Home Grown Vegetables With Porridge

I prefer to eat rice porridge when the weather is hot. When my father-in-law was with us, he will only eat porridge when he was not feeling well and that only for 1 or 2 days. By the 2nd day, he will complain that his legs felt weak and he needed to eat rice. Good thing, hubby doesn't feel that way and he does not mind eating porridge.

Most times, I will cook plain rice porridge. Other times, I will add meat, salted egg and century egg, or whatever is available. There are also times when I will add in rolled oats to the rice porridge if it is available. Here are 2 examples of our recent rice porridge dinners.

Dinner #1

Some home made pickled ginger and green chili.

Canned pickled lettuce.

Rice porridge with pre-marinated pork slices, century egg, salted egg, and ginger strips.

Home grown vegetable - baby choy sum.

Just plain blanched vegetable without any oil or sauce.

These days I use brown rice to boil porridge. I buy brown rice from the rice shop in my area. Recently, I asked a friend to help me buy a packet of brown rice from Sekinchan. 

Dinner #2

Salted duck egg.

Minced pork with sour belimbing buluh (picture below), chilies and onions.

Belimbing buluh fruits from a friend.

Plain brown rice porridge.

Sauteed home grown Green Amaranth with oil, garlic and salt.

Green Amaranth babies.

When I first planted this, I scattered too many seeds within a small plot.

Now I know better and I try to space out the seeds.

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I received the following photos from a friend.

I searched the internet and I think this insect is the Callirhipis Cardwellensis beetle with Flabellate Antennae.

Insect photos credited to Shirley.

This beetle is new to me.

Have you come across this strange looking beetle before.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

How could he?

For certainly he has never been one to know the Lord's thoughts,

or to discuss them with him, or to move the hands of God by prayer.

But, strange as it seems, we Christians actually do have within us

a portion of the very thoughts and mind of Christ.

(1 Corinthians 2:16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Easy Dinner: Plain Rice Porridge With Packet Food

One evening, I was not in the mood to go out to eat because the weather is so hot. I was also not in the mood to sweat in the kitchen. But I don't mind cooking plain rice porridge because I can just let the porridge cook over a low flame without having to spend time in the kitchen. Then I went to check out to see what I can serve with the porridge. Then I found the following items.

There was a packet of frozen chicken roulade (smoked) in the freezer.

A packet of Laminaria Japonica (seaweed).

A packet of crunchy bamboo shoot.

All the above items were new to me and I bought them from one of the shops in my area.

I steamed the chicken roulade and cut it into thick slices.

The bamboo shoot and seaweed, I served direct from the packets.

This was quite tasty.

Crunchy bamboo shoot is nice and hubby ate most of it.

This seaweed was so so only. Hubby don't like seaweed, so I finished it all by myself. So, that settled our simple dinner.

I would like to learn just one thing from you:

Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law,

or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish?

After beginning by means of the Spirit,

are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

Have you experienced so much in vain - if it really was in vain?

(Galatians 3:2-4, New International Version-NIV)

Fried beef noodle, porridge, chicken prawn noodle & millet dumplings

There was one morning when we were looking forward to try the fried noodle at this coffee shop at the junction where Jalan Pasir Pinji and Jalan Prince meet. 

As I approached the stall to place my order, I saw that they also serve fried beef noodle. I ordered a plate of fried rice vermicelli with beef slices with egg. While we were eating the noodle, the cook came to ask our review of his fried noodle. Hubby's feedback was that it was nice but a bit salty for his taste. So next time, we will request for less salty because other customers may not have any complain.

A bowl of our favourite shredded chicken and prawn flat rice noodle (kai si hor fun).

We also ordered a small bowl of rice porridge with roasted pork bones for sharing.

This place serves good coffee at RM2.20.

Overall, we enjoyed our breakfast that morning.

This is the name of the coffee shop in Chinese.

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Our simple lunch.

A friend blessed us with 2 frozen millet dumpling (bak chang with millet), vacuum packed.

They were slow steamed over medium low heat.

Millet dumpling with leaves wrapping removed.

Millet dumpling with its filling consisting of pork belly, salted egg yolk, & etc.

Thanks to our friend for these tasty dumplings.

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Home cooked dinner.

Home grown white bitter gourds from our old bitter gourd vines. The vines have been producing both big and small bitter gourds.

I used all the above bitter gourds to boil soup with pork rib, carrot, goji berries, and red dates.

Omelette with home grown Chinese chives (kuchai).

Chili oil as condiment.

The above was our "no rice" dinner.

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A dear friend sent me the following photo.

Emerald moth

Photo credited to Marie.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Salvation is not a reward for the good we have done,

so none of us can take any credit for it.

(Ephesians 2:9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Smoked Salted Duck & Green Amaranth For Dinner

This was the first Thursday of March.

Took this photo before we started our morning walk at 7:08am.

Sunrise at 7:33am.

Sunrise at 7:36am.

Sunrise at 7:40am.

Home grown Green Amaranth growing in a small patch in front of our house.

I harvested the Green Amaranth and some left over Water Spinach (kangkong) found growing next to the Green Amaranth.

Will be using these greens for dinner.

I re-steamed the thawed frozen smoked salted duck (half a duck) and chopped it up for dinner.

Blanched Green Amaranth with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

This was our dinner for 2 persons.

The smoked salted duck was tasty but the texture a bit hard.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

We have not yet seen all of this take place,

but we do see Jesus - who for a while was a little

lower than the angels - crowned now by God

with glory and honor because he suffered death for us.

Yes, because of God's great kindness,

Jesus tasted death for everyone in all the world.

(Hebrews 2:7b-9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Curry Noodle, Rice Porridge, Prawns With Glass Noodle

This was on Valentines Day. It was just like any ordinary day.

Morning sky at 7:55am.

Sun rays shining through the dark clouds.

After morning walk, we drove to Pusat Makanan Ye Sing, Taman Bandaraya for breakfast. We ordered our favourite curry noodle. Current price is RM6.50 per bowl.

I collected some of the arrowhead shoots from the compost, washed it and placed them in a mini fish bowl. I am curious to see whether these shoots will grow well in water.

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We had something to settle in town, so we ended up having lunch in Restoran Kar Heng, Jalan C.M. Yusuff (former Jalan Chamberlain), Ipoh.

Hubby ordered chu chap chook. I ordered pork porridge.

Mixed innards porridge (chu chap chook) with fried intestine.

We shared this plate of deep fried fresh water fish.

Surprisingly, hubby enjoys this deep fried fresh water fish.

Total cost of lunch - approx RM17.

I want to see if these arrowhead shoots will make good household plants.

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For Valentines Day's dinner, I tried out a recipe which my elder son recommended to me. It is a Thai dish called Goong Ob Wonsen which is Ginger Shrimp & Glass Noodle.

I had home grown ginger, big prawns and glass noodle (mung bean noodle) at home. I have to do without the spring onions and cilantro. No problem because hubby doesn't like cilantro.

It is a very easy recipe to follow.

I used the only packet of mung bean noodle available at home.

It was just enough for 2 portion. Each portion with 4 big prawns.

It was very delicious and will hope to cook again soon. 1 packet of mung bean or glass noodle is not enough for 2 people. In future, I need to use one and half packet of glass noodle or try substituting the glass noodle with rice vermicelli.

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Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord! How good you are!

Your love for us continues on forever.

Who can ever list the glorious miracles of God?

Who can ever praise him half enough?

(Psalm 106:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)