Food: stir-fries

I’ve been living in stir fries this week. They’re easy to prepare and within 15 min a balanced nutritious meal is ready.

For breakfast I’ve been having almond milk with an egg sammie

spinach, laughing cow and fried egg

frozen veggies with chicken breast, served with brown rice

frozen veggies, summer squash and firm tofu, with sweet and sour sauce from Tj’s, served with brown rice

broccoli, bell pepper and shrimp with hoisin sauce, served with brown rice

And a chinese meal

sautéed green with a lot of garlic

sauteed tomato, zucchini, green onion and tofu

Star’s meal: bok choy and pork ribs

pressure cooker cooked pork ribs with fermented soy beans

I’m usually too full for any dessert, so I’ve been having 1-2 pieces of dark chocolate after dinner. Baby is taking all the room down there! 🙂

Busy and fun Saturday!

How’s everyone’s weekend? Mine is GOOD! 😆

While I waited for Star to arrive, I prepared a YUM breakfast. Hiatus from Petit Macro, I wanted eggs… so omelette I made.

4 ingredients: shredded zucchini, 2 whole eggs, 1/4 cup almond milk and 2 tbsp parmesan

so simple and so filling!!! 😆

perfect with ketchup

then Star arrived, we hang out a little bit, catching up (I haven’t seen him for almost a month!) and went for lunch at Kanpai

Our combo came with a salad as appetizer. I had mine with carrot ginger dressing and Star had sesame dressing

I also had miso soup

He’s not so into salad… had two bites before passing his bowl to me 😉 Salad with asian dressing.. the more, the merrier! 😉

Star ordered udon with chicken and shrimp tempura

I had grilled yellowtail that came with rice

We both enjoyed our meal and it was a good deal too. I got a groupon for 30$ ($15 paid), and we paid $10 more tip included, not bad right?

After lunch, we went to watch RED. I was expecting an action movie but it turned out to be quite funny too! 😀

oh…. and I had my first PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE!!!!

A real beauty, isn’t it? I couldn’t taste much pumpkin spice but it was tasty 🙂

Mr. Charming host another party, it was more than +30 people! A lot of appetizers and a lot of alcohol! Both Star and I enjoyed chatting with friends and left around midnight! Quite an amazing day! :lol

Q: Do you like parties crowded by friends or strangers? I mean, not completely strangers, but people that you are not friend with. I enjoy more chatting with good friends than meeting new people. I feel more relaxed being with people that I already know than working “hard” to keep up a conversation with strangers.

Day -2! I’m nervous

2 days away from my first Half Marathon!!! 😆 I’m excited and nervous! Excitement was 80% until I saw these:

I can’t believe that I have to end it up with a HILL!!!! 👿 That’s not good!!!

AND

can this get WORSE? RAIN? Seriously???? I’ve been checking weather since Monday and was crossing my finger that it changes. But apparently not! 👿 Now you understand where my nerve comes from, right? I’m worried and a little bit scared.  But the good thing is that Star will be cheering me up and I’ll be running with my best friend Agustin (he already run 5-6 halfs before), my advisor (who’s >50 yrs old and run >10 races before) and Beth!!! That’s exciting!!! 😆

Well… at this stage, I I can’t do much other than eat and sleep well today. 😉

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Now let’s rewind to yesterday’s eats. Appetite is not visiting me lately 😦 so I had to be extra creative 😉

Extra puppy coconut pancake

I wanted to try it with only egg whites but it turned out to be a mess.

After reading Emily’s post, I decided to make zucchini “noodles” for lunch

topped it with tomato sauce

add some tofu for protein

nuke in the microwave for 2 minutes. Top it with homemade sweet potato gnocchis

parmesan cheese is a MUST!

this amazing meal was ready in <15 min!

YUM~~~

double YUM~~~

I worked at home until 3 PM when I started to lose focus. So, I went to Caribou Cafe just crossing the street (so good to be living in a city  ;)). Worked there until 6 PM when hunger kicked in 😉 so I went to WF (a block away) to pick something to snack

spotted a new organic yogurt

I don’t mind when it’s not thick or creamy as long as it tastes good

peach + yogurt + golean

I didn’t like the yogurt 😦 so “greeking” it as the solution

I looked at the fridge and saw this chinese winter melon. Need to use it!

dry scallop

Easy pissy! 😉

and a stir-fry of chinese green bean, mushroom and cauliflower (my fridge is officially empty now ;))

served with black rice/oatmeal/kabocha bowl

Today is going to be an easy day. Star is coming back home in about 30 min… we’ll do groceries (I have a chinese meal feast to prepare tomorrow for his new co-workers) and mainly relax and enjoy each other’s company! 😀

Q: Are you friend of your hubby’s co-workers? Do you like socializing with them?