Assam Laksa Overloaded With Toppings & My Failed Potato Project

There was 1 last packet of ready made assam laksa paste which I bought from Penang. It was nearing expiry date, so better to use it before it expired. The paste is enough for 4 people so I informed my neighbour that I will be cooking assam laksa for them too. 

My bowl of assam laksa overloaded with toppings with noodle out of sight.

This time I used fresh fish. I bought 4 big "ikan mambong" or mackerel for 4 people. I love lots of fish chunks in the assam laksa.

I also used fresh pineapple. The cucumbers were fresh from my garden. I didn't buy the special laksa noodle, so I used rice vermicelli (beehoon).

Our delicious assam laksa dinner.

Thanks to the ready made paste, this assam laksa is super easy to cook. Will need to stock up on the laksa paste again.

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Today, I want to share one of my failed gardening projects with you.

Sometimes, I kept the potatoes too long and they started to sprout. Instead of throwing them away, I thought I could try to grow them in my garden.

Surprising, the sprouts grew well and look healthy.

Actually, I have tried a few times to grow potatoes but failed.

The plants grew to about 2 feet.

I was excited to see the plants started to have flowers. But my excitement was short lived. After a while, the plants started to turn yellow and died. Could it be our weather or the soil or too much water? I hope some experts could give me some tips on potato growing. If I get a sprouted potato, I may want to give it another try before I totally give up. I wonder if anyone successfully grown potato in our local tropical weather.

For there is hope for a tree - if it's cut down,

it sprouts again and grows tender, new branches.

(Job 14:7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Indonesian Rendang Paste With Pork And Potato

A morning with gloomy sky but the weather was warm and humid.

7:20am - facing the Kledang Hill.

On the way back, hubby bought a packet of economy fried beehoon with fried egg and sambal from the roadside stall.

That morning, I prefer to eat toast with jam.

After I finished the apricot spread, I opened the orange and ginger spread. I love these because of the fruit chunk in the spread.

That morning I harvest some chives buds.

For lunch, we had noodle (mee sua) with the leftover black chicken herbal soup.

Something was wrong with one of my brinjal or aubergine plant.

The leaves started to turn yellow.

This plant which is from the same pot is normal, so I discarded the one with the yellow leaves.

We received 5 steamed buns from our neighbour which we kept in the fridge for the next day's breakfast.

This hibiscus is happy with the warm weather, has been flowering none stop.

I stock checked the instant pastes I had and decided to use the above Indonesian rendang paste to cook rendang using pork and potatoes.

I also added in turmeric (kunyit) leaves, thinly shredded to the rendang.

Blanched baby choy sum and home grown chive buds, drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Appetizing dinner for 2 people.

Mural on the concrete wall of a nearby Chinese school.

The Chinese character means filial.

Linking to Monday Mural.

The character of even a child can be known by the way he acts

- whether what he does is pure and right.

(Proverbs 20:11, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Dragon-i Restaurant, Aeon Station 18, Ipoh.

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Today is the eve of the Chinese New Year celebration. Tonight, we will be having our family reunion dinner. As our old folks are no longer with us, we will be having a simple home cooked reunion dinner just for our family of 4 people. I hope I will remember to take snapshots of what we will be having for dinner this evening.

This post is about a dinner date we had with friends about 2 weeks ago. It looked like it was going to rain just before we went out to meet our friends at Aeon Station 18.

That evening, hubby chose to park our car at the indoor parking area. It only started to rain while we were having dinner at Dragon-i. 

 Soup dumplings or siew loong pau.

 Fried rice with prawns and eggs.

 Fried noodle.

 Potatoes in claypot.

 Mapo tofu.

Thanks to our friend for this dinner treat for 4 people.

Dear brothers, how can you claim that you belong

to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory,

if you show favoritism to rich people

and look down on poor people?

(James 2:1, The Living Bible-TLB)