Purple + Green Amaranth & Bottle Gourd From My Garden

On this particular morning, I noticed that the purple and green amaranth were ready for harvest

The above is just enough for 2 people.

I also harvested the above bottle gourd to make soup for dinner.

This is hubby's bowl. He prefers the soup more than the ingredients. I am the one who usually will finish most of the ingredients.

I also make minced meat + fish paste patties.

I blanched the purple and green amaranth.

This is plain without any garlic oil or soy sauce.

This was our dinner without any rice.

I kept back some of the patties for the next day's dinner.

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Thanks to Shirley for sharing the following photos with me.

She saw these chickens when she was out on her morning walk.

These chickens look healthy and well fed.

These chickens belong to one of her neighbours.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

And how can we be sure that we belong to him?

By looking within ourselves:

are we really trying to do what he wants us to?

(1 John 2:3, The Living Bible-TLB)

Making Soup With Home Grown Yellow Cucumber

I was encouraged when I succeeded in growing yellow cucumber for the first time. Initially, I thought yellow cucumber and cucumber are from the same cucumber vines. But I was wrong, they are different and not from the same vines. This is the 2nd time I had yellow cucumber vines growing in my garden.

Young yellow cucumber is not green but pale green or light beige in colour. They are also broader then ordinary cucumber.

The yellow cucumber and bottle gourd vines are fighting for space on the overhead lines. The yellow cucumber lost because the bottle gourd vines are fast growers.

Not only must the colour turns to brownish yellow but preferably the skin has crack lines before harvesting.

Maturing yellow cucumber, not due for harvest yet.

I harvested the yellow cucumber for boiling soup for dinner.

Ingredients for soup: yellow cucumber, carrot, corn on cob, pork ribs or chicken bones.

Sauteed home grown green amaranth with garlic.

Our dinner with steamed brown rice.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

If he sows to please his own wrong desires,

he will be planting seeds of evil and

he will surely reap a harvest of spiritual decay and death;

but if he plants the good things of the Spirit,

he will reap the everlasting life that the Holy Spirit gives him.

(Galatians 6:8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Restoran Mun Ji On a Rainy Evening

We set out for morning walk at about 7:05am.

Lovely sunrise 7:10am

7:20am.

The sun partially blocked by dark cloud - 8am.

8:10am.

Japanese cucumber from my garden.

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Dinner at Restoran Mun Ji, Menglembu. Halfway through dinner, there was a heavy downpour. We ordered the following dishes.

Fish curry with assorted vegetables and tofu puffs (small size) - RM35. We never fail to order this dish. This is the only place I will always take-away or "tapau" the remaining curry back home.

This is also another dish that we must order - Green amaranth with 3 types of eggs (salted egg, century egg & normal chicken egg) - RM15

For a change, we ordered salted fish pork belly in clear pot - RM16. This is a very appetizing dish and hubby had 2nd helping of rice. Total cost of dinner for 4 people - RM74.20

It was still drizzling when we got into the car. Currently, this place only opens for dinner. We usually go early to avoid the peak dinner crowd.

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The next day home cooked dinner.

With the remaining curry that I took away, I added in some chicken breast slices, carrot, and home grown tomatoes.

Blanched broccoli.

For hubby, I cooked instant noodle without adding the flavouring.

To clear the last 3 remaining pieces of bread from the fridge, I toasted the bread. Simple and enjoyable dinner on a cool, rainy evening.

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A friend who visited the Taiping zoo, sent me some photos.

Crocodiles.

I will avoid going near this place if I were in the zoo.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Iniquity is atoned for by mercy and truth;

evil is avoided by reverence for God.

When a man is trying to please God,

God makes even his worst enemies to be at peace with him.

(Proverbs 16:6-7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Prawns & Onions With Oyster & Soy Sauce For Dinner

On this particular morning, we had this lovely sunrise.

Sunrise at 7:25am.

View of Kledang Hill on the reverse side at 7:25am.

After morning walk, we drove to Restaurant Meng Meng Kee at Laluan Perusahaan Menglembu 1 for breakfast.

Hubby ordered char siew wan tan mee with pork wan tan (dumplings). We ordered 2 cups of teh si kosong (unsweetened tea with evaporated milk) and toast with butter and kaya.

Hor hee glass noodle for me.

Pink rain lilies blooming between 2 flower pots in front of my house.

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Home cooked dinner.

Blanched home grown green amaranth from my front veggie plot.

Shelled prawns cooked with garlic, ginger, onion, oyster and soy sauce.

Cooked 2 packets of instant noodle with spicy seasoning.

Home cooked no rice dinner for 2.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down -

when we die and leave these bodies -

we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven,

homes that will be ours forevermore,

made for us by God himself and not by human hands.

(2 Corinthians 5:1, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Grown Green Amaranth & Nyonya Assam Prawns For Dinner

This was 2 Sundays ago. No morning walk because we were preparing to go to church.

Morning sky at 8:05am.

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Preparing for home cooked dinner.

Green Amaranth growing in a tiny vegetable plot.

Harvested Green Amaranth enough for 2 of us.

Sauteed Green Amaranth with garlic, water and salt.

Nyonya Assam Prawns with a packet of paste.

Fried half pack of papadum to eat with the Nyonya Assam Prawn.

Simple home cooked dinner for 2.

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I received the following photos from my friend, Aislynn.

Using Google Lens, this bug was identified as Batocera rubus.

Common names: White spotted Longhorn, Mango Longhorn, Rubber Root Borer.

It has long legs and very long horns, much longer than its body.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Shout to the LORD, all the earth;

break out in praise and sing for joy!

Sing your praise to the LORD with the harp,

with the harp and melodious song.

with trumpets and the sound of the ram's horn.

Make a joyful symphony before the LORD, the King!

(Psalm 98:4-6, New Living Translation-NLT)

Home Grown Vegetables With Porridge

I prefer to eat rice porridge when the weather is hot. When my father-in-law was with us, he will only eat porridge when he was not feeling well and that only for 1 or 2 days. By the 2nd day, he will complain that his legs felt weak and he needed to eat rice. Good thing, hubby doesn't feel that way and he does not mind eating porridge.

Most times, I will cook plain rice porridge. Other times, I will add meat, salted egg and century egg, or whatever is available. There are also times when I will add in rolled oats to the rice porridge if it is available. Here are 2 examples of our recent rice porridge dinners.

Dinner #1

Some home made pickled ginger and green chili.

Canned pickled lettuce.

Rice porridge with pre-marinated pork slices, century egg, salted egg, and ginger strips.

Home grown vegetable - baby choy sum.

Just plain blanched vegetable without any oil or sauce.

These days I use brown rice to boil porridge. I buy brown rice from the rice shop in my area. Recently, I asked a friend to help me buy a packet of brown rice from Sekinchan. 

Dinner #2

Salted duck egg.

Minced pork with sour belimbing buluh (picture below), chilies and onions.

Belimbing buluh fruits from a friend.

Plain brown rice porridge.

Sauteed home grown Green Amaranth with oil, garlic and salt.

Green Amaranth babies.

When I first planted this, I scattered too many seeds within a small plot.

Now I know better and I try to space out the seeds.

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I received the following photos from a friend.

I searched the internet and I think this insect is the Callirhipis Cardwellensis beetle with Flabellate Antennae.

Insect photos credited to Shirley.

This beetle is new to me.

Have you come across this strange looking beetle before.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

How could he?

For certainly he has never been one to know the Lord's thoughts,

or to discuss them with him, or to move the hands of God by prayer.

But, strange as it seems, we Christians actually do have within us

a portion of the very thoughts and mind of Christ.

(1 Corinthians 2:16, The Living Bible-TLB)