Oatmeal with 0 sugar

Here again I'm talking about Oatmeal. Honestly I am becoming to like it!! Ok, now... I have previously mentioned about the oatmeal that contains 0g of sugar. Before trying the non-sugar oatmeal package, I researched on how to make the non-sugar oatmeal taste good. Here I found an interesting website all about healthy recipes. Then I tried it. It wasn't bad at all!! It's my breakfast almost everyday now.

How I like to eat is, based on the recipes, to add some organic raisins and probably one tea spoon of honey. I sometimes add a little bit of organic soymilk that my boss at work makes by herself. It's so good and very healthy!

One day my boss made an ultimate healthy non-sugar oatmeal for all the employees for the breakfast. I added some slices of banana and organic raisins. hummmmm yummy~

I am so glad that I have discovered another healthy meal!

Soba again!

Yes yes, I'm so lazy to cook sometimes, so I cooked soba again. But this time I added spinach, green onion, egg, sesame seeds, and different types of seaweed such as wakame, nori, and tororo combu (shaved kombu). This meal was really healthy.

Tsukimi Soba with A Lot of Vegetables

I cooked soba (Japanese noodle made from buckwheat flour) tonight. The soba is supposed to be one of the healthiest food among other noodles. When I was young, I didn't like it at all because it didn't taste as smooth as other noodles were. In other words, I didn't like the taste:(

But since I become more conscious about my health, I start eating more soba. And the more I try, the more I get used to eatting it.

Tsukimi soba is soba noodle with a raw egg in the bowl of hot soup. It calls tsukimi soba because the raw egg looks like the tsuki (moon) and it makes you feel like you are "viewing the moon" (tsukimi) in the soba noodle.

I added lots of spinach, sesame seeds, small fried shrimps, and a few sliced agedashi tofu in the bowl. I made soup by myself and it wasn't bad. Actually I enjoyed tonight's dinner:)

Of course, my desert after the dinner was grapes with yogurt. hmmmm yummy~

Saba with Brown Rice

As I've mentioned, we had a sushi/sashimi party yesterday. We brought tons of fishes for this party, so there were some leftovers. Even though we gave most of them to our friends who joined us, there were still some fishes left. So I brought some saba (Mackerel) home with me.

Yes the dinner tonight is something with saba. I went to Wholefoods to buy some spinach (you definitely need some green to break down the oil that comes from the fish) and some grapes for the leftover yogurt.

I'd cooked brown rice mixed with 18 different types of grains a week ago, made it like balls wrapped and frozen them. So I took one of the chunks and heat it up with small dried shrimps and an egg. While cooking saba, I boiled water and put some spinach. I ate spinach with some sprinkles of katsuo bushi (dried bonito fish flake) and put some ponzu. Once everything was ready to eat, I washed some grapes and put yogurt on them.

This was my dinner tonight. It's very healthy, isn't it?

Hiyayakko (Chilled Tofu)

Well, I wasn't really hungry and didn't feel like I wanted to eat any big heavy meal after running over a mile. Luckily I had a pack of tofu that I bought a few days ago to eat on that day but I didn't and some very fresh wakame (seaweed) that I got from Hokkaido, Japan. Yes, my lovely dinner for the last night was hiyayakko (chilled tofu) with wakame on the side.

Preparation:

Rinse tofu, a) wrap it with a sheet of kitchen paper, b) put it on a cutting board and c) a slightly heavy dish on top of the wrapped tofu, and wait for 10~15 minutes. d) Cut it however the size is, put some katsuo bushi (sliced smoked skipjack tuna) and sliced green onion on top of hiyayakko. I added some sesame seeds on top of everything last night. Place some wakame on the side, put e) some ponzu shoyu and now ready to eat!!


Reasons/Tips:

a) Wrapping tofu with a sheet of kitchen paper is my idea. I just don't like the mess the water would be all on the kitchen counter.

b) You can use a shallow bowl instead of a cutting board to keep the water coming from tofu in the dish and you don't have to waste a kitchen paper to keep the water in.

c) Placing a dish or another small cutting board as best on top of tofu is for hiyayakko, you want to take out water from tofu; otherwise the tofu is too watery. (You don't have to do it if you cook. This applies only for hiyayakko.)

d) I've recently preferred cutting smaller pieces, so that it's easy to eat. But typically it's much bigger size, like maybe just 4~5 cuts. But in this case, you have to cut it by yourself when you eat. It's too much messy for me:(

e) Some people prefer regular shoyu (soy source) instead of ponzu. I use ponzu is because it's might lighter and it contains vinegar, so it's much healthier.