A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
This is our dinner tonight…. Chicken bolognaise spaghetti and avocado-organic french beans-cherry tomatoes salad, sprinkled with organic sunflower seeds and drizzled with Japanese sesame seed salad dressing. Simple and wholesome and the kids loved it! These days, I am into making salads as it does not involve garlic/ onion peeling and chopping and no stir-frying…
This is the last meal that the mil dished up for us before we left for Ipoh and before she left for Hong Kong. After she was done with this, she cooked a big pot of turmeric chicken for us, for deep freezing into 2 portions. All her homecooked dishes in the freezer will be…
The girls told me that they wanted to have ABC soup, just like granny’s homemade Western ABC soup and I said no problem if they could help to peel and cut the vegetables. They could not be happier to help out in the kitchen! And so here they are in action… I only allowed Alycia…
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…
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….
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…
Here’s an easy peasy way to make homemade pizza without having to knead the dough from scratch. Alycia and Sherilyn’s art class teacher gave me this suggestion. She is also a very busy WFHM with no maid and she whips this up for her 2 toddlers at least once or twice a week. All you…
I am fortunate to have a health freak mil who stays with us as she often whips up healthy meals for us, using only fresh ingredients and mostly organic ingredients for her bakes. Here’s another of her most cooked one pot meal – multi-grain fried rice with multi-colored veggie — red, green and yellow bell…
Here’s another very simple yet wholesome home-cooked dinner, which was 50% organic, 100% free from MSG and food additives: Stir-fried organic sweet potato leaves with garlic, steamed brown rice, stir-fried pork slices with organic Japanese pumpkin (check out the pretty bright orange color of the pumpkin skin) and steamed salmon fish with julienned ginger, drizzled…
What can really comfort a tummy is a hot bowl of homemade porridge. I am one who eats no or very little rice (solely for diet reasons) but when my mil whips up a pot of chicken or fish porridge with meat pre-marinated to perfection, I almost always succumb to a piping hot bowl. And…