Lifestyle & Leisure
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Healthy Simple Soy sauce Fried Noodles
Well it’s a Sunday afternoon and hubby is out at a race and will be back unexpectedly late, so I had to search my fridge to find food I can whip up for the kids. Thankfully I found the tri-color atta noodles and shiitake mushroom sauce. These noodles and sauce can just be added together but the taste won’t be as full so I decided to add some more things to it. I don’t have the usual onions and ginger around so had to make do with what’s available. Ingredients: Atta noodles Shiitake mushroom sauce 1 egg Sauce: 2 Tbsp water 1 Tbsp light soy sauce 2½ tsp dark soy…
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Watch and Win with Mom’s Time Out on Lifetime Channel
I saw this trailer on Lifetime Channel last week and the first thing that went through my mind was, hey I want to be on the show. Finally, there is a reality TV Show for moms, and it doesn’t really focus on the mom, it’s really on the dads. What happens is, three moms from three Asian nations, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines are given a 5 day holiday to Vietnam, while the three dads are left behind to take care of their kids and their household. I really want to know how they cope as I cannot imagine this happening in my little family as my little one asks for…
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From Kefir to Cheese and Fermented Vegie
I had been making milk kefir for nearly 5 years and water kefir recently. The only converts from my badge of kefir are my parents and my sisters, besides that, not many people I know want to venture into kefir making even with its huge list of benefits. I was quite pleasantly surprised when a raw food group I join on facebook started discussing Kefir making and quite a lot of people are interested. Even I became very interested again with the benefits of kefir besides just making the drinks and so I ventured into making kefir cheese and fermented vegetables. How to Make Kefir Cheese I like to do…
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The Truth About Hidden Hunger
Previously, I don’t know anything about Hidden Hunger until I read some of these articles in the papers below. If you simply google Hidden Hunger, you will find that UNHIR says: Hidden hunger is a chronic lack of vitamins and minerals that often has no visible warning signs, so that people who suffer from it may not even be aware of it. Its consequences are nevertheless disastrous: hidden hunger can lead to mental impairment, poor health and productivity, or even death. Ok that sounded really serious right? Getting the right nutrients to my two kids at home had always been my top priority, but it didn’t help that both of…
