Dieting
Love Lunches by Annalise
I’ve always been sensitive to wheat & yeast – but it’s never stopped me from devouring foods I enjoy. As far as I’m concerned, if it tastes amazing, I can deal with the consequences later.
When my friend Adam Lane (ex Ivy Teppanyaki / Nobu London) told me about the new venture...
Vitamin Water
I’ve always been a keen believer that vitamins should be consumed from its natural source. Hence I have always been a keen believer in organic produce, and I never take vitamin supplements (can something that gives you flurorescent pee really be good for you?).
Vitamin water is presently one very...
Truvia – a new natural sweetener?
What are your thoughts? A natural alternative to the commonly used Aspartame (Equal, Splenda - often rumored to be a carcinogen), launches in 2008 as the new calorie free sweetener by the company Cargill (view PR release here)
It’s Calorie Free
For people watching their caloric intake, using Truvia™...
Chinese Water Spinach
I just made the best Kangkong recipe out of random stuff around my house!
Ingredients:
Vegetable oil
2 tbsp dried shrimp (soaked, then finely minced with a knife)
Sauce:
1 tsp XO sauce
1 tsp grated fresh garlic
1 tsp yuzu
1 tsp tamari
1/2 tsp fish sauce
dash of seasame oil
dash of xiaoxing wine
Heat...
Woo Salmon!
My afterwork Salmon dish – revisted. I ended up using 2 pans and a plate, which is still too many items to wash after a long day at work, but it tasted so good it was totally worth it.
Adapted from my darling friend Brian Woo’s salmon recipe – it’s quick and easy:
Scale, debone...
Warm Salad
As the weather turns cooler during Autumn, I find normal salads a little too frigid (and somewhat unsatisfying) for my liking. After a long Saturday morning sleep-in, it was a late busy Friday night at the restaurant afterall, I woke up restricted to work with what I had in the fridge – the results...
2am call for soup
I got home from work at around 2am last night, and really felt like a warm chinese soup after a 16 hour day… without a lot of sleep in the past week. I’ve been getting flu like symptoms all week and I really wanted to get better before I fly to HK on Tuesday. Anyway, like a true maniac, I...
Chilled Tofu Salad
My low-cal office lunch for yesterday: Chilled Tofu and Wakame Salad
Ingredients:
Silken Tofu (ready to eat out of the pack)
Wakame (soaked)
Corn Kernels
Edamame beans (boiled and shelled)
1 tbsp Soy or Tamari
1 tsp Mirin
1 tsp Rice vinegar
Yuzu and Japanese sesame dressing (Drizzle to taste)
For some...
Chicken soup… not so much for the soul
More diet recipes… I know it’s getting boring.
This post was suppose to be about the elaborate mudcrab I was going to cook on Valentines day (including video footage of me bitterly stabbing a poor crustacean) , but alas, some plans just fall through like sand between my fingers. You were...
Salad Nicoise
My packed lunch at the office today ~ with minimum calories and carbs.
My version of the Nicoise:
3 fillets of tuna (I love the Italian variety from Callipo)
Ox heart tomatos, sliced diagonally
1 boiled egg
Purple Shiso leaves, finely shreaded
Mesculin Salad Leaves
Wafu style Japanese salad dressing...
