Day: February 27, 2011

Yummy Home-cooked Dishes

For those of you who are deprived of home-cooked dishes, sorry if I made you drool and your tummy rumble with these dishes that my mil and hubs’ aunt cooked:

‘Jai’ (vegetarian dish).  I can survive on nothing but this dish for a day or two.  Just love all the ingredients used to cook this dish – dried mushrooms, golden needle mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, Chinese cabbage, wood ear fungus, glass noodles…

Braised Hakka pork with wood ear cloud (wan yue) and dried oysters. This is one of my mil’s signature Hakka dishes…

Chicken cooked with Chinese rice wine, ginger and mushrooms.  This dish is simply mouth watering and a mood-lifter for me. I never got fed up of chicken cooked with wine during my 3 confinements.

Delish leh? They are all my favorite dishes and I better savor them while I can as my mil will be again away overseas for several months very soon.  Till then, I better enjoy my over-sized dinner that my mil so lovingly dishes up for us everyday.



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Determination And Hard Work To Stay Slim Again

As I was ransacking the storeroom to look for a Malay-English dictionary for Alycia last week, I stumbled upon some of the books that I had bought aeons ago on low-carb diet, including one on Atkins Diet. My attention diverted from the dictionary to the diet books immediately. I brought out the book on Atkins Diet from the storeroom and began to read. Reading the Atkin Diet book brought me back to the year 2001 when I was diagnosed with PCOS and had to battle weight gain and infertility.

Through my own research and reading, I managed to shed the 6kg that I had gained in 2 months as a result of PCOS. I also joined a low carb forum and several other PCOS forums to read experiences and stories of other sufferers. But I did not loose the 6kg in a month or two. It was through lots and lots of hard work, sacrifices, determination and about a year later that I managed to shed off the pounds I had gained. I had to give up many of my favorite food, comprising mainly of carbs like cakes, pastries, noodles and white flour products. Sacrificing my favorite food was secondary. It was the sheer determination of finding the time to exercise that was hard-hitting. I wonder if anyone could do what I did – I exercised twice a day though I held a job which required me to work long hours. I ran round the neighborhood at 6am every morning and even when it rained, with an umbrella in hand!


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HEALTH FREAK MOMMY