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)

My Own Style Pork Chop Dinner.

On a haze free day, we get to enjoy clean fresh air and clear blue sky. Sky view from from my side garden one morning.

 Quickly took out my phone camera to capture these streaks of white in the blue sky. 

 Morning sky at 8.30 am.

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I had 4 russet potatoes in my fridge.

I don't know why I bought them in the first place!

Now have to think of ways to cook them.

 2 russet potatoes ended up in a pot of boiling water. I should have used 1 instead of 2 potatoes because they were really big ones. When cooked, I peeled off the skin and cut into eight pieces each. Sprinkled salt and black pepper over the potato pieces.

I fried a few pieces of pork slices which I have pre-marinated and pan fried some big onion rings, garlic and tomatoes. I didn't follow any recipe, whatever came to my mind I just follow.

Then I opened a can of Campbell's chicken soup.

 Used some of the canned chicken soup to make this sauce for the pork chop and the potatoes.

Poured some of the sauce over the potato pieces.

 Photo taken before the sauce was poured over the potato pieces and the pork chop. This was my own style of pork chop dinner. All the cooking experts will faint (pengsan!). We couldn't finish all of these. We kept the leftover for the next day's lunch.

Sunset at 7.30 pm.

Just in time to enjoy this beautiful sunset after our dinner.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

Work happily together. Don't try to act big.

Don't try to get into the good graces of important people,

but enjoy the company of ordinary folks.

And don't think you know it all!

(Romans 12:16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Our Lunch At Bunge Bungalow, Fraser's Hill.

After the morning's outing at the Floral Garden, The Paddock, the Clock Tower and etc., we drove back to the bungalow to get ready for our lunch. This is the only lunch we had in Fraser's Hill on this trip. The following dishes were what the kitchen had prepared for us.

We had plain steamed fish with ginger strips.

Chinese style pork chop with sauce.

Plain stir fried veggie (Chinese cabbage or siew pak choy) with garlic.

Soup - carrot, corn and pork rib.

After a nice lunch, our next meal will be tea at about 3.15 pm.

Pesticide-free Cauliflower growing at the Floral Garden. For this trip, we bought some ginger and freshly harvested cabbages.

Photo credit: Tsang

Yellow berries from a tall bush growing outside The Paddock.

Begonia growing in a pot outside the bungalow.

Colourful Coleus plants from the bungalow's garden.

Then he prayed again, this time that it would rain,

and down it poured, and the grass turn green

and the gardens began to grow again.

(James 5:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

My Simple Home Cooked Dinner.

There was one afternoon when I felt like cooking dinner. I went to the fridge and took out whatever I could find. There was meat, tomatoes, a Japanese cucumber, a sweet corn and some potatoes. I defrosted the meat, seasoned it with salt and pepper & lots of chopped garlic and left it in the fridge until it was time to cook dinner.

 This was my simple home cooked dinner for 2.

 I found a can of mushroom soup, just nice for 2 bowls.

 Pan fried Pork Chop seasoned with pepper, salt and lots of chopped garlic. The meat was tender and flavourful but without any sauce.

 Cut one big tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and half a Japanese cucumber. The other half of cucumber kept for me to munch later on.

 Steamed sweet corn. We love steamed sweet corn!

 Cooked potatoes sprinkled with some pepper.

 And I used this sesame sauce as salad sauce or dipping sauce.

It is near expiry date, so I need to finish it fast.

Love this sesame sauce recommended by a friend.

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The following treasures are from Chang Jiang White Coffee (signature outlet).

 An antique oven and radio.

 A cute metal table with enamel mugs.

Metal trays on wheels.

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

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 4:7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Simple Dinner At Restoran Ex-Lover, Ipoh

This place was mentioned to me by my ex-colleagues when we met up for one of our breakfast meeting. So on one evening, we came here for our dinner before attending the evening church service. 

I do not know about the food yet, but I like the signboard.

Looks like something from yester-years.

These were our drinks.

My dinner - a plate of chicken chop with some coleslaw, french fries, etc.

@ RM5.00

Hubby's dinner - a plate of pork chop with coleslaw, french fries, etc.

With additional piece of pork chop @ RM9.00.

Kitchen is behind the glass panel of the shop.

Took this photo while at the cashier counter.

Took this photo when I passed by one afternoon.

Linked to Skywatch Friday.

My lover has gone down to his garden, to his spice beds,

to browse in the gardens and gather the lilies.

I am my lover's, and my lover is mine.

He browses among the lilies.

(Song of Solomon 6:2-3, NLT)