Papaya Soup, Yam Bean With Cuttlefish & Assam Curry Fish

On the way home from morning walk, hubby stopped at the coffee shop to buy Chinese crullers from one of the stalls to take home for breakfast.

Chinese crullers (2 yau chow kuai + 1 ham chim peng)

Left over fried tom yam noodle, heated up.

2-in-1 black coffee.

Breakfast for 2 people.

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In my garden

2 round black purplish eggplants.

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Simple lunch - just eat whatever is available in the house. 

What we usually eat for breakfast became our lunch.

Bread for dipping into half boiled eggs for hubby.

I prefer toast with peanut jam and apricot jam.

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Dinner

I cooked a small pot of yam bean (sengkuang) with carrot, dried cuttlefish, and etc. This is aka jiu hu char in Hokkien. Gave 1 tub to neighbour.

Soup: Papaya, carrot, corn, red dates, gojiberries, and soft bone pork.

Gave 2 portions of soup for neighbours.

1 portion for our dinner.

Neighbour ordered assam curry fish for us.

Delicious and satisfying dinner with steamed rice for 2 people.

Ending this post with an evening sky shot @ 7:30pm.

No spectacular sunset, just clouds.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end,"

says the Lord God.

"I am the one who is, who always was,

and who is still to come - the Almighty One."

(Revelation 1:8, New Living Translation-NLT)

Home Cooked Pork Chop & Papaya Soup

The following photos were taken at the end of last year when the weather was much cooler. We could feel the fresh cool breeze at the recreational park especially during the early hours before the sun rises.

Even as I walked my rounds, I stopped every now and then to take snapshots of the sky.

The sky changes just like in a slideshow.

This is the opposite facing the sunrise.

The low clouds have hidden the distance hills.

This was taken from a moving car.

 There is new hope in every sunrise...

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For this particular evening, we had home cooked dinner.

Home cooked papaya soup with pork ribs.

Home made pork chop seasoned with salt and black pepper.

One piece for hubby and one piece for me.

I made some gravy for the pork chop but not shown in the photos.

And a plate of blanched broccoli with garlic oil and oyster sauce for a balanced meal.

Linking to Skywatch Friday & Friday Bliss

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie.

If weighed on a balance, they are nothing;

together they are only a breath.

(Psalm 62:9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Papaya Pickles And Papaya Soup From Home Grown Papayas.

At present I have a papaya tree planted outside my front fence. Due to lack of ground space, I planted this papaya tree in a small space just next to the outside drain. It has grown tall and it is now as tall as the porch awning. At one point, I thought of chopping down the tree but it began to bear more new fruits before I could finish harvesting the remaining ones.

 I prefer to wait till the fruits are ripe on the tree because they will taste sweeter. But the birds started to feast on the papaya before they are due for plucking. So I was forced to harvest the papayas earlier before they are ripe enough to eat.

 One morning the thought of making papaya pickles came to mind.

So I plucked 2 half ripe papayas from the tree.

 I used a little bit of salt to mix with the papaya slices. After about 5 minutes, I washed off the salt and drain off the water from the papaya slices.

  Then I add sugar and apple cider vinegar to the papaya slices, mixed it thoroughly and kept it overnight in the refrigerator.

 Next day, I separated them into small plastic tubs and distributed them to my neighbours and nearby friends. I kept back 2 small tubs for hubby and myself.

 Sometimes, when I feel like drinking papaya soup, I will pluck 1 small sized papaya which is just beginning to show sign of a tinge of yellow on the green skin. To boil the soup, I cut the papaya in big pieces, and then I add red dates, goji berries, some dried cuttlefish, and rib bones. Sometimes, I will add carrot if it is available. It is a very delicious soup.

For that evening's dinner, I also harvested some white brinjals from my garden. I steamed the brinjals, peeled off the skin and topped with garlic oil, oyster sauce and soy sauce.

This was our homecooked dinner and the ingredients used were mostly home grown.

We shared a small portion of white rice.

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The following fences are for joining Good Fences.

We passed by this place when we were in Teluk Intan.

Can you see the white metal fence with design.

I took these snapshots from inside a moving car.

Linking to Good Fences.

I see God moving across the deserts from Mount Sinai.

His brilliant splendor fills the earth and sky;

his glory fills the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise!

What a wonderful God he is!

(Habakkuk 3:3, The Living Bible-TLB)

From The Garden To The Dining Table: Dinner For 2.

The fig plants that were propagated by air layering are now growing well and are bearing fruits. Every morning when I water the plants, I will check on the fig fruits. One morning, I noticed one fruit that looked like its time to harvest. There were some white spots on the skin and probably attacked by some kind of pests.

 Can you see the white spots on the fig?

When I cut the fig into half, the inside looked good.

It would have been sweeter if I had waited for 2 to 3 more days.

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Dinner Day #1

I had a packet of stinky beans in my fridge.

 I opened up the beans to check for worms. Then I washed and soaked the beans in water and place them in the fridge until it was time to cook them.

I still had 1 white brinjal and 3 white bitter melons from the previous day's harvest.

 I will be using all the above for cooking a single dish. I planned to keep half of the dish for the next day's dinner.

 Sambal stinky beans - Stinky beans, minced pork, white bitter gourds, white brinjals cooked with spicy prawn paste. This plate was for 1st evening's dinner. 

Besides the stinky beans dish, I boiled corn soup with pork ribs, red dates, and wolf berries. Love the natural sweetness of this soup. Great for hot days.

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Dinner Day #2

I went outside to check on the papaya tree. Saw one green papaya with a tinge of yellow on the skin. I plucked it and use it to boil soup. Since the weather is hot plus the bad haze, it will be good to drink plenty of soup.

 The 2nd half portion of the previous day's stinky beans dish. 

 Soup of the day - papaya, carrot, dried cuttlefish, red dates, wolf berries and pork ribs. It was very delicious and love the natural sweetness of the soup.

 Just these 2 dishes for our dinner.

I steamed just enough rice for 2 people. It is very tempting to eat more rice especially when we have the appetizing spicy stinky beans dish.

Happy is the man who doesn't give in and do wrong when he is tempted,

for afterwards he will get as his reward the crown of life

that God has promised those who love him.

(James 1:12, The Living Bible-TLB)