What I Eat

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This is what I eat mostly when I challenge myself to do the carbohydrate diet for my own good. It is really hard. Most of the times, when my head says stick to carb diet, my stomach says eat more junks. But I do survive J. Try to eat clean step by step will cut down your cravings for junks slowly. 

Recipes: Chicken Soup

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Pears are my absolute favorite fruit, I always stocked them in my fridge all the time.  When I ran out of red dates (hong zhao), solomon’s seal (yu zhu), codonopsis root (dang shen) to cook this recipe. I just used wolfberries (go ji), astragalus root (huang qi), ginger, and pear instead.
Ingredients:
-        1 whole chicken
-        2 tablespoon wolfberries
-        4 -5 slices of astragalus root
-        1 ginger
-        1 pear, peeled and cored
-        salt to taste
How to cook:
-        Pre boil the chicken first and throw out the initial boiling water. Put aside.
-      Put all ingredients inside and bring to boil starting with ginger, astragalus root then chicken and wolfberries.
-        Simmer on low fire for at least 1 hour. Last 15 minutes put in the pear.
-        And finally add salt to taste. Serve hot.  

Recipes: Potato Patties

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Ingredients:
6 Potatoes (regular size)

Seasoning:
1 tsp butter
Salt as desired/ needed
Pepper as desired/ needed
Chopped of fried onions as desired/ needed
Chopped celery as desired/ needed
Chopped nutmeg as desired/ needed
1 Egg (split the yolk from the white)
* white egg is used to help ingredients stick together in the frying pan

How To Cook: 
- Cut potatoes into small chunks and boil until soft. 
- Pour boiled potatoes into a mixing bowl and mix manually until all chunks are mashed. (It should only take about 1 minute to mash to a creamy texture, as they turned out really soft after boiling) 
- Add seasonings starting from butter, salt, pepper, fried onions, celery, nutmeg and finally yolk. (image #1) 
- Mix manually until well-blended and creamy texture. (image #2), let cool for about 1 minutes. 
- Form up in patties manually as seen on image#3. 
- Warm up olive oil in a frying pan, dip the patties into the white eggs before frying. Fry for about 2 minutes until the patties turn brown. 
- Sprinkle corns over patties if you like. (image #4), served hot.

Recipes: Dessert Magnum

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I usually have quaker oats for my routine breakfast, which is a low calorie that could fill me up till lunch time. But not for today, as when I opened up my fridge this am, I found two bars of magnum ice cream, I quickly craved one as I seen from Magnum Cafe. A Magnum ice cream poured with cheese, chocolate and Roti Marie Regal crumbs.

Recipes: Soupy Spinach with Salted Eggs

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Ingredients:
Spinach

1 or 2 salted egg, separate the yolk from the white

2 minced garlic

Chicken stock


Seasoning:

Sugar as needed

Corn flour as needed

Water as desired


How To Cook:

- Steam salted egg yolk over medium heat for 15 minutes with a wok, set aside.

- Sautee garlic until aromatic, then the spinach. Stir fry for a while, set aside. Add some water if necessary.

- In another small pan, pour in the chicken stock and boil for a minute. Add seasoning and cook moderately. Quickly stir in salted egg whites, when it turns opaque in color, remove from heat, pour over the spinach.

- Cut salted egg yolk into small pieces and sprinkle over spinach.

- Served hot.

Recipes: Golden Fried Tofu with Tomato Sauce

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Ingredients:

- 1 block of silken tofu, sliced equally in smaller pieces

- 2 tomatoes, finely chopped

- 2 spring onions, finely chopped

- 2 or 3 spoonful of chilly sauce or tomato sauce

- Garlic, salt, pepper, sugar, soy sauce

- 3 or 4 red chilly


How To Cook:

- Fry smaller pieces tofu until golden, set a side.

- Heat the wok with oil, sauté garlic, tomatoes and red chilly.

- Add chilly sauce or tomato sauce, stir for a while.

- Add also half glass of water, salt, pepper, and sugar as needed, lastly dash in the spring onions. Bring it to a boil.

- Served hot.