A quick breakfast to start off the day

So I'm running short on time and whipped up some quick Canadian bacon, tomato salad with green onions and olive bread.

I had the bacon already defrosted from 2 nights before thinking I would have consumed yesterday, so I threw it in an unheated pan with some oil and turned the heat to medium-high (you don't always need the pan to be hot beforehand).

For the salad I quickly diced a tomato (I cross hatch it 3/4 of the way down and slice from there), a green onion, and topped it off with balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper.

The olive bread I quickly baked in the toaster oven (the toast setting is not working :( ) and voila! A quick breakfast where I can dip my bread in leftover vinegar, Italian-style.

Look Ma, I turned Breakfast into Lunch!

Today was another great day where I woke up naturally 3 minutes before my alarm would have gone off haha. So I got out of bed and went to my fridge, which is quite empty right now. I realized I still had a little bit of egg whites left in a carton (equivalent to 1 egg really), so I decided to have an omelette. Since I like my omelette (and most meals) with lots of veggies, I stir fried some broccoli with garlic and sliced an avocado to eat fresh (I didn't cook the avocado). I took out the broccoli, added some oil the the pan and cooked the egg. The best part is that the egg picked up all the flavour from the broccoli, garlic, and chicken broth brown bits at the bottom of the pan :D

Since I ate half the avocado waiting for things to cook (that's only the other half you see in the picture), I was feeling kinda full after eating the egg and some broccoli. My appetite for breakfast has never been huge. So, I decided to use the leftovers as my sides for lunch. I cleaned the same pan and cooked up a salmon fillet (after microwave defrosting).

The salmon's got a hole in the middle because I cut it in half to check if it was done (and as always, it wasn't). I added two slices of olive bread and now I'm set for my noon time lunch with a friend :D

Thanks for reading!

Post-Party Breakfast

So when you sleep in for 12 hours and wake up at 4am, I still consider the meal at that time my breakfast. I fried two eggs topped with spice salt and defrosted two slices of olive bread. Warmed up some homemade "soup." It's not like Western civilization soup, more of like an in between of soup and a beverage. We from China boil some chicken bones/meat, mushrooms, and lots of other things of which I don't know English name equivalents (there's no dog or cat so relax). Anyways, its good and soothing after a long night out.

I'm noticing the lack of veggies in this now, but I had a banana earlier so I'll probably fill up on carrots for a snack. 

So Much Food, So Little Time...

So it's really hard to keep up a blog, especially one about food (which you eat EVERYDAY - hand down again anorexic guy). Since blogger.com has a new, annoying way to upload pictures, and the fact that it takes forever to upload them, I'll try my best to fight the urge to yell at Rogers (which would take me 2 hrs just to get in touch with a real human being). That being said, here we go:

Just cooked dinner, pulled the dumplings from the freezer and they took quite a long time to boil before being done. After cutting open the first tester, I found it was still cold inside...and pinky. Had to test a few more before I could tell they were cooked (better safe than sorry!). It was still delicious, with Taiwanese cabbage stir-fried in garlic and chicken broth underneath.

                               

Hmm so I guess this blogger won't center portrait-style pictures either...wait I can use the space bar to push it over....haha silly me, anyways, I woke up super early today (7am...after sleeping at 10:30pm) and went to the gym (I had some Vector cereal with milk and a banana). When I came back I made an omelette with peas and corn that turned into a scrambled egg...because I couldn't flip it all in one go. Better safe to have it cooked through though, runny eggs gross me out. Added an orange, plum, and apple juice to finish it off.

                      

Watching Toy Story 3 is a pretty good way to kill time as pictures load :P
I always wanted an excuse to use balsamic vinegar in a savoury dish and I got my chance. Made a salad yesterday for lunch, using arugula, cherry tomatoes, and cucumbers. Topped it off with a pan-seared salmon to which I added balsamic vinegar to the pan at the end, and a little on top of the salad as well. Delicious.

Toy Story 3 cut out on me, time to study for a midterm this Saturday :S I had a pita with the salmon salad to fill me up, and used some good 'ol salsa. I was chowing down on a tub of hummus every week and I felt it was a bit unhealthy, so I switched over to a healthier option (although I think it does have more sodium...)

Alright time to backtrack a bit. Went home for the weekend, my brother made ribs using a dry spice rub, apple wood to smoke it, indirect heat, probably 3 hours in the barbecue, and this picture does NOT give the size of this dish justice. It was piled a good foot above the dinner table (there are 3 racks in there). Good stuff bro.

                     

Alright last one for now. The day after the barbecue we went to 168 Sushi Japan Buffet on Dundas St., west of Erin Mills. I was SO stuffed afterwards. But then again I worked out once we got home, to my surprise. Their food is pretty good for a buffet. Try it out! (It will put you back about $23.00 with tax and tip on top for dinner).

Kay gotta study now, thanks for reading if you got this far! I would like to do shorter blogs so that my labels don't become super long (so I can reference what I ate/build ideas of what to cook in the future). Ciao!

On Ron Artest and a World Cup Makeshift Breakfast

What a week! Exams and studying have kept me from writing, as well as the World Cup and NBA Finals. What a game last night! I was rooting for the Celtics but happy for Artest. Watch his post-game interview on nba.com, it's pretty fun at the end.

Currently watching Germany getting owned by Serbia...don't think anyone expected Klose with two yellows, a saved Podolski penalty shot, and multiple crossbars both ways. Simply evidence you can't judge teams from one game in the opening round.

I'm surprised I got up early to watch this game, but it was just one those day I got up naturally at 6am despite sleeping at 1am :P ANYWAYS this blog is about food so let's get to that (lots to catch up).

I didn't have any cereal left over, or eggs to make an omelette, so my main two options were out. Had to finish the cherry tomatoes in my fridge (heading out for the weekend), so I shaved some white cheddar on top with vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Made some noodles to get my carbs, and tried to finish up some broccoli as well. Threw in the last of the chives my neighbour grew in garden for some flavour. Since I didn't want to clean another bowl, I just ate out of the pot I boiled everything in. Reduced cleaning time = more World Cup. Need I say more?