Life: “photo session” & korean food

Happy president day! 🙂 How’s your weekend? Our was fantastic! I feel very accomplished because we did a lot of the usual! 🙂 Since I took a lot of pics of the happenings, I’ll break it down into several posts.

On Saturday I made a new breakfast pancake

because we got too many bananas….

and I’ve been trying to incorporate more protein into every meal of the day

opened a new jar of peanut butter

4 ingredients protein pancake

• 1 banana, mashed
• 1 scoop of protein powder
• 1 tbsp flaxmeal
• 1/3 cup almond milk

Blend everything and cook at low for 5 min, flip and cook another 2-3 min. Top with a big spoon of nut butter and maple syrup.

REAL DELISH~~~ I will make it as my weekend breakfast. 🙂

Catching up with pic taking again

my dear angel, you’re growing way too fast!!!

drooling is so cute

so attracted to her surroundings.

and mama was a pro taking pics of you

her new hobbie: grab her dress and show to the world her butt 😉

posing seems tiring

Sunday we went to have lunch at a korean buffet. Love the big selection of kimchi and appetizers

we got spicy chicken, pork, beef for the bbq

the chicken was really good. I stuffed myself with it 😉 Need to get the recipe!

Spicy vegetable soup, rice cake and collard greens marinated in spicy sauce (YUM!)

Sofia woke up at the end of our meal

I gave her a lettuce but she was more interested in her hands

and she got bored with us talking and eating

the happy grandparents

Eating out once a week is becoming a new tradition. Sofia is more collaborative as she’s getting older. Even she doesn’t sleep, she can play with herself in the carseat for quite a while, or just looks around. I can’t wait the day she can actually participates in the meal. We got a portable “seat” for her already. 🙂

Q: What kind of food do you like to eat when eating out? I like korean, japanese, italian, fine cuisine. Actually all except chinese food. 😉

Food: meals this week

Last week was a tough one to find things that I like. I don’t know if it’s the warm weather or what, but all I want was veggies and fruit. Meat/fish/egg sound disgusting.

A sauteed noodles with veggies, bamboo, black fungus and tofu with olive preserve olive leaves.

I think I will get tired of the olive preserve soon! 😦

I made Andrea’s spinach namul

a chinese cucumber salad

and Andrea’s soy bean sprout namul

for both recipe, I didn’t use the korean chili power (I didn’t have any) but they taste great nonetheless! I’m definitely going to make them often because it’s easy to make and so fresh! 🙂

Spicy Tofu with pickles

all with oatmeal for dinner

Star came back and requested fish so I made for him

I got some kimchi

and watercress namul from a korean supermarket

made a corn grits, millet and chinese dates porridge

Dinner on Saturday.

Q: How your food changes with season?

Life: Weekly update

• Last week was an important one. I submitted two papers that I’ve been working since last october and I met with the manager of the unit I want to work for the next 4-5 years. I was very nervous that day but fortunately all went very well. We talked about 40 min and it was one of the best interview I’ve ever had! So… if nothing unexpected happens, I’m going to get the job! 😆
• I started to get sick of the food our cafeteria serves. So I explored some options. Other than choptsalad, I tried a korean bibimbap place. I got four type of veggies and seaweed as topping and the base was brown rice.

it looks good but I didn’t like it because the veggies and the rice were way too oily. It was not helpful for my slow digestive track these days. Finally, I tried piadine with grilled vegetables and fontina cheese at breadline. It’s a wrap made with a thick grilled bread filled with a lot of grilled veggies and cheese. I’m definitely getting it again and take a pic to show you.

• I found a new after-dinner snack that I like a lot. Mung bean ice bar.

• I got a new hair cut and really like the salon I found. I already sent Star and two friends there!
• The weather is getting warm and I’ve been shopping a little bit, so more outfit pics to come. 🙂

pant (zara), shirt (H&M), blazer (china) and shoe (Tod’s)

• Last Saturday we had lunch with a couple friends to one of our favorite chinese restaurant in VA.

sweet and sour calamari with veggies

frog with chinese yellow chives and sweet peas

tofu stew with chicken

chinese greens with tons of garlic (love it!)

fish ball with lotus root (another love!)

After lunch they came to home and the guys play pingpong. It’s a couple that we recently met (from work) and we really like them. 🙂

• On Sunday, we went to Il Mee, a korean buffet with some old friends. We went there 4 years ago and my mom loved it so much that wanted to go back since then. There were a lot of cold dishes

my plate #1

some spicy veggie and egg soup

two full plate of meat for 6 of us

and I went back for more veggies. Overall the food was good but not spectacular. I never liked buffet because I don’t eat that much to take advantage of it, and usually buffet’s food is not so well made.

The rest of the afternoon was relaxing. I spent the afternoon/evening watching chinese tv-series. I’ve been on a tv kick lately! 🙂 What a great way to waste time and unwind! 🙂

Q1: Do you like buffets? 

Q2: Do you like korean food? What’s your favorite dish? Mine is definitely bibimbap! love the spicy sauce!