Thankful For The Food And Fruits Gifts

Since we can only start our morning walk at 7am, I tried to sleep and wake up later but it seems that my biological clock has been set and cannot be reset. To pass the time while waiting, I will read news and check messages on my hand phone. If it is still early, I will sweep the porch area and take snapshots of the morning sky.

Pink sunrise at 6:58am.

Sunrise partially hidden by dark cloud at 7:30am.

No more dark cloud at 7:33am.

Golden sunrise at 7:37am.

Starting of a warm day.

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Breakfast at home.

A friend gave us 4 home made glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang). I took out 2 from the fridge to steam for breakfast.

These 2 were peanuts and red beans "chang" or vegetarian dumplings.

Very yummy dumplings.

We had Chinese tea with the dumplings.

Bigger than palm size hibiscus from my garden.

Received the above gifts from our neighbour.

4 cup cakes individually wrapped in plastic bag.

Ready cooked sweet sour black pomfret in plastic container, kept for dinner.

Ready cooked stewed preserved vegetable with pork belly in plastic container, kept for dinner.

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Lunch

Cup cake with "tong sui"

I cooked sweet drink (tong sui) consisting of peach gum, dried longan, honey dates, red dates, goji berries, rock sugar and pandan leaves.

My portion of healthy snack to be eaten as I blog hopped.

Sweet Jackfruit from a friend's garden.

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Later in the afternoon, a friend who was shopping for essentials stopped in front of my house on her way home to bless us with the following:

From left to right: 2 green guavas, 2 mangoes, 5 apples, and some Jackfruits. So thoughtful and generous of our friend. This is more than a week's supply of fruits for us.

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Dinner

All I have to do was to heat up what my neighbour bought for us.

Sweet sour black pomfret.

Preserved vegetable (mui choy) with pork.

I just did a quick stir fry the beansprout and chives with garlic and salt to taste.

There was a little bit of this and that left behind. Not wanting to throw away food, the municipal trash bin (me) cleared up everything to avoid any leftover for the next day.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven!

What joys when sins are covered over!

What relief for those who have confessed their sins

and God has cleared their record.

(Psalm 32:1-2, 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)