Home Grown Vegetables, Tai Pau Or Steamed Big Bun

On one morning last week, I harvested the following from my garden.

A cucumber and a tomato.

4 small white bitter gourds.

The last batch of long beans from the dwarf long bean plants. I have pulled up the aging plants to free the pot for some other plants.

Home grown from my garden.

Can you see the spots on the small tomato? When I cut the tomato, there will tiny worms inside the tomato. I hope that by wrapping the remaining tomatoes with recycled plastic bags will save the tomatoes from worms.

My neighbour gave us 2 big buns (tai bao) which I re-steamed to heat up for our lunch.

Inside the steamed big bun.

Update on the arrowhead shoots.

Sad to say that the arrowheads have turned yellow and it was a failed project.

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Simple home cooked dinner.

I added 2 white bitter gourds to the remaining portion of stewed duck.

1 dish dinner with steamed brown for hubby and I.

I forgot where I saw this cat. It was sunbathing on the tar road and not disturbed by my presence.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Your throne is founded on two strong pillars -

the one is Justice and the other Righteousness.

Mercy and Truth walk before you as your attendants.

Blessed are those who hear the joyful blast of the trumpet,

for they shall walk in the light of your presence.

(Psalm 89:14-15, The Living Bible-TLB)

Hokkien Prawn Noodle, Hor Hee Noodle & Pan Mee

There was no walking exercise for a few days after I hurt my back while shifting a flower pot in the garden. I am thankful that it was not serious and all I needed was a day of rest. By the 2nd day, I was feeling much better and was able to go back to the garden to finish the weeding. All the time I have to avoid moving any big flower pots.

Morning sky at 7:40am.

 Hubby wanted to have breakfast in Menglembu at Restoran Meng Meng Kee.

Chinese Tea for hubby and herbal tea for me.

Hor Hee noodle for hubby.

He asked for transparent or glass noodle (tong fun).

Hokkien prawn noodle (rice vermicelli or beehoon) for me.

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Both of us needed to buy walking shoes so we went to town.

After that we had lunch at Kedai Makanan Sun Seng Fatt. 

We were just in time to order our favourite pan mee (soup version) before they ran out of their soup.

After I have retired, I seldom get to eat this pan mee. The bowl of noodle came with generous serving of meat balls, fish paste balls, fried anchovies, green and egg with runny yolk.

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No cooking that evening, so we ate whatever we had in the fridge.

We had kompia and milo for dinner.

Reheated the last 5 pieces of Sitiawan kompia given by hubby's friend.

I mistaken the dwarf long bean seeds for the normal long bean seeds. No wonder these dwarf plants are not climbing like the usual long bean vines.

These dwarf long bean plants are in the midst of producing long beans.

Harvested the long beans and a green brinjal or eggplant.

This mural is painted on the side wall of Ho Yan Hor Museum in Ipoh old town. The mural  shows a typical tin mining scene with the tin dredge and limestone hills in the background and workers in the foreground.

This black and white mural is painted by Ernest Zacharevic, a Lithuanian artist based in Penang.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Then what can we boast about doing to earn our salvation?

Nothing at all. Why?

Because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds;

it is based on what Christ has done and our faith in him.

So it is that we are saved by faith in Christ and

not by the good things we do.

(Romans 3:27-28, The Living Bible-TLB)

Glutinous Rice Dumplings & ABC Soup

The weather seems to be getting warmer. Yesterday morning, 51st day MCO, I woke up early and did about 30 minutes walking exercise in front of my PC. After I have finished exercising, I went out to check the sky. It was still dark outside.

 Morning sky at 6:42 am.

The sky behind the opposite row of houses was lighted up at 6:55 am.

 Sunrise at 6:57 am.

 6;59 am.

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Breakfast

 I took out 2 glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang) from the fridge to steam for breakfast. I have 2 more bak chang in the freezer.

 I don't mind eating bak chang once or twice a week if the bak chang is as tasty as this one.

 It would have been perfect if it has Chinese chestnut in it.

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Lunch

We were supposed to have only ABC soup for lunch but our friend ordered an extra packet of chicken rice for us. Hubby went to collect from her stall.

 Indonesian chicken rice from our friend.

The chicken rice is very flavourful and tasty, consisting of flavoured rice, fried potatoes and prawns, fried chicken, blanched long beans, half a boiled eye, cucumber slices and onion crisps.

Home cooked ABC soup without tomatoes.

I have to throw the tomatoes away because they had gone bad.

 Lunch for 2 people

The cut Chinese cruller was from the previous day's lunch.

I soaked the cruller pieces in my bowl of soup.

Sweet and healthy snack. 

A friend sent this box of fruit called "chempedak".

(belongs to the family of jackfruit)

Home grown vegetables from my garden.

Red okra, dwarf long beans and 2 purple/black eggplants.

I cooked all the red okras and long beans.

When cooked, the red okras turned to pale green colour.

I kept the purple/black eggplants back in the fridge.

The same ABC soup that I cooked for lunch and dinner.

Condiment: Spicy bird's eye chilies in soy sauce. 

 No rice dinner for 2 people.

Sweet papaya for dessert.

Found this small mushroom colony growing in my garden.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him.

See that you go on growing in the Lord,

and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught.

Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done.

(Colossians 2:7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Prawn Noodle For Breakfast & Chee Cheong Fun For Dinner

For the past 2 days, the weather has been nice and cool with just a few hours of sun. This morning we get to enjoy nice cool breeze while walking at the park. The Chinese New Year celebration is more or less over for most of us. Many have gone back to work and children have also gone back to school.

Today, I will pick up from where I had stopped for the Chinese New Year celebration. We met up with our friends at the South Point Cafe in Ipoh Garden for breakfast. 

 There is this stall selling Penang Prawn Mee.

 Unsweetened black Coffee and coffee with evaporated milk.

Penang Prawn Noodle

Both hubby and I ordered from the same stall.

 Hubby doesn't like hard boiled egg, so I get to eat an extra half egg.

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That evening, a friend called to inform us that she will be delivering 1 big packet of chee cheong fun (steamed flat noodle) with some stuffed tofu for our dinner.

 Besides the packet of chee cheong fun, I also receved a persimmon.

 To enjoy the chee cheong fun, we need to pour the gravy over it.

Hubby and I shared the packet of chee cheong fun.

 I only need to sauteed a plate of home grown dwarf long beans with garlic and salt.

 A simple dinner for hubby and I.

Yesterday, we heard sound of gushing water. We went out to check and saw water gushing out from the fire hydrant opposite our house. I guess its part of the Waterworks department's maintenance to check the fire hydrant because the water was later turned off and they drove off.

He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them plenty of water,

as though gushing from a spring.

Streams poured from the rock, flowing like a river!

(Psalm 78:14-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

A Pink Hibiscus From A Yellow Hibiscus Plant!

This morning I had a very pleasant surprise! Something happened to my yellow hibiscus plant. I had this yellow hibiscus plant in my garden for many years and all these years, it has bloomed yellow hibiscus only.

 This yellow hibiscus has multi layer petals.

 This morning I was astonished to find this pink flowers on a branch of the same yellow hibiscus plant. It has never happened before since I planted the yellow hibiscus which should be more than 7 years ago.

It is really strange but I am happy to see this pink hibiscus. I hope from now on, I will see both yellow and pink flowers from this plant.

This morning I was blessed with abundant long beans harvested from my garden. On the left are snake long beans and the right are the dwarf long beans.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

"I am the Vine, you are the branches.

When you're joined with me and I with you,

the relation intimate and organic,

the harvest is sure to be abundant.

Separated, you can't produce a thing.

Anyone who separates from me is deadwood,

gathered up and thrown on the bonfire.

But if you make yourselves at home with me

and my words are at home in you,

you can be sure that whatever you ask

will be listened to and acted upon.

This is how my Father shows who he is -

when you produce grapes,

when  you mature as my disciples.

(John 15:5-8, The Message-MSG)