Forgetful

Seriously, this morning I was frantically searching for my car keys and it turned out it was hanging behind my bedroom door knob! DOH! I felt so stupid and silly, misplacing my own car keys. Geez. Anyway after my workout this morning, I made old fashioned oats cooked in plain soymilk. I left it covered on the stove and took a shower, hoping it’ll thicken it a bit. But turned out it was too thick! Still good though, topped with banana and Kashi® GoLean® Crunch cereal. Bummer I forgot to put a bit of PB in there..I think I’m addicted with PB in oatmeal now.

oats turned out to be too thick. I added a bit of soymilk later on

As usual cutting fruits for my afternoon snacks and packed some low fat cottage cheese topped with Kashi® GoLean® Crunch Cereal. Did I tell you that I’m addicted to Kashi® now? :p

Lunch is pretty much leftovers from last night dinner as usual, so no point to take the pic, unless I had something totally different. Yes, I love left overs..haha..it’s super convenient and usually food taste much better after being left overnight. Don’t you agree?

I got home and no dinner ready. Husband wasn’t home, my brother was not feeling well (again) – more on that later. So I decided to make tofu shrimp with ketchup! Seriously this dish wasn’t hard to make but took LOTS OF TIME! Why? Because I had to peeled and cleaned the shrimp (took out the vein from the back and the bottom). It was only 1 pound of shrimp and took me at least 30 minutes to do all of those. I know I could just get the cleaned ones, but it cost too much and not worth it! I’m a thrift.

shrimp, tofu and organic ketchup! Easy!

lots of bok choy! Seriously, I think I took 1/2 of the plate for my dinner and packed some for my lunch

remaining baby carrots

2 new dishes, 2 left overs (steamed fish and the salmon I made on Sunday)

My brother wasn’t feeling well today. It has been going on and off for him, having this nausea feeling and no appetite to eat. Why? I don’t know why is that either. My mom is having that similar problem as well, nausea and has no appetite to eat. No appetite to eat = no energy. So I had to go to a Chinese market, getting this maltose.


According to my dad, maltose is different from regular sugar, which is glucose. Unlike glucose, maltose can be absorbed easily by your body.

 

Chicken in Tangy Lemon Sauce

I’m so sorry for not posting anything last night because it was LOST show and I needed to wrap up my stuff quickly before it started.

Anyway, today was my day off from workout so I got more sleep. I woke up, showered and was thinking to bring breakfast to work. But my belly was super hungry so I had to eat some stuff to hold it off:

plain soymilk with 1/3 scoop protein powder

Ate this while waiting for the soymilk to heat up, brought another 1 to work, but ended not eating it

My hubby mentioned his mom gave us a box of sponge cake. I don’t have sweet tooth but sponge cake is one exception! The cake is super soft, airy, spongy and not that sweet! No frosting, whipped cream, nothing! Just plain. I brought 2 small pieces to work as my second breakfast:

so soft and light

What’s better than enjoying this cake with a cup of hot green tea? Yum.
One of my co-worker brought in Filipino style empanada for my colleague because she helped him finish his project on time. I already had my cake so I decided not to have them. Instead I brought 2 of them home and will bring it for tomorrow’s breakfast, one for me, one for my dear husband.

empanada: stuffed pastry (this one has chicken I think)

Unfortunately, that cake didn’t hold my hunger until lunch time so I had to snack on my last Clif® Mojo Mountain Mix Sweet and Salty Trail Mix Bar.

I had a really good lunch. Brown rice with boiled chinese broccoli (gai lan) and baked seasoned eggplants. Yum!

The eggplants turned out better after I heated up my lunch in microwave. Last night after I just baked them, they were a bit dry and spongy. Next time I might steam the eggplants instead baking it. Oh, I also brought a cup of baby carrots.

so noisy eating carrots. Crunch crunch crunch, makes me feel I'm a rabbit. haha

And not forgetting my orange as my late afternoon snack. Omg, these oranges are super juicy and sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

2 big juicy oranges in this 2 cup ziplock container .Yummy!

After I got home, I decided to cook the chicken that I marinated on Sunday. I was going to cook it last night, but I wanted to wrap things up quickly, so I skipped. As this post title said: I made Chicken in Tangy Lemon Sauce. I am no sweet tooth girl, but I’m in for TANGY CITRUS.

This dish is very simple and tasty. Ingredients are simple:
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp turmeric powder for color
About 1 cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice
Some honey and salt for taste. (I didn’t really measure the amount, just tasting it until I got to the right taste)
Chicken meat (or you can use 4 chicken breasts) – marinate overnight for more taste with garlic powder, a bit of black pepper, and some salt.
1 big carrots, minced or you can just use frozen mixed vegetables

Directions:
1. Lightly oil the non-stick pan or whatever pan you use as long it’s non reactive to lemon juice.
2. Grilled the chicken meat, browning each side
3. Reduce the heat to medium high, cover the pan to let the chicken cook (about 5 minutes)
4. Remove the chicken from the pan (by this time, it should be at least 1/2 cooked)
5. Saute minced garlic until fragrant. If you use any vegetables like carrots, you can mix in here. If you use frozen vegetables, wait until towards the end. You do not want to make the green vegetables turn yellowish
6. Pour in the lemon juice and put back the chicken meat into the pan and add in the turmeric powder
7. Reduce the heat to medium high, cover the pan. This will make the chicken meat absorbs the lemon juice a bit. (about 5 minutes)
8. Pour in honey and taste it until it has balanced sweet and sour taste. For more tangy taste, you can add a bit of salt. I didn’t add any salt, just honey.
9. If you use frozen vegetables, this is the good time to mix them in. The chicken meat should be all cooked by now.
10. Remove from the heat. Serve and Enjoy!

That’s it! How simple is that! You can add some mixed veggies also or other kinds of veggies you like.

tangy and sweet. Very appetizing

I also made bok choy and carrots in the chicken broth I made from boiling the bones last time. Added some silken tofu…DELISH!

skimmed off all the chicken fat this soup is almost no fat at all!

tomorrow's lunch!