Home-cooked food – Page 18 – HEALTH FREAK MOMMY

Herbs And Garlic Grilled Black Pomfret Fish

Posted on November 6, 2013November 6, 2013 by Shireen

My girls and I love fish, especially if it’s pan fried BUT I hate frying fish. I suck at frying fish and can never fry a fish perfectly. This makes me miss Dyah, our former helper more. She used to help us fry fish for dinner almost every day. These days, I have been using…

Pineapple Grilled Fish

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Shireen

This is what we had for dinner last night…. Grilled wild salmon fish and threadfin fish with herbs, EVOO and fresh pineapple. It was my first time grilling fish with pineapple and I was amazed with the strong aromatic and fruity flavor the pineapple effused into the fish meat. When the fish was grilling in…

Maniac Monday

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Shireen

I 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. …

Feeling Bleh, So?

Posted on September 25, 2013September 25, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on September 22, 2013September 23, 2013 by Shireen

Sunday is a day of outing for us. My kitchen is normally closed on Sundays but today, I decided to whip up something simple and easy as everyone ain’t in their best form, health wise. When my kids and I are not well, I try to minimize outside food. So I grilled Salmon belly and…

What’s For Dinner?

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Shireen

While cooking dinner yesterday, I have been thinking hard what I should be cooking for lunch and dinner today. It is not easy to please 3 fussy brats OK. The oldest brat is the hardest to please. She is a hardcore rice pot. To please her, I need to give her rice and 2 dishes….

Down But Not Totally Out

Posted on September 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on September 14, 2013September 14, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on September 5, 2013September 8, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on September 4, 2013September 4, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on April 16, 2013April 16, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on February 14, 2013February 14, 2013 by Shireen

Today the mil and the hubs’ aunt brought Alycia and Sherilyn to Mid Valley Megamall for lunch and shopping. Hubs was at a client’s function and so could not bring them out. And I was just too lazy to go out as we have been going out almost everyday during the CNY holiday. I just…

Kobe Beef Lunch – Sunday, 3 Feb 2013

Posted on February 3, 2013February 3, 2013 by Shireen

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

Posted on January 22, 2013October 21, 2016 by Shireen

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….

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