Simple Western Style Breakfast & Pig's Stomach Soup

This was on a Saturday. The night before, the weather forecast showed that there was possibility of a morning shower.

Morning sky at 6:45am.

There was not even a slight shower but the morning sky was gloomy.

Morning sky with pink cloud at 7:05am, taken on our morning walk.

Clear blue sky at 7:45am.

By 8:08am, the sky turned dark.

We stopped at a roadside stall to buy some snacks.

I bought "nam yee" and "tau sar" biscuits.

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Breakfast

We bought this luncheon meat with bacon for the 1st MCO.

I pan fried the luncheon meat, 4 eggs and heated up the baked beans.

After making the hot drinks, I toasted the bread.

Milo for hubby and coffee for me.

Purple and red bougainvillea in my front garden.

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Dinner

I boiled pig's stomach soup with crushed white peppercorns, ginkgo nuts, onions and soft bone pork. This soup is good for keeping our tummies and bodies warm.

Sauteed sweet potato leaves with garlic and salt to taste.

I heated up some frozen sambal anchovis. Cut home grown green chilies with soy sauce as dipping sauce.

Satisfying dinner for 2 people on a cool evening.

Here is another piece of mural or wall art from the wall surrounding a nearby Chinese school.

You are my hiding place from every storm of life;

you even keep me from getting into trouble!

You surround me with songs of victory.

I will instruct you (says the Lord) and

guide you along the best pathway for your life;

I will advise you and watch your progress.

(Psalm 32:7-8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lockdown To Me Is Stay Home, Stay Safe & Grow Fat

I have decided not to step on the weighing scale because I know I wouldn't like to see what it will show me. I haven't been out for morning walk for more than a week and am too lazy to do indoor exercises. The only exercise I did is eating and more eating. I don't know about others but it looks like lockdown for me means stay home, stay safe and grow fat!

Breakfast bought from roadside stall.

Nasi lemak with fried egg (RM3) for hubby.

Economy fried rice vermicelli with sambal (RM2) for me.

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Lunch

Hubby bought the above for his lunch, the sauce packed separately.

Looks yummy with the sauce.

I had some over ripe bananas so I used them to make banana pancakes for my lunch.

For dessert, we had Jackfruits.

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Dinner

Sambal stinky beans with minced pork for hubby (his favourite).

Sambal anchovies (ikan bilis) for me.

We each had our own favourite dish.

Best eaten with steamed rice.

I took only a few spoonfuls of rice because I wanted to finish the bread later.

After an early dinner, I finished the last 2 pieces of bread with sambal anchovies for supper.

He personally carried the load of our sins in his own body

when he died on the cross so that we can be finished with sin

and live a good life from now on. For his wounds have healed ours!

(1 Peter 2:24, The Living Bible-TLB)

Eating Raw Okra With Sambal Anchovies (Ikan Bilis)

I haven't been out for morning walk for more than a week. We have to wait for the EMCO to end on 4th June. By the 5th morning, we can safely resume our morning walk according to the latest nationwide MCO sop. Until then, I will enjoy the sunrises from the front of my house.

Sunrise at 7:15am

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Breakfast

Hubby went out on his motorcycle to buy breakfast.

Wat Tan Hor (Noodle with thick egg gravy).

Flat rice noodle (koay teow) stir fried with oil, dark and light soy sauce was placed separately from the thick egg gravy.

Wat Tan Hor with the thick egg gravy poured over the stir fried noodle.

Hubby's breakfast after I have taxed a few mouthfuls.

Hubby's breakfast and 2-in-1 black coffee for us.

I had peanut butter on toast for breakfast.

This cockscomb flower was too heavy for the plant. The small plant was leaning to one side due to the weight of the flower.

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Lunch

I didn't snap photo of hubby's lunch so I can't remember what he ate but the following photos show what I ate.

There was bread, sambal anchovies and freshly picked okras from my garden. Fresh raw okras are crunchy and nice to eat. 

So I decided that I want to try making sandwich with sambal anchovies and raw okra.

This was how I ate it.

Then I decided to try okra with sambal anchovies without the bread and found that it is nicer this way.

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Home cooked dinner.

Steamed a small sized grouper fish with chopped ginger and garlic. Once cooked, I poured a mixture of Chinese cooking wine, oyster and soy sauce over the fish before serving.

Steamed minced pork with preserved vegetable (tong choy).

Sambal dried prawn with home grown sweet potato leaves.

I almost burnt this dish because I was distracted by phone call.

It was edible but overcooked.

Thank God for His provision that we can enjoy this simple home cooked dinner.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

There before me lies the mighty ocean,

teeming with life of every kind, both great and small.

And look! See the ships!

And over there, the whale you made to play in the sea.

Every one of these depends on you to give them daily food.

You supply it, and they gather it.

You open wide your hand to feed them,

and they are satisfied with all your bountiful provision.

(Psalm 104:25-28, The Living Bible-TLB)

Fried Short Noodle, Chee Cheong Fun & Sambal Ikan Bilis

There were 4 more steamed buns (given by neighbour) in the fridge. I re-steamed the 4 buns for breakfast.

2 buns with coconut jam (kaya) filling and 2 buns with bbq pork (char siew) filling.

Steamed buns with black coffee for breakfast.

After breakfast, went out to the garden to water my plants.

This deep red Caladium seems very happy and doing very well after being placed under semi shade.

Out of the blue, I wanted to cook sambal ikan bilis (anchovies).

Since I had all the ingredients in the fridge, I used up all the anchovies to cook this dish. I love sambal anchovies but hubby prefers deep fried crispy anchovies. He will have to wait till my next grocery shopping trip.

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Dinner supplied by our neighbour.

Our neighbour bought fried short noodle aka as fried lo shu fun.

They also bought for us steamed flat rice noodle roll with yam bean filling.

2 types of chili sauce.

Together with the flat rice noodle roll, there was a packet of pig skin and long bean curry.

For dessert, we cut 1 big apple mango. 

The apple mango had thick flesh and very sweet.

Yay! Mango season is here again!

An antique bicycle with the rubber latex container at the back.

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

For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness,"

has made us understand that it is the brightness of his glory

that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

But this precious treasure - this light and power

that now shine within us - is held in a perishable container,

that is, in our weak bodies.

Everyone can see that the glorious power within

must  be from God and is not our own.

(2 Corinthians 4:6-7, The Living Bible-TLB)