Day 16 ... Brown Rice with Chicken Curry & Potatoes

Brown Rice with Chicken Curry and Potatoes

Friday, July 16, 2010
7pm in the car

Bryan cooked chicken curry for dinner this evening. He's really good with curries, so I did all the chopping and slicing and cutting and dicing and what have you and left the cooking to Bryan.

Blended shallots, garlic, ginger, chillies and lemon grass together. Stir fried in sesame seed oil till fragrant. Added curry powder. Seasalt. Shoyu. Chicken pieces. Potatoes. Poured one third of a carton of fresh milk. That's all, Bryan says. "Amount all agak-agak..."

We had the curry with brown rice. Chicken was tender and the potatoes were soft and ready to melt in your mouth. Justine finished everything in her tupperware. :D

Today is the first day I had LUNCH (apart from dinner)  since I started, and later extended, the detox program 16 days ago. Bryan says I've lost enough weight. Yeah, I think so too. So had only ONE green drink today. Had a small bowl of penne pasta for lunch, with cheese (sorry Tony - I did after all abstained from all dairy products during the program) and sauce left over from dinner the night before. Slurp!

To Sum Up : 1 shaker of The Green Drink & 2 meals. Fruit. Water.

Time of Posting : 11:23pm

dinner set ...

7pm in the car

Prepared a packed dinner for Justine to eat in the car before she goes for her next class. Bryan normally doesn't like us to eat in the car for obvious reasons. So had to be extra careful, used an extra plastic container as a tray and windows all wound half way down while she was eating.

sticky and gluey ...

1pm @ Home

Justine had spaghetti with the left over tomato sauce from dinner last night. Topped it with cheddar cheese. So it was all sticky and glue-y. Just the way she likes it. :D

Day 15 ... Spaghetti with Sardines in Tomato Sauce

Spaghetti with Sardines in Tomato Sauce

Thursday, July 15, 2010
6pm @ Home

Bryan was outstation. So normally for a quickie dinner, I tend to go with pasta. It's really easy to do and no fuss.

1. Found a can of sardines in the kitchen cabinet, and decided to use that for the sauce. So opened up the can, poured contents onto a bowl. Removed the bones from the sardines so that the sauce will have a smoother texture. Sardines all ready. Make the sauce.

2. Fried garlic and shallots. When fragrant, poured the sardines in. Added half a small can of tomato puree. Bryan's not around to do the puree-ing, so have to use puree in a can. :D Do what works for You. (I don't like to use the blender, the noise it makes is one thing, the washing after that ... urgh! Tedious with the little blades and all.) Added about a mug of water in. Added seasalt. Basil herbs. Pepper.

3. In another pot, boiled the spaghetti till HALF-done. Added seasalt and extra virgin olive oil in the water while boiling.

4. When the pasta was half-done, drained, and poured into the tomato sauce pot. Mixed them well.

5. Scooped onto plate. Garnished with nori seaweed (cut thin long slices) and pine nuts. And a slice of lemon.

Absolutely kindergarden standard. Very simple to do. Anyone can do this!

To Sum Up : 2 shakers of The Green Drink & 1 meal