Dinner's Served!

Alright we're back for some more food! Yesterday night I marinated a chicken breast with some vinegar, soya sauce, paprika, spice salt, pepper, and cooking wine. Sauteed it in a pan and served it on top of a stir-fried mix of broccoli, mushrooms and a pearl onion. Garnished with cilantro and voila!

The colour scheme on this thing isn't great, but it'll be something to think about for the next one.

The day before yesterday, I bought a pork tenderloin. I decided to throw it in the slow cooker with whole tomatoes, carrots, corn, and mushroom. I seasoned the tenderloin with paprika, spice salt, pepper, chicken cubes, and cooking wine again (yes...there's a pattern to the seasoning. I really need to diversify). HOWEVER, pork always goes well with something sweet, so I poured in some apple cider. I did some homework, played some tennis (before getting rained on), worked out, and three hours later I was enjoying this:

                        

I think I was a little heavy on the seasoning, or maybe it was the apple cider that added a 'bite'. Either way, it was a good meal which I have two more servings of for this week :)

The AM Snack

Being the Chinese guy I am, I was terribly craving some food so I made some instant noodles (NOTE: these noodles are not found in a cup and microwaved: those are GROSS. Who wants dehydrated veggies paper shredded into tiny squares? I successfully laid off of cup noodles since first year university *shudder*). My angry stomach may/may not have been caused by my Exercise Training class where we had to do some 1 mile runs, max weight workouts, and I was generally very sore from the day before too (hence I was yearning for protein).

So....I added some frozen scallops to the noodles for that protein. The noodle pack also came with those soup bases, but they shoot up the sodium levels on these noodles to 79% of your daily intake...which is insane. I added maybe half of that and some sesame seed oil and presto! Late night snack.

PS this totally breaks many rules of my new nutrition plan where I eat 2 serving of veggies with every meal and carbs only for breakfast/post exercise....but I was reading articles on hamburgers so the hunger got to me.

The New Nutrition Program

During a long absence out of town and watching the World Cup, I picked up a nutrition program that I'm semi-following right now. It's basically the 5 meals a day, protein every meal, 2 servings of veggies every meal, carbs for breakfast and after exercise only, etc, etc. I've become even more health conscious now that I've been doing this exercise training course. I also bought protein powder! But, it tastes kinda like fish so it might not the best one out there.

So this morning, I had Vector cereal with milk before my workout, and made myself a smoothie (with my new protein powder) for a meal. Cooked up salmon and deglazed it with balsamic vinegar, which is it looks so dark in the picture below.

It was kinda underdone but I don't actually mind it (thank you Japan). Threw some spinach and cucumbers underneath and ate it at work (which is why its in a handy box).

For dinner, I stir-fried some bok choy with a smashed garlic clove and ginger, deglazed with chicken broth and a little salt. Boiled some pork dumplings and voila!

The dumpling that's open was my tester. I like to know I'm eating something fully cooked...and since no one's marking me on presentation I frequently do it. But if you think about it, good chefs always taste their food before serving it to their clients, and since I'm my own chef and client, this would be justified :)