Simple Meals & Snack On Day #101 MCO

We were looking forward to our morning walk when we woke up yesterday morning but have to cancel it because we could hear the pitter patter of rain on the roof awning. So I ended up preparing breakfast in the kitchen.

 Hubby had 2 half boiled eggs, burger, Taiwan garlic sausages and Nescafe. I had oat porridge with pine nuts, walnut chunks, cranberry and Nescafe.

 A friend gave me a guava. I sliced and pickled it with salted plum or assam boi.

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Home Cooked Dinner

 Stewed pork belly with red fermented bean curd (nam yue). 

 Steamed home grown white eggplants and snake long beans. Drizzled with olive oil, oyster and soy sauce and chili oil.

 A friend gave these sweet potatoes. So instead of oat porridge, I had steamed sweet potatoes. It may sound weird that I ate sweet potatoes with savoury dishes for dinner but I enjoyed it.

 Simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.

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I was having breakfast with a friend one morning and my eyes caught something swimming in a big fish tank in the coffee shop.

Can someone identify this?

 When I went near to take a closer look, this water pet swam towards me.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Turn me away from wanting any other plan than yours.

Revive my heart toward you.

(Psalm 119:37, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dumplings From Friends & Home Made BBQ Pork

Dumplings Festival was celebrated yesterday (100th day MCO). No morning walk because it was drizzling when we woke up.

 Sunrise at 7:32 am

 A friend came over the previous day to give us 2 home made dumplings or bak chang. 

 I re-steamed the bak chang from my friend for breakfast. Hubby had the one with the black eyed beans and I had the one with mung beans. It had 1 salted egg yolk, 1 chestnust, 1 mushroom and 2 pieces of pork belly.

 A satisfying and filling breakfast.

 Later in the morning, a friend sent her husband to deliver 2 home made bak chang to us.

 Keeping these in the fridge for another day's breakfast or maybe lunch.

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Bak chang or glutinous rice dumpling is a traditional Chinese food. It is made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with reed. It is then cook in boiling water for 2 to 3 hours.

 Exotic Caladium from my garden.

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Dinner

 Melt in the mouth pan cooked bbq pork or char siew.

 Sambal petai or stinky beans left over from the previous day's dinner.

Simple home cooked dinner for 2 people

Steamed rice for hubby and oat porridge for me.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Only a simpleton believes everything he's told!

A prudent man understands the need for proof.

A wise man is cautious and avoids danger;

a fool plunges ahead with great confidence.

(Proverbs 14:15-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Kai Si Hor Fun & Home Cooked Sambal Petai With Minced Meat

Yesterday morning, I needed to go to the bank. Before going to the bank, we wanted to eat kai si hor fun or shredded chicken noodle soup for breakfast. We skipped our morning walk and went early for breakfast to beat the crowd. At about 7:50 am, parking was no problem and service was fast because not many dine-in customers.

 Shredded chicken noodle soup or kai si hor fun.

This is the 2nd time we had this for breakfast during MCO.

We felt as if we hadn't eaten any thing even after eating a bowl of noodle and a cup of coffee.

 Gardenia blooms with variegated leaves.

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Home cooked dinner

 Stinky beans or sambal petai with dried prawns and minced pork.

 Assorted veggie in soup

(Home grown malabar spinach, angled loofah, red okra & dried prawns)

Simple home cooked dinner for 2 people.

Hubby ate the steamed rice and I ate oat porridge.

This snapshot of The Octagon "tower" was taken while waiting at the traffic light on the way to the bank after breakfast.

O my Strength, to you I sing my praises;

for you are my high tower of safety, my God of mercy.

(Psalm 59:17, The Living Bible-TLB)