My current favourite side dish- black fungus with slight spicy sauce

Today I was supposed to attend the global wellness day at RWS. However , I was feeling a bit feverish and tired.I decided to get some rest. After resting for almost one whole day,I felt a bit better. I decided to make black fungus with slight spicy sauce.

Recently, I have been crazing for this dish most of the time during dinner time. It is so simple and i just managed to learn from someone else.

Why I decided to cook this dish is because that it has the following benefits.

The benefits are:

• lower cholesterol
• improve blood circulation
• help people with the dry throat

Ingredients 

Small black fungus- soak and blanched in boiling water and drain dry.
1 teaspoon of vinegar
1 clove of mince garlic- chopped finely
3 sticks of the coriander leaves chopped finely
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoon of light soya sauce
1 teaspoon of sesame oil 
1.5 desert spoon of Lao gan ma chilli oil

Mix the sauces together with the black fungus after draining the black fungus. Leave it for a while and then eat .

2 dishes using one big bitter gourd

Usually when I planned my meals on a budget for a week , I would usually make these 2 dishes cos it is more economical.

First dish- egg omelette

ingredients
1. 2 eggs
2. half of a bitter gourd de seed
3. one teaspoon of sugar
4. one teaspoon of light soya suace
5. a dash of black pepper

I would first whisk the eggs . Then add the de seeded bitter gourd which has been diced into some cubes. Add the sugar , light soya suace and the dash of black . Next , heat up the wok with some oil  and pour the mixture in . Once it has been browned, flip over to next side and serve.

 

Second dish - stir fry bitter gourd with lean meat

ingredients
1.  a piece of pork loin
2.  half of a bitter gourd de seed
3. 3 small chilli padis
4. 1 tablespoon of light soya sauce

5. 1 tablespoon of dark soya sauce
6. half rice bowl of water
7. a teaspoon of corn flour
8. some garlic

I would stir fry the garlic with some oil then add the sliced pork loin in with the sliced bitter gourd then further on add the light soya sauce, dark soya sauce , corn flour and water to fry. Last but not least add in the chilli padis to enhance the taste.

All about bread making ~~~~my first attempt

 

Today I am using the Panasonic bread maker sd-p104 to bake wholemeal bread for my mom .

I am really excited about the fresh wholemeal bread that is coming out later from the breadmaker.

 

Ingredients that I use based on the user manual to make the wholemeal bread

1. 75g of wholemeal flour from phoon huat

2. 175g of breadflour from prima flour

3.10g of SCS salted butter( there are 9 pieces)

4. 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar

5. 1 tablespoon of skimmed milk powder from phoon huat

6.1 teaspoon of salt

7.190 ml of cold water ( cos my room temperature is 28 degree celsius as mentioned in the manual if the room temperature is more than 25 degree celsius must minus 10ml from 200ml)

8. 1 teaspoon of instant dry yeast.

 

After putting in all the ingredients, i left it to work on its own for 5 hours.

 

End Result

 

I din have a bread knife so I just pinch it. My mom love the taste of it.  The freshness of bread is so nice and sweet ... I am really excited to attend the cooking demo to ask the instructor on my next recipe that I have in mind. I shan't say what is my next recipe....

 

 

 

 

 

How to improve your body fat metabolism process?

 By having variety of protein , you can actually increase your body fat metabolism process by maintaining lean muscle mass and burning more body fats.

Here's the list of food that you can take to burn more body fats

1. 1 glass of soya milk
2. 1/2 cup of lentils
3. 1/2 cup of quinoa
4. 1 piece of tofu
5. 1 egg
6. 1 cbow of cup of plain yoghurt
7. 1 bowl of artichokes
8. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled broccoli
9. 1/2 cup of sweetcorn
10. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled aspargus
11. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled brussels sprouts
12. 1 bowl of water cress
13. 1 bowl of collard greens
14. 1/2 cup of sliced carrots
15. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled cabbage
16. 1 bowl of kales
17. 1 bowl of romaine lettuce
18. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled turnip
19. 1 bowl of alfafa
20. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled spinach
21. celery
22. cucumbers
23. green beans
24. garlic
25. onions
26. parsley
27. tomatoes

For those of you who are planning your diet for weight loss program, you may want to find receipes to make dishes which you are comfortable with to eat.  Happy weight loss cos I use the food list to make dishes that helps me to lose 2 notches of viseral fats. 

Seasonal allergies's quick fix remedies

How to identify synthetic vitamins

• Organic substances generally have common names because they come from natural food sources.
• For e.g "Lemon Grass" instead of acetate and palmitate; "Citrus" instead of "Vitamin C" or "Parsley" instead of "vitamin K"
• Find words that end with "ate" or "ide" in the list of ingredients.
• For e.g. nitrate, acetate, sodium ascorbate, sodium benzoate, chloride, hydrochloride, silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide.
• In the ingredients label search for words that begin with "dl."
• For e.g. Natural Vitamin E = d-alpha-tocopherol; Synthetic Vitamin E = dl-alpha-tocopheryl

These are the simple ways to identify synthetic vitamins , so you people out there please look out for it.

Uses of Lemon

Ladies, there is additional tip for you which is to use the lemon to rub against the area of your thighs if you don't like the darkening of the skin colour when you grow fat.

Weight loss tip and awakening your body tip: Add a slice of lemon to your iced work to help you to detox and it will help you to reduce your fatigue.

Benefits of Tumeric

 

 

Here's one recipe for cooking

For fish
Step 1: Wash clean the fish
Step 2 : Marinate with salt and tumeric
Step 3: Pad dry the fish or chicken and fry

Ways to use Apple Cider

Benefits of Strawberries

Strawberry is one of my favorite fruits . It helps in anti aging via prevention of wrinkles. Its colour is something that will brighten me up just like receiving roses .So have a nice monday.

Benefits of green tea

This picture identifies with all the benefits of green tea. I urge you all out there to consider to start green tea but not those pokka or heaven & earth kind.  If you find it a hassle to make the green tea, why not consider the following product  Tegreen 97. If you like to purchase, please email me at akimoto_emi05@yahoo.com.sg.