This post is not about Poisson salé … Right now I am just really craving for ene bon rougaille poisson salé!!! :)

Mum had sent us some orange lentil the other time and I prepared some lentil soup yesterday.

Absolutely delicious.  I didn’t have fresh thyme, so I used dried thyme instead. I also made an egg rougaille. Didn’t feel like cooking rice. So yeah, it was corn instead. And bread too! :)

Tonight, I baked my red Tilapia fish which I had already marinated (with garlic, onion, salt, pepper, spring onion) since yesterday. Yummy!! The husband wanted something light. So it was just this baked fish, a plate of belacan sweet potato leaves, 1 fresh mango, 1 orange and 2 cups of banana smoothies. That was dinner.

10 pm now. Going to bed. Good night :)

And we were off to “Giant” supermarket. I will usually tell the husband to give me 1 hr to shop. During this waiting time, he would normally go to other shops inside the shopping mall. Sometimes Many times 1 hr isn’t enough as I tend to look at every other stuffs from the shelves ..

For around $73, I got these, plus a couple of items not shown in the photo. Oh I also got 2 stamps haha. I didn’t really stick to the list… I bought litchies instead of grapes. The litchies were cheap! I got about 60 pieces for only $2. Last week I paid $2  for only 30 litchies… How much do litchies cost in your country?

Their mangosteens were also on sale – $0.19 per 100g! Those 4 mangosteens (right photo below) were less than $2. Mangoes were on sale too. 3 mangoes for $1.89. But there were a lot of soft and over-ripe ones, so I had to choose carefully. I bought 9 mangoes! Well it was the husband’s idea :)

The swiss mushrooms (photo below) were among the “Reduced to clear” items and since I was  planning to use them immediately, I bought a packet of swiss mushroom ($0.80 per packet, usually they cost about $3 – $4), as well as another mushroom mix packet ($1.99, cheap) which was also on sale.  Yeah, I know there are many sales items that I grabbed :P

Veggies included bean sprout ($0.70), asparagus ($0.80 for about 8 stems), yellow onions and lettuce ($1.65). I will get some sweet potato leaves from another supermarket another day as I haven’t seen them at “Giant”. The husband has been bugging me to cook some Sambal Belacan Sweet Potato Leaves :)

Well the husband wanted snacks that we had never tried before. He grabbed these. The one labelled “CHIPS” was nice!!!!!!! Well they were actually rice crackers!

Couple of other things that I got was turkey ham (around $4.65 for 10 slices), fresh salmon ($8), fresh prawns ($1.30 for about 20 small prawns), 10 eggs, sandwich bread, dishwasher liquid, Kraft cheddar cheese (around $4.80), 2kg frozen chicken breast (around $10 instead of $13), cleaning solution (about $8), batteries, freezer bag, sandwich bag etc. I bought my cat’s peewee litter at the petshop ($23).

I have a habit to wash and dry my lettuce before putting them into freezer bags. Saves me time when I just want to make a quick sandwich.

Me: Do you want to eat beef this week?
The husband: *thinking* … hmmm not really.
Me: Are you sure? … very sure? - he likes steaks
The husband: Yeah
Me: okay! So this week we will just be having seafood and chicken. No beef. Monday would be …

I’m starting to like the idea of planning for the week’s dinner.

So this week’s tentative home dinner menu

• Monday: Baked salmon with mushrooms + corn
• Tuesday: Lasagna-style eggplant with prawns  + corn + baked asparagus
• Wednesday: Celery pasta  + sardines in tomato sauce
• Thursday: Either eat out or cook a chinese omelette  + Sambal Belacan Sweet Potato Leaves + baked beans
• Friday: Seafood BBQ maybe or a quick vegetable egg noodle soup

I seldom cook rice as you can see and the husband is okay with that, as sometimes he feels that having rice at night is too heavy. But he has his rice during the day.

• Monday: No cooking as he is dining outside. I will probably just make myself a quick couscous for dinner and eat fruits.
• Tuesday: Ndrea’s Tofu cakes with a little twist
• Wednesday: Either baked semolina spinach gnocchi or baked pumpkin-filled wonton. I think I will bake the latter as it will take less than an hour to prepare unlike gnocchi. I’ve never used wonton skin and filled it with a pumpkin mixture before. There’s always a first time right!
• Thursday: Baked lasagna-style eggplant with mushrooms
• Friday: Noodle egg soup with lots of vegetables

I have never calculated the amount of nutrients i.e how much protein, carbs and fats we are getting from the things that I cook, but I think I will do it just for the fun of it … As a runner we need more than the average person. So I’m going to do some calculation maybe later tonight.

Who makes a list before going to the supermarket to buy groceries? I don’t and this isn’t good because I tend to spend and buy more than I need in the end! I didn’t do my weekly groceries during the weekend, so tonight I will probably drop by the supermarket to get these:

• Eggplant
• Tofu
• Wonton skin
• Spinach and other vegetables for the soup
• Lettuce

Basically that’s all I have to buy as I have the rest of the ingredients for this week’s dinner.

A picture of my chicken pie that my friend took with his professional camera 3 weeks ago when we had dinner at home.