A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
The mil made 3 batches of scones just before she left for Hong Kong. First batch was unsuccessful. Undeterred, she made another batch the next day. Texture has improvement but still did not meet her high standards. So she made another batch the same day! And we all had scones for breakfast, lunch and dinner…
Our wedding ceremony was filmed and stored in a video tape that is over 12 years old. I still have the video tape with me but the problem is that video players are obsolete now. Maybe they still do exist but I have not seen one for aeons. When I was eight years old through…
My mum is a health freak in an even more serious state than I am. She eats pretty bland food, almost free from sodium and low in oil and sugar. She plants her own veggie and herbs in her garden, makes her own jams from plums, oranges, strawberries, peaches, apricots and other fruits that she…
Whenever I travel, I always bring along my lip balm as travelling in an air-cond car and sleeping in an air-cond room dry up my lips and sides of my mouth and cause them to crack, peel and this hurt me terribly. This time, I had forgotten to put my Burt’s Bees lip balm and…
I attended my very first boy-girl party when I was 14 years old. I still remember that day very clearly. I did not know how to dance and so were my friends. After watching our seniors dance their butt away, we went into one of the vacant bedrooms of our friend’s house to practice dancing…
One of our favorite soups is burdock root. The MIL would boil the root with radish and sometimes throw in some mushrooms and dried octopus for a more flavorful taste. The Chinese folks believe that the burdock root aka Gobo in Japanese or ngau pong in Cantonese is full of medicinal properties and health benefits….
My girls never really liked okra or ladies fingers until recently. And that’s with lots of training from both grandma and mummy to alter their taste buds. I think most kids won’t fancy ladies fingers due to the slimy feel and slightly torny texture on the surface of the beans but if these pods are…
These injured palms with red, raw flesh exposed have been the cause of my misery for the past 3 days. The pain and discomfort are making me feel very, very tetchy and moody. Whenever the girls misbehaved, fought, quarelled and disobeyed me, I would holler at them and then I would feel like sobbing (caused…
It is hereditary. I have tonsils and tonsil stones and my #2 has them too. Both my hubs and I have sensitive throats, a heaty body and are very prone to throat infections. This is the tonsil stone that Sherilyn coughed out. No wonder they looked like teeth growing from inside her throat (read…
The MIL made some buckwheat noodles from scratch the other day. She used half the portion of the buckwheat noodles to prepare seafood noodles with anchovies soup for us. The other half – she stir fried them with sliced beef, cabbage, black pepper and eggs the next day. The next day, she made some kau…