Hello everyone, hope you had a wonderful weekend so far and a great start of the week ! 🤗
Today I made meatless stuffed bitter melons in mushroom slices broth. 😋👍 The recipe for meatless stuffing is the same as I made vegan meatballs: healthunlocked.com/veganfoo...
Bitter melon is known for detoxing liver, kidneys, lowering blood glucose and mushrooms are great to increase our immune system at this time. This is wholesome bowl of soup that filled with chickpea protein and all nutrients essential for our bodies. 😁👍
I just made batch of meatless balls and freeze them ready to cook many dishes at any time. After filling bitter melons with meatless stuffing, just cook all in one pot and let it simmer for 40 mins until bitter melons tender. Add mushroom slices at last to retain the freshness and texture of mushrooms. Just sprinkle some cilantro 🌿and red pepper flakes on top as final dish and enjoy over a cup of tea. 😋👍
As always, be inspired, be joyful, take a picture and Enjoy it! 😋❤️
Tonight's dinner here was carrot and parsnip soup reheated that I made on Friday which we enjoyed.
Baby is well and enjoyed her haggis today!
We had lunch out today at the pub which we all enjoyed after I had a job interview at 11 so after I had finished we had an early lunch at the pub which we had planned for Friday originally but rearranged it for today instead.
How are you and Sonya and Lucy getting on?
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Hi Catgirl,
Your dinner sounds very wholesome and delicious. 😋 I’m glad you had such a great start of the week with fun and good luck on the result of your interview as you already gave your best! 🤗
I’m happy to hear Baby is keeping well and enjoys her treat always.
Thank you we are all doing good over here and the weather is nice with sunshines.
Wow! Koko - that is one super healthy bowl of delicousness 😁 You have some amazing fruits and veggies that we don't get over here, are bitter melons really bitter? It looks so good, so great for the body and mind. I have got some exciting blends of herbal teas coming
I think someone from the UK did post bitter melons in HE from small farmer markets. 🤔 It is definitely bitter but not like medicinal bitterness. The spice and seasoning from meatless stuffing and the broth balance it out so well. 😋
I love having this soup for detoxing Debs.
What is your herbal blends Debs? Sounds soooo soothing and good. 😁👍
Thank you Debs, everything is okay. Hope you stay warm in this windy and cold weather at this moment. 😊
Glad you were able to balance it out with your lovely meatless stuffing 🙃
It was actually a Herbal Tea Advent Callender - it was half price because its December tomorrow - 24 differen't teas, some of them sounded so interesting - it should be arriving tomorrow 🙃
My new phone arrives today, so if you don't hear from me you can presume that setting it up did not go well 😊
It was freezing yesterday, but thankfully not as bad to day
Awe Debs I hope you got your Herbal Tea Advent Calendar now and enjoy so much. 😇 I love those Advent Calender in many things they make great decorations. One year I got this Advent Calender from Jo Malone and I love so much to open each day what’s miniature in there, so much fun. 😁
Oooh new phone arrives today too, you are going to be so busy setting up but it feels great to freshen up the contacts and content of the phone. 😁👍
Hope you enjoy the rest of the evening with so much joy and rest. 🤗
I am sure it will be interesting 😁 but I will leave the phone to the weekend - just incase any disasters, I know it sounds a bit strange but I am a little sad to be replacing my galaxy A10 - I really loved that phone but its internal memory is full up and putting in a big memory card has not helped the issues.
I am glad you enjoyed your Jo Malone Calender, I got my mum one for xmas - with a mixture of perfumes - some in really cute bottles with bow shapes - she will like that 😁
That’s very good plan to avoid any abruption in case datas transferred encounter any problems. Good thinking Debs. 😇I just had a virtual photos taken uploaded for the bumper damages and everything went well. Technology these days make these things less hassles on our part. 😁
Oh my I’m so glad you got your mom Jo Malone collection too. 😇 I bet for sure she loves it and let me guess her fav is English Pear and Freesia. 😇 Mine had little lip balm hand lotion and cleansing gel, room spray bottles soooo cute. ☺️
My fav of all time is Wood sage &sea salt, and Black Berry & Bay. During winter time I love Nutmeg and ginger but it’s discontinued now. Talking about this makes me excited how scents can elevate our mood so much and no one can do it so well like Jo Malone, perfect choice of gift for your Mom Debs! 😇
Drowning in hw lol 🤣 but i had been gone for to long I came back to take my place lmfaooo. Also applyingg to colleges is stressing me out i need to relax so I Rememberr all of you. 🙃 Hbu ?? what have you been up to ?
Already eat with your eyes 😂🤣. I think I will bake one layer is chocolate and another layer is vanilla cake with pink color from dragon fruit powder. I’ll sleep on it. 🤔 One is 👧layer and one is 👦layer. 😁👍👍
My eyes can´t eat sadly ): but I am still grateful for you!! our amazing baker and cook in our golden group if it wasn't for you who would feed us (but I did see Zazen cooking picture it looked yummy) so im lucky to have you guys food makes me happy
but before I decide to eat anything with my eyes they need to rest so I will see you all tomorrow. Its 12:23 so... im probably will be grumpy in the morning hugs and kisses to all of yall and it was very nice to meet you Kainan
That soup looks amazing, and so beautiful. I had to look up bitter melons. At first glance I thought they were pattypan squash which I used to grow and just love. I tried to grow them here this year, the plants grew and had lots of flowers but no squash developed at all. Very little grows here. Looking at your soup made me smile though it seems I’m very late to the party that followed 😁
I’m having the second day soup now that the broth is so good in this chilly weather. 😋👍
It’s true bitter melon does look like party pan squash or gourd too. Oh wow I wonder how the flowers look like. Hmm sometimes I think it might take a second season for them to give fruits.🤔 I hope they do give out fruits from all your effort soon. 😁👍
We had a little reunion of the golden girl group and it’s US timeline but you can join us at anytime. I joined HU when the pandemic happened and these guys have been my great support. 😇
So we have 2 birthdays on Dec 5, when is yours H.? I’ll plan things out for sure and we can all celebrate. 🥳🎉🎈👍
I thought I’d taken some pictures of the patty pan flowers but I can only find one photo on my phone and it’s not a great photo. I’ll try to post it sometime. My birthday is dec 14 so it seems we have a lot of celebrating to do this month, and lots of cake to eat 🎂
This is not a great picture and gives no sense of scale. The yellow flower is the patty pan flower. It's a big flower, the size of a large orange. You can see all the buds on the plant. They're big too. They all flowered, I'd meant to take pictures once they'd opened.
Oh that is beautifulllll H., I feel like these flowers are edible. 🤔 The tree looks like it thrives and I hope it does give out fruits for you next season. 😁👍Thank you for showing me, now I know how colorful patty pan plant can give out flowers like this. 😇💚
I haven’t heard of patty pan flowers being eaten, but other squash flowers are edible, they’re usually stuffed and I think fried. Personally I haven’t eaten the flowers, though I do like edible flowers, especially nasturtium which I had lots of this year 🌻
I think I saw your salad photo looked like a painting with your edible flowers in it. 😇
I love looking at it and absolutely gorgeous, needs to be posted on a separate post here. 😁👍I can’t find edible flowers that big enough to stuff and fry here in whole food market I checked though.
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