Monday, 22nd Nov 2010 - Breakfast, Lunch & Snacks

My skinny hotdog buns!

We had bulgogi, deonjangjigae, stir-fried kimchi with sardine, baby asparagus with oyster sauce for lunch.

My homemade hoddeok for my obba before his tennis!

Sunday, 21st Nov 2010 - No Cooking

Last night dinner were great! We still feeling full from the dinner.. we skipped breakfast and slept through. By the time we woke up was already after lunch time and we decided to have ramen at home and went out for dinner in the late evening.

Saturday, 20th Nov 2010 - Breakfast and Lunch

After yesterday's rest, I am recharged and I made "Ewa Style Super Breakfast. I put a slice of bacon on the muffin pan and then cracked an egg in and wahlah! It tasted really fantastic! My husband love it!

 

As for Lunch , we had aglio olio with shrimps and homemade broccoli soup. Obba, enjoy! Today is also my dad's birthday and we will be celebrating it at one of the seafood restarant along East Coast Road. Yahoo!!

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Friday, 19th Nov 2010 - Breakfast and Lunch

I guess I was too stressed after Wednesday dinner..I have not been inviting friends over to my place ever since I moved back to Singapore.

Breakfast will be "Ewa Style" shredded chicken in Pita pockets with fresh tomatoes topping.

Lunch we had leftover fish head curry with pita.

Thursday, 18th Nov 2010 - No Cooking

After yesterday's battle, I am too tired to do anything! Luckily we had a bit of leftovers from last night dinner so we had it for both breakfast and lunch and I am off to my parents' place. As for Obba's dinner, as I had mentioned before he will be having his tennis lesson with his Korean friend so they will have dinner together after the lesson. Enjoy Obba!

Wednesday, 17th Nov 2010 - Lunch and Dinner with Special Guest - Simon Tan

Ok, today is the big day! I woke up really early for tonight's dinner. More preparation, cleaning and then prepared for our lunch. We had the leftover seaweed soup and fish head curry, asparagus with oyster sause and kimchi.

 

Great! After a long day of battle, finally I made the kimbap, kimchi pancake, fshcake soup (no pic) and rice cake (no pic).

 

We had a wonderful evening with the red wine which Simon brought and the dinner. Oops! I forgotten to mentioned about the apple salad I made. I didnt managed to take any pictures for the rest of the dishes as We had much to talk about. Thanks Simon!

Tuesday, 16th Nov 2010 - No Cooking

Today is a very busy Tuesday for me.. we are going to have a special guest for dinner tomorrow. I need to go for grocery shopping to get the best ingredients. So today is a day to shop shop shop, clean clean clean and prepare and then more cleaning (the house).. See you tomorrow!

Monday, 15th Nov 2010 - Breakfast and Lunch

We had the leftover Chicken tikka on hotdog bun with tomatoes topping for breakfast. You must be thinking why am I kept having hotdog bun, it was because there are only two person (my husband and I) at home and the hotdog bun comes in 4pcs in pack. I do not want to waste the bread so I have to finish as soon as possible.

As for Lunch, we had seaweed soup, fried fish with kimchi, ladyfingers with sambal sauce and tofu.

 

No snacks before my husband's tennis...

Sunday, 14th Nov 2010 - Full Meals

Sunday breakfast, chicken on hotdog bun with chilli sauce. I used the meat from my chicken bones after I made the stock. So heads up do not discard the bone immediately after the stock cause that are lot more meat in between the bones. ; )

For lunch, I made the deep fried seafood, leftover fish head curry, leftover Hong Kong Kai Lan and Kimchi.

Western Dinner. I made tomato think soup, "Ewa Style" chicken pockets and baked sweet potatoes yum yum!

Saturday, 13th Nov 2010 - Lunch and Dinner

Alright is Saturday again! Two more days new week will arrive! After last night dinner (very over eaten) both of us slept till noon. And wala here comes our lunch. deonjandjigae for stew, leftover sambal prawns, kim and "My Korean Style" Hong Kong Kai Lan with my mum's herbal tea.

 

As for dinner, I made Mariana Spaghetti, tomato salad, bake potatoes and a glass of white. Excellent! 

Friday, 12th Nov 2010 - No Cooking

Today is the last day of  my husband's training, which means today will be my last day of semi-free week... Will this week I did a number of things. I spring cleaning our house, fixed the guest toilet, the kitchen cabinet under the basin and brought my parents to see my brother's apartment and made a few lunch and dinner appointments for Obba and . And in the evening, I had dinner with my husband and his fellow Korean training mates at Suntec Muthu Curry Fish Head. The dinner were great and the Koreans love it very much and we had quite a bit of leftover to bring home.

Thursday, 11th Nov 2010 - Dinner

Alright, second last night of my free days. Tonight we had 김치찌개 for soup, 생선구이 (fried fish), 호박전 (zucchini pancake), Korean style Hong Kong kailan and white wine.

Wednesday, 10th Nov 2010 - Dinner

I forgot to mention that I needed to drive my husband to his training every morning, which means I have to ready by 8am. Our dinner, we had the leftover 된장찌개, 제육볶음, 김치 and white wine.

Tuesday, 9th Nov 2010 - Breakfast

My happy week starts from today!! My husband will be attending a training this week and I only need to prepare his dinner. However, tonight will be an exception as he has dinner appointment! As for this morning breakfast, I needed to finish the bread so I made him toasts with Marmite and coffee.

Monday, 8th Nov 2010 - Lunch

Today is my "free from cooking" day again!! : )

You must be thinking "if you did not cook, what is the picture about?" Heh heh.. The picture you see was my husband's lunch. I only prepare the rice and heat up the red "thing", my husband has a meeting at 1pm and it was too late to pepare breakfast (as usual, I woke up late) and too early to prepare for a big lunch so I heat up the store-box Indian chicken tikka (also one of my husband's favorites) and he wanted to have it with Kimchi (gee..I cannot imagine the smells made up from these two strong dishes!).

And the snacks before my husband's tennis was disaster.. I wanted to try a new cake recipe but it turned out to taste like "biscotti". I have to throw both the cake and recipe away. 오빠 미안해...

Sunday, 7th Nov 2010 - Full Meals

It is Sunday again!

Our breakfast, simple toasts and coffee

Our lunch, homemade ban-chan, 미역국 using clams & shrimps stock and baby kailan with balachan sauce.

Our dinner, homemade ban-chan, 된장찌개 for stew, 오징어불고기 and beer. Cheers!

Saturday, 6th Nov 2010 - Dinner

Breakfast - my husband actually prepared himself while I am still in my dreamland.. He heats up the leftover 북엇국 (dried pollack soup) and rice with some kimchi (maybe, I did not ask him) after his early morning tennis with our neighbour.

By the time I finished all my housework, I realized that it already past one week from my last grocery shopping  and most of the ingredients are almost used up so no lunch at home! We went out to Great World City, Singapore for sushi (happens that both of us have the craving for it!) and some simple grocery shopping and DIY shop for a netting to put be placed on our gate to prevent our kittens sneak out of the apartment.

It was already 5.30pm when we reached home. I decided to start on my "netting" project and it went quite well with my husband's help (he usually wont but because I let him buy his "favorite" tennis racquet which cost "only" S$199).

And we have 떡복기 (spicy rice cake) for dinner.

Friday, 5th Nov 2010 - Lunch and Dinner

All right it is time to wake up and get going! Thunder storms and lightening outside and will I get strikes while driving on the highway? I am not going to get myself into trouble on a public holiday (Deepavali). But what to do? I promised my parents that I would drive them there. It did not take too long for us to see the doctor and I managed to get home to prepare lunch for my husband. We had 순두부찌개 (spicy soft tofu stew), 제육볶음 (stir-fried pork) as the main ban-chan, and the other ban-chan I made grilled oyster mushroom, 오이 kimchi, 깍뚜기 kimchi, and kimchi. Enjoy, Obba!

I remember I mentioned before that I needed to prepare lots of food marination after my grocery shopping. Marinating is one of the things I like about Korean food because most of the marinated food can be kept for a longer time so I can use my free time to complete other tasks. The dinner we had was 북엇국 (dried pollack soup), which was my first time making it and it tasted fab! It uses simple ingredients, and Koreans believe that it helps to protect the liver especially after drinking alcohol! As for ban-chan, we had almost the same things as lunch and I served my home-made 오징어젓 (pickled squid), it was my first attempt too. The squids were good except it would have been better if it was less salty.

Thursday, 4th Nov 2010 - No Cooking

As mentioned previously, my husband plays tennis every Thursday evening and we usually will go to his favorite Indonesian restaurant but not today! This early morning I have to pick-up my parents from Clementi to National University Hospital (NUH) for my Dad's eye surgery. Not a major problem, it is a common surgery for elderly - Cataracts. However, it is a stressful trip for me to bring two people that always have disagreement with each other. Anyway, the surgery went smoothly and we have to come back for a review tomorrow early in the morning.. yawn

Wednesday, 3rd Nov 2010 - Full Meals

Today still not feeling too good, I mean my mood. Breakfast was served to my bed - the leftover cupcake and a glass of fresh milk. Life still goes on even you do not feel like it..I dragged my unpleasant mood to the kitchen to prepare lunch. Luckily, I have made 3 ban-chan (Korean side dish) yesterday so I only need to make stew.We had a 100% Korean lunch. Sudubu jjigae (tofu stew), 오이 kimchi (cucumber), marinated raw 오징어 (squid), 깍뚜기 kimchi (raddish) and leftover dubujorim.

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By evening, I am feeling much better. I manage to make some other ban-chan for tomorrow and prepare tonight's dinner. Some of the items is a trial run as I need to prepare it for my precious guest who we invited to our home next week.

Tuesday, 2nd Nov 2010 - Breakfast

Today is not a good day for me so we decided to eat out for lunch...(lunch was good we had turtle soup which is my favorite) Anyway, my husband plays tennis every Tuesday evening too so I do not need to prepare dinner. Sometimes I do not understand my husband's taste.. we had one of his favorite bread spread for breakfast which is Marmite. Can you believe it? I always thought it was for children with no appetite so mothers will put some in their food. Anyway, he really enjoy it!

Monday, 1st Nov 2010 - Breakfast, Lunch & Snacks

It is Monday again! In the evening, my husband plays tennis and I have Korean lesson so I do not need to prepare dinner.We had a very simple breakfast, toasts with nutella, peanut butter, kaya and raspberry jam with a cup of black coffee.

As for lunch, I prepared oven-baked kampong chicken with potatoes and vegetables. From the picture,it looks a bit burnt. Actually it was the spices on-top of the skin got burnt.

As I have mentioned that my husband plays tennis every Monday evening, I usually prepare something light for him to eat before he goes for his game. Today I prepared cupcake with banana and roll oats, the cakes taste really great!!

Sunday, 31 Oct 2010 - Full Meals

We had French toasts with Kaya and coffee - a cup of black coffee with a touch of cinnamon for him - for breakfast. It is one of my husband's favorites too!

As for lunch, I prepared Vongole (clams) in White Wine but instead of white wine I used the stock that I made from prawn shells. The dish is a little sweet and it has a different of kind of character. Side dish will be oven-baked fries and I used a sweet potato. We love the natural sweet taste of sweet potatoes! Drinks-wise, we had my mum's home-made ginseng-root herbal tea. Thanks Mum!

 After a relaxing swim at the pool and grocery shopping (again), I made a 100% Korean meal except that we had a sauvinon blanc for dinner. Korean-style stir-fried shrimps, dubujorim, leftover deonjang jjigae for soup and kimchi.I was very hungry by the time I finished cooking. 오빠 빨리 드세요, 저녁 먹어요!

Saturday, 30 Oct 2010 - Full Meals

As usual, another busy day... after my grocery shopping I have to "de-vein" & "de-shell" my shrimps and clean the squids then marinate them. Errh.. fishy smell on me... Ok, today we had Ewa's style "big breakfast" for brunch, heh heh.. I woke up late this morning (actually, as usual) and the breakfast is almost perfect except I ran out of bacon (will get some tomorrow).

I prepared seaweed soup, broccoli with oyster sauce,squid bulgogi and kimchi for lunch.

As for dinner, I made Thai basil chicken with rice for Han which is one of his favorite dishes.

Friday, 29 Oct 2010 - Lunch and Dinner

Another busy day for me.. In the morning we brought our kittens, Jaden and Jade to a clinic for check-up and vaccination at East Coast Road, Singapore then Han drove me to the supermarket at Parkway Parade. I spent almost 4 hours running around 4 supermarkets and Selffix store to get everything I need (well, almost everything) and Han picked me up after that. As for lunch, Han had kimchi fried rice which I had prepared for him last night and I cooked ramen for myself.

 

Finally we can have proper dinner tonight. I prepare deonjang jjigae for soup, fried golden tou gwa with balachan sauce, a zucchini pancake, a fried fish and kimchi. Obba, enjoy!

Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 - No Cooking

Today is a "free from cooking day" for me. We usually go to my husband's favorite Indonesian restaurant - Garuda at Vivo City, Singapore (they have total of 3 branches in Singapore) for lunch once a week and after lunch I visit my parents in Clementi, Singapore and stay until my husband is free to pick me up. As for dinner, Han will have it with his Korean tennis-mate after their tennis lessons.

Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 - Dinner

Wednesday was a hectic day for both my husband and I. Han had an off-site meeting at 9am which means I have to be ready and drive him to his meeting. The meeting ends at 11am and he has a lunch appointment with one of the SFDC colleagues and I can leave for home to do my weekly house cleaning. By the time I finish my cleaning it is already 7pm and I have to prepare for our dinner with hunger not with love...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010 - Lunch

It is a very simple lunch. I bought the bean curd pockets from Isetan Scotts, Singapore, and put some seaweed flakes, served it with kimchi and yellow radish. I also prepared seaweed soup and bo ri cha. Obba, enjoy! 맛있게 드세요!