Ingredients:

• 5oog mushrooms, cleaned and sliced. I used 400g button and 100g shitake mushrooms
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 onion (chopped)
• 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
• 4 cups vegetable or chicken stock
• 1 cup light cream (you could use milk + flour instead)
• Some mozzarella cheese

Method

1. Heat the oil in a pan. Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
2. Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
3. Add the sliced mushrooms and vegetable broth and simmer for 10 minutes
4. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Remove from the heat and puree with a hand blender.
6. Mix in the cream.
7. Serve garnish with mozzarella cheese

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Some random pictures taken over the past few days

I like Clarins moisturising cream. Thanks sis  :)

My homemade granola bars

I processed some of my homemade granola bars into coarse ground granola. Use  this as topping over your morning breakfast cereal!

Such as this: milk + corn flakes + toasted pecan nuts + dried fruits + coarse ground homemade granola

Sunday dinner at a 24hr coffee shop

Drunken prawns – I love the soup!

My grocery shopping for the week. So little! I was in a hurry. I bought chayote (chou chou), sweet potatoes, mushrooms, yoghurt, aubergine and milk.

Spicy baked bean corn and tuna patties. I’m a huge fan of spicy food.

I will post the recipe another day. Well, baked beans and tuna wasn’t the best combi.

Experimenting with silken tofu and jelly crystals

It was a flop! Went straight to the trash. I will stick to my chocolate tofu pudding!

Mini pineapple cookie

XOXO

I made these Prawn Cabbage Shroom cakes for lunch today. They are so quick and easy!

Recipe follows …

Ingredients

• 1/2 a green cabbage
• 5 prawn balls (or use fresh prawns)
• 5 shitake mushrooms
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1 egg
• spring onion, chopped
• Salt and pepper
• Cajun spice
• Dried Rosemary

Method

1. Process the cabbage, prawn balls, mushrooms and spices using a food processor.
2. Add the four, egg and spring onions. Mix well using hands or spoon.
3. Shape into balls, then with your palm press the balls into a small disc.
4. Pan fry until golden brown.
5. Serve while still hot.

And I also made a homemade salad. It’s made of boiled cauliflower, boiled carrots, onions and gherkins. The vinaigrette consisted of apple cider vinegar, rice wine vinegar, salt, pepper, EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil), tiny bit of sugar and salad herbs.

Happy Wednesday!

My green monster consisted of:

• A handful of english spinach
• Frozen rasberries
• Vanilla milk (milk + vanilla essence)
• Sugar

I made it after my morning work out. It actually taste pretty good :)  You can’t taste the spinach at all!

Next time I will try using chinese baby spinach (instead of english baby spinach) because they are more readily available in supermarkets and they are super cheap — english baby spinach on the other hand costs $4.20 per 100g! Not cheap compared to other vegetables that cost around $1 per bunch –  But  I have a feeling chinese baby spinach is going to taste weird!  hmmm

Next …

On Monday I made Vietnamese Pan Fried Eggs. Very simple. I didn’t have all the ingredients that the recipe (from my latest recipe books) called for but it still tasted good with minced pork, chinese sausage, fish sauce, oyster sauce and 2 eggs.

On Tuesday night I baked about 70 chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (the box above could only hold about 50 pieces)! When I made these the  first time, they were flat and runny. I managed to solve this problem by simply reducing the amount of sugar! I use 1/2 cups (instead of 3/4 cups) of caster sugar and 1/2 cups (instead of 3/4 cups) of brown sugar. They were still sweet but not overly sweet.

If you’re wondering what I did with those 70 cookies … well the kids ate them all during their school’s Track & Field camp! The husband’s primary school kids that is! Yes those little super active kids! Now, kids from another school where the husband also works, are asking me to bake cookies for them! :D  I am baking about 100 more cookies tonight!

I also made a reduced-fat version (above photo). Instead of 3/4 cups of margarine (or butter) which is rougly 170g, I used 70g of margarine + 100 g of applesauce. I had to flatten them before baking them because they wouldn’t drop. The reduced-fat version tasted good too and can satisfy a sweet craving. They were a little too soft though (like a flat muffin) — next time I will try to bake them longer.

Here’s the revised recipe for the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup margarine, softened (for a reduced-fat version use 70g of margarine + 100 g of applesauce)
• 1/2 cup white caster sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 3/4 cups rolled oats
• 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (you can add raisins or nuts too)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. In large bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.
3. Add and beat in the eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
4. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Gradually beat into butter mixture.
6. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
7. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
8. Bake 18 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.
9. Cool slightly, remove from sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

What I did was:

• 1o x 5 sets half squat
• 15 x 5 sets barbel bent-over row
• 8 x 5 sets Barbel Military press
• Planks (front and side)
• Boxing
• 20 x 3 sets push-ups
• 250 crunches and sit-ups

For dinner I prepared  rosemary grilled chicken with corn mushroom. Healthy and delicious! The rosemary herb was freshly plugged from the pot.

Dessert was a delicious homemade Brownie léger poire-chocolat (pear-chocolate light brownie ). I will blog the recipe soon! I actually videoed the steps but I’m not sure if I’m gonna publish it :)

Here’s what we had for dinner. I made my own chicken and potato casserole with just a few ingredients that I had in hand. What did you have for dinner?

We also had some pink guavas (from my green grocery trip last week) after dinner. We love these types of guavas.