Home Cooking Home Grown Vegetables

Since I started to plant edibles in my garden, I have to be diligent to cook my garden produce. There is no point in planting vegetables if I do not want to cook them. When my bitter gourd plants started producing, we were enjoying home cooked bitter gourd dishes quite often.

Below are some very simple home cooked dishes that I have cooked for our dinner for 2 people. The bitter gourds and chilies I used were home grown. The fishes were from my son's fishing trip.

Dinner for Day 1

 Left: Yam or taro cooked with dried prawns and garlic.

Right: Bitter gourd with preserved salted black beans, dried prawns, chili, garlic.

Dinner for Day 2

Left: Sichuan preserved mustard green, carrot, tomatoes and pork ribu soup.

Right: White bitter gourd slices and egg omelette.

Dinner for Day 3

Left: White bitter gourd with prawns, enoki mushroom, spicy sambal paste.

Right: Fried fish with ginger strips,

Dinner for Day 4

 Left: Bitter soup and chicken breast meat soup

Right: Fried fish

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The following pictures are for joining Skywatch Friday & Friday Bliss.

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Water fountain in front of the Tun Razak Public Library, Ipoh.

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The origin of this library started in 1931 as Ipoh Juvenile Library.

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If it is not raining, we get to enjoy this lovely sky.

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Advertisement boards at a T-junction.

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It is nice to drive when the roads are quiet and with light traffic.

Linking to Skywatch Friday & Friday Bliss.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all

pure and full of quiet gentleness.

Then it is peace-loving and courteous.

It allows discussion and is willing to yield to others;

it is full of mercy and good deeds.

It is wholehearted and straightforward and sincere.

(James 3:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lunch At Sun Yin Loong Cafe, Aeon Falim, Ipoh.

We went to Aeon Falim because I want to do some shopping at the supermarket. We have taken coffee at the Sun Yin Loong Cafe once and this time, we decided to try lunch. We ordered the following to share.

A plate of nasi lemak with chicken curry.

We also order toast bread with butter and coconut jam.

And 2 glasses of iced coffee.

As usual, we were the early customers.

Quickly take some snapshots before other customers come in.'

Sun Yin Loong is known for its white coffee.

This is the entrance to the cafe from inside Aeon.

Wall art on canvas at the mall.

A fence for Good Fences.

Linking to Good Fences.

And how will anyone go and tell them unless someone sends him?

That is what the Scriptures are talking about when they say,

"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace

with God and bring glad tidings of good things.

In other words, how welcome are those

who come preaching God's Good News!

(Romans 10:15, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pink Anthurium In My Garden

I like Anthurium flowers and the flowers are commonly used for flower arrangements. I got this pink Anthurium baby from a church member many years ago. She had passed on a few years ago but whenever I see the flowers I remember her.

It took many years before the first bloom appeared when under my care.

Finally, it decided it is time to bloom.

The flower is not big, it is smaller than my palm.

I have shifted the plant around and it is now under semi shade.

I like Anthurium because it can last a long time.

Another flower appeared when I least expected it. It was a lovely surprise.

It took a long time for the first flower to slowly fade.

I still get to enjoy the flowers even though the colour is lighter now.

Other names are Laceleaf, Tailflower, Flamingo flower and Boy Flower.

I remember hearing someone calling it Naughty Boy Flower!

Currently, I am waiting for the next flower to appear.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & Wednesday Around The World (WATW).

Now as for you, dear brothers who are waiting for the Lord's return,

be patient, like a farmer who waits until the autumn

for his precious harvest to ripen.

(James 5:7, The Living Bible-TLB)