Home Grown Green + Purple Brinjals & Ladies Fingers

During the long rainy season, some of the edible plants that did well are the ladies' finger and the brinjals. Brinjals are also known as eggplants or aubergine.

Long green ladies' fingers.

Green brinjals.

Purple brinjal.

Purple brinjal.

Purple brinjals take slightly longer time to cook than the green brinjals.

On this particular morning, I harvested 2 long green ladies' fingers, 1 purple brinjal and 3 green brinjals.

I usually steamed the brinjals and the ladies fingers. Sometimes, I will add them to the curry dish. This time, I used the brinjals and ladies' fingers together with cabbage to cook with sambal belacan + dried shrimps.

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I saw the following photos when I was holidaying in Penang. I know the 2 portraits belong to 2 members of the Beatles group but I don't know their name. Can you help me with their names?

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

If you must choose, take a good name rather than great riches;

for to be held in loving esteem is better than silver and gold.

(Proverbs 22:1, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Restoran Chuen Kah Fook, Ipoh

We are still in the monsoon season with lots of rain. It was raining the whole night before but by early morning, the rain has stopped and we were able to go for our morning walk.

Just before we started our morning walk.

Sunrise at 7:05am.

Sunrise at 7:20am.

7:25am

The last time we had dinner at Restoran Chuen Kah Fook was in November 2020, just before the 2nd Movement Control Order started. So for our dine-out evening, our friend suggested this restaurant. We ordered 4 appetizing flavourful dishes and all of them in clay pots.

#1 - Pumpkin and taro in clay pot (small portion) - RM15.

#2 - Eggplant in clay pot (small portion) - RM15.

#3 - Taufu in clay pot (small portion- RM18.

#4 - Steamed chicken with blended ginger (small portion) - RM20.

Total cost of dinner for 4 people - RM77.40

(incl. rice and Chinese tea)

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Yellow hibiscus from my garden.

This yellow hibiscus has multi layer petals.

My yellow hibiscus plant is happily blooming now.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

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)

Pork Noodle, Shredded Chicken Noodle & Blessing From Garden.

No morning walk and no sunrise to share because it was raining in the early morning. So we drove out to our regular coffee shop for breakfast.

Unsweetened milo (milo-O) for me and Chinese tea for hubby.

Pork noodle (yee mee) for hubby.

Shredded chicken noodle (kai si hor fun) for me.

The seller added chicken liver because he thought the noodle was for hubby. I don't like liver, so I passed all the lives pieces to hubby.

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Back home in my garden.

I harvested 2 purple brinjals and 1 fig.

I harvest 4 custard apples but threw one away because it was over ripe and had gone mushy.

I also harvested these green brinjals.

I will be sowing some seeds since I have cleared away most of the old plants.

These are the rewards that make my gardening worthwhile.

Sunset at 7:25pm.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

 Hallelujah!

O servants of Jehovah, praise his name.

Blessed is his name forever and forever.

Praise him from sunrise to sunset!

For he is high above the nations;

his glory is far greater than the heavens.

(Psalm 113:1-4, The Living Bible-TLB)

Stuffed Ingredients And Chee Cheong Fun For Dinner

I have a few purple and white eggplant or brinjal plants growing in my garden. They have been very fruitful.

 White brinjal or eggplant, slim and long ones.

 I harvest some stunted purple brinjals from an old plant and some slim and long white brinjals.

The next day, I harvested these lovely white brinjals and 2 more purple ones.

Another morning, I harvested the above.

How to use up all the above?

I could only think of making stuffed ingredients.

Stuffed white and purple brinjals, bitter gourds, long beans, stubby okras, tofu and tofu puffs. Made the stuffing with fish paste, minced pork, chopped spring onions and chilies.

Set aside the above for that evening's dinner with chili sauce as dipping. The rest kept in the freezer until needed.

We were blessed with 2 packets of steamed flat noodle (chee cheong fun) by a friend and we ate with our stuffed ingredients for dinner.

The steamed flat noodles were packed with sauce, and pig's skin and long beans curry.

Due to excessive rain, my pink fairy lilies are happily flowering.

During this monsoon season, we see dark clouds almost every late afternoon or evening.

Heavy thunderstorm expected anytime in the evening.

When we see dark cloud like this, we usually choose to stay home unless unavoidable.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

The LORD spread a cloud above them as a covering

and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.

(Psalm 105:39, The Living Bible-TLB)

A Beautiful Visitor In My Garden

Every morning, I check on my plants as I water them. After watering the plants, if the weather is not hot, I will do some weeding or take some snapshots of my plants.

 Malabar spinach ready for harvest.

These were grown from stalks given to me by my hairdresser.

 Chili seedlings

 Long and slender white eggplant or brinjal.

 Long purple eggplant or brinjal

 More purple eggplant or brinjals on this plant.

 1 white and 4 purple eggplants and 6 stubby okras harvested from my garden.

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And look what I found visiting my garden.

 At first glance, it was not a very attractive butterfly.

 I wouldn't have noticed it if it hadn't moved.

 It was moving in a circle as I aimed my smartphone camera on it.

 And then it opened its wings to reveal its beautiful colours.

 Then it closed back its wings

 and opened it again

 All the time it was not stationery.

 It moved nearer to the side of the flower pot.

 I think it was happy to pose for me.

One last snapshot of this beautiful butterfly.

My legs were starting to feel numb for squatting so long.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Because God does not punish sinners instantly,

people feel it is safe to do wrong.

(Ecclesiastes 8:11, The Living Bible-TLB)