Happy Independence Day Mauritius!!!! Wish I was in the sunny island right now! I miss home. I miss my parents loads. Don’t forget to eat some bite-size napolitaines and mauritian massepain today. Eat some for me :)
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What is Mikey starring?
At Toto! Looks like Toto is also starring back eh :)
* Eyes are different colours because of the flash*
Well I am cat sitting Toto, my friend’s munchkin, for 1.5 weeks. He is sleeping in the gym room. Mikey and Toto have previously met.
Does Mikey and Toto get along? Hell NOOOOO …. They don’t fight. Toto is very sweet and timid. Mikey is just super jealous that there’s another cat at home. In this video, he doesn’t even want to look at me … He makes this funny sound whenever I say “Toto”.
Here, you will find another video taken last year.
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So happy it’s the weekend! It’s been a busy craazy week! Self-note: Do not be too nice!
It’s been a craaazy day but I won’t bore you with the details. How is your week so far?
We have a house guest! Tomorrow I will tell you who is staying with us for the next two weeks :) He is a little shy at the moment hehe.
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When my parents visited last year, they brought us canned tuna from Mauritius.
These canned tuna have definitely been useful. I’ve used them in Cheesy Tuna Zucchini Spinach Pasta, salads, sandwiches, stir-fries etc. Even the cat had some! He LOVES tuna!
Yesterday I prepared a simple stir-fried tuna & corn pasta dish
Simple. Place the pesto sauce in a mini ice-cube tray and pop the tray into the freezer. Once frozen, remove each pesto cube (do it quickly before they all melt) from the tray and store in an air-tight container inside the freezer.
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He’s a BIG fan of corn! So I added a LOT.
I don’t measure when I cook but I think this is roughly how much I used
Ingredients
2-3 cup pasta of your choice — Could be more. Can’t remember.
1.5 cup corn kernels
2 tomatoes, diced
2-3 frozen basil pesto sauce cubes or fresh pesto sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp oil – I love EVOO
Method
Prepare your pasta according to the direction on the package
While pasta is boiling stir fry the corn, tomatoes and basil pesto sauce
When the pasta is ready, drain it
Mix pasta to the corn mixture and cook for few more minutes
Serve immediately
I bought this organic and gluten free SoyCream yesterday. It was on sale (from $4.95 to $1.90) and I wanted to try something new. But now I don’t know how to use it. I believe it should be like a pouring cream. Well we shall see …
I had a very hard time getting out of bed this morning… I almost wanted to stay in bed and continue to sleep!! However, after a nice warm bath I was more awake. My morning routine is more or less the same day after day: Wake up > bath > get dressed > feed Mikey > take multi-vitamins > pack lunch (optional) > have a quick bite > quick goodbye kiss > leave home and walk to the train station ….
I grabbed this healthy blueberry muffin (baked yesterday. More on that later …) just before leaving the house.
Work was … work. Just a normal day.
Part of dinner was this yummy protein-packed minestrone soup (made on Sunday for the week). I added some TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) to the soup.
TVP has a similar texture to ground meat when cooked. It is pretty good.
I also made simple veggie spring rolls – FINALLY!! The filling was prepared last night.
I’m not good at rolling spring rolls! It was a tedious process :D Oh by the way, these are BAKED spring rolls! Despite the uncooked look, they tasted pretty good. The skin was quite crispy! You can’t tell by this picture but they were.
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Now on to the Healthier Blueberry Muffins! I found the recipe via ActiveGal and since I had a handful of blueberries on hand, I decided to give it a try.
My Preparation corner
The recipe uses “mix wet and dry ingredients” method – I like this method because it is faster and neater. And less dish washing afterwards too :) Let the pictures do the talking …
They are dense muffins, not too sweet and they keep you satisfied. I’m not freezing any because I halved the recipe and got 6 muffins which are enough for breakfast this week!
Love the purple cracks :)
Neither too big or too small. Just the right size …
