D-I-Y Breakfast Set

Both me and my Prince Charming love to have our breakfast at Ya Kun especially on Weekends. It's just so nice sipping the hot cup of tea, enjoying the half boiled eggs and munching the cripsy Kaya bread. However, if you do a minor calculations on how much you have to spent on 2 breakfast sets over there every weekends, I think you may consider doing it yourself. I'm a stingy person!

Look here! Let me do the numbers for you:

Breakfast Set A

2 Slices of Kaya bread
1 Cup of Tea or Coffee
2 Half boil eggs
Total: $4.20

2 person cost: $4.20 X 2 = $8.40
Suppose we only visit once a week, that would add up to: $33.60 /month

Now, if you do it yourself, here's the cost:

1 loaf of traditional bread: $1.20 (8 Slices)
2 Lipton tea sackets : approx $0.40
Hot water: FOC
Sugar: approx $0.10
Butter: approx $0.20
Kaya: approx $0.50

Total cost in all: $2.40 X 2 =$4.80
One month: $19.20
You can save up almost 50%! What's more, you don't have to Queue up ;)





I'm actually surprised that my Toaster oven can do such nice effects on the bread. The lines on the toasts looked so nice!

The Apple of our eyes

I hasn't been baking recently, therefore the lack of my entries. Been trying very hard to lose some weight. My weight is still hanging at my normal weight but I hope to lose more by May. It's been tough because I'm really on healthy diet and trying very hard to kick off that junking habits. I hasn't been munching on any chocolates, fries or even chips. I haven't really touch a drop on carbonated drinks too! I'm proud of myself actually :P

My family day was spent at my own apartment yesterday. Usually, both my sister and I would go back to our 娘家 in Hougang to spent our Sunday with our parents. My mum would usually whipped up a whole table of food, just for the 4 of us (My hubby + myself and My sister + brother-in law). Yesterday, we decided to have a switch of routine. My mum has been complaining that she hasn't been visiting my apartments for months, so I suggested that all of them can come over to my apartment for our Family Day.

I go for the easier way by doing a steamboat. LOL! It saves up many troubles of preparing the ingredients and cooking them. Also, I have more time for my niece, Charlotte! We just love her to the core! She's the apple of everyone's eyes!


Look at my new dress. My 姨姨 bought it for me!


Ah hah~ This is the matching Hairband my mummy got for me!


Me with my Grandma! I love Grandma!


Me with Grandpa. I love Grandpa!


My mum says I shouldn't pull up my dress. I must sit elegantly.


My mum is bringing me to the pool so she bought me a swimsuit.
姨姨 says she prefer me in Bikinis. I guessed she maybe buying me one.


Heh~ I can't wait to go swimming with mummy and 姨姨!


That's me with 姨姨! I love her too!


I'm sitting comfortably on 姨姨's big big sofa.


It's me and Grandma again.
We are listening to 姨姨 talking non-stop as usual.


Steamboat for dinner.
Mrs Kwok: I love the Sukiyaki pork slices!

你也跟他一樣嗎?

I am a fanatic reader of ZXX's novels. She can always touch the world with her words.
Awww. This flash is done so perfectly.

Simple Grilled Chicken Salad

Serves 1
Ingredients	Amounts
Chicken breast	1 medium size
Broccoli, chunk size	1 palm size
Carrot, chunk size	1 palm size
Lettuce	3 slices
Olive oil	2 tbsp
Mixed herbs	1 tbsp
Salt	2 tsp
Pepper	1 tsp
Paprika	1 tsp

1. Boil a pot of water and blanch the broccoli and carrots. Set aside
   
   
2. Marinate chicken breast with olive oil, pepper, salt, paprika and mixed herbs.
   
   
3. Bring the marinated chicken breast to grill at 220 degree Celsius for 25 mins, or turn brown.
   
   
4. Combine the soften broccoli, carrots and lettuce in a bowl. Toss gently.
   
   
5. Cut the grilled chicken into slices and top onto the vegetables.

* You may add in some dressings as desired*

As usual, this is my lunch for tomorrow. Just a simple salad as I'm trying to shed off some weights and inches. Currently planning to go on a low-carbodryhate diet to see if it works. I'm quite a carbo-person and I think that makes it why I decided to choose the "Semi-Atkins" diet.
Once my carbo intake is reduced plus with the exercises I'm currently engaging, I hope to shed off 10 pounds by begining of May!

Wish me luck my friends!

Sakura Denbu Maki roll & Onigiri

Ingredients	Amounts
Cooked calrose rice	1 1/2cup
Sushi vinegar	3 tbsps
Sakura denbu	1/2 packet
Pork floss	3 tbsps
Seaweed wraps	3 sheets
Furikake	2 tbsp

1. Add sushi vinegar to the cooked rice and mixed well.
   
   
2. Blend in the Sakura denbu and Furikake.
   
   
3. Place a sheet of seaweed on to a clean tabletop, fetch some rice and spread across the seaweed. Roll up carefully. Cut into small pieces
   
   
4. For pork floss maki roll, spread the pork floss on top of the rice and wrap carefully as the floss might drops out. Cut into small pieces.
   
   
5. Using the remainder rice, with the help of a plastic cling, put the rice in the center of a piece of cling and wrap it up. Shape into triangular shape.

I made these for my lunch tomorrow. The sakura denbu was an impulse buy from Isetan while doing my grocery shopping 2 weeks ago. It was left sitting in my kitchen and I finally used it today. My intention was to make some sushi rolls but looking into my fridge, I guess it's time to replenish some food. There ain't much ingredients I could used for my sushi rolls and because I'm also plain lazy to cook, so I make Maki rolls!

The onigiris were the left over rice afte my maki rolls. I don't want to waste the rice and so I made them into my favourite "triangular rice balls". Looking at my bento, I know it's kind of too much for one's serving. I guessed I have to divide them into lunch and snack! Argh... am I going to lose weight or pile on more? Let it be - lose more pounds and inches off me, PLEASE!