It was a busy day yesterday because we were trying to get as many things done as possible before going to airport at night to pick our beloved man, their daddy, my husband. And also, it was a special holiday declared by school, approved by government, since on Saturday, the school had half day event with the students, having a Fun Run event at our National Zoo from 6am until 2pm.

Finally, we got to see him, I think it was a long 12-day trip to Philippines. First thing first, the boys ate ham cheese egg sandwich for breakfast (but I forgot to take pictures), then followed by me cooking a soup for our dinner, then the eldest went for hair cut, we also went for one-hour badminton. After that, we came home to rest, while I also rushed to clean the room. Then, off we went to airport, phew, one-hour drive was a bit challenging to me, but I did it.

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Pumpkin Healthy Soup

I learned this soup from my sister-in-law's side of family, specifically her mother who really loves pumpkin soup. This was Chinese style of pumpkin soup, sometimes she cooks just water with pumpkin then blend, sometimes she cooks the salty version to be eaten with rice and added some Chinese traditional dried plants to boost the soup up. Let's try!

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Ingredients

A very easy soup to cook if you have Chinese herbs on hand. She taught me few version, simplest version with only red dates and dried longan. But for this round, for the purpose of boosting the lungs or upper respiratory function, I also added in wild licorice.

• pork bones
• pumpkin
• red dates
• dried longan
• candid dates
• wild licorice (already diced small pieces by seller)

Steps

Firstly, always preboiled the pork bones to removed scum.

Rinse the Chinese herbs as well. Then just put everything into the pot, except the pumpkin.

I boiled for 3 hours this time. I only added in the pumpkin at the last 40 minutes because I wanted the pumpkin still looked cubed and not smashed.

After 3 hours, the soup was done!

I seasoned the soup with a dash of salt, then I kept the soup warm in the pot for dinner. We ate this for our dinner with rice, of course heated up the soup first.

Cut hair and Lunch out!

At around 11am, we went down to the ground floor to support the newly-opened barber soup, since my eldest son needed a hair cut. It was Rm10 per cut for children 12yo and below. For adult, it is RM15, so cheap.

Our eldest son had a good review on the skill, so looks like this will be our go-to barber next round.

Then, we went up back to our home to let the son cleaned up a bit before we headed out to lunch at a shopping mall nearby. We got ourselves fried chicken leg, roasted chicken leg, and fried chicken pop.

After the lunch, we went for badminton from 3pm-4pm!!! To cut the story short, we came home, had our dinner, I cleaned up the house a little, then off we went to airport to reunite with the man of the house. Yayyyy!!!!