Roast Chicken And Lemang & Beef Rendang

Today is Sunday, 68th day MCO. We had just finished the online worship service because we have not gone back to worship in church. Today is also the first day of "Hari Raya Aidilfitri" celebration observed by the Muslims. Wishing all Muslim readers, "Selamat Hari Raya".

What happened yesterday, Saturday.

Morning sky at 7:00 am (on my right).

Starting out on our early morning walk.

Kledang Hill at 7:00 am (on my left)

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Breakfast

Pan fried sausages, beef patty and green tea for hubby.

Homemade mini pizza with thin frozen chapati as base.

I wanted to clear some frozen chapati from my fridge, so I decided to use the frozen chapati as pizza base. I made this pizza with a non-stick pan.

My breakfast: Homemade mini pizza, glutinous rice ball with red bean filling and green tea.  The pizza tastes good with very crispy base but the base was too thin to support the toppings.

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Lunch & Dinner

About 1:30 pm, we drove out in search of "lemang" which is glutinous rice cooked in bamboo. We get to eat this once a year and we usually buy "lemang" from this roadside stall every year.

Lemang at RM 15.00

(Glutinous rice with coconut milk cooked in bamboo)

 On the way back, we stopped at Baker's Cottage (in front of Billion Mart, Jelapang).

Roast chicken at RM9.90 each.

We came to know about this roast chicken promotion from a friend. The promotion will be available until 31st May. I bought 1 barbecue roast chicken and 1 black pepper roast chicken. We ate half of the barbecue roast chicken and kept the other half in the fridge. The chicken was still warm, tastes good with crispy skin. We kept the black pepper roast chicken in the freezer for another day.

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Dinner

Cut the bamboo and pried it open lengthwise to expose the cooked rice lined with banana leaf inside.

The bamboo with the glutinous rice removed.

We bought 2 tubs of beef rendang at RM 15.00 each.

The lemang or cooked glutinous rice cut into pieces.

To eat, first remove the banana leaf wrapping.

 To start with, we each had 3 pieces of lemang with some beef rendang. We went for a 2nd helping. We kept the rest in the fridge for next day.

It is God himself who has made us what we are

and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago

he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.

(Ephesians 2:10, The Living Bible-TLB)

Glutinous Rice Dumplings & Lemang.With Beef Rendang

My Bauhinia Kockiana plants are in full bloom and I think it is because they are happy with the mixture of sunny and rainy weather.

Even my friends and neighbours commented on the abundance of striking orange flowers that can be seen from afar. 

 After harvesting the pineapple fruit from this plant, there are other shoots growing from the same mother plant. I left them be and wait to see if these will bear fruits too.

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Hari Raya Puasa was celebrated by Muslims on the 5th & 6th June this year.

 We bought the above "Bamboo Rice" or "Lemang" at RM 14 from a roadside stall on the eve of the celebration. 

It is a traditional food item made of glutinous rice, coconut milk and salt, stuffed in the hollow of the bamboo stick lined with banana leaf and cooked over open fire. 

The bamboo can be opened into two, lengthwise and the cooked banana wrapped glutinous rice removed from the bamboo.

I kept this half of the glutinous rice for next day's lunch.

 From the same stall, we bought a small tub of Beef Rendang @ RM 12.

 We only get to eat this once or twice a year.

These traditional food is not sold on normal days.

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The Chinese celebrated the Dumpling "Bak Chang" festival on the 7th June this year.

 We received the above 3 dumplings (with the leaves wrapping removed) from a friend. Each dumpling had a different flavour. Hubby and I shared these for dinner.

This is an old photo showing glutinous rice dumplings with their wrappings.
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The following items are found in the National Museum.

Polished Stone Adze. It is used to chop down and hollow out trees during the Neolithic Age.

Regular trimmings by hubby, fertilizer and the weather brought forth these flowers.

Thank God for blessing us with the abundance of flowers and veggies in our garden.

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

For the man who uses well what he is given shall be given more,

and he shall have abundance. But from the man who is unfaithful,

even what little responsibility he has shall be taken from him.

(Matthew 25:29, The Living Bible-TLB)