I purposely changed my Carb Nite® to Saturday instead the usual Friday this week so I could enjoy some treats on my birthday 🙂

I also took 2 days off from work so I could go visiting my friend whom I haven’t seen for 2 years. Her birthday is only 2 days away from me so we sort of celebrated ours together 🙂 We used to work together at my previous job before that incident happened. It was such a nice day and I enjoyed my train ride going to her place. Plus she gave me another jar of her husband’s homemade marinate 🙂

My hubby surprised me with these gifts! I feel so lucky that he’s my husband. He surely knows what I need despite I haven’t been the best wife lately. In case you didn’t know, I just recently lost my favorite coffee/tea stainless steel mug for catching my train ride. With this new mug, I could enjoy my hot tea while I’m driving 😀 And he also remembers how I mentioned it would be nice I could have a device to hook up my iPhone to my car’s stereo so I could listen to podcasts while driving. Thank you for your thoughtful gifts, honey!

Just because it was my birthday, it wasn’t an excuse for not working out! Actually to enjoy a great Carb Nite, I had to put a good hard workout so I could enjoy more carbs at night 😀 – Glutes & Legs 🙂 (If you want to see the workout breakdown & see me in action, click the link)

Came back home, had my usual ULC meal! Had these turkey breast seasoned with this Roast Masala seasoning that my friend gave me.

Then I got busy making my Carb Nite treats!

As usual, I started off with Rice Congee with cut up Kabocha (Japanese winter squash) topped with chestnuts.

It’s an Asian (Chinese I think?) tradition that a birthday person should have a noodle dish for wishing him/her having a long life (because noodles are loooooong, right???). Of course I won’t leave it up so second dish was Stir-Fry Rice Noodles seasoned with Red Boat Fish Sauce, tomato sauce, chopped onions, black pepper and topped with more chestnuts. I just LOVE chestnuts!

Next treats were these AMAZING muffins (not sure the name yet – recipe courtesy of Debby K, my Carb Nite coach). Best eaten when they are still warm. Crusty outside and soft inside. It has that hint of lemon taste 🙂 Almost no fat either and enough protein so it’s good to have these in beginning or middle of CN.

Plus I made some Sweet Potato Rice Donuts (I know I promised I will post my recipe adaptation, sorry!) but this time I added some mashed cooked Kabocha. Looks like I didn’t add enough glutinous rice flour so the dough were a bit soft, but still yummy!

I was going to keep this Carb Nite clean but hey it’s my birthday so I actually want something that quite bad…TIRAMISU!

Bought it at a Vietnamese/French bakery yesterday. Whenever I want to go totally off rail (gluten!sugar!), I will usually pick something that’s TOTALLY WORTH it! For cakes/pastries, I tend to buy them from an Asian/European style bakery as opposed to Americans because the pastries/cakes are tend to be less sweet and lighter in texture, while Americans are usually overly sweet and dense.

I haven’t consumed any sugar for a while, so at the first bite, the first thing came in my mind was: Wow I forgot how sweet this thing tastes. But totally enjoyable. I savored each bite.

Hope you enjoy this post 🙂 Now I’m going to continue enjoying the tiramisu then go to bed3 and tomorrow I’ll be up and ready to crush another workout!

Good night!

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