Plain Rice Porridge With Sweet Potato Leaves & Canned Food

Last Sunday started off with our early morning walk. After we have done our walking rounds, we took our car out to town for our favourite dry curry noodle with thick curry gravy.

Sunrise - 7:40 am.

Sunrise - 7:45 am

Flat rice noodle (koay teow), curry chicken and bbq pork with thick curry gravy, garnished with mint leaves.

Home made ubi bingka (baked tapioca cake) from the last portion of frozen tapioca roots.

Cut ubi bingka in containers to share with neighbour and friends.

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We had friends over for a simple home cooked dinner, nothing special, just some simple dishes with plain rice porridge.

Home grown sweet potato leaves cooked with garlic, dried shrimps, chilies and prawn paste.

Canned fried dace with salted black beans.

Canned pickled lettuce.

Our friend contributed this egg dish.

Though it was a simple dinner consisting of plain rice porridge with the above dishes, we are thankful that we can come together to share our food and enjoy each other's company.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Friendship with God is reserved for those who reverence him.

With them alone he shares the secrets of his promises.

(Psalm 25:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Baked Cassava Or Tapioca Cake (Ubi Bingka)

Another day with overcast sky. 

The sunrise is partially veiled. Snapshot taken at 8am.

I received a text message with the above snapshot informing me that my friend had harvested his cassava roots and wanted to give me some.

Hubby and I drove over to his house to collect our share of cassava roots. I peeled off the skin and cleaned the roots to make baked cassava cake (ubi bingka).

From 1.5 kg of cassava root, I can make 1 big and 1 small trays of cassava cake. This time the cake looked pale. I should have leave it in the oven to bake longer to get a more golden colour.

The cassava cake or ubi bingka was cut, placed in various tubs and distributed to friends and neighbour. I kept back 1 tub for hubby and myself.

While the cassava cake was baking in the oven, I made myself a cup of Nescafe and took out half a piece of chilled no-bake cheesecake for my lunch.

Hubby came back from town with takeaway snacks. He bought 2 baked buns (Seremban siew pau) and kaya puffs (below)

Mini sized 5 kaya puffs for RM3.50.

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Dinner consisting of leftovers.

Leftover chicken rendang from previous day's dinner.

Last portion of vegetable acar from Pantai Remis.

Dried Cintan noodle.

Simple dinner for 2 people.

At last, I managed to clear the leftovers from my fridge.

What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven!

What joys when sins are covered over!

What relief for those who have confessed their sins

and God has cleared their record.

(Psalm 32;1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Made Ubi Bingka & Dinner At Restoran Mun Ji

These days, I am usually out for morning walk while it is still dark or there was no lovely sunrise to catch.

Sunrise at 6:52 am. This was last Friday.

We caught this sunrise because we overslept.

Yellow bells or Tecoma stans by the roadside, planted by one of the nearby residents.

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I still have some frozen cassava roots in my freezer. I took out one tub to thaw to make ubi bingka or cassava root cake.

Freshly baked ubi bingka from the oven. I couldn't wait for it to be cooled before cutting because the smell was too good. I took a knife and cut the side to taste it. Once cooled, it was packed into 4 portions. I kept one for ourselves and 3 portions given away to friends and neighbour.

A friend dropped by and gave some of her cookies for me to enjoy.

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Dinner with friends at Restoran Mun Ji, Menglembu.

This was 3 days before the return of CMCO and business was good.

We have to wait to be seated and again waited for the food to be served.

Our favourite fish curry with assorted veggie in clay pot.

Deep fried pork rib.

Green Amaranth with three types of eggs.

(salted egg, century egg (black), and nornal chicken egg)

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

There are three stately monarchs in the earth - no, four:

The lion, king of the animals. He won't turn aside for anyone.

The peacock. The male goat. A king as he leads his army.

(Proverbs 30:29-31, The Living Bible-TLB)

Baked Cassava Root Cake & Boiled Cassava Root

I needed to harvest my cassava roots before they get over matured. I finally dug out all the cassava roots on afternoon.

I waited and when the sky turned cloudy, I started digging out the cassava roots.

Cassava roots harvested, washed and the skin peeled off. I kept aside a portion to make cassava cake or kuih ubi bingka and store the rest in the freezer for future use. I am thinking of making cassava sweet drink or tong sui and making cassava cake one more time.

To make kuih ubi bingka, I grated the cassava roots. Then I lightly squeezed out the water from the grated roots. Then I added sugar, coconut milk, melted butter and 2 eggs and mixed all together evenly.

Then I poured the mixture into baking trays oiled with melted butter. I baked the cassava cake in the oven for about 1 hour at 190 deg. C.

It smelled so good but the texture was not as soft as I desired it to be.

It tastes good and not too sweet.

The cassava cake was cut and packed to be distributed to my neighbour and friends.

Another way of cooking cassava roots is to boil them in some salt until they are soft and fluffy. This is another one of my favourite. Sometimes I eat it plain, sometimes with grated coconut. I can eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. 

Crape Jasmine flowers by the roadside in front of a row of terrace houses.

I was born to do wrong,

a sinner before I left my mother's womb.

You want me to be completely loyal,

so put true wisdom deep inside of me.

Remove my sin and make me pure.

Wash me until I am whiter than snow!

(Psalm 51:5-7, Easy-to-Read Version-ERV)