Category: Vegetables

Sunday Specials

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Chef Sherilyn’s Sunday Specials on 5 Sept 2021:

  1. Squid, shrimp and scallion pancake
  2. Focaccia bread art
    The Focaccia bread art is her first try at it and it turned out superb – crispy on the outside and super pillowy on the inside. A light and fluffy bread with garlic and olive oil littered with some token bits of herbs blanketed with scallions, red onions and tomatoes. Just love the vibrant colors. Not very complicated to make as the kneading was done by the TMX6, just a handful of simple ingredients and everybody loves it! It’s so delish it can be eaten on its own 🙂

I can confidently list her Focacia bread art for sale! Who’s interested?  😁

The Focaccia texture and taste were still good after 3 days at room temperature. We had chicken sliders with it the next day.
Refreshing salad of ice plant, onions, tomatoes and sweet cherry tomatoes.
Shrimp and squid pancake for lunch.
I bought the ice plant and Garden Medley cherry tomatoes from an online seller in our neighborhood and had them delivered to my condo.
Super sweet cherry tomatoes in all shapes and sizes.
What do you see?
I see a snowman but it is a bowling pin in Cass’ eyes  😁

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Chemical & Pesticide Free Vegetables Delivered To Your Doorstep

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I received my first premium veggie box from Farm To Home Delivery last week. The veggies are chemical and pesticide free and some are carbon veggies. The plan that I took is a RM288 per month plan where I’ll get a RM72 premium veggie box (worth over RM81) every week for a month (4x per month). I can choose 15 types of veggies from more than 33 types of veggies that are listed in a google form.

My package includes FREE washing of veggies in Biolux ozone water for leafy, non-leafy and root-base veggies.

What I like about the veggies from Farm To Home Delivery is they are really fresh, crisp and clean. As they are pre-washed with Ozone water, the green leafy veggies don’t have mud/soil on them. They are also cheaper and fresher than the organic vegetables that I usually buy from the supermarket and night market.

Fresh, crisp and clean juicy Ice Plant, which we transformed into a delicious salad for lunch the next day.
Fresh and flawless cauliflower sans any black dot on it. Love it!
Sunflower microgreens.
Microgreens may be tiny, but a new study shows trendy microgreens punch well above their weight when it comes to nutrition.
Microgreens are four- to 40-fold more concentrated with nutrients than their mature counterparts!
Our in-house chef transformed the Ice Plant, sunflower microgreens and cherry tomatoes into a healthy, refreshing and delicious salad with Japanese salad dressing the next day, to go with homemade toast with Pepper Jack cheese.
I only use organic or pesticide-free veggies when it comes to salad. Actually 95% of the veggies I buy are organic or pesticide-free.

The mil used half a head of Napa cabbage to cook ‘jai’ (vegetarian dish) and our teenage chef used the other half to make kimchi.

Salad on Papadam, by Cass. This makes eating junk food a little less sinful 😋

I just LOVE all the vegetables that I received from Farm To Home Delivery and can’t wait to start ordering my second veggie box! Can you believe that we’ve almost wiped out all the veggies that we received in our first veggie box in less than a week? Everyone in our family is a heavy eater of fruits and veggies and I spend quite a bit on them everyday.

I also love the fact that I don’t have to risk myself going to the supermarket and wet market in the thick of the pandemic to buy veggies. The veggies are delivered to my condo and Cass helped me to carry them up from the lobby.

Eating organic or pesticide-free veggies can be slightly more expensive than regular veggies, but I strongly believe in investing in healthy foods for our health. The benefits that you’ll reap from healthy eating is worth every cent.

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Buying pesticide-free vegetables is such a hassle-free experience with online ordering. It’s made even easier when you subscribe to monthly, quarterly or half yearly packages. You only pay once and ordering is done online via a Google form once a week, whenever you’re free, without having to leave the comfort of your home!

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Capsicum Salad

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This is my salad of the day for today:

Capsicum (green, red and dark purple), kyuri, baby radish, toasted walnut, toasted almond, Furikake, Nori and a drizzle of roasted sesame dressing.

This capsicum salad is really yummy and refreshing. I love the crunchiness and freshness of the sweet capsicum.  I especially love the vibrant colors in my bowl of salad, packed with loads of nutrients and vitamins.

Recently, I saw purple and brown capsicum at our neighborhood supermarket. I was intrigued as I never knew that capsicum comes in these 2 interesting colors too!  We have always only been buying capsicum in the traffic light colors.

Below: a purple capsicum

Purple Beauty

Capsicums are really something to chew on! Check out the health benefits:

Capsicum or bell pepper contains an impressive list of plant nutrients that found to have disease preventing and health promoting properties. Unlike other fellow chili peppers, it has low calories and fats. 100 g provides just 31 calories.

Capsicum contains small levels of health benefiting alkaloid compound, capsaicin. Early laboratory studies on experimental mammals suggest that capsaicin has anti-bacterial, anti-carcinogenic, analgesic and anti-diabetic properties. When used judiciously, it also found to reduce triglycerides and LDL cholesterol levels in obese individuals.

What Color Pepper Is the Healthiest?

Capsicums are rich in lycopene, an antioxidant believed to lower the risk of certain cancers, such as prostate, bladder, cervical and pancreatic.

Eating capsicum boosts hair growth by regulating the blood flow to the scalp. Incorporate this colourful vegetable into your diet to get long silky hair, and to strengthen your hair follicles.

Red, green and yellow capsicum help with the production of collagen, a component that is responsible for healthy and firm skin. The antioxidants and phytochemicals in capsicum help keep your skin youthful.

Bell peppers have very high content of vitamin A, C and E (all anti-oxidants) that help to effectively neutralize free radicals. Anti-oxidants protects the body from carcinogenic and toxic substances. Just by this virtue alone, it is a good remedy for many health problems.

Pick a peck of colorful peppers to punch up the flavor and nutritional content of your meals.  Capsicums come in a palette of colors — green, red, yellow, orange, purple and chocolate brown — and all varieties are excellent sources of the antioxidant vitamins A and C.

Capsicums are another staple vegetables in my fridge. With all the health benefits listed above, you  have every good reason to pop some capsicums into your shopping basket now 🙂

 

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I Love Radish

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This is a red radish.  I never knew that there are a few types of radishes until my mil bought them.  Apart from the white radish, there are also pink radish (pink skin white flesh) and green radish (green skin white flesh).  The pink and green ones taste much better than the white radish.  I love radish soup and stew with radish.  I even love raw shredded radish (the ones for eating with tempura) and pickled radish.

Here’s a chicken stew with pink radish, potatoes, Chinese chestnuts, bombay onions and tomatoes that I had cooked. 

I read that if one has taken medication or anything ‘poa’ (nourishing), then one is not supposed to eat radish as radish will negate the effects of the medication and the nutrients.

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Purple Cabbage

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I was caught by surprise that not many people have seen a purple cabbage. Each time I have visitors at home and they see me cooking a purple cabbage dish, they would ask what that is. I love cabbages and also vegetables with dark colors. The darker the color of the vege, the more nutrients they contain. There’s also the purple long beans and the purple cauliflower but I’ve not bought the purple cauliflower yet. Will try to get it one day.

Cabbages are rich in Vitamin K and Vitamin C, fibre, manganese, vitamin B6 and folate, thiamin, riboflavin, calcium, potassium, vitamin A, tryptophan, protein and magnesium. I normally shred the cabbage into thin strips and stir-fry them with dried shrimps or miso paste. Also goes well if fried together with noodles.


This is fried mee hoon with purple cabbage. When cooked with noodles, everything turns purple from the noodles to the eggs, garlic, puffed tofu and fish cakes. Alycia and Sherilyn find the purple dish very amusing and they enjoy eating them too.

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