easily availabe in our area but this is our favourite especially with the added sweet and spicy sambal.

Half boiled egg for hubby.

We shared the toast and the fried noodle.

2 green brinjals or eggplants harvested from my garden.

Harvested 4 long green okras from my garden.

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Lunch

I heated up the leftover Hokkien prawn noodle soup from the previous day. 

I didn't want noodle so I poured some soup over the blanched the eggplants and okras for my lunch. Weird? No?

With the remaining soup, I cooked noodle for hubby with thin slices of pork belly and blanched chives.

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Dinner

I was not in the mood to cook dinner because the weather is hot. I told hubby that we will be having glutinous rice dumplings (which we bought a few days earlier).

As usual, 1 dark and 1 lighter shade dumpling.

Just before dinner, our neighbour gave us home made corn soup. So we had bak chang with corn soup for dinner.

Meat, beans and salted egg yolk as filling.

We each had half of the lighter shade and half of the darker shade bak chang. They both taste just as good.

Thanks to our neighbour for this delicious soup. With so many ingredients or treasures, we can taste the natural sweetness of the soup.

This is what I have asked of God for you:

that you will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love,

and that you will have the rich experience of knowing Christ

with real certainty and clear understanding.

For God's secret plan, now at last made known, is Christ himself.

In him lie hidden all the mighty,

untapped treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

(Colossians 2:2-3, The Living Bible-TLB)