Home Cooked Steamed Prawns & Fried Clams For Dinner

The weather is getting warmer now. That means we will be sweating and the air conditioner will be on for most of the nights. We still have intermittent rain and occasional thunderstorm.

On this particular morning, we started our morning walk at about 7:05am.

Returning from our morning walk at about 7:45am.

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Dinner at our friend's house for 4 people.

She bought some fresh prawns and clams (lala).

Steamed prawns.

Stir fried clams (lala) with sour lime sauce, ginger, garlic, and basil leaves.

She knows my hubby doesn't like the smell of basil leaves, so she separately stir fried a plate of clams without the basil leaves for hubby.

I contributed this pot of stewed pork rib with blanched broccoli.

This was our early dinner ( and some of us took a bit of rice to go with the above dishes. After dinner, we watched TV and chit chatted and then it was time for supper. We then drove to the Perak Stadium food stalls looking for Chinese rojak.

Our friend ordered this plate of fruit rojak for sharing.

She also ordered the above crispy flour crackers, drizzled with rojak sauce and crushed peanuts. It comes in a set of 3 pieces.

I ordered this plate of blanched paku pakis (salad style).

This wasn't as nice and tender as before.

As you can see the thick fibrous stalks was very obvious.

For drink, we order this bean curd sheet boiled with barley.

The above items were displayed at the Antong Coffee Mill mini museum. The enamel items consisting of tiffin (food) carrier, a pot and 2 mugs.

A close up of the Purple Heart flower from my garden.

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

But you have received the Holy Spirit,

and he lives within you, in your hearts,

so that you don't need anyone to teach you what is right.

For he teaches you all things, and he is the Truth, and no liar;

and so, just as he has said, you must live in Christ,

never to depart from him.

(1 John 2:27, The Living Bible-TLB)

Yummy Snacks For Lunch

This was on a Thursday about 2 weeks ago. We received a call from our friend inviting us out for lunch. A few places were suggested. Finally, we settled on Kedai Minuman Dan Makanan Taman Timur which we have not been for a long time. Whenever I visit this eatery, I will order my favourite snacks. In fact, we all love and enjoy these snacks.

I ordered 2 plates of pie tees to share. Pie tees is one of my favourite snacks. I have the pie tee mould but I am lazy to make the pie tee shells.

Crispy fried batter with rojak sauce and sprinkling of crushed peanuts.

Thin crispy pancakes with peanuts and canned corn filling.

Hubby ordered this unsweetened black coffee.

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For dinner, we met up with the same friends at the Perak Stadium food court. On that evening, only a few stalls were open for business.

Hubby ended up ordering this yee mee with chicken and wine in a claypot. I took a few mouthfuls and it was tasty and flavourful.

I had a hard time deciding and finally ended up ordering this plate of yee mee. It looked good but it was disappointing because it had a weird taste. After hubby finished his noodle, I transferred the noodle from my plate into the claypot. The remaining soup took away the weird taste for me to finish the noodle. Someone was not willing to go home after dinner, so we ended up at Restoran Kam Wan Aneka Selera.

We ordered bbq fish (half a stingray) to share.

After this, everyone was satisfied and happy to go home.

White bougainvillea with variegated leaves from my garden.

Pink Mexican petunia blooms from my garden.

A friend blessed me with some cuttings and now I have plenty of cuttings to share with others.

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?

Happiness comes to those who are fair to others

and are always just and good. Remember me too, O Lord,

while you are blessing and saving your people.

Let me share in your chosen ones' prosperity and

rejoice in all their joys, and receive the glory you give to them.

(Psalm 106:1-5, The Living Bible-TLB)

Steamed Pork Rib With Taro For Dinner

After our early morning walk and breakfast, I usually start by sweeping the porch area before watering the plants in my garden.

I observed my Ixora plant is with buds and flowers.

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Home cooked dinner (Day 1)

I almost forgot about the taro that was kept in the vegetable compartment. Fortunately, the taro was still in good condition. I was thinking of a simple recipe to cook the taro and I recalled a recipe for steaming pork ribs with taro.

First, I marinated the pork ribs with chopped ginger and garlic, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt and sugar, cooking wine, and tapioca flour for a few hours in the fridge. I spread out the taro cubes evenly in a streaming plate and placed the marinated pork ribs and whatever marinate sauce on top of the taro cubes. Steam over medium fire for about 40 minutes or until cooked and the taro softened.

Blanched home grown white brinjals and okras, drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce,

Rice porridge.

This was my simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.

It was an early dinner at about 6 pm. At about 8 pm, we met up with our friends and we went for a light supper.

We went to the nearest food court and ordered bbq stingray. I only remembered to take this snapshot and forgotten about the rojak (fruits salad).

I took a snapshot of the pigeons on the power cable on our morning walk.

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Simple home cooked dinner (Day 2)

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

Home made salted egg.

Leftover steamed pork ribs and taro from the previous day's dinner.

Pigeons above us. Took this snapshot in Taiping town.

Feeding time for the pigeons, also taken in Taiping town.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Instead, feed your enemy if he is hungry.

If he is thirsty give him something to drink and

you will be "heaping coals of fire on his head."

In other words, he will feel ashamed of himself

for what he has done to you.

(Romans 12:20, The Living Bible-TLB)

Stay Home, Stay Safe, Eat & Grow Fat!

Yesterday, 21st day MCO with 7 more days to go. Will the MCO be lifted after the 7 days or will it be extended again? Most likely, we will have to stay home for another 2 weeks till end of April. May God bless the decision makers with wisdom to decide. Meanwhile, let us continue to play our part by doing whatever is necessary to protect ourselves and others from the virus. Stay home, stay safe, eat and grow fat.

Sunrise at 7:00 am

Sunrise at 7:05 am.

Sunrise at 7:15 am.

Morning sky at 7:47 am.

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Our breakfast

Breakfast for 2. No take-away food for hubby this morning.

Cheerful yellow flowers from my garden.

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Lunch

Hubby went out to buy roast pork and stuffed bbq pork intestine @ RM20.

After his repainting work in the hot weather, he needs a nice chilled beer to go with the roast pork.

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Dinner

Homegrown angled loofah and long okras cooked with dried prawns and egg.

Steamed a small piece of salted fish (mui heong) with ginger strips. 

Home grown bitter gourd or bitter melon soup

Ingredients: bitter gourd, carrot, red dates, goji berries and chicken.

Steamed rice for hubby and wheat noodle (meesua) for me.

Dinner for 2 people

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Supper

Stir fried rice vermicelli from our neighbour.

Since we had early dinner, we kept the noodle for supper.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

After supper he gave them another glass of wine, saying,

"This wine is the token of God's new agreement to save you -

an agreement sealed with the blood

I shall pour out to purchase back your souls.

(Luke 22:20, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pork And Chicken Satay In Kampung Simee, Ipoh.

A friend was in Ipoh, so we decided to take our friend out for dinner in Lawan Kuda. We started out early because it will take us about half an hour or more to reach Lawan Kuda if the traffic is smooth.

 This picture was taken at about 6.10 pm.

   All the way from Ipoh, the drive was smooth with light traffic until just before reaching the RTC Gopeng area.

  I suppose it was due to the many cars leaving Ipoh after the long weekend holidays. Since we were almost reaching our destination, we endured the slow moving traffic. It took us almost double the time to reach Lawan Kuda due to the rain and traffic congestion.

 The sky cleared at about 7.00 pm.

 We took our time to enjoy our dinner. I didn't take any picture because I have posted about this place a few times.

 On our way back to Ipoh, a friend mentioned about the pork satay in Kampung Simee. We were keen to try out the satay so we googled to check out the location.

Another fence for joining Good Fences.

 We used the Waze app to direct us to the exact location.

It is just beside this Chung Tuck Chinese School Hall.

You won't miss this uncle fanning the bbq stove in front of this corner house.

Time for some photo shots.

We noticed that many ordered the satay through the phone and collect them later when they are ready.

 Four plates of satay sauce, no need to share. 

 We ordered 10 sticks of pork and 10 sticks of chicken satay.

Then we added 5 more sticks of "fun cheong" or pork intestine.

 A plate of satay with sliced cucumbers and cut big onions. 

 Sweet and spicy thick peanut sauce for dipping.

 My first stick of chicken satay dipped in peanut sauce.

The satay is selling at RM 0.90 per stick. 

If you are interested to try these satay, here is the location:

No. 407, Laluan Simee 5, Kampung Simee, Ipoh.

Tel: 016-517 8077,  016-540 4777.

Linking to Good Fences.

And no one can ever lay any other real foundation

that one we already have - Jesus Christ.

But there are various kinds of materials that can

be used to build on that foundation.

Some use gold and silver and jewels;

and some build with sticks and hay or even straw!

(1 Corinthians 3:11-12, The Living Bible-TLB)