FollowI have always disliked Mondays. As much as I want to avoid the Monday Blues, it’s hard. Yesterday was yet another maniac Monday for me. I made 5 trips to send and pick up the girls from morning through evening. In between trips, I did grocery shopping, ran some errands and quickly whipped up dinner. …
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Feeling Bleh, So?
Today is one of those days when I feel really bleh! Just tired and no zest. Throat still hurts and body feels like I have carried tons of weight yesterday. I have been telling the girls almost everyday that I feel freaking tired. Not sure if it’s caused by a deficiency in iron, my low…
Simple Dinner – 22 September 2013
What’s For Dinner?
Down But Not Totally Out
I am down with a bad strep throat and throbbing head, no thanks to all the vicious and ravenous virus lingering in our house. Everyone in the house was down with cold and strep throat for the past two weeks. Sherilyn got it first and I think she must have gotten it from school or…
Char Siew Bread Pizza
Bread Pizza is one of the girls’ favorite home-prepared ‘fast food’. This is an excellent way to get the girls to eat capsicum, something which they do not normally fancy. I normally top my bread pizza with lots of chopped antioxidant-packed capsicum (red and yellow ones), vitamin-packed cherry tomatoes, power-packed big onions, super mushrooms, protein-packed…
Sweat-Free Crockpot Cooked Kaya and Homecooked Meals
This is my third attempt in making kaya (coconut milk + egg jam) using the crockpot and this time, the texture has improved as I used my most helpful kitchen helper – the Shimono food processor to blend it after cooking the kaya in crockpot for 2 hours. This is a sweat-free and easy-peasy way…
Easy Peasy Homecooked Meals
It’s been almost a week since the MIL left for Hong Kong and the girls are still pretty happy surviving on mummy’s simple and no-frills meals. Here are some of the simple one-dish platters that I had dished out… Dinner on 30 Aug 2013 – Stir-fried Chinese cabbage with sawi and minced meat in egg…
Lunch For The Kids Today – 16 April 2013
After 3 days of vomiting and retching with zilch appetite, Alycia’s appetite is slowly returning today. For 3 days, everyone at home has been eating porridge and vermicelli cooked with minimal oil and meat. According to the paed’s suspicion, Alycia has been attacked by some kind of virus. You know doctors, when they cannot be…
Homecooked Meals
Grandma made a batch of pumpkin buns just before dinner. My bread-crazed Cass announced to grandma that she ain’t going to eat rice and only wanted to eat mien pau (bread in Mandarin) with homemade kaya and cheese. So while the rest of us had rice with yummy homecooked dishes, Cass had bread and I…
Homecooked Dinner – 23 Feb 2013
Presenting 6 of our 7-course homecooked dinner that we had at home 2 evenings ago. 1) Gado-gado– composed of fried tofu bought from the Japanese food section at Isetan, blanched cabbage, long beans and special homemade Gado-gado sauce. 2) Steamed egg with minced meat 3) Stuffed dried oysters with minced meat, fish meat and watercress. …
Our 2013 Valentines Day
Kobe Beef Lunch – Sunday, 3 Feb 2013
Here’s our homecooked lunch today, which is the first meal that the mil whipped up for us since her return from Hong Kong yesterday. 1) Kobe beef #5, flown from Japan to Hong Kong, which the mil brought back from Hong Kong yesterday 2) Super sweet and juicy cherries which the mil brought back from…
Red Wine, Garlic and Onion Roast Chicken for Dinner – 21 Jan 2013
Here’s the fuss-free, sweat-free and easy to prep dinner that I dished out yesterday. Roast chicken drumsticks (chopped into bite size) with garlic, onion, tomato and red bell pepper. In the morning, I marinated the chicken with HP sauce, soy sauce, Manuka honey, pepper, mixed herbs and some left over red wine in the fridge.…
Lunch Today – 21 Jan 2013
For the kids’ lunch today, I was undecided whether to cook green tea noodles with the new sauce that I had bought from Isetan or mushroom pasta. Since the punnet of button mushrooms had been sitting in the fridge for over 1 week already, I thought I should just use it before they turn black.…
Easy Peasy One-Pot Homecooked Dish
Here is our dinner for tonight, which I have already prepared at 4:40pm, as rascal #2 has ballet at 6:30pm. For time-challenged WFHMs, there will be lots of one-pot meals without stir-frying, shallow or deep frying. The lesser washing and oil splatters the better… and the food is healthier too. Steamed chicken drumsticks in tong…