Savoury Sauce Fried Prawns For Dinner & Stages Of My Yellow Hibiscus

I have 2 packets of sea white shell prawns in my freezer. I took out 1 packet to cook for yesterday's dinner.

Once the prawns were thawed, I seasoned it with some sugar and kept in the fridge before cooking. First, I shallow fried the prawns. With some oil in the wok (frying pan), I fried chopped garlic, ginger strips and 1 big onion cut into wedges until fragrant. Then I add in some oyster and soy sauce and a little water. Once it started to boil, add in the prawns, spring onions and some shaoxing cooking wine, stirred and dish out. The prawns with a little gravy goes well with steamed rice.

I cook the remaining last quarter pumpkin with dried prawns and garlic. I had 2 snake long beans after clearing the old plants, so I just added them to the pumpkin dish.

Sauteed Green Amaranth (yeen choy) with garlic.

I overcooked this dish because in the midst of cooking this dish, the local council people started the mosquitoes spray outside my house. I have to quickly cover the wok (frying pan) and waited till the smell of the spray went off.

Home cooked dinner for 2 people.

Steamed rice for hubby and I ate the pumpkin in place of rice because hubby doesn't like pumpkin.

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My yellow hibiscus - from a bud till it wilted.

A tight bud

Loosening of the tight bud

Unfolding of the petals

Opening up

98% fully opened yellow hibiscus

Lastly, a wilted hibiscus flower

My Water Jasmine plant full of flowers.

The flowers are of single layer petals.

Tiny weed flowers on the left and my Cockscomb flowers on the right.

Tiny red flowers of the Red Cypress Vine by the roadside.

Peregrina flowers by the roadside.

He is like a father to us,

tender and sympathetic to those who reverence him.

For he knows we are but dust and that our days are few and brief,

like grass, like flowers, blown by the wind and gone forever.

(Psalm 103:13-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Baked Beans And Vegetable Soup For Dinner

I actually have to redo this post because I accidentally removed the whole post and couldn't undo all that have been deleted. No one to blame except my own carelessness when I was trying to get accustomed to the new blogger setting/format.

This was our yesterday's breakfast - glutinous rice dumplings that I re-steamed.

Yes, I remember sharing a bigger than palm size yellow hibiscus in yesterday's post. This is a slightly smaller one but it is also bigger than my palm.

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Simple homecooked dinner

I had home visitation to attend to in the afternoon, so in case that I returned home late, I boiled soup before I went out. Took out whatever were in the fridge and found the bitter gourd harvested the day before and a Chinese Mustard bought from the supermarket.

Ingredients for the soup: Pork ribs, bitter gourd, Chinese mustard, carrot, red dates and goji berries.

I have baked beans bought before the MCO (movement control order). I used a tin of baked beans, 2 eggs, 3 remaining pieces of ham, and some snake long beans harvested from my garden to cook the above dish.

We each had a bowl of soup and a plate of baked beans for dinner.

Our simple home cooked dinner without any steamed rice.

An antique jukebox found in one of the cafes I visited in Ipoh old town.

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

Look here, you who say,

"Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town

and will stay there a year.

We will do business there and make a profit."

How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow?

Your life is like the morning fog - it's here a little while, then it's gone.

What you ought to say is,

"If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."

(James 4:13-15, New Living Translation-NLT)

Monday's Mish Mash

Yesterday, we woke up to another rainy morning. Hearing the pitter patter of the rain on the awning rood, I went back to sleep and woke up about 7:30 am to prepare breakfast. Initially, I thought of just having bread but later remembered that there were leftover steamed pork ribs and pumpkin from the previous day's dinner.

Breakfast

Noodle with leftover steamed pork rib + Nescafe for hubby

Oat porridge with leftover pumpkin, walnuts and cranberry for me.

Tiny white flowers from a Daikon plant in my garden.

I harvested a pale green bitter gourd from my garden. It is about 6 inches long. Could this be a cross between the green and white bitter gourd plants which I planted side by side? I can see a tinge of yellow, a sign of ripening.

Mid morning sky, on my way out to the grocery store.

When I returned home, my neighbour gave me this papaya.

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Dinner on a rainy day.

I checked the fridge to see what I have to clear. I took out an old cucumber to boil soup.

Old cucumber soup with pork ribs and carrot.

I pan fried half a packet of sweet meat.

Simple dinner with steamed rice, comforting on a cold and wet evening.

My bigger than palm size yellow hibiscus.

I took this snapshots under the midday sun.

He died under God's judgment against our sins so that

he could rescue us from constant falling into sin

and make us his very own people,

with cleansed hearts and real enthusiasm

for doing kind things for others.

(Titus 2:14, The Living Bible-TLB)