Food: dinners

My salad craving continued this week. Maybe it’s the warm weather, or the obsession with the new balsamic, I can’t get enough salads. 😉

#1: salad

baked chicken breast with sweet spicy sauce

#2: baked chicken breast, steamed green bean and mashed cauliflower with laughing cow and celery

#3: kimchi, bamboo and black fungus soup with “noodles”

accompanied by sautéed chinese mustard with oyster mushroom

#4: baked salmon with bamboo over mashed cauliflower with celery and laughing cow

#5: another salad with eggs

and baked sweet potato

#6 salad

tortilla pizza topped with oyster mushroom, mozzarella cheese and arugula

I told you, I had a lot of salads and I still want more 😉

Q: What’s your favorite salad combo? I’ve been really enjoying this one: tomato, cucumber, mushroom, beets, arugula, butter lettuce and eggs.

Life: weekend happening

It was a long weekend for me. I thought I would get bored being alone, but it turned out to be quite eventful. Let’s recap 😉

Friday: I spent the morning organizing old letters/cards/pics and I found this

wooo!!! It was taken in 2000, and I was probably 20 lb heavier. It was quite shocking how much did I changed during the last 12 years. I think as we age, the fat content of our face gets redistributed elsewhere and we look slimmer.

I did manicure. I didn’t have any spring/summer color, so I used this intense beige one.

Breakfast continued to be the same. For lunch, I made a salad using canned wild salmon that I have bought 6 months ago.

butter lettuce, cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, tofu and 1/2 can of salmon. All dressed with 1 tbsp olive oil and 2-3 tbsp the amazing balsamic.

as dessert, two argentinian chocolates

At night, I met with some friends at Cafe Asia for dinner. It’s a place that offers all kind of asian food, chinese, vietnamese, japanese, indonesian and singaporean. I had a Yum salad. Thai style spicy salad with lettuce, cilantro, onion, tossed with fresh chili, garlic and lemon juice, and squid.

It was way too spicy for me, but had all the squid and 1/2 veggies.

And a tom yum soup with mushrooms and shrimp.

which was just okay.

After dinner, we went to a Cuban Music Show.

It was my first time going to a cuban music event. The music is so lively, people were dancing like crazy! 😉

My friend Huihui and the husband of another friend, who’s cuban.

Saturday

AM:

• Same breakfast
• Home duties: ironing and organize clothes for spring/summer.
• Lunch: same salad as Friday.

PM:

• A much needed nap. I went to sleep past midnight and woke up at 7:30 😯
• Reading a new book
• A BBQ party from 7-8:30pm
• A dinner party from 8:30 – 12pm.

Some of my best friends just became Doctors on Friday so a little celebration for them. 🙂 They did a good job preparing food for like 20+ people.

an israeli coucous salad

a pasta salad with tuna

and I made the dessert, choco-nuts petit fours

It was nice catching up with friends. I also told them the news and they were all very happy for us. 🙂 They were not surprised though because among my friends I’m someone who’s extremely decisive, whenever I say I want to do something, I do it right away! 🙂

Sunday

AM:

• Groceries. I went to four stores: chinese supermarket, korean supermarket, Tj’s and Whole Food, and under the rain!!! 😯 Fortunately they were all very close by.
• Lunch

A black rice, corn meal, red dates and white fungus porridge

kimchi

sautéed chinese greens, black fungus and tofu

• Another amazingly enjoyable nap.
• More reading
• Planning to have another salad with grilled shrimp for dinner! 🙂

Star is coming back tomorrow!!! Yupi!!! 😆

Q: What’s your favorite part of the weekend? For me, meeting with friends, late breakfasts and lunches, naps and leisure reading.

Food: breakfasts and dinner

This week’s breakfast combo replicates what I’ve been having in Buenos Aires almost everyday: toasts WW sprouted bread (in Buenos Aires, just simple bread, either WW or white); orange, almond milk, preserve and cream cheese.

I really like the cream cheese I had in Buenos Aires, it’s lighter and it has more intense flavor. I can’t find a bread in the US that is similar to that kind. Any recommendation on cream cheese???

Dinners:

Monday: 1 baked sweet potato and a salad

with the new dressing combo: 1 tbsp lemon grass infused olive oil and 2 tbsp balsamic. Can’t wait you how much difference it makes to a salad, you really need to try a good quality balsamic, it makes a whole world of difference to your salad. This salad has greens, tomato, celery, cucumber, tofu and egg.

Tuesday: baked salmon and salad

Wednesday: stir-fry shiritake noodles with broccoli, tofu and Tj’s turkey balls.

I used sweet chili sauce from Tjs.

Thursday: Stir-fry shiiritake noodles with frozen veggies and chicken

It was such a big meal that by the end I felt disgusting. My eyes are already bigger than my stomach. When I cook I’m afraid that there’s no enough food, but at the end, I always ended up making too much! As I don’t like wasting food, they all go to my belly, which is growing slowly! 😉

Q1: Have you discovered any secret ingredient lately? Balsamic!!!

Q2: What are you craving during spring/summer? Salad.