Stuffed Tofu Puffs, Roast Duck & Steamed Chicken

This was 1st day of Chinese New Year 2022 (Tuesday, 1st of February). End of January, a friend gave me a packet of tofu puffs from Bentong. These tofu puffs are very different from our local ones and their taste and texture so much better too.

Lunch for 4 people.

Stuffed tofu puffs with minced pork and fish paste.

The Thai sweet chili sauce is a good dipping for the tofu puffs.

This is the 2nd half of the roast duck hubby bought for reunion dinner.

Sauteed long beans and chive flowers with garlic and salt.

Both were from my garden.

Every day, my mind will be planning the menu for lunch and dinner. I stood in front of the freezer compartment of the fridge and finally took out a frozen chicken.

Steamed chicken with abalone.

I rub salt all over the chicken and let it rest for about 30 to 45 minutes before I steamed the chicken.

Steamed chicken with blended ginger.

I sliced the abalone thinly for easy eating

The leftover stuffed tofu puffs cooked with fresh mushrooms and carrot.

Blanched greens (choy fah), drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Home cooked dinner for 4 people.

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The following sky shots were taken end of January, 2022 during one of our morning walk.

Sunrise at 7:16am.

7:21am

7:26am

7:27am.

Wishing everyone a happy and cheerful new year!

Linking To Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

When a man is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong;

when he is cheerful, everything seems right!

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

Pork Leg In Black Vinegar

The night before, I was digging into the freezer to see what I can cook for dinner. Found a pork leg and let it thaw in the lower shelf of the fridge.

Since I haven't cooked pork leg in black vinegar for a long time, I will be cooking this dish for dinner.

Our day started at 7:08am with our morning walk.

Reflection of the sunrise.

Murals on the wall around the Chinese school.

Back home in my garden, I harvested the above. Will be cooking the green brinjals for dinner and the cucumber will be eaten raw as salad.

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Home cooked dinner.

Blanched the newly harvested green brinjals plus some long beans and okra and drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

The pork leg was given by my neighbour and I used it to cook black vinegar pork leg. Ingredients used: pork leg, old and young ginger slices, black wood fungus, black beans, and a bottle of black vinegar. I used the ready mixed black vinegar from Kilang Kicap Kwong Ban Woh from Penang. Water added depends on individual's preference. I used slightly more than 1 bottle of water to 1 bottle of black vinegar. I used a pressure cooker to cook this dish which is fast and easy. 

This was our dinner with steamed rice.

I blessed our neighbour with a big portion of the pork leg in black vinegar in return for her pork leg.

Evening sky at 7:30pm, with the street lighted up.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Young man, obey your father and your mother.

Take to heart all of their advice; keep in mind everything they tell you.

Every day and all night long their counsel will lead you

and save you from harm; when you wake up in the morning,

let their instructions guide you into the new day.

For their advice is a beam of light directed into the dark corners

of your mind to warn you of danger and to give you a good life.

(Proverbs 6:20-23, The Living Bible-TLB)

Cucumbers, Brinjals, Long Beans & Cauliflower From My Garden

Today's post is a mixture of bits and pieces or mish mash of photos I have taken.

Passing by 2 pigeons on one of our morning walk.

Waiting for this home grown plant to bear cauliflower.

Cucumbers hanging from the vine in my garden.

Green brinjals or eggplants harvested from 3 plants.

The above were harvested one day earlier.

One of the long beans is more than 25 inches long.

Every now and then, I have to check for these mealy bugs that hide under the brinjal leaves. I have to cut them off to prevent them from spreading to other leaves.

These black ants love to feed on the mealy bugs and also help to spread the mealy bugs to other plants. Someone recommended using washing dishes liquid detergent and water solution to spray on them which I have yet to test it out.

One evening I found this dragonfly clinging on the edge of a wooden frame on the wall.

It was showing its belly or the underside of its body. I tried to catch it to release it outside the house but it flew away and I couldn't find it. I found it dead on the floor the next morning. If it didn't fly away, I could have saved it.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

A witness who tells the truth saves good men from being sentenced

to death, but a false witness is a traitor.

(Proverbs 14:25, The Living Bible-TLB)

Smoked (Not Waxed) Duck, Sambal Long Beans & Noodle For Dinner

One of the joy we get from our early morning walk is getting to witness the beauty of sunrises.

Sunrise through the trees.

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I am glad that I have used up most of the frozen foodstuff from the freezer. In the midst of clearing, I found a piece of smoked (not waxed) duck which I thawed and steamed for dinner. Sorry for my mistake. I typed waxed instead of smoked duck.

Boneless smoked waxed duck given by a friend.

Home grown long beans cooked with dried prawns sambal.

Only 1 potato left in the fridge. I boiled the potato, peeled off the skin, cut into wedges and drizzled with roasted sesame dressing.

Noodle for hubby and boiled potato for me.

Simple dinner for 2 people.

Pink Mexican Petunia (Pink Showers).

They can self propagate by dispersing their seeds. They grow well and do not need much care. Once they are allowed to bloom in your garden, they will stay.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

So overflowing is his kindness toward us that he took away

all our sins through the blood of his Son, by whom we are saved;

and he has showered down upon us the richness of his grace - for

how well he understands us and knows what is best for us at all times.

(Ephesians 1:7-8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Long Beans + Sambal Dried Prawns, Fried Anchovies & Porridge

When hubby and I are out early for our morning walk, we get to see the place waking up. One by one we see the roadside stalls being set up and people coming to the coffee shops to get their stalls ready for business.

Morning sky at 7:12am

The early risers will come to the coffee shops for breakfast and some to takeaway. These include people rushing to work and the elderlies like hubby and I who couldn't sleep late.

7:38am

We also get to see beautiful sunrises.

Sunrise at 7:44am

His life is the light that shines through the darkness - and the darkness can never extinguish it. (John 1:5, TLB)

Sunrise at 7:46am.

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Back home in my garden.

Long beans hanging down from the vines in my mini garden.

This season we enjoy plentiful harvest of long beans.

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Simple home cooked dinner

Steamed freshly plucked long beans without oil.

I added sambal dried prawns to the long bean before serving.

That evening I boiled rice porridge with minced pork, salted egg and century egg, and garnished with spring onions.

Poured out some of the pre-fried crunchy anchovies.

2 cubes of fermented bean curd (fu yue), hubby's favourite to go with rice porridge.

We both enjoyed this simple home cooked dinner.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Enjoy life with your dearly loved spouse all the days of your pointless life

that God gives you under the sun - all the days of your pointless life!

- because that's your part to play in this life

and in your hard work under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 9:9, Common English Bible-CEB)