Harvesting Home Grown Daikon (White Radish) For Soup

There was a heavy downpour last evening. Even before the rain came, we could hear the sound of howling wind and approaching rain. It sounded scary but when the rain came, it was not as bad as expected. This morning, the ground was still wet and I need not have to water my plants.

Sunrise at 7:40am.

Sunrise with dark cloud at 7:45am.

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This small piece of land belongs to my neighbour. Instead of leaving it overgrown with weeds, they allow me to use it as a vegetable patch. It is just outside our house. With this small piece of land, I can grow 3 to 4 types of vegetables.

I have daikon or white radish growing here.

2 days ago, I harvested the above for boiling soup.

I used all the above to boil soup for 4 people, including the 2 young ladies (neighbour).

Ingredients for soup: daikons, red carrots, red dates, gojiberries and soft bones. Hubby and I didn't want any rice or noodle, just a big bowl of soup with the ingredients for dinner. I forgot to take snapshots of the soup.

Currently, hubby is busy with his new projects and one of them is growing Japanese roses.

Finally, my friend came to collect this avocado seedling.

It has been adopted.

Hope it will grow healthy and bear fruits.

And we believers also groan, even though

we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,

for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.

We, too, wait with eager hope for the day

when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,

including the new bodies he has promised us.

(Romans 8:23, New Living Translation-NLT)

Home Grown White Radish + Pork Rib Soup

There is not so much rain these few days. Since the morning is dry, we are able to resume our morning walk. The morning sky does look different.

Morning sky at 6:55am.

I was standing in the middle of the road. After taking this snapshot, I quickly walked to the side because there was a car coming towards me.

6:59am

7:00am.

Sunrise behind the trees at 7:16am.

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Breakfast at one of our regular coffee shop.

My breakfast: Char Siew Wanton Mee and herbal tea.

(wonton noodle, bbq pork, 5 minced pork dumplings = RM5.50)

Hubby's breakfast: Shredded chicken noodle (kai si hor fun) with Chinese tea RM5.50

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Back home in my garden.

Some of my white radish are ready for harvest.

I pulled out 3 white radishes.

These will be enough to boil soup for dinner.

Ingredients for soup: White radish, carrot, red dates, goji berries, dried cuttlefish and pork rib. There was enough soup to share with my neighbour.

Our simple dinner: White radish soup, leftover fish cake with king oyster mushroom, chili oil and steamed brown rice.

A friend came back from Taiping and gifted me with 2 bottles of delicious chili oil with crunchy bits.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

For the free gift of eternal salvation is now being offered to everyone;

and along with this gift comes the realization that God wants us

to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures

and to live good, God-fearing lives day after day,

looking forward to that wonderful time we've been expecting,

when his glory shall be seen - the glory of our great God

and Savior Jesus Christ.

(Titus 2:11-13, The Living Bible-TLB)

Loh Mee, Daikon Soup & Vegetable Acar

On this particular morning, we had breakfast at Restoran Meng Meng Kee, Menglembu new township. We managed to get a table for 4 people. We ordered 3 bowls of prawn noodle and 1 bowl of loh mee.

I ordered loh mee. I requested for a mixture of loh mee and prawn mee broth, meaning a more diluted loh mee broth. I don't like yellow noodle so I requested for rice vemicelli.

There were 2 couples. For each couple, we ordered 2 half boiled eggs and 2 slices of toast with butter and kaya.

I was looking for Kewpie roasted sesame dressing in my area but I only managed to find the above brand which I bought to try. This will do for the time being.

I used the roasted sesame dressing to make cucumber salad. It looks pale because I removed the skin from the cucumber. The ingredients used: cucumber, dried cranberry, pine nuts, walnuts, and roasted sesame dressing.

This season, this hibiscus plant has been blooming non stop with 1 to 2 flowers per day.

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Home cooked dinner for 2.

Daikon soup.

Ingredients used: pork rib, daikon, carrot, red dates, goji berries, and salt to taste.

For convenience and less plates to wash, the rice was placed in the bowl and we had rice in the soup. Good suggestion from hubby. Lol!

Took out another portion of vegetable acar.

This vegetable acar can be eaten as snack too.

A simple and satisfying dinner.

Pink Mexican Petunia or Pink Showers from my front garden.

Sky watching. Sunset at 6:10pm

I can see the head of a big bird (a beak and eye facing left) above the tree tops.

And just behind the bird's head, I can also see an old witch just above the tree top. Can you see what I saw? Can you see anything else?

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

No one can predict misfortune.

Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds in a trap,

so men and women are caught by accidents evil and sudden.

(Ecclesiastes 9:12, The Message-MSG)

Making 2nd Batch Pineapple Jam.

Saturday, 88th day MCO
We didn't walk in the park because we woke up a bit late. We only walked to the nearby shops behind our house, stopped to buy hubby's breakfast and then walked back home.

On the way home I stopped to snap the above picture of pigeons on the power cable.

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Breakfast

Fried glutinous rice for hubby.

And some pig's skin and long bean curry which was eaten with the glutinous rice.

I ate home made oat porridge with dried cranberry and walnut pieces.

Our breakfast with a pot of Sabah tea.

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Making 2nd batch of pineapple jam.

My friend, neighbour and I enjoyed my pineapple jam. Since we have all finished the pineapple jam from the 1st batch, it is time for the 2nd batch.

This time, I used 2 pineapples.

Place the pineapple pieces in the chopper or blender.

Poured all the roughly blended pineapple into a pot and boiled it over low fire about 30 minutes. Then add in cane sugar or brown sugar. I don't have cane sugar so I used brown sugar. (The sweetness according to the your taste). Followed by lemon juice from 3 to 4 lemons. I used juice from 1 lemon and a few limes (all that I had in the fridge). 

Remember to stir every now and then. Simmer over low fire until the jam thickened to preferred consistency. Add sugar if needed. Let the jam cool completely before storing in containers.

From 2 pineapples, I get 5 small tubs of jam. The above 3 tubs will be given to friends and I have 2 tubs in the fridge for ourselves.

This is our first time tasting the chicken rice from our regular coffee shop. A plate of sesame bbq chicken and rice to share with hubby. We chose to dine-in at the coffee shop.

We had Chinese Century Pears for mid afternoon snack.

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Home cooked dinner

I boiled soup with daikon, carrot, red dates, goji berries and pig's shoulder bones.

Snake beans, red okras, prawns cooked with spicy sambal paste.

Steamed Chinese white pomfret (tau tai chong fish) with ginger.

Garnished with home grown spring onions and drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Satisfying dinner for 2 people.

Hubby had steamed rice while I go without rice.

Without wise leadership, a nation is in trouble;

but with good counselors there is safety.

(Proverbs 11:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Cooking Home Grown Vegetables For Dinner

When the edibles in my garden are doing well and bearing fruits, there is enough vegetables for our consumption and sometimes extra to share with friends and neighbours. One morning, I harvested some daikons and snake beans to cook for dinner.

Home cooked soup - daikons, carrots, meat, red dates and goji berries.

Snake beans sauted with chicken breast meat slices and garlic.

I also added egg omelette (egg, onions, chili).

This is our dinner for 2 people without any white rice.

Once died and now revived Caladium plant.

So happy that this gorgeous Caladium plant is growing again.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Never forget your promises to me your servant,

for they are my only hope.

They give me strength in all my troubles;

how they refresh and revive me!

(Psalm 119:49-50, The Living Bible-TLB)