I wanted to boil soup for dinner so I went to the garden to get one of the bigger bottle gourds hanging from its vine. I have given away a few bottle gourds to friends who were interested to try. The feedbacks were good and they all love it.
This bottle gourd measures about 17 inches long, big and quite heavy.
I divided the gourd into 2 portions. I used the bigger portion for making soup enough for sharing with our neighbour.
2 bowls of soup. The one on the left was for hubby because he doesn't like carrot. Ingredients for soup: half a bottle gourd, 1 corn on cob, carrot and pork rib.
A dish I didn't cook for a long time. This dish consists of cloud ears (black fungus), dried lily buds (golden needle), chicken breast meat strips, oyster sauce, soy sauce and dark sauce. The portion was big, so I kept half for the next day's dinner.
Dinner with steamed brown rice. Home grown chili in soy sauce as condiment.
Cranberry Hibiscus in my garden.
The plants have grown too tall and I have trimmed them shorter.
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The next day's home cooked dinner.
The smaller portion of bottle gourd was cut into shreds. I cooked the bottle gourd shreds with chopped garlic and soaked dried shrimps and salt to taste.
2nd portion of the wood fungus, lily buds and chicken breast meat strip.
Simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.
This is a sculpture and not a real ape (orangutan).
My friend saw this at the Taiping zoo. It looks quite friendly.
Linking to Saturday's Critters.
Many curry favor with a ruler,
and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.
(Proverbs 19:6, New International Version-NIV)
