Growing White Corn In Pots And In the Ground

The days are dry and hot. Whatever we have growing in the garden are not doing well. One of the plants that are doing well is the white corn which doesn't seems to be affected by the hot and dry weather.

This is the 2nd time I am growing white corn. These are grown in pots.

The white corn is not nice to eat on its own but I will be using them to boil soup.

These 2 plants are grown in the ground outside my house.

I saw these 2 motorcycles when we were holidaying in Penang.

These 2 treasures were parked in front of a restaurant.

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

Your laws are my joyous treasure forever.

(Psalm 119:111, The Living Bible-TLB)

Szechuan Preserved Vegetable Soup And Steamed Green Brinjals

Thunderstorm/hailstorm is back! For the last two days, many trees were down, cars and houses were damaged. Last evening I was preparing dinner in the kitchen and I could hear hailstones dropping onto our back awning. Then all of a sudden I heard some crashing sound. Later we found out that one of our neighbour's roof tiles were blown off and came crashing down onto the back lane. This morning some workmen came to repair the roof. I will always remember that particular evening when our roof was blown off during a thunderstorm and water came pouring down our dining hall like waterfall. If you are interested to read about it, you can click here for the post.

Sunrise at 7:05am.

Sunrise at 7:10am.

Sunrise at 7:32am.

In my garden, I had 8 corn plants growing in 4 pots.

I thought they look small and were not ready for harvest so I waited.

So I waited....

I finally decided to harvest the corns on Sunday.

There were altogether 8 corn cobs but I only harvested 5 and left 3 smaller ones on the plants. I steamed the corn cobs and much to our disappointment it was over matured and were chewy. They were edible and our jaws and teeth had some good exercise. It was the same for the other 3 smaller ones.

For dinner, I boiled soup using pork rib, Szechuan preserved vegetable (char choy) and carrot. I boiled enough for 4 people to give half to our neighbour.

Steamed green brinjals or eggplants, drizzled with oyster and soy sauce.

This was our simple home cooked dinner.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul.

The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

(Psalm 19:7, New Living Translation-NLT)

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)