Haru Manis Mangoes & Home Cooked Prawn Tom Yum Soup

The days are hot and usually rains in the late afternoons.

Sunrise at about 7:30am.

In the afternoon, this was delivered to our house and received by hubby.

Elder son ordered these "Haru Manis" mangoes for us.

Inside the box were 7 mangoes and a short note on when the mangoes will be ripe to be eaten.

2 days after receiving the mangoes, they started to smell nice, so it is time to cut even though they may still be green on the outside.

The texture is smooth and tastes sweet.

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Received a package of frozen prawns from my neighbour.

The amount is more than enough for 4 people, so I cooked tom yum soup with the prawns. I gave half the portion to my neighbour to enjoy for their dinner.

Some leftover steamed pork rib from the previous day.

This was our yummy-licious and appetizing dinner with steamed brown rice.

Yes indeed, it is good when you truly obey our Lord's command,

"You must love and help your neighbors

just as much as you love and take care of yourself."

(James 2:8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Made "Melt In The Mouth" BBQ Pork

This was last Tuesday. I captured a few morning sky shots before we started out on our morning walk.

Morning sky at 7:01am

Dreamy morning sky.

On the reverse side

One snapshot while walking.

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Breakfast

2 half boiled eggs, 2 pieces of bread with coconut jam (kaya) and hot milo for hubby.

2 pieces of toast with peanut jam and apricot jam and hot milo for me.

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Dinner

Home made "melt in the mouth" bbq pork.

Cook the pre-marinated pork belly (kept overnight in the fridge) together with the marinate sauce in non-stick pan. Added some water to dilute the sauce in the pan. Cook over medium fire until it started to boil, then let it simmer covered over low fire. Check frequently to make sure the sauce doesn't dry out. Turn to cook the pork on both sides. Once the pork belly is cooked and soft enough, off the fire.

Cut the cooled bbq pork belly and kept aside one portion for our neighbour.

Kept the bbq sauce in a separate bowl. If sauce is too thick, add some water and cook over a fire.

Sauteed napa cabbage + carrot with garlic and salt.

Getting ready for photography session.

Poured the bbq sauce over the bbq pork and let's eat!

To keep ourselves connected, my foodie friends and I will post and share photos of our meals on our Whatsapp chat group.

Mangoes for dessert.

Our day ended with this evening sky at 7:20pm.

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Saturday's Ctitters

Baby grasshopper.

I saw a strange big ant on the trash bag which I haven't seen before. I used Google Lens app and it was identified as the Green Tree Ant. Information from the internet says that its sting is poisonous and can cause a strong allergic reaction that often leads to an anaphylactic shock. Before it could get away, I quickly flatten it. I hope its nest is not anywhere near my house. So far, so good, until now there has been no more sighting of this type of ant.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Don't brag about tomorrow,

since you don't know what the day will bring.

Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth -

a stranger, not your own lips.

(Proverbs 27:New Living Translation-NLT)

Fish Noodle Soup, Fried Rice, Mango & Home Cooked Dinner

This was the last Thursday of the month of May, also the 6th day of EMCO for Ipoh. No morning walk, no dine-in, only takeaway. Only 1 person from each household is allowed to go out for essential. So hubby went out on his motorcycle to buy takeaway for breakfast while I stayed home to boil water to make coffee.

He bought 2 pieces of fried stuffed bean curd sheet with yam bean and 2 fish balls with breadcrumb.

My bowl of fish noodle with bird's eye chilies for extra oomph.

1 portion of fish noodle consisting of thick fish slices, fish cake, rice vermicelli, salted veggie (hum choy), napa cabbage, tomato, ginger strips, and Chinese cooking wine. The cook will add extra wine for us.

Hubby's bowl of fish noodles without the bird's eye chili.

1 portion of fish soup noodle costs RM9 which is enough for 2 people.

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Lunch

There was some extra rice from the previous day's chicken chop rice kept in the fridge.

Hubby was hungry so he used the rice to make fried rice. He used egg and plenty of onions to fry his plate of rice. I taxed 2 spoonsful of fried rice from the plate.

For dessert, we had apple mango.

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Simple home cooked dinner

2nd and last portion of sambal stinky beans.

Sauteed broccoli and carrot with garlic and salt to taste.

Fast and easy dinner.

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My friend sent me photos of her recently adopted pets.

She has a heart of compassion for the strays.

Photos credited to Aislynn.

She found this stray cat with a chronic cold problem. She took him to the vet and she is now trying her best to nurse the cat back to health. She named the cat "Tom-Tom". She wears a fur coat with a mixture of chocolate gray.

This is Dingo, a stray dog at 6 weeks when she adopted him.

He is a bundle of energy and will chew anything he can get holds of.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

This is my work, and I can do it only because

Christ's mighty energy is at work within me.

(Colossians 1:29, The Living Bible-TLB)

Fried Short Noodle, Chee Cheong Fun & Sambal Ikan Bilis

There were 4 more steamed buns (given by neighbour) in the fridge. I re-steamed the 4 buns for breakfast.

2 buns with coconut jam (kaya) filling and 2 buns with bbq pork (char siew) filling.

Steamed buns with black coffee for breakfast.

After breakfast, went out to the garden to water my plants.

This deep red Caladium seems very happy and doing very well after being placed under semi shade.

Out of the blue, I wanted to cook sambal ikan bilis (anchovies).

Since I had all the ingredients in the fridge, I used up all the anchovies to cook this dish. I love sambal anchovies but hubby prefers deep fried crispy anchovies. He will have to wait till my next grocery shopping trip.

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Dinner supplied by our neighbour.

Our neighbour bought fried short noodle aka as fried lo shu fun.

They also bought for us steamed flat rice noodle roll with yam bean filling.

2 types of chili sauce.

Together with the flat rice noodle roll, there was a packet of pig skin and long bean curry.

For dessert, we cut 1 big apple mango. 

The apple mango had thick flesh and very sweet.

Yay! Mango season is here again!

An antique bicycle with the rubber latex container at the back.

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

For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness,"

has made us understand that it is the brightness of his glory

that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

But this precious treasure - this light and power

that now shine within us - is held in a perishable container,

that is, in our weak bodies.

Everyone can see that the glorious power within

must  be from God and is not our own.

(2 Corinthians 4:6-7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Thankful For The Food We had

After we have finished a few rounds of morning walk, we went to one of our regular coffee shops for breakfast. Most mornings, hubby and I will share a bowl of noodles but that morning, I wanted to eat loh pan mee which hubby doesn't like. So, we each ended up ordering and eating something which we enjoy eating.

Our unsweetened black coffee.

Hubby ordered fried noodle.

I ordered a bowl of Loh Pan Mee with thick gravy, with black vinegar added.

Later in the morning, I made herbal jelly (gui ling gao).

This herbal jelly is soothing for dry throat.

I had leftover rice in the fridge.

I cooked fried rice with onions, dried prawns, and egg for lunch.

A friend dropped by to visit us and gave us this mango from their garden.

Another friend gave us the above steamed buns.

We had steamed buns for dinner and supper.

This dragonfly paid us a visit.

I tried to guide it out of the house but it was flying all over the places.

It finally landed on the handle of my first-aid box. I slowly reached out to it with a fly swatter and it cling on to it. Then I brought it to the window and out it flew away.

Saw this baby grasshopper on my hibiscus.

It had been feeding and pooing on my hibiscus.

Grasshoppers like to feed on the petals of my hibiscus.

Linking to Saturday's Critters & Garden Affair.

Instead, feed your enemy if he is hungry.

If he is thirsty give him something to drink and

you will be "heaping coals of fire on his head."

In other words, he will feel ashamed of himself

for what he has done to you.

(Romans 12:20, The Living Bible-TLB)