Fried Sardine + Pickled Mustard Green & Korean Luncheon Meat

I have a few home grown tomatoes in the fridge. Since they are home grown, I prefer to eat them raw.

I cut the chilled home grown tomatoes into wedges and drizzled Kewpie roasted sesame dressing on them.

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The following were the canned food I used to prepare dinner. They were bought during MCO.

1 small can of fried sardine.

1 small can of pickled mustard green.

I poured the fried sardine into a small bowl. I took out the pickled mustard green and sliced it. I placed the sliced mustard green on top of the fried sardine. Before serving, I steamed it for a few minutes.

There was 1 can of Korean luncheon meat.

Fried sliced luncheon meat.

Steamed home grown long green okras and green brinjals (eggplants), topped with crunchy chili oil and sprinkling of soy sauce.

This was our dinner with plain brown rice porridge.

Now, I am happy to have cleared some of the canned food.

This mural was found on the wall of a nearby Chinese school.

I took this snapshot in March, 2020.

I think this mural has been replaced by another mural.

Linking to Monday Mural.

But you must be careful not to brag about

being put in to replace the branches that were broken off.

Remember that you are important only because

you are now a part of God's tree;

you are just a branch, not a root.

(Romans 11:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

Fried Rice, Steamed Okra & Figs From My Garden

Our day started with a beautiful morning. Sky shots taken on our morning walk.

Sunrise at 7:16am

Reflection of sunrise on the reverse side.

Sunrise at 7:18am

Sunrise at 7:32am (shops on the left side).

Sunrise at 7:52am.

That morning the above were harvest from my garden. These okra grow very fast.

This long green okra can grow to more than 1 foot long.

I steamed the harvest okra for dinner. Topped with crunchy chili and some soy sauce.

I heated up the leftover Szechuan preserved vegetable soup from the previous dinner.

Fried rice with Chinese sausage, dried shrimps, egg, onions, and salt to taste.

This was our simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.

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Jordan Purple fig plants from my garden.

Sometimes the figs are placed far apart from each other.

Sometimes, they are placed very closed to one another.

If I am diligent in wrapping up the figs, I get to enjoy the figs.

Sorry birds, you can't have my figs.

You better go find some worms and insects and there are plenty in my garden.

A Cleome plant or spider flower sharing the same pot of one of my fig plant.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

When we ask the Lord's blessing upon our drinking from the cup of

wine at the Lord's Table, this means, doesn't it, that all who drink it

are sharing together the blessing of Christ's blood?

And when we break off pieces of the bread from the loaf

to eat there together, this shows that we are

sharing together in the benefits of his body.

(1 Corinthians 10:16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pickled Vegetable Pork Belly Noodle & Curry Noodle

On this particular morning, we were out early for morning walk.

I had to stop both hubby and myself to take this snapshot. Just the two of us but we had 6 shadows.

For breakfast, I ordered a polo bun sandwiched with a piece of ham and egg.

Figs from my garden.

I have to wrap the figs so that I get a chance to enjoy my own figs. I use recycled plastic bags for wrapping the figs to prevent the birds from eating my figs.

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We went out with our friend for lunch. She recommended a place which we haven't been to. The place is Restoran Yat Yat Seng Fei Lo Wu at No.15, Jalan Center Point 2, Center Point, Ipoh.

Hubby ordered their signature curry noodle with prawns, roast pork and shredded chicken. This bowl of curry mee costs RM8.

Both my friend and I ordered this Pickle Veg Pork Belly noodle. She chose flat rice noodle while I chose rice vermicelli. The bowl of noodle came with pork belly slices, pickled veg (hum choy) tomato, lettuce and chilies. Love the sourish broth, very appetizing. This noodle costs RM8:50.

I harvested the above vegetables from my garden for dinner.

Steamed the home grown vegetables and drizzled with garlic oil and oyster and soy sauce.

Finally, we get to finish all the ngoh hiang or lobak from our fridge.

We had plain rice porridge for dinner which I didn't snap photo.

Finishing is better than starting!

Patience is better than pride!

Don't be quick-tempered - that is being a fool.

(Ecclesiastes 7:8-9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Black Vinegar Pig's Leg & Pan Fried Prawn With Sambal Dried Prawn.

I am back to my home cooking. As long as I can harvest something from my garden, I will try to cook something for dinner. I harvested some Chinese chives and Malabar Spinach from my garden to cook for the 1st dinner which we shared with friends.

1st Dinner

I fried egg omelette with the Chinese chives.

I cooked Black Vinegar Pig's Leg with wood fungus, black beans and ginger.

Blanched Malabar Spinach and drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

My friend contributed Petai with prawn sambal.

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Next day, we received 2 white corns from our friends.

Steamed sweet white corns for lunch. Very sweet and juicy.

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2nd Dinner

Trying to clear whatever vegetable from the fridge.

Home cooked dinner for 2 people.

Steamed home grown eggplants or aubergine and spread with sambal dried prawn paste.

Pan fried prawns and mixed with sambal dried prawn paste.

Steamed home grown red and green okras and served with sambal belacan.

Bauhinia Kockiana flowers from my garden.

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Rukun Negara (5 principles) 

1. Belief in God, 2. Loyalty to King and Country, 3. Supremacy of the Constitution

4. Rule of Law, 5. Courtesy and Morality (taken from Wikipedia)

Mural on a school wall.

The National Monument is a sculpture that commemorates those who died in Malaysia's struggle for freedom, principally against the Japanese occupation during World War II and the Malayan Emergency, which lasted from 1948 until 1960. It is located in the Federal capital, Kuala Lumpur. (Taken from Wikipedia)

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

For, dear brothers, you have been given freedom;

not freedom to do wrong, but freedom to love and serve each other.

For the whole Law can be summed up in this one command:

"Love others as you love yourself."

(Galatians 5:13-14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Fried Dumplings, Gaozi, Home Grown Veggies For Dinner

I was watering my plants one morning when I noticed a butterfly on my periwinkle plants. It seemed to like the white periwinkles and it didn't fly away even when I was standing quite near taking all the snapshots.

It is not often I get to take photographs of butterflies without them flying away.

After I had taken enough of snapshots, I continued watering my plants.

Hubby went to visit his friend in Pusing and came back with some kuih.

These are glutinous rice flour kuih with different types of filling.

The above were harvested from my garden. They were red and green okras, and white brinjals/eggplants/aubergines.

Steamed red and green okras, and white eggplants. Drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Deep fried sui kao or dumplings.

My friend brought the gaozi skin and I prepared the filling.

I boiled lotus root soup and we placed the cooked gaozi in the soup.

2 types of dipping sauce for the gaozi and fried sui kao.

Dinner (without rice) for 4 people.

We each had 1 sui kao, 3 gaozi and a bowl of soup.

The same butterfly with its many poses.

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We kept the extra gaozi and fried dumpling for the next day's dinner.

1. Pan grilled stingray fish and squid (wong kai lun) with sambal paste. 2. Angled luffa. 3. Fried sui kao. 4. Soup with gaozi. For 2 evenings, we had friends over for dinner and they enjoyed our home grown veggie.

Linking to Saturday's Critters & Garden Affair.

Dear brothers,
giving thanks to God for you is not only the right thing to do,
but it is our duty to God
because of the really wonderful way your faith has grown
and because of your growing love for each other.
(2 Thessalonians 1:3, The Living Bible-TLB)