A Food Diary of Sorts

Lessee if I can slip this in before it clocks midnight!

2011-12-31T16:01:00.000Z

ONE of the meals that I had in 2011!

Last meal of 2010

2010-12-31T21:15:00.000Z

I should've taken a photograph of it before I walloped it, but hey.

Smoked salmon on a sambal spread on fried egg on emmenthal cheese on a pumpkin seed piece of toast (taken from the freezer and toasted on level 5 heat, have no idea how old the bread was!) x2.

SO GOOD.

seasoned by hunger - as Ernesto Guevara wrote in his motorcycle diaries more than once, this combination tasted amazing. succulent rich oily fish on stinging pedas sambal on lightly peppered egg on nutty cheese on textured bread. NOM.

and now, I greet the new year. I pray that it will be good to me - and that I will be as brave as I want to be and not fail myself as I hope not to.

Another one!

2010-11-20T17:58:00.001Z

Hmmm. It's been hard getting back on the daily bandwagon. That's not to say that my daily ingestions have not been inspiring enough for posting, there was the weekly Friday raclette fix w Megan at Borough Market - a solo sojourn to slurp on a big bowl of spicy szechuan red-braised beef noodle soup, the experimental savoury breakfast porridge - the awesome roast chicken + beet salad + garlic bread dinner chez S+A.

BUT, updating on a daily basis is no easy task. The eating is easy, the recording is hard. But for today: an outing w a friend A to Broadway Market - it included ogling at much food, we ended up getting a bratwurst each - sandwiched in a crusty long bun, with mustard and tomato sauce and sauerkraut - and a Violet cupcake and a raspberry chocolate cake (both shared!) - plus a homemade hazelnut flavoured vietnamese coffee.

At the market, I bought: free range eggs, polish bacon and country style sausage, spinach + rocket + corn salad leaves, mixed olives seasoned w coriander seeds, thyme and olive oil, and mucky carrots (^-^). Rubbing hands in glee in anticipation of meals and salads to be prepared.

Okies, that's all for today. To food!
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Here we go again...

2010-11-15T16:52:00.001Z

Back fr epic food eating trip back home in Penang (an epic bout of food poisoning was involved too but we shan't go into that) and thought wld give it another shot since back in London, again. And might only be here for a limited time now, so best to record some form of my time here....so. Upon my return, eaten:

Sunday morning:
Woke up at 5:30am after having crashed at 10pm-ish the night before.
Had for breakfast: bowl of oats w dash of soy milk and honey. 2 spoonfuls of yoghurt.

Had a slice of bak kwa after climbing.

Lunch: w girlfriends MY, Z and J at pop up shop Franny's - spinach and courgette rigatoni w pine nuts, loads of parmesan cheese and something else. Can't memba. It was heavy though!
Rose wine was had - plus nibbles of J's fried (tempura style) courgette spears.

Then we trooped over for a gelato tasting sesh at Gelupo and Scoop. In the cold. Ha! I had less than the equivalent of a small cup overall.

Then after mass, on my way home, had a braeburn apple. And then snacked on some twisties and a handful of my little colourful spirally shaped biscuits fr Penang.
Popped a psyllium tablet for good measure, then done for the day!

Managed to get to bed at 10:30 - hoping to keep this up!

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Home

2010-10-27T07:23:00.001+01:00

The lushness of eating at home.
Home being at my parents' in Penang, Malaysia.

Breakfast was: fresh sweet papaya + slices of oranges + thick just made mango lassi made from fresh mangoes, a long dribble of honey and homemade yoghurt straight from out of the fridge into the blender.

Lunch: nasi tomato (tomato rice) with bits of cinammon, star anise and cloves in it, ayam masak merah/jingga, four angled beans stir fried with scallops, dried shrimp and tomato/chilli sauce and steamed lady's fingers.

I wish I had taken pictures but I was too busy eating. ^-^

NOM.

Tonight

2010-10-02T22:10:00.000+01:00

Just on a whim - well, craving, really, I headed over by myself(!) to a Japanese bar/resto...the last time I had a craving for cold Japanese noodles was sometime in early summer/late spring - April-ish, when the days were just starting to get warmer, so it is a little funny that the craving should hit again on a cold, wet, autumn-almost-winter-ish night. But anyhow, here I am, seated at my table with a glass of shochu (Iitomo!) and awaiting my order of Zaru Soba and mixed platter of Sashimi to arrive (pix shall be taken and attached to this blogpost) .... And that's one of the many wonders of living in London. Being able to just go out, and get what I want, when I want. It is an indulgence, and one that I feel very, very, very fortunate to be able to partake of at this point in my life.

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Food arrived, was eaten, it was simple and delicious, raw cuts of tuna, salmon, seabass and some scallops and sweet prawns - dipped in soy sauce w some wasabi mixed in, accompanied by cold buckwheat noodles with garnishings of spring onions and seaweed and chilli powder dipped in a cold savoury broth. In between, sips of a barley shochu. Bliss. On a cold, rainy night.

Fleeting contentment, gratefulness to Providence,
Alhamdullilah.

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Haha. But why are you single? Oh I dunno! But I'm enjoying it!

2010-06-27T23:23:00.000+01:00

Again, thinking about whether to post this for posterity on twitter or facebook and neither seemed appropriate. But this blog. Yes, perhaps. Or maybe I should on the other blog which I stopped posted on. Ah well. We'll talk about the food first.

So, it's a hot summer's day today. A proper one.
Germany just beat England 4-1 (well, 4-2, it should've been).

I was on my way home and was thinking about dinner, before going back to catch the Mexico-Argentina game....and I'd swung by the farmers' market earlier on my home from climbing* and picked up , among other things, some asparagus. So I thought. a piece of steak would go well with that. Stopped by the local butcher's and managed to get a nice sized piece of steak, but not before I got asked by the butcher "Really, I've never had someone ask for just half a slice of steak before (first he wanted to sell me a £5 lump of meat, it was MASSIVE, then I asked if I could just have one, and then *half* of the one slice that he cut for me because it was still twice the size of a regular steak!)...are you single?" Me: nods head quite affirmatively. Butcher "But why are you single?!"

Aaaah. I dunno. it's not so funny now when written out, but as it happened, I had to laugh and so did he and I got to go along my merry way with my single size piece of meat that cost me just....£1.

Liling just taught me how to make a reduction(I think that's what you call it?) fr leftover meat goodness in the pan with wine and some salt n peppa to pour on top of the cooked meat. I marinated it with some worchestershire sauce, ginger, garlic, brown sugar, a dash of sesame oil, salt and pepper for about 15 minutes before smacking it on the pan, and had steamed asparagus and tatziki to go with it. Nom nom nommers.

*I took a walk along the canal from the wall to the market, about 30 minutes worth of sauntering, probably 20 if you marched. And the water in the canal was so clear - bc boats aren't allowed to move on the waterways on a Sunday, it was fascinating what you could see at the bottom of the canal bed and I saw a RSPCA officer release a bunch of wee little ducklings into the water with their mama coz she'd birthed them too far up and couldn't get em down into the water and they went splish splash and dip dap and ohmygoodgorgeousgod it was the cutest sight ever.

Weather and Food

2010-06-03T18:15:00.000+01:00

So I totally fell off of the food diary band wagon. I think it happened after I had one night in late April (or was it May?) where dinner consisted of mostly cocktails and little real food, but that's a story for another day.

Have thought it worth giving this another update tho because have just thought abt the amount of food I've consumed over the past few days - ystrday especially, I felt like I had a slug in my tummy just munching up everything quick as I ingested it!

I'm putting it down to the weather - loads of sunshine --- you'd think that wintertime is when one would pack it in, conserving energy for the cold period etc, but it does seem like for me, it's hot weather that makes my body go fooooood, MO FOOD! Like additional exposure to sunlight would equal exponential rates of evaporation of energy from one's body.

Anyways, all this to say that as of yesterday, I've packed in:

Prunes and soy bean milk and buttered nut/seed toast for breakfast

Had a salad, fillet 'o' fish and bottle of orange juice for lunch.

Snacked on a ripe avocado and then polished off a whole punnet of raspberries.

Then had carrot, courgette, mushroom and scallioned miso soup.

Followed by a foiled run to the Turkish store for baclava (had a sudden craving for something sweet and pastry-like!).

Followed by a big bowl of edamame to satisfy the sweet craving (that was kinda stupid - feeding sweet w salty - I blame that move for the following)

THEN a bowl of pasta with squid in black ink.

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Today:

Breakfast of prunes and yoghurt and a pear

Then an iced latte

Then a rocket, parma ham, melon, mozzarella di bufala salad.

Then some fresh figs

Then some cookies from the office cookie tin

Then some chocolate

Then a banana, which was just ever so slightly unripe and reminded me of Dad. Because he's would be the only person on this earth who would ever eat my green bananas after I've taken a bite of them (because how else would you find out if a banana was ripe enough or not?)

I guess on the whole have been pretty good about eating healthy (I resisted grabbing a pack of crisps while getting my banane! Go me!) But I expect shall be adding on to today after climbing some ale and probably some crisps too, ultimately! And probably an avocado or two!) when I get home...given that there are still 3 luscious nommies waiting for me at home. And oh, I shouldn't be even thinking about it right now, but some MEEPOH GORENG! (That one makes me think of Mark-boy, everytime, and never fails to make me grin).

Allez le beau temps!

April 28th 2010

2010-04-29T10:31:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: yoghurt and pear (no prunes)

Snack: viennoise (?) Fr yesterday

Lunch: whole wheat spaghetti + stirfried anchovies + zucchini + carrots + mushrooms (a bit too salty)

Snack: 2 jaffa cakes

Dinner: whacked one steak (tough) + one head of spring greens steamed then stirfried w buttered garlic and lemon juice.

Dessert: LOTS of chocolate

Exercise: walked across London Bridge to Threadneedle St.

April 27th 2010

2010-04-29T10:28:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: yoghurt and prunes

Lunch: vegetable bun? + 'pastry' (crumbly cookie-ish sandwich w cream in between w one half covered w chocolate sprinkles?)

Dinner: miso soup w carrots, zucchini, mushrooms, tofu

Dessert: 4 squares of chocolate

Physical Exercise: climbing for an hour.

April 26th 2010

2010-04-29T10:27:00.001+01:00

Breakfast - usual - yoghurt, prunes + slice of bread + almond butter + marmite

Lunch: jamaican mutton curry w rice and beans + spinach

Dinner: miso soup w tofu, carrots, seaweed, mushroom. + 4 squares of almond slivers chocolate

Exercise: 20 mins of jumping, dancing, lunging, planks etc. Walked fr office down to walworth road and back.

Sleep: 8 hours? Did one hour before wake up process. 7:30 alarm. 8:20 onwards snooze every 5 mins.

April 25th 2010

2010-04-26T18:15:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: yoghurt + prunes + pear

Lunch: over at A&F's w new acquaintance T - white rice w 'samphueah' of sauteed greens w salted fish and garlic, ginger chicken in sesame oil, sizchuan curry fish head. W dessert of vienetta. NOM.

Dinner: low key affair after sumptuous lunch - instant mee bandung w an egg dropped in.

Snack: 4 squares of hazelnut chocolate

Physical exercise: walked fr gower st to warren street, then fr home to dalston kingsland station. Fr A&F's to Wood Green, fr DK to home. Prolly equivalent of 50 mins walking in total?

Sleep: fr 1am - 9am?

April 24th 2010

2010-04-25T10:22:00.000+01:00

Breakfast (late): yoghurt and prunes.

Lunch: banh mi (vietnamese baguette?) - 5 pork special - pickled cucumber and carrots and coriander. And an iced white coffee

Tea (?): 2 scoops of gelato (OMGGoodness!) at Scoop + glass of house white at moroccan place in soho w S.

Dinner: 3 slices of sashimi + 4 rollettes of dancing mushroom + avocado sushi.

Drink: glass of nutmeg sirop-ed iced water.

Exercise: walked fr home to broadway market and back (30 mins total?). Walked fr Rosebery Avenue to LSE Library to Shorts Gardens to Soho to Long Acre to Picadilly to Haymarket and back to the start of Shaftsbury Ave (total 1 hour-ish?)

Sleep: 12am - 11:34am (11.5 hours!!!!) Guess my body really needed that rest!

April 23rd 2010

2010-04-24T20:46:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: yoghurt and prunes and a pear

Lunch: whole wheat spaghetti w mackerel in tomato sauce w a dash of olive oil, many splashed of lemon juice and many shakes of black pepper and with whole tomatoes

Dinner: big bowl of curly leaf lettuce w moutard and balsamic vinegar and olive oil and honey and salt n pepper dressing. And a couple of mouthfuls of tofu.

After climbing: miso soup w carrots, tofu, seaweed and spring onion.

2 squares of caramelised hazelnut chocolate.

Exercise: an hour of climbing.

Sleep: 8.5 hours. I think.

April 22nd 2010

2010-04-22T22:37:00.000+01:00

bit of a complicated day - à cause de l'indecision.

breakfast: yoghurt and prunes (no toast)

lunch: staggered --- half packet of brown rice and sesame seed chips. then 2 hard boiled eggs + handful of tomatoes.

dinner: staggered --- miso soup with tofu, seaweed, carrots, shittake mushroom, green onions and leek, then small bowl of whole wheat pasta w a bit of herring.

AT A WHOLE TUPPERWARE OF WOON KA THI (agar-agar form of kuih talam). Sei. and 2 squares of caramalized hazelnut chocolate.

well done, self, well done.

Physical exercise: hardly any. was going to go climbing but watched Glee and Leaders' Debate instead. there went my evening. tmrw perhaps!

Sleep: sam eold - set alarm clock an hour earlier. waking up wasn't so hard.

Work was though. headache. boo. :(

April 21st 2010

2010-04-21T23:51:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: toast, yoghurt, prunes

Snack: black sesame seed n brown rice crackers

Lunch: vegan spaghetti + tofu roll w white sesame seed and brown rice crackers (jelak of the former real quick - rare instance of not finishing food)

Snack: a blood orange (they're such funny fruits they are the fruit version of beets in my schema)

Dinner: (get ready now) - braised pork belly n rice, 4 siao long paos, pea shoots w garlic and 65gms of beef fried w garlic (all but the latter shared w dinner partner D). And a glass of soya bean milk (kau!)

Dessert: 2 squares of Ta Koh (british/chinatown version of kuih talam w water chestnut bits in it)

Physical exercise: walked from waterloo bridge to chinatown. Then fr leicester sq to tottenham court road station.

Sleep: 1am - 8:40am. No need to say anymore. It's good I'm keeping track of this at least.

April 20th 2010

2010-04-21T10:09:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: the usual - toast, yoghurt, prunes

(Post breakfast had some tummy twinges - after effects of those 16 oysters?)

Snack: 5 ginger snap cookies

Lunch: vegan spinach and tofu 'pancake' (wrap) + half packet of black sesame and brown rice crisps.

Dinner: a pear. And 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Post climbing: ONE WHOLE PINT of ale (what was I thinking??!!) A few more pieces of dark chocolate and 2 sampoernas. (I am an idiot)

Physical exercise: 1.5 hours of climbing + 15 mins walking out for lunch.

Hours of sleep: not enough. 1am - 7:30 am - then snooze hell for an hour.

April 19th 2010

2010-04-19T23:23:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: toast w almond butter and blackcurrant spread, yoghurt and prunes.

Then had a blood orange

Lunch: portion of wholewheat spaghetti stirfryvaganza fr Saturday.

Had 5 ginger snap cookies and a pear

Dinner: curly leaf lettuce w a hardboiled egg, crumbles of old cheese, wee tomatoes and cucumber (all but the last which I'm unsure of were grown in Britain, g'local ftw!) W dressing of balsamic vinegar w olive oil n salt n peppa n moutard de dijon.

Also had: mouthfuls of yoghurt + 4 chocolate squares for dessert.

Exercise: 40 mins of walking, sprinting and jogging in intervals w L.

Sleep: 8.5 hours. Body demanded it. Overslept alarm. Ha.

April 18th 2010

2010-04-19T23:18:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: toast, yoghurt and prunes (usual quantities)

Lunch: (took train to Whitstable, and hour n a half away fr London w M for company "when you mentioned oysters my eyes turned into shells" was his priceless quotation) --- 16 fresh oysters + a plate of mussels. Followed by a half portion of chips w ketchup/tabasco sauce + a "99" ice cream cone w a chocolate flake in it.

Dinner: 1 summer roll, a couple of wee pork ribs, piece of fried soft shell crab, one big bowl of pho (w steak, flank + tripe and lots of bean sprouts n basil) + ginger ale.

Physical exercise: walked fr whitstable train station to harbour - prolly around an hour's worth of walking back n forth.

Sleep time: can't remember!

April 17th 2010

2010-04-18T11:26:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: yoghurt, prunes, toast

Lunch: cold ham cheese n pickle sammich found in fridge fr Thurs night (I ate only half - had half left).

Dinner: whole wheat spaghetti with stir fried portabello mushrooms, leeks, onions, garlic, anchovies n carrots w splashes of soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce + dollops of sambal and shakes of pepper.

Dessert/snack: 2 blood oranges (they are the funniest things!)

Physical exercise: wall climbing/bouldering fr 4:30 - 6pm. Walked around Dalston and fr London Fields back home.

Sleep: oh body of mine, didncha know it's the weekend??! Why did I wake up w/o the alarm going off at 9am after going to sleep at 2am?

April 16th 2010

2010-04-18T11:22:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: pumpkin seed bread and butter, yoghurt + prunes

Lunch: chicken patty burger w mustard and salsa and arugala

Dessert (before dinner): piece of A's surprised birthday picnic/party cake fr Paul's.

Dinner: 1/2 glass of house white (only half coz it was so-so and food was a little on the salty side so ended up drinking more water instead!) at The Talbot - fried squid w garlic mayo and tabasco sauce (starter) - shell pasta w wild mushrooms n spices w a side of steamed broccoli.

Physical exercise: walked fr borough market to borough station. Then fr little chester street to victoria.

Sleep: 12-7:30 - not enough! (I did dream about climbing tho! It's like when I was learning French!)

April 15th 2010

2010-04-15T23:40:00.001+01:00

Breakfast - usual - yoghurt, prunes, bread n spread.

(Oh last night I also indulged in almond butter + nutella! Forgot to add that in, knew I was missing something!)

Lunch: cheese, saucissons, egg, cucumber, tomatoes

Snack: pear + egg pre climbing

Dinner: ham n cheese w pickle sammich and 1/2 pint of ale

Physical exercise: 2 hours climbing (!!!)

Sleep: not enough! Woke up late (12am - 9 am?) What is my body thinking???

April 14th 2010

2010-04-15T23:37:00.001+01:00

Breakfast - the usual - yoghurt, prunes + bread n buttah.

Lunch - dim sum by myself: 4 siulongpaus, 3 prawn n chives dumplings and 4 siu mais.

Snack: an apple

Dinner - miso soup w carrots, shrooms, sea weed and tofu.

Physical exercise: walked for 50 mins fr tthm ct road - kings x - islington green.

Sleep: don't remember.

* Kin Ee passed away today.

April 13th 2010

2010-04-14T09:02:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: slice of hazelnut raisin poppy seed bread w almond buttah and blackcurrant jam. Spoonfuls of yoghurt n prunes.

Lunch: baguette w chicken pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and rocket.

Snack: remainder of chocolate fr yesterday.

Before climbing: handful of walkers cheeze n onion crisps and a mouthful of m+s wasabi coated peas. 1 hard boiled egg w soy sauce + 1 'organic' braeburn apple (am I supposed to assume that anything that isn't labelled organic is automatically assumed to be not organic? What about before pesticides came into play? Wasn't everything organic then...did anyone start labelling fruits n vegs 'inorganic' til it became the norm?).

Post climbing: miso soup w carrot shrooms n tofu.

Physical exercise: 1.5 hours of climbing/bouldering.

Hours of sleep: (11:30? - 6:30am) about 7? Woke up w the sun. Felt ok. Rested in the evening yesterday so could be why less sleep was ok in this instance

April 12th 2010

2010-04-12T21:52:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: coconut greek-style yoghurt + rhubarb yoghurt, prunes + chunky slice of hazelnut + raisin bread w blackcurrant spread + almond butter

Lunch: 4/5ths of a Divine Dark Chocolate Bar

Snack(?): slices of saucissons + cheese(s) + cucumber.

**got an anxiety attack (or maybe the almond butter + 70% dark choc combo somehow wrecks havoc on my body?) And left work to come home and just rest.

# of hours of sleep: 11:45pm-8:30am --- close to 8.5 hours

Physical exercise: negligible? Walking fr bus stop to tube station, fr tube station to bus stop then fr bs to work then fr work to bus stop then fr bs to library to home.

April 11th 2010

2010-04-11T21:39:00.000+01:00

Breakfast: - yoghurt + prunes + piece of multiseed bread and blueberry jam.

Lunch: piece of pumpkin seed bread + 3 cheeses fr the market yesterday + saucissons + cucumber + tomatoes

Dinner: overate on a HUGE bowl of pho w/ beef steak/flank/tendon/tripe/beef balls (not actual balls balls per se, but you know, the kind we get at home --- like fish balls and meat balls!) at Song Que w/ I.

Also had a glass of cold soya bean milk per the recommendation of my waiter (it's warm outside! Might as well have cold! he said)

Exercise: walked from mass to King's Cross/St Pancras. then from Angel up to Highbury and Islington (on the way popped by Euphorium and got a round loaf of hazelnut and raisin bread. So excited for when I break into it tomorrow morning!) - Later after dinner, walked from Song Que to Liverpool St Station with I and that's about it.

# of hours of sleep: hmm. (12:30am to 9am?) I think. it was ok. waking up this morning didn't seem like that much of a chore.

***** today's my mum's birthday. She turns 58 today. I love her more and more each day. I do. And my Dad too. I miss my family on days like these when the sun's out and I'm feeling a-ok, save for a little something. Ah well. Love. So much to be thankful for - family's a big one. *******

April 10th 2010

2010-04-11T15:25:00.000+01:00

Went to sleep last night before updating this food diary thing.

So Saturday morning - had no breakfast b/c had an ultrasound at 2pm -- waking up at 10am = not enough time to have breakfast since wasn't supposed to eat 6 hours before the ultrasound.
Nevermind, had to drink 8 mugs of water 90 mins prior to the procedure too, but I could only do 5. blergh!

Results were normal (but to be confirmed by my doc in about 10 days time) ---- afterwards, went back to Broadway Market where I'd ventured to with A earlier, even watched him eat a Creole-style dish for lunch while I 'fasted' ...but I tots knew what I wanted when I went back!

So, late late lunch: 1 lamb/potatoes/peas/carrots pie w mash on top (with some ketchup and moutard)

Resisted the brownies and fudges on offer all along the way and instead bought 3 kinds of cheese (1 welsh, 1 english, 1 italian) and saucissons and apples (braeburn, cox and russett? not sure about the last one). Lots of sampling before buying was indulged in, ha!

got home, snacked on an orange.

Dinner: miso soup overload ("But you've got ZERO calories in there!" said L, my flatmate) but I do think there were plenty of calories in that bowl that was chockfull of: dashi + miso + carrots + 2 kinds of mushrooms + tofu + seaweed. Nummy.

Later: desserted on a spoonful of nutella and a few many spoonfuls of that lush organic greek style coconut yoghurt.

Physical exercise: Walked from home to London Fields/Broadway Market and back again, then again 1-way (round 2 at the market!) from London Fields/Broadway Market to home. Evening time, took a 25 min run/walk around the neighbourhood.

# of hours of sleep: (2am - 10am) - surprisingly, woke up after 8 hours of sleep, half an hour before the time I'd set on my alarm clock. I did take a 35 minute nap later in the afternoon that turned into an hour long nap after I wrestled w myself for about half an hour to wake up!

April 9th 2010

2010-04-10T02:13:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: yoghurt + prunes

Snack: 50p bag of Walkers crisps (cheese + onion ftw!)

Lunch (in 2 parts): salmon, egg, spinach - sambal belacan sandwich same as past two days. (Last of it, tqG!)

Snack: orange

Dinner: small pizza

Drink at Zeitgeist w A and J: 1/2 pint
Tannenzaepfle and maybe 1/3 pint Pilsner (fr bottle split w J)

Back home (really late night makan): bowl of miso soup w tofu, mushrooms, seaweed and spring onion.

Physical exercise: walking fr South Bank Centre to the Strand across Waterloo Bridge (about 10 mins?), fr Tate Britain to Zeitgeist (about 20 mins), fr Z to Vauxhall (about 10 mins), fr Highbury + Islington to Essex Road/Newington Green Rf junction (about 10 mins).

Sleep: almost 8.5 hours. Felt better.

April 8th 2010

2010-04-09T00:13:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: usual - yoghurt + prunes

Lunch: (twice 1/2 portion each) salmon, spinach, hard-boiled egg w sambal belacan kapit ed between two slices of multiseed bread.

Snack: 5 pieces of ginger nut biscuits.

Dinner: mushrooms and spinach and seaweed in miso soup.

After climbing: 1/2 pint of a 3.8% wherry (fr norfolk) ale w S.

Physical exercise: 2 hours of climbing/bouldering. Hardly any movement otherwise. Just realised (or admitted/become fully cognizant) that am in a proper desk job - sedentary as *toot*. Not good. Picked up a book fr library on running. Thinking will fit that in to days when I'm not clambering walls, to keep more fit.

Hours of sleep: (1am - 9am) 8 hours. Why do I do this to myself? Simply half hour short. Tonight will sleep earlier. See me try!

April 7th 2010

2010-04-07T23:52:00.001+01:00

Breakfast: couple mouthfuls of yoghurt, prunes + a Polverones from Madrid (thanks to I!) - something sorta like a gingerbread cookie.

Lunch: separated into 2 - so two mini-lunches, I suppose, spinach and salmon (with a bit of a sambal belacan spread, same as yesterday's version) in between two pieces of multiseed bread.

An orange

6 cookies (horrors! this is the funny thing that I've realized, I would never - hardly to be more accurate, pick up a packet of those cookies that are in the cookie tin at work when I look at them in the snacks aisle at the grocery store YET I will happily grab a few - or a lot - and have them while at work. Double standards much, self?)

Dinner: 6 wee bits of assorted sushi fr Wasabi (the shop, not the condiment) -- on hindsight, I really shouldn't have -- each piece was individually wrapped. gah. It was just enough though to tide me through the evening's entertainment, which was watching Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring....*gasp* James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad (Darth Vader and Mrs Cosby, hurhur *cringe* I know, I know, I shouldn't just identify them as so, but!) and many other talented actors --- that was amazing, btw.

Post dinner: a few slices of salmon, and a sneak few couple of spoonfuls from the new pot of yoghurt that I'd just bought the day before -- (haven't finished old pot yet, but almost, so good enough!) --- Rachel's organic Greek-style coconut yoghurt. mmmmmmmmm.

Physical activity: not much --- think I fell a bit the wrong way while climbing yesterday, or maybe it was coz we had seat really close to the front of the stage (I was two rows away from JEJ!!! squeee!) but my shoulders/neck felt really tense. Walked a little bit from bus stop to work, from work to bus stop, from bus stop to wasabi, from wasabi to the theatre, from theatre to bus stop...but otherwise. nada.

Hours of sleep: (1am - 9am) (I set the alarm for 8:20 - again! but only woke up at 9) +/- 8 hours. Still not enough. this body I've found out, needs a solid 8.5 hours of sleep. hrmph.

Onwards - tmrw!

April 6th 2010

2010-04-07T00:29:00.002+01:00

Breakfast: couple of mouthfuls of yoghurt, prunes + a slice of buttered (margarined? Oil mix?) Pumpkin seed toast

Then an orange (got a basket of 6 for £1 by the tube station on way to work this morning!)

Lunch: brown wheat spaghetti w Japanese Curry Sauce n 4/5ths of a hard boiled egg. (I effed up boiling an egg last night - don't ask how!)

2 biscuits

Dinner (1): salmon on spinach on slice of multiseed bread w a thin spread of sambal belacan for the extra zing.

+ another orange before 2nd makan!

Dinner (2): sauteed mushrooms in olive oil + wilted spinach w remainder of Japanese curry sauce

Physical Exercise: 2 hours of wall climbing.

Hours of Sleep: (1+? am - 8:20/9:00am) basically, < 8 hours and waking up was a shitty experience. Usaha lagi! Boleh dipertingkatkan, as my primary school report cards used to read.

Gah.

April 5th 2010 (Easter! Monday)

2010-04-06T00:06:00.003+01:00

Hanging w the M'sian crew (or the bunch of folks whom I've come to think of a the M'sian crew - coz it's usually the crew of us - that've come together somewhat organically - I like that word, btw - M, J, S, D).

Breakfast: couple of mouthfuls of yoghurt + couple of prunes

Lunch: dim sum at Yum Cha in Camden (not so hot) + copious amounts of tea

Then: 2 glasses of Absolut Vodka (Red Ruby?!) w lemonade + twist of lime (while playing round upon round of Chor Tai Tee) and a cheese covered potato wedge or two at The Monarch.

Dinner: Beat the Clock at Belgo's - a portion of mussels cooked in cream + a big fat tiger prawns off of D's starter.

Home: Snacked on those goddam wasabi peas again.

Physical exertion: Minimal. Walking up Camden High St. FAIL!

Hours of sleep: (2am - 10am) = 8 hours. Adequate.

*there's really not an Easter Monday (or is there, mebbe there is after all...goobers, Catholic roots a little loose in the soil there - will have to check with Mum/Dad) --- but I thought since it's a Bank Holiday - this Monday deserved a little something extra special about it. ^-^

April 4th 2010 (Easter Sunday)

2010-04-05T23:53:00.000+01:00

Might as well start w Easter Sunday - pourquoi pas, hein?

Have attached photos of Easter Sunday Lunch - all prepared by my darling of a friend E who shared her amazing culinary skillz with us. That woman can cook!
Drinks: glass of white wine + a G+T after.

Breakfast was a couple of mouthfuls of yoghurt (Greek style, honey - Rachel's, I think) + some prunes.

Then after lunch, a lemonade w P.
Followed by dinner at Leong's Legend Continues w P and R - shared a sinful plate of pork belly n rice, a portion (8 of em came in one steamer basket!) Of Siu Long Pau's, broccoli in baby iced fish (haha - the baby iced fish were just wee ones - like baby ikan bilis) and aubergine in taipan(sp?) sauce, rounding it up w mango and read bean paste pudding.

Nommers.

Later, came home = snacked on wasabi peas fr M+S, no additives/colouring, whee. (But I really shouldn't have!).

Physical Exertion: hardly any. Walking fr Chinatown to R's car up by almost Euston didn't really count I don't think?

Back on the Blogwagon

2010-04-05T23:27:00.002+01:00

Testing, testing.
It's now early April and I've figured that it's high time I keep myself in check - with spring arriving and summer coming and (long-ish term thinking here) getting fit for winter (as in being in a good physical and mental and emotional state to help deal w SAD) (also seeing as it'll be my last winter *perhaps* she says wishfully and hopefully) --- reporting all this, even tho no one may read it, will be good. So here we go. Again.
Just as well that I'm starting w another new year of sorts. Easter Sunday was yesterday, so hopefully, as my dad said yesterday - may the light guide you (me).

I thinking of the line above in the sense that this attempt at blogging re food and exercise won't be about showing off what I've eaten or how fit I get (haha, ever the optimist) but it'll be more of a repeat of Behavioral Psych fr back in college - journaling and keeping track of changes and effects. Thus, please, Light of Easter that has inspired this effort, please help keep me humble but also to keep me going!

My goals from this recording/blogging exercise: to save more £ by not spending more than what I have to on food (minus the occasional splurge to treat oneself), to achieve a body that's fitter (I am built small - all of the women in my immediate family are/were - mother, grandmothers, aunts - so I know I get away with being considered tiny by many, but I know myself and while I like me curves, there are some which I would like to be gone, or at least, turned into more muscle that what's there atm!) - target: to be able to walk up the entire length of the escalator at the Angel tube station without tiring, and to get to know my body better and to treat it better (this is where the sleep bit comes in actually) and hopefully as a result of achieving that, be able to FEEL better.

Oh, re the testing bit at the top - I've set it up so that I can add blog entries fr my mobile web device - which should help w posting more regularly - also bc I'm planning to, as of tmrw night - to relocate MiBook to our living room so I don't stay up late spending more time than is necessary on l'Internet. I'll add in sleep time too, howzabout that?!

Here we go...choo-choo!!!
Let's see how long we (I!) stay on the (metaphorical train) tracks this time around.

DAy 63: Sat Nov 21 2009

2009-11-22T13:57:00.001Z

melon pamplemousse and yoghurt for breakfast

lamb shank with bubble n squeak for lunch
+ 1/2 pint of guinness and 2 scoops of chocolate ice-cream

dinner: salmon + gouda cheese n salad sammich.

Day 62: Friday Nov 20 2009

2009-11-22T13:55:00.002Z

breakfast:
baguette (old!) cheese, yoghurt, pate and butter

snack: ryvita and salmon

dinner: fusillini and spanish mussels with sauteed carrots and green beans + salad w tomatoes

home: salmon, cheese n sambal on tiger bread sammich

lindt chocolates

Day 61: Thurs Nov 19th 2009

2009-11-22T13:54:00.001Z

dinner:
shared - tau eu bak, kari ikan tumis, rice, roti prata and curry, brinjal with sambal and nyonya kuih.

can't remember what I had for lunch .

breakfast was prolly yoghurt.

Day 60: Weds Nov 18th 2009

2009-11-22T13:53:00.001Z

yoghurt

bean curd

2 brioches with sardines

an apple

fusillini with squid

a can of octopus.

Day 59: Tues, Nov 17th 2009

2009-11-22T13:52:00.003Z

biscuits
miso soup
chocolate
apple

bean curd

macaroni and mackarel with peppers and tomato sauce

cheese and beets and yoghurt

Day 58: Mon Nov 16th 2009

2009-11-22T13:50:00.001Z

sausage egg n cheese bagel from McD's.
apple
biscuits
wonton mee
1/2 pint of Kirin beer.

Day 57: Sunday Nov 15th 2009

2009-11-15T22:02:00.002Z

breakfast/brunch: savoury cheese and chive scone with butter + omelette with chives and mushrooms on whole wheat bread (with butter!) + glass of fresh OJ

handmade english ice-cream: one scoop of whiskey and ginger flavoured ice cream. (candied ginger in it) we got some stares for eating ice cream on such a cold day --- one man guffawed right out as he walked by Ling and me (Ying resisted the temptation of the ice cream!). heh. Go us, lil asian girls with the ability (craziness) to eat ice cream on a cold almost winter's day.

on way back: apple.

dinner: noodles in tom yam soup w 2 eggs thrown in for some protein for good measure.

Day 56: Sat Nov 14th 2009

2009-11-15T21:59:00.002Z

whopper time.
3 penang girls together that's what you get:

breakfast on train: croissant + apple

lunch: 6 fresh oysters OM! beer braised ox-tail with a little kidney and onions and suet pudding and butter glazed baby carrots.

after lunch: cup of mocha

pre dinner snack: crisps, muruku mix, wasabi peas.

dinner: ying's homemade chicken soup - with carrots, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, coriander and lots of love simmered for a while. with a little bit of tang hoon + an eclair for dessert.

Day 55: Friday Nov 13th 2009

2009-11-15T21:57:00.001Z

breakfast: brioche + yoghurt

snacked on wasabi peas

then lunch was 2 brioches (I think of Mark too when I get those) with pate and cheese

taufufa

Bah Kut Teh and rice for dinner.

Day 54: Thurs Nov 12th 2009

2009-11-15T21:53:00.002Z

breakfast: yoghurt n cereal (yuck! goji berries do NOT belong in cereal)

pre lunch: apple

lunch: M&S seafood linguine

dinner: sushi - octopus teriyaki

Day 53: Weds Nov 11th 2009

2009-11-15T21:50:00.002Z

breakfast:
piece of brioche and water

lunch:
3 course - mozzarella cheese/tomato/rocket/parma ham, roasted chicken breast with some kind of marinade with roasted vegetable, cheese cake soufflé with citrus fruit pieces and a square of sugar with pepper marzipanlikething on top

gerwuztraminer wine from Alsace (made me think of Mark)

Dinner:
Chicken feet noodles (without the chicken feet but w more mushroom and veg) doused in dark soy sauce
a bit of jayna's yongtaufoo.

Day 52: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

2009-11-10T22:56:00.002Z

Breakfast:
with friend Jeff at some red walled spanish serving café close to LS St.
Almond croissant with butter and a cuppa freshly squeezed OJ.

Lunch:
An Apple
3 'NICE' crackers and 2 small chocochip cookies from the office tin.

Pre-dinner/snack on way home:
Wasabi peas fr M&S

Pre-dinner/accidentally I had to do it:
Bopped (dropped off from top of fridge) and squashed n rolled pomegranate (YOM!)

Dinner:
M&S meal - cod? + mash + runner beans + peas (with some tomatoes thrown in by myself for good measure)

Edamame Beans
and MORE Wasabi Peas...

I didn't have the baileys n chocolate milkshake from last night. maybe I will attempt just the milkshake alone before going to sleep tonight.

Day 51: Monday, November 9th 2009

2009-11-09T22:02:00.002Z

***not related to food, but y'avais quelqu'un au bulot qui m'a fait pleuré aujourd'hui - au moment il encore m'ennerve, mais j'éspere (xinfinity) que je puisse laisser tomber tous demain. merde. ***

ok. so.

breakfast: raspberry yoghurt.

post breakfast/pre lunch: a braeburn apple (from M&S, France!)

lunch: M&S lunch box thingy: prawns, salmon, scallops, a bit of spinach, tomatoes and linguine.

after work/pre dinner: (related to *** possibly, or that's just an excuse) 2 chocolate biscuits + 3 squares of Guinness truffle chocolate (from Belfast this weekend, tho it was made in Dublin).

Dinner: amalgamation of fried minced beef from last week (I took a whiff and taste before using, and it smelt/tasted fine) with shittake mushrooms and noodles in a pho kinda soup.

Night drink: another cup of chocolate milk + baileys? (tba after time of writing today's entry).

Day 50: Sunday, Nov 8th 2009

2009-11-08T20:31:00.002Z

Breakfast:
Soda Belly Breakfast - soda bread with sausages, bacon, eggs n mushrooms piled on.
Glass of orange juice

Lunch:
Irish stew (steak slices, potatoes, carrots, onions) + a bun of bread and irish (golden cow?) butter.
NOM NOM.
+ 1/2 pint of Guinness

Dinner:
M&S wheat noodles and king prawn and edamame and spinach dish
One Christmas Chocolate Cookie
A cup of chocolate milkshake with a splash (or two...three of four actually, fine, A GLUG) of baileys irish cream liqueur.

Day 49: Saturday, Nov 7th 2009

2009-11-08T20:26:00.003Z

Breakfast:
bowl of taufufa

Brunch/Lunch:
bottle of mango, orange, lime juice.
serving of melons (honeydew - the orange and green kinds) + some grapes
spiral pasta with pesto, rocket, tomatoes + parmesan cheese shavings.

Later - an all-day breakfast 'mini' wrap from Subway (this was in Belfast) - half a tortilla
rolled around egg, baked beans and sohsage ( a bit sketch, remind me not to have sausage fr Subway again) - but served its purpose

Tea?
Shared a portion of a seafood cocktail w Irene (squid/calamari, prawns, mussels, octopus, crabsticks etc)
Pack of walker's worchestershire sauce crisps

Dinner:
dundrum (sp?) bay mussels in white wine sauce (with topping of fennel)
irish beefballs w/ linguini in a tomato sauce
Irish coffee (coffee, cream and whiskey)

And a chewing gum + 2 ricola sweets at some point during the day?

Day 48: Friday, November 6th 2009

2009-11-06T22:01:00.002Z

Breakfast:
(this one's bad) -- a bag of Walker's Cheese n Onion crisps/chips.
Plus! a banana (it was cold from being exposed on the stand outside from where I bought it, quite refreshing and unexpected - chilled fresh banana!)
aaaand (good) a whole pomegranate

Lunch:
2 packets of lomaikai - they were relatively small bundles - so two were just right.

no cookies from the office tin today! go me!

Dinner:
prawn/fish crackers dipped in chilli sauce
gado-gado
yellowtail 'patin' doused in some kind of vinegar sauce with cashew nuts and coriander.
(thanks Jayna for the meal!)

back home: OH LA LA. turkish delights fresh from turkey (liling just got back from istanbul). i had 4. maybe 5. had to stop self from having more. they are nyummmmy. can't wait for my turn to visit later this year!

Day 47: Thursday, November 5th 2009

2009-11-06T21:58:00.002Z

Breakfast: yoghurt + granola + broke into new cereal/granola/grain thing w goji berries. woo.

Lunch: Pret sammich - with pesto, tomatoes and mozzarella chiz.

Dinner: Another makan fest!
Pakistani fud - saag panir, meat briyani rice, salty lassi, lamb tikka masala, butter chicken (lush lush LUSH!) and naan. oh oh oh and KULFI?! like ommmm....

erm. I think that was it. I overate. again. not good.

Day 46: Wednesday, Nobembre 4rd 2009

2009-11-06T21:53:00.002Z

hmm. had patchy internet access and bzbzbzbee running around (eating as well) so this is quite in retrospect. but here goes anyways:

Breakfast: yoghurt n granola

Lunch: Brussels sprouts (I must say they looked quite fluorescent green!) and fried minced beef n egg with steamed rice in vege stock (which turned out looking radioactive yellow. egads!) but it tasted good. was yummy. amen.

And then....dinner time: WHAM!

Sake!
okonomiyaki (kiso and tokyo mix -- the former, mushroom + lotus root (lengau) + cheeze + garlic; the latter, squid + prawn + pork -- all topped with bonito flakes and all sorts of sauces drizzled over YUM)
gyoza

followed by Scoop ice-cream! (hazelnut + pure chocolate fr Sao Tome for me)
and lemonade at the pub after.

Had the pleasure of the company of some sweet friends - David, Jayna, Meeshly and Marco - in no particular order.

It was a yummilicious day. Amen. again!

Day 45: Tuesday, Nov 3rd 2009

2009-11-03T21:49:00.002Z

breakfast: yoghurt

after 1st meeting: box of korean poki sticks.

lunch: same as yesterday but steamed rice had vegetable stock in it. slightly more yummers.

had a cookie (I think)

+ mars bar from boss (he said bribery at first - to make pdfs for him, but then said later to commemorate my 1 year anniversary w this job. YOWZA!)

on way home: a conference pear (not bad) (but not as good as the other one from the other day)

dinner: 2 bak paus + steamed brussels sprouts.

oh and also pre-dinner - chocolate cookies.

choookoooliiiit!

Day 44: Monday, Nov 2nd 2009

2009-11-03T20:32:00.003Z

Breakfast:

Yoghurt and granola

Lunch:

(I think I had a chocolate biscuit in btween)

steamed rice and chicken n leek in whitewinecreamsauce cooked yesterday.

and steamed brussels sprouts

After work:

On way to meet friend: an apple.

then,

Tres leches cake fr macondo.

not going back there again, they wanted to charge my friend £1 extra for another cup of boiling water for her tea (the first cup cost £2). sial.

Dinner:

piece of baguette + pate + 2 cheeses + tomatoes* (and some brussels sprouts fr tomorrow's batch)

the tomatoes were tesco's finest 'organic' ones. tasted like blech. actually no taste, hence blech.

then soothed self with chocolate cookies. oh me oh my.

Day 43: Sunday, November 1st 2009

2009-11-01T15:28:00.003Z

whoa whoa whoa time flying by toooooo fast!!!!!

so today, so far:

Brunch/Lunch/Breakfast combo (over 2 hour period):
1 banana
1 bowl of tauhua (aka taufufa, or as I've learnt it's called in french "fromage de soja"!)
1 cup of genmaicha green tea (freshly brewed)
3 char siu pau. (I've forgotten what bak pau tastes like, can't wait to go home in february next year to rediscover that taste!)

In between: Scrappings of M&S Xmas chocolate cookies as I transferred them from box to airtight container

Dinner:
beans n rice + green salad + OXTAIL!!! (carribean/jamaican style fr takeaway down the road after mass).

Drink:
glass of iced honey.

Cooked chicken and leek in cream/wine sauce w steamed rice for tomorrow to bring to work...and for day after.
I swear, if there was one reason why I'd consider getting married/having a partner for now, it would be so that I wouldn't have to cook for just one anymore.
but am counting my blessings, counting my blessings!

Day 42: Saturday, October 31st 2009

2009-11-01T02:02:00.002Z

breakfast:
whole pomegranate (deseeded, a most painstaking task, labour of love - for self and tummy!) + a bit of yoghurt (last of the tub)

Lunch:
a banana and chocolate/hazelnut milkshake

Dinner:
£2.99 saffron rice + spinach and chickpea, lentils and chicken curry combo.

Snack:
Packet of wasabi peas (a bit dissapointing - 4 Seas (sp?) brand if you want non-hot wasabi coated peas).

Drank:
About 500 ml of diluted genmaicha green tea.

Day 41: Friday, October 30th 2009

2009-10-30T23:51:00.002Z

breakfast:
2 spoonfuls of greek yoghurt + 1 skinned apple.

Lunch:
1 big fried fish. with a little bit of salad dressing for taste.

In the office:
3 jaffa cakes

Dinner:
leftover pret sandwich - same as the other day: chicken pesto rocket sundried tomatoes

Drink:
Gin & Tonic

+ 2 Sampoernas. 1 while walking across Waterloo Bridge another while having G&T w Irene.

At home:
4 chocolate cookies.

STILL HUNGRY. wtf?!?!

Day 40: Thursday, October 29th 2009

2009-10-29T22:14:00.003Z

Breakfast:
2 spoonfuls of greek yoghurt and an apple.

Lunch:
a portion of leftover veggie tagine fr last night (it was a HUGE portion they served last night - at a haha, portuguese, cafe by tulse hill in brixton!).

2 chocolate biccies.

Dinner:
on the road: fillet o'fish from McD (yes! I actually had another McD outing again....aaaaah!)
at home: 2 blobs of chaumes and camembert, and I think after I sign off, I'm going to grab some cookies.

ACK. need to resume exercising!!!!!

Day 39: Wednesday, October 28th 2009

2009-10-29T22:12:00.002Z

Breakfast?
kuih dadar!

Lunch: pret sandwich - chicken, pesto, rocket, sun dried tomatoes on wholemeal bread.

Pear

Dinner:
moroccan vegetable tagine and rice
bites of jayna's salmon and izati's butternut squash tortellini

Dessert:
profiterole and ice cream
baileys cheese cake

Later:
glass of cote du rhone red

Day 38: Tuesday, October 27th 2009

2009-10-27T23:33:00.002Z

Breakfast: couple of spoonfuls of yoghurt + a persimmon fr Spain (sharon fruit they call it here?)

At the office: 4 chocolate digestives biscuits

Lunch: portion of last night's dinner: whole wheat spaghetti w shroom n chicken sauce.

Pre-film at cinema: 3/4 of a pomegranate. i love it when the little bits are ruby red.

Dinner: whopper! bak kut teh (but only at half of the bowl sized portion of rice), plus a bit of kangkung belacan and char kueh kak.

also about 500mls of genmaicha tea today.

ps: Our Bokashi buckets for pre-composting food waste arrived today! woohooo! less wastage ... woop woop. and maybe with some Bokashi juice, my plants will stop dying....

Day 37: Monday, October 26th 2009

2009-10-27T00:42:00.002Z

breakfast: a few spoonfuls of greek yoghurt
then in between buses: the most close-to-perfection pear i've had in a while.

at the office: 2 slices of orange zest butter cake from Irene's cake sale the week before

lunch: huge salad w proscuitto ham and tomatoes fr yesterday w dressing

then: 3 chocolate wafers

dinner: serving of whole wheat spaghetti with sautéed chicken and mushrooms with garlic with a dash Marigold vege stock and a dousing of white wine with yoghurt and some whipped cream.

after dinner: 2 triangles of camembert and chaumes.

later: 1 cup of chinese green tea - fr Liling's stash - offered to me. it was nice and clear.

oh and the whole day i drank about 600 ml of genmaicha green tea. yummy stuff.

And....I did a bit of prancing arnd in the morning to Wonder Girls' Nobody and a few stretches/light exercise.

Day 36: Sunday, October 25th 2009

2009-10-25T22:22:00.002Z

Breakfast:
a few spoonfuls of greek yoghurt for the run to mass.
on the way, ate another whole orange.

Lunch:
dim sum at Imperial China w darling Tanya Ann Tan.
we had (if I recall right), a combination of: udon noodles with pork and prawn and veges in soy sauce (MMM!!), the usual pork n prawn dumplings, fried taro blobs (the ones with spidery lace pastry-ish stuff?), vietnamese spring rolls, prawn n scallop dumplings (I keep typing dumblings instead of dumplings, what the...??), prawn chee cheong fun... I think that might've been it. We had a good showing. polished it all off without feeling too stuffed!

then after a walk around covent garden area: went to Scoop.
I had as usual, a small serving of .... bacio fondente and pure chocolate that originated from São Thomé. YUM. *

Dinner:
a few tranches of yesterday's baguette w/ a layer of proscuitto ham and the two cheese AND a big bowl of mixed baby leaf salad w my usual salad dressing (pinch of salt, dribble of honey, plunk of mustard, splash of balsamic vinegar + olive oil, oh and black pepper).

and now just before bed: my last piece of See's Candies. aha!

* made a pledge (with Tanya as my witness) that today's scoop of Scoop gelato would be my last until I start exercising....no more until I've started doing some regular exercise. My figure is becoming more curvy and womanly than I'd like it to be just yet. So some muscle and less fleshy fat yet. Need to make preparations for my CNY holiday back home too --- where I plan to stuff my face (yes, I don't care how unlady like that will be!) and stretch my belly, so better make plans for that now...sooner rather than later!

So I've repeated that pledge here. no more gelato unless I've started on some kind of exercise regime (I'm planning on starting TOMORROW).

Day 35: Saturday, October 24th 2009

2009-10-25T22:19:00.003Z

Started off morning w/ a nice breakfast:
Croissant fr Euphoria w/ a triangle of french (origin) camembert
and chaumes cheese. YUM. i love the saltiness that contrasts w the light sweetness of croissants plus that flaky pastry pull-ish texture.

Then on the way to watch a film at the LFF by the south bank, had a whole navel orange.

Lunch + dinner (later) was a 2 portions of the following:
whole wheat baguette (also from euphoria) with proscuitto ham sandwiched in between + those ripe vittorino tomatoes + stalks of steamed asparagus.

Day 34: Friday, October 23 2009

2009-10-25T22:16:00.002Z

no breakfast

lunch: cornish steak and stout pasty

between lunch and dinner: a bottle of leffe blonde beer

dinner: spicy mapo tofu with seasonal baby greens with steamed rice and seaweed and spring onion (clear) soup. this from baozi inn.

Day 33: October 22nd 2009

2009-10-23T00:31:00.002+01:00

so it had to happen - just realized (and rectified) that i mucked up my numbers around day 27-32 -- having double day 27s and day 28s, hence my otherwise odd sounding statement re it almost being a month of being 27 when it was already past a month ... le sigh. some things never change. me and numbers that is. or should i say, numbers and i.

Anyways, today, ingested:

left the house with a chocolate biscuit in my mouth.

then had some strawberries

then 2 slices of Irene's bake sale orange butter cake, which was still good almost a week after it was made!

then 2 hardboiled eggs, and a stick of string cheese, and a whole packet of salami (when it got to the last two slices i just had to eat em all up)

then for dinner: shared a pizza cotto (sp?) and napoletena (sp?) and spinach salad at Strada.

Unusually thirsty today so drank more than usual amount of water. which is prolly optimum amount i should be drinking per day anyway. ha.

Day 32: October 21st, 2009

2009-10-21T22:31:00.003+01:00

Wow --- pretty much a month of being 27 already! 1/12th of the way down, 11/12th to go yet.

So. breakfast:

chopped strawberries drowned in yoghurt - no honey, no granola today --- ooh the sour taste of yoghurt and the tartness of not-so-sweet strawberries --- the tingles it gives me actually makes me laugh. it's a funny feeling that is.

(ps: no biccies today! woo!)

lunch:
portion of whole wheat spaghetti w mushroom soup/sauce fr a couple nights ago.

dinner:
a small portion of spinach and ricotta tart with a side of tomatoes and onion crisps (like french fried onions?) from benugo's in between films at the BFI LFF.
oh, and three slices of warm brown nutty bread with a good lump of butter generous spread on all slices.

Day 31: October 20th, 2009

2009-10-20T23:40:00.003+01:00

Breakfast:
chopped strawberries with greek yoghurt, a drizzle of honey topped with granola.

On way to work:
string cheese - 1 stick. strand?? stick.

At work:
1 petit filou

Lunch:
green beans fr yesterday + a pret hoisin duck (I think?) salad wrap. w lettuce and cucumbers.

Post lunch:
3 biscuits from the office tin (!!! wintertime is so here. argh)

Dinner:
afghan food - lamb and spinach, aubergine in yoghurt, with rice and bread and pickles.

green tea. chamomile-y. yelch.

and a half slice of really good baklava. I was reminded of Abel Lomax and that one evening in out kitchen on Broad St when he unveiled his creation. those were the days. some memories remain strong. food related ones. heh.

Day 30: October 19th, 2009

2009-10-19T22:55:00.005+01:00

Breakfast: half a bowl fr yesterday's insta-oats w soy milk + i added some custard in to it too.

Pre lunch: 2 chocolate biccies

Lunch: 2 hardboiled eggs with soy sauce + 1 bowl of miso soup

1 Ricola sweet

Post lunch: another 2 chocolate biccies (argggh!)

Pre dinner: 2 sticks of string cheese

Dinner: linguine w/ portabello + shitake mushrooms sauteed w garlic n butter mixed with cream of mushroom soup + many shakes of black sarawak pepper w steamed green beans on side.

Dessert: Strawberries with vanilla custard.

Day 29: October 18th 2009

2009-10-18T22:38:00.003+01:00

breakfast: half a bowl of insta-oats w vanilla soy milk, water and cream.

lunch: bowl of somekind of 'beijing noodle' ordered for me by pooh at the baozi inn.

on way to movies: 1 chewing gum chewed.

at the movies: 1 of jayna's peanut m&m's

post lunch: 'small' cone of scoop. interesting flavoure today - white chocolate fr cote d'ivoire. dunno if was joke, but tried it, with usual bacio fondente. not bad.

dinner: LOBSTER NOODLES! and groundnut + lotus root soup and salt and peppered fried spicy squid.

FULL.

Day 28: October 17th 2009

2009-10-18T22:35:00.003+01:00

Started off day w/ a glug of vanilla soy milk

then a slice of carrot cake

then a visit to friend's home for Deepavali food. OMG.

briyani rice, curried tofu, mutton tofu, french beans spicy stir fry, carrot-onion-mayo-salad, fish patties, chicken curry, dahl etc. the WHOLE WORKS! + half a HUGE glass (man size!) of beer.

later, dinner = half priced sushi - mixture of squid teriyaki and sweet beancurd.

Day 27: October 16th 2009

2009-10-18T22:31:00.003+01:00

Breakfast: 2 angkorpneah and water

Lunch: Macaroni in a bowl of instant chicken noodle soup.

Pre-dinner: 1 vada + 2 chocolate biccies from M&S's christmas selection (!! already! I know! !!!)

Dinner: bow tie pasta with mushrooms smothered in a creamy white-wine sauce
and serving of green beans.

Dessert: bowl of chocolate truffle (custard, cream, mousse etc) + 1 more small chocolate biccie.

highlight of the night: megan and nicke cooking, nicke using spatula pointing at megan (at this juncture was deciding when to pour white wine in and who much): "me? why are you asking me? what do i know? I'm just your helper cook......Monkey say, Monkey do" *grin* classic.

Day 26: October 15th 2009

2009-10-18T22:25:00.002+01:00

Breakfast; hazelnut vietnamese coffee with vanilla soy milk. Today was an early morning as I attempted to visit the relics of St Thèrése of Lisieux at Westminster Cathedral.

Later: a braeburn apple. Unsatisfying as was fr same batch bought fr market last Saturday. I have since found out that satisfactory braeburns can be found at M&S. we'll see next time if so!

Lunch: falafel sandwich fr Pret A Manger.

pre-dinner: canapés after a meeting. about half a dozen.

Proper dinner: plate of hainanese chicken rice at Malaysia Kopitiam + a little bit of sar hor fun.

Day 25: October 14th, 2009

2009-10-14T23:09:00.002+01:00

Breakfast: the usual - insta-oats w/ vanilla soy milk + whipped cream, but this morning + 2 cubes of ice (to cool it down faster).

Post-meeting back to work: 1/2 of soft chocolate cookie fr Jayna last night.

Lunch: 2 small portions of lomaikai (steamed glutinous rice w/ pork, bamboo shoot, shrimp etc filling - wrapped in lotus? leaf.)

Post lunch: 1 pomegranate (those things are a test of patience getting every seed out and not giving in to simply wasting some of em!) + remaining half of cookie

Dinner: 1 pret à manger sandwich (a triangle) - containing alfalfa, bacon, eggs, mayo, some kind of something??? aaa. this is bad. not knowing what I'm eating!

then at post-work event: half a dozen canapés, and few handfuls of wasabe coated nuts + glass of wine, refilled a couple of times, but a little at a bit.

before sleep: a few more bites of remainder of pret sandwich (there were two in the packet, I only had one earlier)

Day 24: October 13th, 2009

2009-10-13T23:13:00.002+01:00

Breakfast: Insta-oats w/ vanilla soymilk and whipped cream.

Pre-lunch: 2 biccies

Lunch: Macaroni and left-over spag sauce fr Saturday.

Dinner: maaaan, that was a gooood dinner - starter was a baby leaf salad with salad dressing made from olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, pinch of sea salt, many shakes of Sarawak black pepper, drizzle of local honey.
Followed by a serving of baked loin pork chop (freedom food certified - i.e. the piggies got to run free before they got slaughtered, i know i know how could i bear to buy and cook let alone eat them...but man. just. can't. give up. meat. completely just yet!) with an apple (cubed) drizzled with nutmeg/cinnamon/brown sugar/pepper/mustard sauce. mmmmm.
Accompanied by a light merlot-grenache that only got tastier and easier to drink as it breathed, finished off with a dessert of a little pot of vanilla petit filou.

Many thanks to Jayna for the company and laughter.

going to bed tonight SATED.

Day 23: October 11th, 2009

2009-10-12T22:50:00.003+01:00

Breakfast: instant microwaved honey oats in vanilla soy milk.

Post breakfast: whole pomegranate

Lunch: Remainder of yesterday's meal: tomyam rice + seafood + a sprinkling of peas (additional) and a little 'petit filou' chocolate pot.

Post lunch: 2 cream biccies.

Dinner: BIG bowl of curry laksa at the Hare and Tortoise

Post dinner: tall tazo chai latte.

Throughout the day: boiled ginger and rock sugar drink.

Day 22: October 11th, 2009

2009-10-12T00:08:00.002+01:00

Started morning/afternoon off w/ a sandy (unsatisfying!) Braeburn apple (ergh, 4 more to go, I bought 5 at the market!).

followed by 1 1/2 generous helpings of sticky toffee pudding w vanilla custard.

Later, steamed rice w/ tom yam and sea food combo (squid, prawns, mussels) with an eggs stirred in.

1 whole pomegranate at a go.

Then a Legend McChicken fr McDo's w/ cool mayo and ketchup on it. And a cup of fizzy syrup tainted water.

1 piece of See's Candies. lemony flavor.

Day 21: October 10th, 2009

2009-10-11T00:47:00.003+01:00

Breakfast: last dregs of choc soya milk + caramelized bits of remaining wheatpuffs.

Lunch: linguine w cobbled together spaghetti sauce (sautéed minced beef with hot cayenne pepper, sugar, salt, onions and garlic, with tomatoes and carrots thrown in + button mushrooms, tomato puree + half bottle left of the bertolli spag sauce fr earlier this week + basil leaves and blackpepper thrown on. ooooh + about 8 seconds word of a squirt of whole whipped cream. mmmm)

Post lunch: 1 chocolate petit filou

En route to the cinema: half a pomegranate. sticky fingers sticky fingers. and lots of patience.

Dinner: yesterday's curry and rice.

post dinner: other half of pomegranate. made me think of Matthew as a young child "Mummy, I can't breathe so good" opening line to being rushed to the ENT. oh boy.

Day 20: October 9th, 2009

2009-10-10T00:47:00.002+01:00

Breakfast: glug of choc soy milk

Post-breakfast: 1 angkongar pneah.

Lunch: some sort of Pret à Manger sandwich, mozzarella and pesto and tomatoes and some lettuce sandwiched in between seeded bread. quite de yummy!

Dinner: (I cooked this!) A1 chicken curry with potatoes, carrots, and tomatoes + rice.

Dessert: STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING w/ vanilla custard!!!! (cold weather = warm warm hearty food, balances things out a bit, usually)

Day 19: October 8th, 2009

2009-10-10T00:43:00.003+01:00

started day off with a few glugs of chocolate flavoured soya milk.
Then an angkongar pneah.
Then 1 sausage roll.
2 tea eggs
gummy bears (from travel sweets bought about a week ago).

dinner was awesome: grilled cheese sammich and creamy tomato soup prepared by darling Ingrid, and a cuppa delicious tea made by proper English Neil*.
*scientifically unproven, but tea, when made by an english person who's mad about their tea, almost always tastes better than normal. seriously. it's like i can see why they're nuts over tea, but then it's never quite like that when *I* make it!

Day 18: October 7th

2009-10-10T00:38:00.002+01:00

Oh right. Writing this day's food intake retrospectively.
It was a rainy rainy rainy HORRIBLE day.

Started it off with the following while at the office:

2 tea eggs
bits of butter cheese and almond cookies
2 angkongar pneahs

then for dinner:
a pot of steaming bah kut teh (pig's stomach, 2 diff kinds of meat: ribs and fatty meat?, fried tofu, eu char kway, bean curd sticks swimming in a bowl of herbs...) + bowl of rice (finished almost all of it).
mug of hot lo han kuo drink.

and then when home:
2 pieces of See's candies.

what a horrible day that even all that good food didn't help make me feel any better!

Day 17: October 6th, 2009

2009-10-06T21:30:00.002+01:00

A bit of a different recording style today, just because.

Started today off with a few swigs of chocolate-flavoured soya milk.

Arrived at the office and had an angkongar pneah as well as more bits of Liling's savoury cheese n almond n butter cookies (my boss liked em too!)

Lunch = what I had for dinner last night, a portion of whole wheat spaghetti w/ sauce doctored w/ shrooms, tomatoes, basil and pepper, cayenne chilli pepper and dry herbs + a tea egg (I made more last night! ha)

Afterwards, a fig.

Upon return home (late, today, locked self into the office, no kidding and after getting out, the first bus I was on went on detour, go figure!) ravished a whole pot (a small le creuset saucepan)'s worth of tomyum soup that I'd prepared in the morning (swedes, carrots, leek, onions + mushrooms + tomato + frozen seafood* - prawns, mussels, squid rings) + another tea egg to top it off.

Finished off the night with a mug of choc soy milk.

*lesson learnt: frozen already cooked seafood, while convenient for preparing quick meals = not the best culinary experience. formerly frozen squid rings squeak! geli-nyer!

Fresh fresh Fresh seafood is SO NOT overrated, a fact driven home after this. Alas, I still have 2 more portions worth left to use! ha. Mebbe not in soup but stirfry? on va voir....

Day 16: October 5th, 2009

2009-10-05T22:21:00.002+01:00

** I think I overdid it on the eggs today. eggicide? (thinking of a recent ref to Brüno's 'carbicide' term).

Anyways,
in the following order, the following was consumed today:

a mugful of strawberries with a slooooosh of whipped cream.
2 angkongar pneah
bits of Liling's cheese n almond cookies
2 eggs
a fig
1 more angkor pneah
a clementine
another egg (oh these eggs are tea eggs that I made the night before - hardboiled eggs steeped in - so I cheated - bah kut teh spices - star anise, cardamom etc. and lots of sugar salt and soy sauce.
bowl of wholewheat spaghetti and Bertolli's spaghsauce + garlice, a beef tomato, chopped up button mushrooms and a fistful of basil leaves thrown in for good measure.
one more tea egg (I was still hungry!)
I think I'm going to have some See's candies before going to bed soon.

nb: I am *so* grateful for not having to want for food at all at this point in my life. So so thankful. Time to do something food related to share/pass on this privilege.

Day 15: October 4th, 2009

2009-10-04T18:53:00.002+01:00

Breakfast:
Strawberries and whipped cream.

Lunch:
Crabmeat-on-rocket Bagel
5 prawn fritters dipped in hot pepper sauce, mayo and some other kind of sauce (salmony-orange colour?) with lemon juice drizzled over.

Post Lunch:
Cup of coffee. Regular, with milk n sugar.

Pre-Dinner Snack:
3 angkongar-pneah (from Tua Ee!)
a couple morsels of savoury cheese and nut crumbly cookies that Liling baked.

Dinner:
Bowl of miso soup.

Dessert:
A fig!

Day 14: October 3rd, 2009

2009-10-04T01:26:00.002+01:00

Breakfast
-in Bath (early early morning):
6 giant raspberries with frozen (literally) yoghurt.

-in London, upon arrival:
tomato, egg, salmon smushed in a freshly made bap/bun(?)

Lunch:
Vegetable green curry + rice (tofu, corn, bamboo, mushroom etc)

Tea:
spice chai latte (a bit OTT, the name, in my opinion - but hey it's the café's prerogative to call it what they want to)

Dinner:
Cold handtossed Chengdu noodles. in spicy chilli oil and peanut sauce with garnishings of spring onion.

Dessert (ish)/Snack:
Raspberry meringue (from Konditor and Cook - pretty badass when it's done right)

Day 13: October 2nd 2009

2009-10-04T01:22:00.002+01:00

no breakfast, was running late and lazy.

Lunch: a container's worth of what was mentioned yesterday. Cold. Tasted pretty good that way too.

Snacked throughout the day on: a clementine, multiple chocolate bonbons, handfuls of Pringles.

On train to visit aunt and uncle and cousin in Bath: travel sweets (gummy bears, fried egg, chocolate covered almonds (2!) with candy coats)

Dinner:
Prawn tom yum soup - rice - stir fried veggie dish (shredded cabbage, carrots, onions, shitaake mushrooms and minced pork)

Day 12: October 1st, 2009

2009-10-02T00:47:00.003+01:00

Breakfast (on the bus):
cup of lychee jelly

Lunch:
Instant mee goreng + peas + egg thrown in for good measure

Afternoon snack:
A clementine and
A chocolate wafer bar.

Dinner:
serving of yong tau-fu @M'sia Kopitiam (I know, again!).
consisted of slices of stuffed tofu, stuffed red chili pepper (eye-watering), stuffed eggplant, stuffed something else. Can't remember. Doused with some kind of sauce. yum.

After Dinner (visited National Potrait Gallery Gay Icons exhibition tonight):
1/2 pint of Samuel Smith's Ale (told it's really cheap but good beer. verdict: it was cheap n good enough)
and a slice of carrot cake (mediocre).
both of them at separate locations, one after the other!

Home in the Kitchen:
nicked bits and pieces of what I was preparing for tomorrow's lunch.
A little bit of fusilli, red pepper, ladies fingers and sautéed mushrooms.

Day 11: September 30th, 2009

2009-09-30T20:17:00.003+01:00

Breakfast:
bowl of soya milk n wheat puffs.

Morning snack:
remaining 3 blobs of tau sar pneah.

Lunch:
spiral pasta (fusilli? like the bullet?) with smoked mackarel soaked in soya oil and rice wine.
mixed and heated in the micro-onde.

Dessert:
Cup of lychee jelly

Before leaving work:
a blob of ferrero rocher.

Home, pre-dinner:
3 (no self-control) pieces of See's Candies.

Dinner:
bowl of mama instant tom yam noodles in soup, with an egg dropped in for a measure of protein.

Evening drink:
A couple spoonfuls of honey doused with some glenfidditch whiskey in the green-yellow moroccan clay cup gifted by Lisa swirled with lots of ice.

oh, and a few slivers of limepeel.

Day 10: September 29th, 2009

2009-09-30T00:16:00.002+01:00

Breakfast:
(on the bus) wheat puffs n soya milk

post-breakfast snack:
3 blobs of tau-sar-pneah (bought last night at the Oriental Delight store. the name tickles me!).
Did not know that tau-sar = mung bean in English. something new learnt everyday from reading food labels!

Lunch:
whole wheat spaghetti on Japanese vegetable curry.

Dessert:
homemade lychee jelly (I put too much liquid in so it was not quite well congealed, but the 5 lychees i plopped in made it worth it!)

Dinner:
£2.99 saffron rice and curry from the sri lankan owned sandwicheria on Charing Cross Road.
YUMMY as always.
Eaten seated on the roadside by Leicester Sq proper right by Sir Richard Attenborough's handprints in the gold cement w/ new friend Michelle.

Dessert:
Small cup of Scoop gelato. this time Bacio Fondente all the way (or FTW as Matthew would say!).

I am feeling really full today - either that or my jeans shrunk in the wash. I think it's time to get some exercise on. (Katharine Smith's impending phone call to check on me is tipping the scales into that happening sooner rather than later - the exercising, that is).

Day 9: September 28th, 2009

2009-09-29T00:41:00.002+01:00

Breakfast:
wheatpuffs drowned in soya milk.

Morning snack:
One ripe peach.

Pre-lunch:
literally, a fistful of unsalted roasted peanuts (all that were left).

Lunch:
erm. POPCORN. (leftovers from last week)*

After lunch/pre-dinner snack:
bar of chocolate digestive wafer.

DINNER!!!!!!:
a plate of pickled lotus roots sliced real thin with red little date thingies (good for your eyes) and black fungus.
a portion of tanghoon + shredded carrot + something else doused in hot chili oil sauce.
and an egg and chive steamed baozi. nyom nyom.

eaten by myself while reading the economist at the Szechuan cuisine Baozi Inn.

post-dinner:
at Tibu's surprise b'day drinks-do at the Green Carnation: 1 bottle of Corona w/ a twist of lime in it.

pre-going-to-bed:
3 blobs of lychee (I made lychee jelly for tomorrow and the day after!)

One piece of See's Candies - a truffle! - from birthday box of chocolates from Megan, one of those few people who knows that my favourite place for boxes of chocolates = by my pillow (note for Mum: there are, amazingly, no ants here that I've seen who will come bite my face if I sleep with sweet stuff close by! +1 point for living in London!)

Day 8: September 27th, 2009

2009-09-27T23:17:00.003+01:00

In reverse order:

Dinner:
Bowl of miso soup.

Evening pre-dinner:
At Macondo, the one by Camden Passage, with Julia - a cuppa lemongrass n ginger tea + a shared slice of tres leches cake. that piece of cake was LUSH.

en route to meeting Julia:
remaining 2 bars of Cadbury Milk Chocolate.

Afternoon:
Juicy ripe white peach.
(bought 3 for £1, off the slightly creepy vendor who sniffed me after I'd sniffed his peaches to see if they were worth buying. fair game I guess. or maybe not. maybe he was just being a little lecher-y)

Lunch:
Chicken pesto with sundried tomatoes in a small baguette.

Pre-lunch, at St Thèrése of Lisieux's Open Day:
small chocolate cupcake - lush.
cuppa mango juice.

Breakfast:
Quick pour of that honey coated wheat puffs with a quick glug of soya milk.

Day 7: September 26th 2009

2009-09-27T23:08:00.003+01:00

Brunch w/ Jayna:
Eggs Benedict w/ ham on a split baguette with spinach leaves layered below, slathered in hollandaise sauce (at very difficult to get to, but quite de worth it café The Counter, out in east-east-east London, that's what the E3 postcode stands for I've decided, after our journey out there!).

glass of freshly squeezed OJ.

Afternoon snack:
Half a mooncake (split one w/ Jayna, mooncakes are better off when shared, I've decided) - lotus seed paste w/ ducks' egg yolk in the middle.

Drink:
Watermelon punch by the Royal Festival Hall balcony overlooking the Southbank.
Contained: smushed watermelon cubes, vodka, passionfruit syrop, cranberry juice and LOTS OF ICE.

Dinner:
Hainanese Chicken Rice @ Malaysia Kopitiam off of Charing X Road.
had a nice chat w/ Uncle Sunny who's always affable - he thought I was Singaporean (*wrinkles nose* - no offense, Yilin & Ailin and the other Singaporean Tan cousins) from the way I drizzled the black sauce over my rice. Na-uh!

Back-at-home-in-bed snack:
many handfuls of unsalted roasted peanuts.

Day 6: September 25th, 2009

2009-09-25T10:41:00.001+01:00

Breakfast:
bowl of chopped up strawberries, wheat puffs (the honey monster kind) and soy milk.

Pre-lunch snack:
half a moon cake.

Lunch:
Lotus-leaf wrapped steamed rice fried with egg and mange-tout and lots of other nutty things and veggies.

Dinner:
Veggie pau

Post-dinner:
'small' (they're huge!) cone of gelato from Scoop - chocolate and hazelnut.

Post-work snack:
Unsalted Roasted Peanuts. (many many handfuls).

Day 5: September 24th 2009

2009-09-25T10:37:00.002+01:00

had to wake up early so no breakfast.
Munched on a few blocks of Cadbury milk chocolate while at the launch event I was attending.
Oh plus a small cup of coffee (milk n sugar) and a pastry (danish?) too.

Lunch: Chargrilled chicken sandwich (cold though!) from Greggs.

Snack: Popcorn (sweet) given free from trader on East St market for having listened to his concerns and thoughts about how the local council was messing things up for them/not doing things 'right'.

Pre-dinner snack: Roasted peanuts (unsalted) again, bought from East St Market, a £1 for a bag! a whopper of the bag too. I think I hoovered down half of it. ergh.

Dinner: 2 fresh summer rolls at Huong Viet. nobody there last evening. bit odd. But food was yummy!

Dessert at home: a bowl of ripened strawberries (also from East St Market bought earlier in the day on the way back to the office) + TOTALLY FATFUL WHIPPED CREAM. sloooshing out of the non-CFC cannister. oh. yum.

post dinner: half a mooncake. and a glass of soy milk.

Day 4: September 23rd 2009

2009-09-25T10:34:00.002+01:00

Breakfast: I think I had cereal and milk on the bus.

snack at work: finished off the rest of the dodol. mmm...

Lunch: Same as yesterday

Dinner: Instant noodles (need to go check the brand...) campured with peas and ikan bilis.

Later in bed munching: remaining half tub of wasabi-ed peas.

Day 3: September 22nd 2009

2009-09-25T10:32:00.002+01:00

Breakfast: can't remember. gorr.

Lunch: brown wheat spaghetti with prawns and tomatoes and coriander and basil with rocket pesto.

Dinner: Roasted Duck Rice at the Hare and Tortoise with Jayna.
oh, and edamame for starters.

At the movies: a bar of orange milk chocolate by that fairtrade brand. not bad.

Day 2: 21st September 2009

2009-09-25T10:30:00.004+01:00

Breakfast: A FIG

Pseudo Lunch:
piece of toast with butter, layered with slices of a hardboiled egg and saucisson.

Dinner at Irene's:
Chicken Adobo and Rice. OH ME OH MY!
(thank you Irene, for cooking that from scratch! such a treat)

Dessert:
A few slices of Dodol from Hai Lin aka Darling Tuor Chiak all the way from Melaka/Penang/Malaysia.

Day 1: Sept 20th 2009

2009-09-25T10:25:00.003+01:00

a off the morning with some skim milk (that was all the supermarket had, Jennifer a dit!) and cookies? those crispy crumbly kind. I think I 5 or 6 of em.

THEN!

the set menu at the resto by the Vieux Port:
6 huitres!
Bouillabaisse!
Profiterole (HUGE!) with whipped cream and warm chocolate sauce....
and a glass of (blech) vin blanc (nvm that).

Later:
Degustation of un peu de saucisson - one had liver in it. yum yum.

Even later still:
Crepes! sucre et limon. and a Kir Royale avec creme de mur. mmm.

Before leaving:
3 mini donuts.

After arriving back in London:
bag of suncrisps.

Later in the night: saucissons......

addendum: oh and how could I forget? Hot toddies (enjoyed with a silly chinese boy)! Lemon + honey + whiskey (all melted in hot/warm water).

La Troisieme Tentative

2007-02-22T17:36:00.000Z

Don't laugh.
but,
this is the 3rd blog I've started.
Blog #1 which I started in Summer of '04 is still retarded as I left it in late 2004, at wildblossoms.blogspot.com
Blog #2 is still updated sporadically at http://wildblossoms.blogs.friendster.com
and this baby here, Blog #3, well, I set up so I could leave comments on others' blogs in peace using my gmail account.
The url was inspired by what I was having for breakfast at the time of filling out the "what do you want to name this blog?" portion of the form.....My dad made the bread. And my mum buttered it for me. It was awesomely yummy.

Anyways, please revert to la blog de friendster for updates of sorts. *-^
Until whenever,
love etc.
~m.