Salad With Scallops

Such a delicious salad. I love everything that I put there and want more. The fried egg was crispy with running yolk and the scallops were simple but tasted perfect. The salad was seasoned simply with salt, pepper and olive oil.

Fat Cow - New Year Lunch

It's New Year. Just like any other day, we needed to eat. We had reservation at Fat Cow and that's where we had our first lunch out this year. All the six of us. We had various dishes and I had tomato salad as well.

Eat Tokyo, London

We decided at the last minute that we were going to have two lunches. Our original place for lunch was Eat Tokyo. DH and I arrived early so we walked around and it took us to China town and to a restaurant that DH always likes to have a meal at, Four Seasons. Like an aha moment, he now wanted to have both sushi and roasted meat. 

With limited space in our stomach capacity, we did not order much at Eat Tokyo. We also had a plate of Tempura, but I had no picture of it. 

Curried Chick Pea Salad

I like salad. With the right combination of what you put and the right dressing, salad can be the most delicious yet healthiest thing on earth. Salad makes me feel less guilty when I eat non-veggie and non-fruit things.

This one is greens with curried chick peas (garbanzo beans) and pomegranate only. I merely topped it up with a poached egg and seasoned with olive oil, salt and pepper. Simple, but delicious.

Egg Breakfast

The sea is calm now, for now at least. I had a very draining end of the week, very unexpectedly and had to wake up to a crappy Monday, feeling so beaten up. What a way to begin the week! Life throws curve balls again and again. No matter how experienced you are, they are still curve balls and you don't anticipate the way they come. As they say, life goes on. It does go on, and I have to go on with life, whether I like it or not. Life goes on whether I am ready to move on or not. Life goes on whether I have to walk limping or crawl or cry a super heavy baggage on my back. Life does not care. Life does not stop and gives you a break, so just move on!

I had imagined this breakfast since my days in Shanghai last week. Grilled tomatoes, spinach with gorgonzola, sautéed garbanzo beans and fried egg with runny yolk. 

I was so glad to be back home and had them, they way I wanted them to be. They are filling and they are healthy. Just the way I wanted them to be. I guess some aspects in our life are quite controllable.

Soba & Veggies

This was the dinner a couple of evenings ago. Buckwheat soba tossed in julienned carrots, sliced onion, sweet beans and Chinese greens, topped with poached egg. That runny yolk was really the icing on the cake!

Egg Breakfast

I prepare my meals based on what I have at home. Sometimes, they could appear a tad strange or unusual. But these days, we go with almost everything. Check the internet if you need to be convinced. I tried to use waffle iron to cook the sweet potato hash, but failed in giving a solid shape because of the nature of the sweet potatoes. They are moist and sweet. Nevertheless, they were delicious and cooked. The avocado was mashed and mixed with salt, pepper and a little bit of lemon juice. The egg was poached.  The last part of the meal was simple salad. No biggie, it was seasoned with salt, pepper and olive oil.

Putien, Ion

Not long after having lunch at Putien in Vivocity, we went to Putien in Ion for lunch. We were drooling over their Bee Hoon and we wanted to try different dishes as well. Mission was accomplished, we even tried their desserts. 

We had  this Spinach with Salted Egg and Century Egg  as our choice for vegetable. The spinach was well cooked and the gravy was very creamy and delicious. 

Pan Fried Yellow Croakers were very tender, but somehow it would not be something that I would order again. It is just not something that I prefer to have.

Putien's Fried Hingwa Bee Hoon remains our favorite. The bee hoon is so light and nicely flavored with clams, pork, prawn and green that work together very well. We were a bit greedy and ordered a medium size that turned out to be too much for the two of us, because we had other dishes and desserts too.

Their chili sauce is to die for. I had it with my veggies, fish and beehoon and I had a lot of them.

This is DH's dessert, Chiled Putien Loquat in Herbal Jelly. There was no complain and he cleaned it up. I suppose it was a good one.

My dessert was sweet potato with pumpkin cream, which was presented very prettily.  I admit that I chose based on the picture presented on the men and I was also curious about the taste of it. I did not enjoy the flavor of the sweet potato but the potato cream was really nice. It scored higher on the look than the taste. 

Chock Full Of Beans, Breakfast

Sunday morning and DH felt like driving a long drive up to the north for breakfast. It would be my first time to Changi Village and second time for DH.  It was definitely interesting to see different side of Singapore. 

I have read so much and seen the pictures of Latte Arts from Chock Full of Beans and was excited to experience it. I thought I should begin with their Cappuccino. DH had a glass of orange juice. Sadly, no pop up cute things for him.  Mine had a cute latte art on it.

DH had plain bagel with ham and cheese that came with eggs and more. I selected Portobello Benedict with a small salad on the side. Breakfast was good. 

Gado Gado

I seldom make complicated dish. This one is a little time consuming but it is not hard to do. Most the vegetables need to be blanched or boiled separately. I normally pan fried the beancurd instead of deep frying them, to make them healthier. Cucumber and tomatoes are served fresh. I also make the peanut sauce at home from scratch, although they are readily available in the super market as well.

Fried Rice with Prawn And Broccoli

Because it was really easy to make Fried Rice, I made it again. The variations are endless. In this one, I tried to put in more vegetables to make it healthier. I put broccoli, carrot and spring onions. Eggs and prawns were the stars of this dish. 

Poached Egg Breakfast

Breakfast does not have to be difficult and outrageous. When I am in town, I rather have breakfast at home, if I could help it. This one was pan grilled homemade Ciabatta with mashed avocado with salt and pepper and a bit of lemon juice, topped with a poached egg. On the side was simple salad, so that I would not feel guilty the whole day. Healthy and filling. 

Paul, Jakarta

There's a Paul bakery/restaurant  nearby our place in Jakarta and we headed there fro some sweets and breakfast. It's not quite the type of food that I'd like to have for breakfast, but these are some of the pictures we had on a couple of occasions when we went there.

Dinner At Coco Curry, Roppongi

Flying to Tokyo from Singapore takes only around seven hours, but if you count the waiting time for the flight and more time for transport to the hotel from the airport, the whole day is probably gone. We left home before 7 AM and by the time we settled into our hotel room, it was approximately dinner time. After a long trip, we wanted something that we were quite familiar and fast. Coco Ichibanya met the criteria and it took about 15 minutes to get there on foot. The food is also inexpensive, that's a bonus. 

There were four dishes ordered and I had only three pictures. There were two of us that had the same dish i. e breaded chicken with spinach on the curry sauce below (trying to insert healthy veggie here!). The above is cream croquette and the one in the very bottom is chicken burger with an egg in the center. All were yummy and made our tummy happy that evening. 

Common Man Coffee Roasters Breakfast

This is my 1750th posting, what a number! I never thought I would have reached these many posts.

Miss K was the last one to go back to college over the Christmas holiday last year. It was January, just days before her departure and she wanted to revisit Common Man Roasters for breakfast. It had been a while for all of us. The place is very popular, long lines can be seen during peak hours and over the weekends and I never like being in the crowds or eating in the crowded place.  We went on a weekday just before 9 o'clock in the morning. It was rather quiet and just nice for us. 

My pick for the breakfast was Turkish Common Man breakfast. The soft boiled egg in the center was wrapped in phyllo and was delicious. On the plate, there were two crispy feta balls, salad and pita bread. It was filling and satisfying both in terms of quantity and taste. I was quite pleased that there were some veggies on the plate. 

I also ordered a cup of hot mocha and it came looking so pretty that everyone wanted to take some pictures of it. Three people took turn to take picture of this beautiful baby. 

DH had his eyes on Croissant Croque Monsieur. Croissant with provolone cheese, ham and bechamel sauce. It's a good breakfast size and he seemed to like it.

Miss K was dying for French toast. They served them with berries compote and ice cream. How nice is that, ice cream for breakfast?