Month: March 2011
All About Fruits
I love tropical fruits: pineapple, mango, jack fruit and even the stinky durian 😀 (source) Also there are some fruits that are only exist in Southeast Asia, such as mangosteen (source) “salak” (dunno the English name –snake fruit?), (source) marquisa (passion fruit) (source) jambu air (wax apples, water apple(?), rose apple(?)) (source) duku (pron: dookoo) […]
Continue Reading...Can’t Stop Eating…
Unlike yesterday, today I had to broke into my stash for snacks in between meals. Remember the macadamia nuts that I got a while back? I don’t like to waste food, although I found out the nuts were roasted in yucky safflower/canola oil, I decided to just suck it up and eat it and move […]
Continue Reading...Savory Sweet Potato Pancakes
I bought 2 huge sweet potatoes last weekend and wanted to try Diane Sanfilippo from Balanced Bites recipe. However, instead of making these as sweets, I opted to make savory versions with my own twist 🙂 I also doubled up her recipes. Savory Sweet Potato Pancakes (Adapted from Diane Sanfilippo’s Sweet Potato Pancakes) Ingredients: 1/2 […]
Continue Reading...I Got Bombed!
Happy Tuesday!! I had a killer workout this morning which left me feeling fantastic because I beat my old score! Post workout snack – purple sweet potato – GOSH I love this thing! I’ve been reading a lot about the importance of eating starchy tubers and yams as post workout meal to replenish the depleted […]
Continue Reading...The Spring Began with a RAIN
Yesterday was the first day of Spring, and we the Southern Californians were greeted with a very chilly, windy RAIN. What was the best dish to have in this weather? Shabu-shabu 😀 I got this Groupon for Ka Shabu months back and trust me we’ve been attempting to go there twice and failed. First time […]
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