Sweet, Sour & Spicy Pork Leg With White Radish

When I harvested the first 3 white radish or diakon from the vegetable patch, I used them to boiled soup with pork ribs. The second time I harvested, I gave all three to a friend. For the third time, I pulled out 6 except for 4 plants which I let them be in the vegetable patch.

With the white radish or diakon, I will be cooking the above sweet, sour and spicy pork. I haven't cook this dish for a long time. So after our morning walk on Wednesday morning, I stopped to buy a pork leg. I prefer the front leg which has more meat than fat.

We started our morning walk on Wednesday morning at about 6:50am.

Lovely pink sky.

Even the cloud is pink.

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Home cooked dinner.

Here are the home grown white radish.

They are of different sizes and shapes.

Ingredients used:

1 pork leg, white radish, chopped garlic, chopped shallots, about 15gm dried chillies (soaked), tamarind slices or pickled sour plum, tamarind paste, tau cheong or fermented soy bean, dark soy sauce for colouring, salt and sugar to taste. When cooked, I divide into 3 portions. 1 for our neighbour, 1 for dinner and 1 portion kept in the fridge for next day's dinner. This dish gets more flavourful and tastier the next day.

I went into the garden in search for greens. I saw one single big green amaranth. I pulled out the green amaranth and harvest some chive flowers. I sauteed them together with garlic and salt to make up this dish. Anything is better than no greens.

I took a snapshot of this unique colour flower growing in front of a house which we passed by on our morning walk. I googled and the name of this flower is Tecoma Stans Orange Jubilee.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you;

eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

Leviticus 25:12, New International Version-NIV)

3 Days Before MCO 3.0

This was Friday, 3 days before Perak comes under MCO 3.0. As usual, our day started with our morning walk.

Sunrise at 7am.

There were less than a handful customers in the coffee shop, so we decided to dine-in. We chose the table outside the shop.

 Hubby ordered the radish pork leg Hakka noodle even though we just had it 2 days ago.

I ordered the fried rice vermicelli.

I asked for less noodle and more beansprouts.

Tiny wild mushrooms sprouting from the soil in the pot after many days of rain.

This is the first time I boiled sweet dessert (tong sui) with sea bird nest. The packet of sea bird nest was from one of the gift hampers I received for the New Year.

The sea bird nest was soaked, washed and drained. Meanwhile, I boiled dried longan, honey dates, rock sugar in water. When it was cooked and slow boiling, I added the sea bird nest, give it a quick stir and off the fire. I gave some of the sweet dessert to my neighbour.

Dramatic afternoon sky at 4:45pm

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Our strange combination dinner.

Hubby went out on his motorbike to buy chee cheong fun but the stall was closed. So he bought something else instead. I don't know what this is called, it is some kind of rojak.

After pouring the peanut sauce over it, I forgot to snap a photo.

He also bought the above stuffed items.

The 2nd and last portion of fish head + vegetables curry.

Strange or not, it was a satisfying dinner for hubby and I.

Automatic hydraulic monitor for tin mining. This photo was taken in 2015. I have not re-visited the show room since, so I don't know the status of the show room now.

This was pasted on the glass panel.

Sorry about the reflection on the glass.

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

In the same way, we can see and understand only a little about God now,

as if we were peering at his reflection in a poor mirror;

but someday we are going to see him in his completeness, face-to-face.

Now all that I know is hazy and blurred, but then I will see everything clearly,

just as clearly as God sees into my heart right now.

(1 Corinthians 13:12, The Living Bible-TLB)

Radish Pork Leg Hakka Noodle & Ready Cooked Dinner

This was a few days before MCO 3.0, nationwide lockdown was enforced upon us. After our morning walk, we stopped at Restoran Kee Tuck Seak for breakfast. After going through the check-in SOP procedure, we chose a small table outside the restaurant. At that early hour (about 7am), there were only a handful of customers sitting inside.

Hubby ordered the Hakka noodle with radish pork leg.

Hubby and I shared this breakfast set (RM5.80 only).

Hakka noodle

The boss is very generous with the radish pork leg serving.

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Back in my garden.

My daikon (radish) plants have variegated leaves!

Oh no! Some pests were feeding on the leaves.

I quickly cut off all the affected leaves to protect the other leaves.

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I was in lazy mode, so there was no home cooking.

We had dine-in at WK Claypot House.

Coincidentally, we ordered radish pork after having radish pork leg for breakfast.

Sweet sour mustard green.

Fried Threadfin (ma yau) fish.

We ordered 2 small portion white rice to eat with the above dishes.

Saw this pretty butterfly resting on the Water Jasmine leaf as I was watering the plants. If it hadn't fluttered, I wouldn't have noticed it.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples;

the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.

(Isaiah 11:10, New International Version-NIV)