Hi guys! I know I've mentioned that I'm going to show all of you what I eat in part 1 right?
So here it is!
HEALTHY DIET
More than often, I buy my own ingredients to do my own cooking because I can control the amount of oil and salt I add.
Although you can say that I can grab yong tau foo and soups outside that are considerably healthier, but you have no idea if they had put any msg in them etc. haha
I choose to not have carbs when I cook so I can save my calories for good restaurant food ^^
This is enoki mushroom and diced chicken breast with green onions.
Many of you will ask: "How do you marinate the chicken?"
Just marinate them in simple soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper! You can prepare this a day before hand so that the chicken absorbs the yumminess!
For this dish, I merely heated the pan, added a teeny bit of olive oil, put in the chicken and the enoki mushrooms and wait!
The mushrooms will produce water so the chicken will be soaking in yummy sauce infused with the seasoning of the chicken.
I don't like my chicken to be too tough (reason why I hate chicken breasts I buy outside)
The ones I cook is always so tender and juicy <3
So always watch your chicken, as soon as they do not have pinkness, remove them from the pan.
This is diced chicken breast with onions. hahaha.
It's cooked the same way as mentioned above :)
This is salmon with garlic and lemon juice.
I love salmon because it's is so tender, I hate the ones outside because they LOVE to overcook them.
SALMONS SHOULD BE SOFT AND TENDER, NOT HARD LIKE A ROCK.
I simply fried the garlic, rubbed a bit of salt and pepper on the salmon and put it into the pan skin side down.
I read from somewhere that every oz is equivalent to 1min of cooking on the pan.
So, if your salmon is 5oz (convert on google if you don't know), you should cook it about 5 min in total, which is 2.5min per side.
If you like your salmon soft and tender, remove it once it's cooked, because I love salmon sashimi, I don't really care if it's a tiny bit raw in the middle still. But for those who mind, just cook it a slightly longer, you can adjust the timing according the the doneness you like your salmon to be :)
Then just squeeze lemon juice over when it's about done! :)
This is diced chicken breast, with sauteed mushrooms and a sunny side up.
The chicken is cooked as mentioned above.
As for sauteed mushrooms, I used button mushrooms, (don't use the canned ones please omg) you can choose other mushrooms that you like too!
First, wash them, then DRY them! This is so that your mushrooms won't release too much water during cooking. Then, chop them up, put a bit of olive oil in the pan, throw in chopped garlic and onions. Wait till the onions turn slightly translucent and when the garlic is aromatic, then add the chopped mushrooms. Now you wait and let it cook slowly.
Make sure that every mushroom touch the pan, so all of them can get cooked.
This might take 10min as they slowly release their water. Then, you can season them when they are more or less cooked! :)
This is the same, just that I added a wholemeal wrap to wrap a bit of chicken, mushrooms and lettuce :)
This is long beans with egg, pan fried chicken breast and aglio olio!
For the long beans with egg, chop up the long beans, add a bit of olive oil and fry them until soft.
Then add in the eggs that are pre-seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper.
Cook till desired doneness.
For the pan fried chicken breast, heat up a bit of olive oil (until it's very hot).
Rub the chicken with salt and pepper.
Place it into the pan skin side down, away from you.
Once it has a bit of brown-ess, flip it over and cook the other side.
Once you're done, place the chicken breast on a plate and place it into the oven at 150 degree celsius for 10minutes. This is for my oven, different ovens have different configurations so you need to test it.
The reason why I don't want to continue pan-frying the chicken to cook it because the outside of the chicken is going to turn super tough before the centre gets cooked.
I learnt this from master chef HAHAHA.
Then for the aglio olio, boil a pot of water, add salt. Once it boils, place the spaghetti in and wait for 7-10 min depending on how hard or soft you like your spaghetti to be.
Then, remove it from the pot and rinse it under cold water to stop the cooking.
Now, in a frying pan, add olive oil, chopped small chilli padi and garlic (however much you like) and once the garlic is aromatic, add in the spaghetti. Keep stirring and then season with salt (and pepper if you like). Don't cook it for too long else the spaghetti will turn hard.
Then you're done! :)
And on lazy days, I just cook soups!
Simply cut garlic, fry them till aromatic. If you're planning to add meat, add in here to fry them a bit.
Then add water , and your chopped ingredients.
I like to put in cabbage, enoki mushrooms, tofu and egg! :)
Then just leave it to boil and you're done!
Oh yes, this is soup and steamed fish!!
I have no idea what this fish is, but it's best for steaming. LOL
Make sure you get the fish monger to remove all the innards and scales. Then wash it.
Cut up some plums/ginger and garlic then place then inside the fish and on top.
This is to remove the fishy taste, you can add a bit of soy sauce to season it too!
Then just steam it <3
And yes, eat loads of fruits! HEHEHEHE.
I love the wooden bowl so much, it costs $15.90 from IKEA btw :)
UNHEALTHY FOOD
I do cut myself some slack some times and give myself a good treat :)
Awesome and delicious macarons from my seniors at only $10 per box of 6!
It comes in dark chocolate, salted caramel and matcha!
Check here to find out more, but he's not taking orders at the moment as he's away for a trip and will only be free in Jan 2014.
Mini cupcakes that oozed yumminess from their inside from Smoulder
The chorale treat we, ICs, gave to the members for the job well done at the good luck concert!
It consists of mac and cheese, salad, bread pudding, mushroom soup, chicken, watermelon and hot dogs.
YUMMY FOOD FROM IKEA!
The meatballs were disappointing :(
Medium rare rib eye steak with potato salad and mac and cheese from Astons!
Cheap $16.95 seafood platter from Fish and Co and the ala carte scallops ^^
Ebi meal!
I swear right, I rather spend my calories on restaurant food than fast food as I feel that fast food's super process. At least restaurant food are of better quality and nutrients, so they are worth me using up my calories. HAHAHA.
The only reason why I broke my 2 months no-fast-food streak for the ebi meal was because I like seafood. But it disappointed me. The fizz was filled with syrup taste, ebi patty had real prawns which surprised me, but tasted like some gooey thingy, because it is frozen. The banana pie was good though :)
I don't eat junk food as much as possible because they are filled with unhealthy fats and carbs. Even though their calories are less than 100 per packet, but still, the nutritional levels are quite low.
I normally weigh my food like this la. I tend to look for food that will fill me, to me they are worth my calories, junk food wastes my calories and doesn't fill me :(
Plus, if I have one good meal, I'll cut down on what I eat in the later meal of that day or the next day and then do more exercise haha.
It's about balance, if you want to eat more, exercise more. If not, you'll grow fat and not lose weight :(
And last, I want to emphasize on this!
Back to studying now <3
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