Food: messy parfait, salad and chinese food

I enjoyed very much this week’s food because they’re easy to make, nutritious and fresh enough for hot weather (over 100F!!! :shock:)

Breakfast continued to be “messy parfait”. I love it so much that every morning after I wake up I look forward to my breakfast! 😉

this combo has 2 chopped nectarine, 1 protein brownie, 1/3 cup cottage cheese mixed with 1/4 cup almond milk and 1 tbsp chia seed

After I finished the protein brownie, I made another batch replacing cocoa powder with 1/3 cup shredded coconut.

this combo has the coconut protein cake, 1/2 cup greek yogurt and nectarines.

And one more combo with cottage cheese, almond milk and chia seed (sit at the fridge overnight), coconut protein cake and nectarines. YUM~~~

I just made another batch of protein cake, this time mango & coconut protein cake

• 1 1/4 cup oats, grounded
• 1/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes, grounded
• 60g protein powder (vanilla)
• 200 g mango, puree
• 1/2 cup egg white
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 42g chopped walnuts
• 1/4 cup NuNaturals stevia baking blend

Mix wet and dry separately and bake at 350F for 30 min.

Salad is all I crave during this hot weather. So whenever I have lunch at home, I’d make a nutritious salad

this one has chopped romaine, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, tofu, corn and half large avocado. Dressing: balsamic, olive, mustard.

this one used kale and Mama Pea’s sunshine salad dressing

Same salad ingredients as the previous one and the dressing is made using 1 tbsp tahini, 2 tbsp water, 1 tbsp vinegar, 1 tbsp nutritional yeast, minced garlic, salt and pinch of stevia.

And my favorite salad combo this week!!!

made with chopped romaine, tomatoes, cucumber, tofu, 2 boiled eggs, 1 avocado, dressing: balsamic, mustard, nutritional yeast, chia seed and almond milk.

Love the creaminess of extra avocado.

Dinners were chinese food.

#1

A salad made with sliced cucumber, mung bean sprout and mushroom (pic of the can below), salt, sesame oil and pinch of sugar.

napa cabbage soup with homemade fish ball and dry shrimp

sautéed chinese greens with oyster mushroom

this week’s porridge: aduki, mung bean, chinese red dates and oatmeal

#2

with scrambled eggs with tomato

#3

sauteed greens with oyster mushroom and sautéed zucchini with black fungus, fish balls and dry shrimp

#4

soup of napa cabbage, seaweed, dry shrimp and fish balls

I’m loving my homemade meals lately. Although I haven’t been very creative, but I enjoy them a lot. 🙂

Q: What are you loving lately?

Food: dinners at home

The weather has been warm, almost like summer so all I wanted was fresh veggies! Everyday in the afternoon, I’d call my mom and tell her what I want for dinner and she’ll prepare them for me! What a great mom she is! 🙂 Unfortunately she’s leaving next weekend. She needs a break in China and she will come back before the baby arrives! 🙂

Sauteed celery with black fungus and smoked tofu

cucumber salad with garlic

winter melon, tomato and bamboo soup

sauteed noodles with brussel sprouts, onion, mushrooms and tofu

sauteed cauliflower with mushrooms, carrot and pork

curry chicken with potatoes

sauteed greens with garlic

And wonton’s are back!!! Yes! I asked my mom to make like 10 packages for me to be freezed so I can have them when she’s not here! 🙂 They’re so delicious!!!

Q: What’s your favorite freezer meal?

Food: 9-course chinese dinner

Last night I was in charge of cooking an 9-course chinese meal for Star’s coworkers. This is the end product of 3 hours of work 🙂

The working space with all the ingredients

mushrooms, green onions

chinese celery, black fungus

bok choy, smoked tofu

chinese yam, chopped garlic

marinated pork with soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar and salt, pork belly

bean curd, shiitake

green and red peppers, japanese cucumber

and fresh fish. It was my first time preparing a whole fresh fish the chinese way

End products:

black fungus salad

cucumber salad

bean curd salad

sauteed smoked tofu with chinese celery

red sauce pork a la Coco 😉

pork ribs soup with yam, shiitake, red dates and goji berries, 3.5 hours cooking time.

red sauce spicy fresh fish

sauteed pork with peppers and mushrooms

the chef and the guests

It was a big success! We finished almost all of the 9 dishes!!! The most liked dishes were: red sauce pork, the soup and the fish. 😀

Q: What did you cook this weekend?