Chinese Herbal Soup & Stewed Pork Shoulder

I am sharing 2 days' short posts in this post.

DAY #1

Sunrise at 7:22am.

Morning sky at 7:23am.

Sunrise at 7:33am.

Green brinjals (eggplants) and ladies fingers (okra) from my garden.

I steamed all the green brinjals and ladies finger for dinner.

Drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce. 

Boiled Chinese Herbal Soup with pork soft bones.

Passed a portion of the soup over the fence to our neighbour.

This was a no rice dinner.

DAY #2

Sunrise shot on our morning walk.

Buttercake from a dear friend.

Only remember to snap photo after making the cut on the cake.

Stewed pork shoulder with potatoes, carrots and tomatoes.

Home grown angled luffa cooked with dried shrimps and egg.

Steamed rice for hubby.

For me, I ate toast with the stew.

Yums! I really enjoyed my dinner.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Everyone enjoys giving good advice, and how wonderful

it is to be able to say the right thing at the right time.

(Proverbs 15:23, The Living Bible-TLB)

Steamed Curry Buns, Herbal Chicken Soup & Sauteed Snake Beans

Bored with the recent dull and gray sky of rainy days, I went through the archive and found the following sky shots which were taken on the last day of June, 2021. 

Sunrise at 7am.

On the reverse side, view of Kledang Hill at 7:05am.

Sunrise at 7:07am.

Sunrise at 7:10am.

Sunrise at 7:14am.

Sunrise at 7:14am.

Sunrise at 7:15am.

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On this Wednesday morning, we didn't buy anything for breakfast because we had 4 steamed buns in our fridge which our neighbour bought for us.

While the buns were steaming in the steamer, I make milo for hubby and Bru coffee for myself.

Soft and fluffy steamed buns with curry chicken and potato as filling.

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From my garden.

Peace lily bud.

White spathe and beige spadix.

From white and beige, it slowly turned to light green.

It will remain like this before it dries up.

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Home cooked dinner.

Herbal Chicken soup.

Free range chicken with Chinese dried herb (yuk chuk), red dates and goji berries.

Sauteed French beans and home grown snake beans with garlic, dried shrimp and chilies.

This was our dinner with steamed rice on a rainy evening.

Peace Lily plants grown in a pot.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

My son, do not forget my teaching,

but keep my commands in your heart,

for they will prolong your life many years

and bring you peace and prosperity.

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

Chicken Herbal Soup & Fried Rice For Dinner

Time really flies. Even though we are under MCO, the days, weeks, and months seems to pass by so quickly. Even though there is nothing exciting happening, I wouldn't say that life is boring for us. Every morning we look forward to our morning walk. After breakfast, I will spend some time in the garden. Housework, blogging and blog hopping, and etc. will take up a portion of my time. The amount of tasks accomplished will depend on my mood. It all depends on whether I am diligent or in lazy mode. Okay, back to my post.

Sunrise at 7:10am 

7:15am

We need to take the car out because we want to buy takeaway breakfast with the food carrier.

Hakka noodle with stewed sweet sour pork trotter for hubby @ RM5.80

Mee sua with pork + daikon + peppercorn soup for me @ RM5.

Both the noodles were bought from the same stall.

 4 pieces of yam bean fritters @ 90 cents per piece.

We bought these from another shop.

We kept these for our lunch.

When it comes to food, so thankful that we are spoiled for choice.

Steamed fresh corn mixed with butter and salt for lunch.

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Dinner

Herbal chicken soup

Ingredients used: 1 free range chicken, yuk chuk (Solomon's seal), goji berries, and red dates.

Fried Rice with onions, dried shrimps, and eggs.

I don't have leftover rice in the fridge so I pre-steamed the rice in the afternoon.

Condiments: Bird's eye chilies in soy sauce and spicy dried shrimp.

I love fried rice with chilies in soy sauce.

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A friend sent me these moth pictures.

Tropical Tiger Moth (Asota Caricae)

Nice close up shot.

Photos credited to Shirley T.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Because of his kindness,

you have been saved through trusting Christ.

And even trusting is not of yourselves;

it too is a gift from God.

Salvation is not a reward for the good we have done,

so none of us can take any credit for it.

(Ephesians 2:8-9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Coffee With Butter & Breakfast In Pusing

When I was a little girl, my father used to take me along for his regular cup of coffee. He will place me on the back seat and I will hug him around his waist, making sure my little feet will not get caught in the back wheel as he cycled to the coffee shop. At the coffee shop, he will then lift me up onto the chair next to him. He will pour some of the hot coffee from his cup onto the saucer to cool and passed it to me.

What is so special about the coffee? That hot coffee was served with a piece of butter in it. That was many years ago and I have totally forgotten about the coffee with butter until recently. Someone shared a video about his foodie outing in Pusing and mentioned the coffee with butter. Hubby and our friends were interested and off we went to Pusing for breakfast on the last Thursday of April which happened to be a public holiday. This was before the implementation of MCO 3.0, nationwide lockdown.

We managed to find this Loong Foo Kopitiam, located at Jalan Keretapi Lama, Pusing. We were seated at a table for 4 people. 1 kopi-o ice and 1 kopi-o kosong (unsweetened) for the ladies.

2 hot coffee with butter for the men.

I took a few sips and it was really good getting the taste of butter in it. This coffee with butter is best enjoyed when the coffee is still hot.

Our lady friend ordered a bowl of curry noodle with some stuffed items.

I cannot resist assam laksa, so I ended up with a bowl plus some stuffed items.

Beef brisket with daikon soup noodle for the 2 men.

After breakfast, we took the back lane to the Pusing wet market.

We stopped to buy our favourite taro or yam from a roadside stall.

Pillow shaped glutinous rice dumpling with wrapping removed.

We also bought the above glutinous rice dumpling, wrapped in the shape of a pillow from a roadside stall.

After steaming the rice dumpling to heat it up, the leaves wrapping was removed to reveal the inside of the dumpling. It was packed with ingredients. Hubby and I shared this dumpling plus soup for lunch.

I took out the leftover chicken herbal soup from the fridge to heat up. One bowl for hubby and one bowl for me. This heavy lunch lasted me until past dinner.

Friends came over to have dinner at the nearby food court. Hubby ordered the above, meatballs and garlic bread for his dinner. No dinner for me because I was still full from having a bigger portion of the glutinous rice dumpling. That showed that my digestion has slowed down.

I took a snapshot of this antique kid tricycle on one of our visit to Concubine Lane.

My new Coleus plants are doing well in my garden and I was able to share some cuttings with friends.

Linking to Happy Tuesday, Image-in-ing & Tuesday's Treasures.

Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years,

doing the best for us that they knew how,

but God's correction is always right and for our best good,

that we may share his holiness.

(Hebrews 12:10, The Living Bible-TLB)