Catching Up with a Friend

Thank you for all your sweet comments on my last post, really appreciate it! Sorry for the lack of post yesterday as I was out for the whole day, hanging out with M, one of my college friend (Btw, did anyone watch the Royal Wedding coverage? I didn’t). It’s been a while for me to just hang out with a friend (not in a big group) so it was nice to catch up on our stuff plus…SHOPPING!

The weather was gorgeous as well!

But we both are not big sun bathing fan, so mostly we just spent our time indoors…window shopping

I got myself some additional sets for my work outfit.

Time flew by so fast that we didn’t realize it was past lunch time. Both of us had a very late breakfast thus we weren’t that hungry either. But we knew we had to at least have something for lunch or we’d be way too starving.

Pizza and Paleo will never be good friends so I specifically asked the waiter for a gluten free menu. I ordered Wild Caught Mahi Mahi served with wok stir fry mixed veggies (the original version comes with spaghetti)

We spent at least 2 hours here, talking more stuff. M actually reads my blog once in a while so she asked me about my current diet (Paleo/Primal) and I told her more details about it. I usually don’t talk much about my food choices to others unless they specifically ask me about it cause I just don’t want to sound preachy. The last thing I want when get together with friends are criticizing their food choices and lecturing about them while we just want to sit, relax and eat! I’m glad M actually said she’s actually curious about it too. Besides she and her husband also starts buying more organic produce ever since they had their daughter.

Btw I forgot to take my credit card with me after paying the bills. We found out when I was about to pay my purchase at another store after we finished lunch. Thank goodness I could retrieve it back in the end. Phew! I never forgot to take my card with me after paying the bills. This was my first time..EVER.

It was nice to just hang out one to one with a friend. Nothing’s wrong with a big group but it’s just hard for me to talk in a big group. I constantly have to listen to different conversation at once and after a while everything becomes white noise. One to one or 4 people in one group at most is my ideal.

Thanks M for coming out and spending the entire afternoon with me I know being a full time mummy means working 24/7 and you do need a little time off from the routine! We should do this again sometime in the future.

After I came back home, I just heated up some random food for my dinner.

“Dessert” was cut up strawberries and super sweet oranges (these oranges tastes like candy! They’re super super sweet!)


How often do you hang out with your friends?

 

Saturday Outing

Happy Saturday! Hubby K and I were out for the whole day! Wanna see what we did? Ok, worry not I’m going to tell it all

First I did my morning workout from bodyrock.tv and had my post workout snack/breakfast: 2 beef patties and one small sweet potato plus my usual weekend loose leaf tea.

While sitting on my stability ball.

While enjoying my tea, I also read Gary Taubes “Good Calories, Bad Calories” preview on my iPod from Google ebook. This stuff is pretty interesting! I might want to purchase the entire ebook.

After Hubby K wake up (finally!) we ventured out to Farmer’s Market to haul some strawberries and eggs.

This was my first time purchasing pastured raised eggs (non soy fed) and I’ve been hearing all the hypes on Paleo/Primal blogs how great pastured eggs are compared to the conventional ones. Let’s see if it’s true.

Then we went to 99 Ranch market to get some essentials for my upcoming cooking experiment. Fresh galangal, fresh turmeric, fresh lemon grass (all essential ingredients for Indonesian food) and “kluwak” nuts. And I also bought coconut milk and 2 Japanese yams.

Weather seemed perfect today. Who wants to be confined indoor when it’s sunny and breezy outside?

After we came back and put the groceries away, we went to The Counter, custom built burger all the way down in Newport Beach.

First time I read about The Counter from Nom Nom Paleo and I’ve been wanting to try it. When I found out they also have locations in Southern California, I decided to give it a try.

The good thing about them is they’re emphasizing that all the animals they use are humanely raised and handled. Plus you could custom build your burger to suit your taste. So here’s mine:

I chose my burger to be in a bowl (no bun). Both Hubby K and I ordered 1 lb burger -LOL and they’re HUGE! Just look at these!

Obviously I couldn’t finish that huge burger (but I chug down all the veggies tho). Hubby K, on the other hand, finished the entire thing!

Overall, the burger was super juicy and tasty! The location was a bit far from our place, but once in a while, we might come by again and for sure I don’t think I’d order another 1lb burger again.

One other main thing we drove all the way down to Newport Beach was because of this store!

I’ve heard so many hypes about Lululemon pants that will make your butt look good, no matter what shape/size you got! Yes, they’re pricey but it’s worth it. Okay, so I grabbed one pant and a top and tried it on.

My thought? I’d say they do have nice material and feel very comfortable. However, in the end I didn’t buy it. Why? Well, I just didn’t think I need an expensive workout clothing if I only doing my workout at home. Besides, I didn’t see my butt looks bigger and better from what it is..LOL.

Anyway, we walked around the entire mall but DIDN’T get anything! The weather and scenery were nice though.

Another (Paleo/Primal) blog hype: the ultimate Vibram Five Fingers (or barefoot shoes). I tried them on. Felt a bit weird, but might be something I’d consider in the future

On the way back we went to Walmart and purchased our essentials. One of them was this baking dish to replace the one that broke in the oven last time.

No dinner for me…that burger really filled me up. Now going to shower and sleep.

Have you purchased/tried anything that you see on a blog? If you did, do you think it lived up to the hype?

Have a good Easter Sunday, everyone!

 

Roasted, Nuked, Steamed and Mall

First of all thank you for the encouraging comments from my last lame post. Yesterday, I was super lame in my food and cooking. I always tried to minimize dirty dishes as much as possible.Thus my lunch and dinner looked “almost” identical.

Lotus root soup, coconut fish fillet and steamed Chinese veggies

Roasted asparagus with bacon and left over from lunch

I forced myself to take care bills and paperworks.

Shredded all junk mails that has our names and infos. – HATE THEM. Why wasting these many papers for stupid stuff?

In some ways I do feel a bit more productive today, probably thanks to my “extended weekend”. I also kicked my own ass with a total 30 minute interval training.

Post workout I had 2 small yams and I continued with making Almond Butter Beef, which sadly I burned.

Apparently, my laziness was still hovering my head, so I thought of the fastest and easiest way to prepare my “brunch”

Nuked broc and broiled 2 sausages – delish!

Since I got my extended weekend, I felt I had to unplug and unslaved myself from the kitchen.

To the mall, I went!

Tried on some clothing

First and last pic: same pants – bought it
Bought the last pic top
Plus unpictured 2 T-shirts that cost $4.90 each.

Came home and made some Easy Stir Fry Asparagus with Grass Fed Beef (no pic sorry) and also washed my poor burned pan

Good thing of being stainless steel – soak them first, then scrub using metal scour and it’s good as before.

Dinner

Do you like to go to a mall alone?
I kinda enjoyed it because I could take my own sweet time to look and try on different clothing. Also I am glad I decided to just get out from the house and did something different from the usual – kinda try to break out from the routine so hopefully I’ll get my sanity back. Good thing for accumulating a lot of PTOs so I could always take random day off whenever I feel like I need “a refreshment”, as long it’s not a busy time at work.

Have a great week.