Steamed Chinese Sausage, Waxed Duck Leg & Fried Fish Paste For Dinner.

When it rained, we find relief from the hot weather. After last evening's rain, this morning we could feel the cool breeze when we did out morning walking rounds. 

 Expecting another hot day from the look of the sun at 7:45 am.

 7:55 am

The current temperature is 31 deg C at 12:45 pm.

 7:58 am

 8:05 am

The dark speck in the sky is a bird.

 The sun was peeping from behind the cloud.

 Dancing Lady orchid from my garden.

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Even though lazy to cook, I need to cook to clear the stock in my fridge.

 Steamed Chinese sausage, waxed duck thigh and arrowheads (nga ku). The arrowheads were placed at the bottom to absorb the oil from the sausages and wax duck thigh.

 Fried fish paste.

 Stir fried Chinese kai lan veggie with some fried fish paste slices, ginger slices, garlic, egg, oyster sauce, Chinese cooking wine and etc.

 Steamed Basmati rice.

A simple home cooked dinner. Filling and satisfying dinner for 2 persons.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

The Lord lifts the fallen and those bent beneath their loads.

The eyes of all mankind look up to you for help;

you give them their food as they need it.

You constantly satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing.

(Psalm 145:14-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lunch & Dinner - 2nd Day Of Chinese New Year 2019

We couldn't finish the treasure pot or poon choy from the previous dinner, so we have some left over. For the 2nd day's Chinese New Year lunch, we had the following dishes for lunch.

Left over poon choy or treasure pot - reheated.

Fried fish fillet cooked kung poh style.

These two dishes were our lunch for 4 people.

My reddish pink periwinkles wishing "Gong Xi Fa Cai" or Happy Chinese New Year!
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That evening, I cooked the following dishes for dinner.

Steamed fish with blended ginger.

(Part of the fish brought back by son)

Fried fish paste stir fried with assorted vegetables and fresh mushrooms.

Chinese cabbage dish.

This dinner was for 3 people as one of my son had a dinner gathering with his friends.

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After dinner, hubby and I went to the nearby supermarket. 

On the way home, we dropped by at Starbucks for some iced hazelnut chocolate drink.

The place was quite packed with both the young and not so young people.

We drove home after we have finished sipping our hazelnut chocolate drink. 

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We resumed our early morning walk on the 3rd day of CNY.

Breaking of dawn at the park - 3rd day of CNY.

Sunrise - Oct 2016

 Morning sky - July 2018

 Breaking of dawn - Dec 2018

Linking to Skywatch Friday & Friday Bliss.

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking;

he rescues those who are humbly sorry for their sins.

(Psalm 34:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

From The Garden To My Dining Table

All my edible plants are grown in pots because I do not have much space in my garden. The most I grow is 2 to 3 pots of each type of edibles. Since they are grown in pots, they cannot produce much. Sometimes a single harvest is enough for a plate of vegetable for our dinner. Sometimes, I will accumulate 1 or 2 days of harvest to cook a plate or I will mix together whatever I can harvest from the garden. Below is one example of my home cooked dinners using whatever greens I have harvested for that day.

 2 pieces of fried fish, fried fish paste, and blanched home grown vegetables.

 I grow potato leaves in 2 small pots.

 I used the cut stems from each harvest to regrow the potato leaves.

Just loosen the the soil and stick the cut stems into the soil. New leaves will grow from the stems and very soon a new batch of tender leaves can be harvested for dinner.

 That morning, I also havested these winged beans and red okras. I added these to the potato leaves to get a plate of blanched greens.

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What I cooked for one of my dinner.

2 pieces of fried fish with some home made spicy sambal paste added on to the fish. The spicy sambal paste consists of fresh chilies and curry leaves from my garden.

 Home fried fish paste. Paste bought from the mini market.

These were eaten with sweet sour Thai chili sauce.

Blanched home grown vegetables consisting of sweet potato leaves, winged beans and red okras. When cooked the red okra turned pale green. When tender, there is no need to peel the leaves stalks. For this dish, I sprinkled some fried spicy sambal (dry version given by a friend) on to the vegetables.

Some mornings, the harvest is small just like the above.

The black seed pod will yield seeds for future planting.

A timely Bible verse to remind myself:

The person who does the planting or watering isn't very important,

but God is important because He is the One who makes things grow.

(1 Corinthians 3:7, The Living Bible-TLB)