Vegetable Dumplings, Chinese Crullers & Peanut Pancake

This was a Friday. The day started with a golden sunrise.

When I took this snapshot, I didn't notice that the lamp post was right in right of the sun.

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I bought the following items for our breakfast and lunch.

For breakfast, I bought 2 sets of vegetable dumplings (yam bean filling) , 1 set of vegetable dumplings (Chinese chives filling) and 1 set of fried savoury kuih. I can choose any 4 sets from the table for RM10 or pay RM3 for 1 set. 

These are sold for RM1.10 per piece.

2 Chinese crullers and 2 "horse shoe" (ma keok).

These 2 are my favourites.

2 pieces of peanut pancakes.

I think this is RM1 per piece.

Crushed peanuts, sugar and margarine as filling.

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Noodle for dinner.

Instant noodle with stewed chicken feet (extra from the previous day's dinner).

This is hubby's favourite.

Steamed sponge cake (ma lai gao) from our neighbour.

Cleome spider flower from my garden.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today

and thrown into the fire tomorrow,

he will certainly care for you.

Why do you have so little faith?

(Luke 12:28, New Living Translation-NLT)

Home Cooked Teochew Porridge For Dinner

This was on a Wednesday. This was the morning sky that greeted us.

Sunrise at 7:18am

 Hubby stopped to order 2 sets of spicy economy noodle with sambal chicken drumsticks at the Indian roadside stall to be collected on the way back.

2 sets at RM6 per set.

We also bought 2 sponge cakes at RM8 each (old price was RM6).

The excuse for the RM2 increase was the price of eggs has gone up.

Original flavour on the left and pandan flavour on the right.

I gave the original flavour to my neighbour.

We had sponge cake for lunch.

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Home cooked dinner.

Fried fish.

We refer to this as "tofu fish". I don't know what it is in English.

Hubby is not a fan of fish, so I added fried back smoked bacon and 2 eggs.

Sauteed home grown snake beans with dried shrimps.

Our dinner with plain rice porridge on a hot and sweating evening.

I found this butterfly on the louvered window one evening. Due to the lighting, I couldn't get a clear shot of the butterfly.

After these snapshots, I opened the louvered windows to allow it to fly out.

Baby grasshopper in my garden.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

For you are still only baby Christians,

controlled by your own desires, not God's.

When you are jealous of one another and

divide up into quarreling groups,

 doesn't that prove you are still babies, wanting your own way?

In fact, you are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord at all.

(1 Corinthians 3:3, The Living Bible-TLB)

Steamed Big Bun, Lotus Leaf Rice, Baked Buns & Pandan Sponge Cake

I overslept and woke up late. By the time we set out for morning walk, it was past 7am.

Sunrise at 7:20am.

This is on the reverse side.

7:30am

7:46am

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Breakfast bought from the nearby dim sum restaurant.

Our shared breakfast.

Big steamed bun (left) and glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf (right).

Milo (left) for hubby and Bru coffee (right) for me.

Filling inside the glutinous rice.

Filling inside the steamed big bun.

I also bought 2 baked buns with bbq pork filling and 1 sponge cake for lunch or snack.

Mid morning, our neighbour bought 4 packets of nasi lemak for us. We opened 2 packets and ate for lunch. The remaining 2 packets we kept in the fridge for dinner.

Purple heart plants in hanging pot.

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For dinner, I cooked sambal petai or sambal stinky beans.

I steamed to heat up the nasi lemak from lunch.

We ate sambal stinky beans with the nasi lemak.

Every morning we passed by this house with beautiful garden.

That is hubby admiring the beautiful plants while I took this snapshot.

Linking to Good Fences.

Everyone admires a man with good sense,

but a man with a warped mind is despised.

(Proverbs 12:8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pineapple And Chicken Curry

I packed back the remaining curry gravy from our previous night's dinner at the restaurant. The curry was too good to be wasted. First, I boiled the pineapple chunks in some water and later added in the few pieces of chicken breast meat. Once the pineapple chunks have released its natural sweetness and the chicken meat is cooked, I added in the curry gravy and let it simmer for a few minutes. The taste and consistency of the curry turned out just nice. It was a slightly sweet, sourish, spicy dish and appetizing dish. 

Dinner Day #1

Scoop out half the portion for dinner and kept the remaining portion for next day's dinner.

There were 5 small pieces of roti prata or roti canai in a packet (Kraft brand).

I have tried 2 other brands and I bought this Kraft brand on my 3rd try. After frying over low heat, the roti canai turned out crispy on the outside, nice and chewy on the inside.

We had 2 pieces of roti canai each for dinner and I will heat up the remaining piece for my next day's lunch.

Our friend gave me 2 big guavas which I cut and pickled with salted plum. I gave one tub back to the friend, one tub to my neighbour and one tub for myself.

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Dinner Day #2

I heated up the remaining portion of curry.

The curry still looks good and tasted just as good.

I need to clear the remaining 3 eggs from the fridge, so I cooked onion omelette with the eggs.

Our friend gave me 2 bunches of paku pakis (edible fern shoots) which I used to cook with dried prawns, sambal belacan and coconut milk. I packed and sent half the portion back to our friend who doesn't cook.

3 simple dishes for dinner on a cool, rainy evening.

We had steamed rice to go with the above dishes.

My neighbour used to buy bananas for us. There was twice that the bananas took a very long time to ripen and most were not edible. I think the farmer harvested the bananas too early. In the end I had to used to bananas as compost.

The latest I received from her was this bunch of bananas which ripens within a few days. Some of these bananas have seeds and some without seeds. I am curious and wondered whether I can use the seeds to grow banana plants. Maybe I should collect some of the seeds to germinate and wait to see if they sprout.

The above light and fluffy sponge cakes were given by our neighbour.

Sponge cakes and hot coffee go well together.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

When others are happy, be happy with them.

If they are sad, share their sorrow.

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 12:15-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Chili Pan Mee (Dry Version) & Fried Tom Yam Beehoon

Yesterday, 92nd day MCO

It was a rainy morning, so we didn't go for our morning walk.

About 7:10 am, we were in our car driving out to town with the above stainless steel food carriers to buy breakfast. We had 2 food stalls in mind, either one will do.

The first place we went to, Kedai Kopi YW, was opened for business. We placed our order and the waiting time was not long. Before MCO, the shortest waiting time was 30 minutes.

 We bought Chili pan mee (dry version), served with minced meat, wood fungus, mushrooms, crispy fried anchovies and spicy chili oil.

 Accompanying the chili pan mee is green veggie in clear soup.

 Delicious and satisfying breakfast for 2 people. 

 From a different stall at the same coffee shop, I bought 2 curry puffs and sponge cake. We ate the curry puffs for our lunch.

 I managed to pluck this fig before the birds could get to it.

Even though not fully ripe, it was slightly sweet and nice to eat.

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Simple dinner

Out of the blue, I was craving for fried tom yum noodle. I used whatever ingredients I could find in the fridge to cook a big batch of fried tom yum noodle. We ate the 1st half portion for dinner and kept the 2nd half for next day's breakfast.

 After dinner, we had Magnum ice cream for dessert.

 Something that is sweet and cold to complete our dinner.

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense.

(Proverbs 27:9, New Living Translation-NLT)