La vie est belle

I am pOoped! Was out the whole day. Glad to be back to my comfy bed!  Today is  ‘me‘  day … the husband was not around for most part of the day and later tonight he is spending some time with his buddies.

– Me eating a kiwiBerry … more on that later –

After 3 hrs at the office, I headed down to the city. Dropped by ThreeSixty Marketplace at Ion Orchard and spent over an hour browsing the aisles and exploring new items on the shelves. I don’t like clothes shopping  but I LOVE grocery shopping! I could have spent a b0mb at ThreeSixty but thank goodness I have enough self control!

Guess how much I spent there?

Only 10 bucks! Of course the $30 ++ truffle oil 100ml bottle was tempting but I don’t see myself using it that often, thus gave it a pass. I only bought Hummus dip ($3.95 on sale) and something new to me — TVP for Textured Vegetable Protein ($5.75). I have absolutely no idea how this will taste.  Shall give it a try soon!

Texture vegetable protein, TVP for short, is a high-fiber, high-protein meat substitute made from soy flour and available in a variety of flavored and unflavored varieties, as well as different sizes, from large chunks to small flakes.

It’s definitely packed with loads of protein.

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After ThreeSixty, I ran more errands at  Carrefour @ Plaza Singapura. I prefer the one at Suntec mall because they have more varieties of stuffs.

I bought …

• Dried apricots ($1.99)
• Sweet potatoes (sweet potato fries! Yum) ($3.30)
• Aubergine ($2.35)
• Multi-grain bread ($2.50 on sale)
• Spicy honey mustard (first time trying this)($5.30)
• Extra-light whipping cream (planning to whip something) ($2.95)
• NZ KiwiBerries ($3.65 on sale)

NZ KiwiBerries?

I didn’t know this fruit even existed! It is as small as cherry tomatoes and as sweet as the yellow kiwis. This small punnet costs $3.65 and it was on sale. The skin can be eaten.

See how small they are?

KiwiBerry are small – in the 5 – 20 gram range, with smooth hairless edible skins, and shapes varying from round to elongated. One of the attractions of KiwiBerry is that they, like grapes, are a single mouthful and to increase the size above say 20 grams eliminates this desirable characteristic.

I have no idea what to eat for dinner … Maybe just bake sweet potato fries!

XOXOXO

Happy Friday everyone!!

I had nine good hours of undisturbed sleep last night (well he had more as he slept earlier and woke up later than me!). SO good! I definitely needed that. I feel great today.

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Yesterday was my rest day, thus dinner was earlier – 7.30 pm instead of 8.45  / 9 pm.

Cajun spiced aubergine topped with garlic tiger prawns. What else can I say other than Yum-O!!

Method

• Slice the aubergine into 1 inch thick slices,  season with cajun chicken spices and pepper, then bake it. There’s no need to add salt because the cajun spice is already salty.
• While they are being baked, prepare the garlic prawns.
• Do not, I say do not overcook the prawns! If not, they will not be juicy anymore.

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What do I do with all my baked goods?

Simple. I keep or give away a few and freeze the rest.  I still have mini apple muffin cake, chocolate granola bars, sweet couscous fruit salad, ready-to-bake peanut butter cookie dough balls and couple of double chocolate brownie squares inside my freezer!

The ready-to-bake cookie dough balls have been frozen since December (oops!) … Gotta bake them soon! I shaped the dough in uniform little balls (using my ice-cream scoop) and placed them very close together on a plate. Then I placed the plate in a ziplog freezer bag with date on.

Have you tried eating frozen cookies or frozen muffins? When I am too lazy to re-heat them,  they are eaten frozen! They are actually not too bad! Kind of melts in your mouth. This big flat piece of chocolate chip cookie was baked in December and it still tastes good to me — taste is subjective right.

Weekend’s agenda: Tonight go for a 8km run interval run and maybe bake something?! I would like to drop by ThreeSixty Marketplace at Ion Orchard too but can’t confirm that yet.

Have a nice day!

PS: The watermelon has not been cut yet!

Evening all! How is the week so far?

I bought this 3.5 kg seedless watermelon on my way back home. It costs me only $2.50.

Expect to see much of this juicy fruit  in future posts.

Yesterday’s fruit platter – Thai mangoes, Fuji apples and Korea strawberries. The strawberries weren’t that sweet. I think  Korea strawberries were sweeter last year.

On Sunday night, I made minestrone soup for the week. Delish.

Tonight we had simple omelette - 2 eggs + salt + pepper + spring onions

And some of this pasta which was added to the minestrone – bought it in Malaysia last year at an Iranian mini mart

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Did ya think I’ve forgotten about the Double Chocolate Brownie??

– If you’ve missed my Bittersweet Cocoa Brownie, you can find it here. –

A different recipe was used for the double chocolate brownies. They are cakey and light. I like them better than the bittersweet ones. I think I prefer cakey brownies over fudgy & dense ones!

Some chocolate oozing out …

Recipe follows … Have a great day or evening!

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