Updates From My Garden January 2023

I have been busy cooking lunch and dinner for the family and for most of the meals I have forgotten to snap photos of the dishes that I have cooked. So, no food post for the time being. Instead, I will update on my garden plants.

Okra or ladies' fingers.

Currently, I have 2 okra plants growing in the same pot.

This long okra was harvested a day late and it was not good for food, hard and fibrous.

Green brinjals / eggplants /aubergines growing in my garden.

This must be harvested before the seeds harden.

Sometimes, it can grow quite long and still is tender.

I sowed a few yellow cucumber seeds and only one is successful.

Cranberry Hibiscus blooming away.

This patch of land which I used to plant green and purple amaranth has been infested with tiny snails and they will eat up all the young leaves. I will try to plant corn instead and see if the snails will attack the corn plants.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Like sheep you wandered away from God,

but now you have returned to your Shepherd,

The Guardian of your souls who keeps you safe from all attacks.

(1 Peter 2:25, The Living Bible-TLB)

Purple + Green Amaranth & Bottle Gourd From My Garden

On this particular morning, I noticed that the purple and green amaranth were ready for harvest

The above is just enough for 2 people.

I also harvested the above bottle gourd to make soup for dinner.

This is hubby's bowl. He prefers the soup more than the ingredients. I am the one who usually will finish most of the ingredients.

I also make minced meat + fish paste patties.

I blanched the purple and green amaranth.

This is plain without any garlic oil or soy sauce.

This was our dinner without any rice.

I kept back some of the patties for the next day's dinner.

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Thanks to Shirley for sharing the following photos with me.

She saw these chickens when she was out on her morning walk.

These chickens look healthy and well fed.

These chickens belong to one of her neighbours.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

And how can we be sure that we belong to him?

By looking within ourselves:

are we really trying to do what he wants us to?

(1 John 2:3, The Living Bible-TLB)

Growing Purple Amaranth In My Garden

I was at the UTC Ipoh with a friend to pay our bills. Then we went over to the central market and I bought a few small packets of vegetable seeds including a packet of green & purple amaranth seeds. I sowed the seeds in an oval pot. Hopefully, it will yield enough for 2 people.

The seeds have sprouted. There are green and purple coloured seedlings.

The seedlings have grown into healthy veggie.

These can be harvested as soon as I am ready to do some home cooking.

It is time to harvest these amaranth for our dinner.

This will be more than enough for 2 people.

Purple and green amaranth can be sauteed, blanched, or boiled in soup.

I didn't take any pictures of that evening's home cooked dinner.

Some of the smaller plants were left behind to produce seeds for future sowing.

There was another time when I harvested some green amaranth from my garden. I remembered to snap some photos to show my simple home cooked dinner.

 Taro or yam cooked with dried shrimps on the left.

Sauteed green amaranth on the right.

Surprisingly, the taro or yam are super soft. We ate these taro and veggie without any rice because the taro is very filling.

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The following periwinkle flowers from my garden are for joining Floral Bliss.

White periwinkles

Light pink periwinkles.

Deep pink periwinkles.

Purple periwinkles.

Linking to Floral Bliss.

Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations

and to solve difficult problems.

If you can read this writing and tell me what it means,

you will be clothed in purple and a gold chain placed around your neck,

and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

(Daniel 5:16, New International Version-NIV)