Pickled Home Grown Ginger & Pickled Belimbing Buluh

Woke up this morning and checked the weather forecast. It said it will be a cloudy day and didn't mention about rain. After morning walk and breakfast, I watered the plants in my garden. About 10am, the sky became dark and 15 minutes later, it rained but only for a short while.

Morning sky at 7:16am.

We stopped at our regular coffee shop for breakfast.

Fish meat noodle with napa cabbage, tomato wedges, 1 fried fish cake, ginger strips and Chinese cooking wine added. The current price is RM9.50.

Croissant sandwich @ RM6.80 

Croissant with ham and fried egg.

We shared the above breakfast and we each had a cup of unsweetened coffee. After breakfast, we walked home.

Last week, I dug out my home grown ginger rhizomes.

I used them to make ginger pickles.

The ginger rhizomes cleaned and the skin removed, and ready for slicing.

Here is my pickled ginger. I also added in some home grown bird's eye chilies.

I replanted the young ginger plants and now I have 2 pots.

I had the above belimbing buluh (bamboo starfruits) in my fridge, blessing from our friends. Since I had extra vinegar and sugar syrup, I also pickled these belimbing buluh. They can't keep too long in the fridge and will go black/bad after about a week.

This is our friends' bamboo starfruit tree in front of their house.

Bamboo starfruit flowers and fruits hanging from the branches and trunk of the tree.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives:

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. 

There is no law against these things!

(Galatians 5:22-23, New Living Translation-NLT)

Deep Purple Corn & Century Egg With Pickled Ginger

After locking the gate, I took the following sky shots before we started our morning walk.

Morning sky at 6:55am.

Returning from our morning walk at 7:40am.

Economy spicy fried rice vermicelli (Indian style) from the roadside stall. One with fried egg and the other with fried chicken drumstick. Hubby had milo and I had Bru coffee.

I used to be a Nescafe fan. This is the first time I bought Bru coffee to try. I find it milder and smoother than Nescafe.

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Purple Corn

I have tried growing purple corn twice in my garden. If you are interested, you can click here and here to read the posts.

My neighbour bought 4 purple corns for us. I removed the husk and silk, then I washed the corns under running tap water before I steamed them.

After steaming, the water in the metal plate was purple.

There was purple stain on my fingers after holding the steamed corn. No worry, the stain came off easily when washed.

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I cooked Mi Sedap instant noodle for lunch.

I served the noodle with some spicy dry shrimp chili.

Side dish: 2 century duck eggs with home made pickled ginger.

I think I am the only one who served century egg with noodle.

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Home cooked dinner for 2 people.

ABC soup.

Ingredients used: potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, big onions, smashed ginger (thumb size), crushed white peppercorns and soft bone pork.

Pan fried Grouper fish slice. When it is cooked, I drizzled some soy sauce on it, flipped it over to coat the soy sauce and took it out from the pan.

I tried a new brand luncheon meat that comes in a round tin. I didn't take snapshot of the tin so I can't remember what was the brand. Not so nice, so I won't be buying this brand again i.e. if I can recognise the tin.

Simple yet satisfying and filling dinner for us.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son

into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through his death.

In this act we see what real love is:

it is not our love for God but his love for us

when he sent his Son to satisfy God's anger against our sins.

(1 John 4:9-10, The Living Bible-TLB)