LESS Is The New MORE

It is not easy to eat healthy if you refuse to make a habit of it. I have decided that eating healthy also means spending less time in the kitchen, less money spent on ingredients, fewer dishes to be washed, and less consumption of electricity. To me the benefits are plenty while everything else is less, so why not.

It is life changing, throwing away the old habits and welcoming the new can be a tough test to maneuver but if you keep on trying, you will find that nothing is too difficult where your health is concerned. I am happy with my trials and my angels comments on me so far has shown that LESS is the new MORE.

Anyways, I discovered that I also have a thing with oatmeal. I love them either boiled as porridge with skim milk, or roasted in the oven and munched as nibbles, or making them into cookies.

The oatmeal cookie is rather thick and the oatmeal on the cookie can be a little bit chewy. But you know what, the more time you take to chew, the less you will consume of the food. This is good, don’t you think so?

Let me share this recipe of oatmeal cookie which is just excellent at any time of the day, the fiber content is high and the calorie count is low. Take time and give yourself a go, you will learn to like it.

Ingredients

1/2 cup margarine (I no longer use butter for my cakes and cookies), softened
1 egg
½ teaspoon fine mountain salt (get the brown one if you can)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups oats
3/4 cup raisins

In a large bowl, put together the margarine and egg and mix well. Stir in the whisk: flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, then add in the oats and raisins. Keep the dough in the fridge for an hour or at least 30 minutes or you can also bake them straight away. The reason I like to keep them for a bit is because it allows the sweet taste of the raisin to integrate in the dough better. If you notice I am not using any sugar (yeahhhhhhhhh……….. no sugar!!!!!!!).

Roll out the dough and using any shape of cookie press that you like, press each cookie on a baking paper, make sure not to arrange the cookies too close to each other as they will rise in size while baking.

The temperature of the oven should not be more than 170 degree C. Bake for 15 minutes or until the cookies turn into nice brown color.

Happy trying!!!

It Was Spectacular

 

 

Woke up this morning feeling hungry, both hubby and my little angel were still fast asleep. The time showed that it was nearly 9am. I went to the kitchen with an urge for sardine sandwich.

The sardine sold here are not like what we have back home, but I remember once I had bought something quite similar at a Saigon minimart. Opening the larder I found the can of sardine and start preparing for the sandwich.

There’s nothing spectacular about my sardine sandwich but being able to have it when I want it was spectacular. I had my sandwich with zitrone mint tea and cinnamon.

Nice start to an ordinary rainy gloomy windy summer Sunday.

GOOD Morning

 

 

 On my GOOD morning breakfast, this is what I will have. Notice the GOOD!!!!!!!

This can only mean that it is not often.

May Not Be 5 Star Rated

  

From the moment of our first hug, she told me that she was hungry. Yes, hungry for mom’s cooking, hungry for a warm home, hungry for all the love that was missing and most of all hungry for quality food.

Since then I have been complying to give her what she has been missing. I realized from our conversation that what was signed on the dotted line of a home away from home in a dormitory living was just pure story telling.

I have no regrets sending her to a boarding school, but I regret broken promises. Today we had steak, colorful salads and brown bread. Everyone was happy, the food may not be 5 star rated but we have loads of laughter while indulging in it.

Panda Vespa

 

 

 

Panda Vespa By Amal