So far, I have been consistent with my "living a healthier life" New Year's resolution. This is also the first time I have counted my calorie intake everyday. My goal is to reach my pre-marriage weight (crossing fingers!) by losing 2 lbs a week. Approximately, in 3 months time (just in time for a Spring vacation as DH has been busy checking on vacation homes), I'd be able to lose the extra weight I have without being unhealthy or crashing on diet. Armed with these 2 plus my self-control and determination, I hope to reach my desired weight goal in no time.

The first time I heard of 30-day shred was when I was watching a Health TV show, then I began to research and so no negative feedback. Ordered one in ebay and tried it for 10 days. All it takes for you is to engage in a hard core sort of combined circuit training for only 20 minutes a day. It's hard work but you are done in 20 minutes. There are 3 levels, so no plateauing will happen. Highly recommended. Reality Check: I am still in Level 1 hahahaha! But I tell you Level 2 is much much harder, it is death by circuit training. LOL! I'm back to level 1 hahah!

Yesterday, we had an impromptu Dinner out with some friends, mostly DH's friends. While I was busy checking tiles, DH, DS and friends went ahead to choose a place and ordered. They chose Moe's, it was a first time for me at this Mexican resto. DH knowing that I still have a baby-like tummy because of the 7-day fasting&prayer I did a couple of weeks ago, ordered me this Light Wednesday Taco Salad with lots lots of Tofu. Nom nom.

Unmixed.

I know I have talked about Precious Metals and how through US Gold Bureau you can purchase silver, gold or other precious metals and coins and make these your wise investments before but this time a dear friend is considering to seriously invest on these precious metal and buy gold bullion. You see, he has been really saving up for his future family and he can get paranoid when it comes to handling his finances. With all the talks on the global economic crisis, he wants to pull out some of his savings from the banks as he said it might not be safe there anymore. What do you think? Do you think he is making the wisest money decisions?

Lasang Pinoy is back! yey!

We went to M&M's World in Vegas and boy was it so colorful. It is a four-story establishment of anything M&M's and we bought 2 bags of these colorful-coated chocolate candies. DS had the honor of choosing the colors, his favorite was black. yay!

Just dropping by to wish all of you a Happy Weekend before I untangle our cable ties. We had this very yummy Pancit Canton last New Year's Eve. I am waiting for my mom to email me the recipe and I will share it here.

Did you serve pancit during New Year's? It is said to bring Good luck!

We have leeks at home.
Let's try this out before I check on these jobs in philadelphia pa.

Good for your kiddos, no hard munching involved hee.
Happy Cooking!

BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH LEEKS

Ingredients:

375 grams tenderloin, sliced ( can also use pork or chicken breast)
2 teaspoon soy sauce
1 clove garlic, crushed
½ teaspoon salt
100 grams leeks ( or asparagus, bamboo shoots or mushroom)
1 medium onion
4 teaspoon oil
¼ cup beef stock
1 teaspoon corn flour
1 tablespoon cold water
1 teaspoon sugar
oil to cook

Procedure: Marinate beef with salt, sugar, soy sauce, a little bit garlic, ginger then mix add white pepper or labuyo. In a pan sauté onion, garlic (lightly fry) add leeks and a little water then add the beef and add a little cornstarch to make it sticky.

Tips
You can use honey or maple syrup and soy sauce preferably Kikkoman.

After reading some weight loss success stories, I realized that most people who lost weight, eat many times a day but with small proportions. By doing so, your tummy never gets stretched, chances are you won't develop flabs, more so your metabolism will be improved. I guess this finger food photo is the idea of small portions harharhar! Can you survive with that small proportion every 2 hrs in a day?

One of my staple foods is Porkchops! My friends would wonder why I loved pork so much. I could live without chicken and beef, but pork no! So, this is a clear indication that I can never go vegeterian my whole life although I tried before. However, I have committed myself to living a healthier life to attain my desired pre-wedding weight and so I try as much as possible to avoid pork or else I would end up taking these fat burner supplements.

But I know, that sometimes it's good to indulge to our cravings so for this week's recipe, here's Crispy Golden Chops!

CRISPY GOLDEN PORK CHOP

Ingredients:
500 grams pork chop
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon five spice powder
1 small pack Japanese bread crumbs
1 egg white
cup plain rice
oil for frying

Procedure: Marinate pork chop with salt, soy sauce, five spice, pepper for about 3 hours and then freeze before cooking. Then dredge in the bread crumbs,( dip in white eggs,then flour and then to the Japanese bread crumbs) deep fry.

Basic Sauce
1 teaspoon soy sauce
3 teaspoon tomato sauce
2 teaspoon white vinegar
2 teaspoon white sugar
¼ teaspoon corn flour
1 tablespoon water
1 garlic
¼ grated ginger
3 pcs. Chestnut
3 teaspoon green peas
1 pc. Big red pepper

Procedure: Put chestnuts in a pan and add green peas, red pepper, sugar, vinegar, tomato sauce, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, little water or stock then boil. Pour to the fried porkchop. Or arrange as side dish

As I was telling my friend about these best prenatal vitamins because She recently got pregnant after waiting for a year, my boys were feasting on this. Sadly, they still miss my mom's cooking, me also. But, this will all help me and DH to shed off those extra pounds now that I am the one who's running the kitchen. And yes, I am back with my "generic cooking" (LOL!).

My recipe for this week is something that would make green leafy veggies delectable to my many friends who dare not touch these type of veggies as they claimed, they do not eat GRASS! I myself is not a big fan of veggies (except for eggplant!) but I am not choosy when it comes to eating greens. So here's a salad with 4 different types of simple dressings that I hope might make you enjoy eating greens! Very timely for my new diet routine. Enjoy the recipe, off to check this hair loss treatment review.

Put in a big salad bowl, lettuce leaves, 4 tomatoes sliced crosswise into rings, 2 white onions sliced into ring, 1 red bell pepper sliced into rings, green bell pepper sliced into rings (leave skin on.) Put in a different small bowls.

1. Blue cheese Dressing: Mix 1 small pkg blue cheese or use ½ cup cheddar grated with 1 Philadelphia cream cheese (225 grm) ¼ cup mayonnaise and 1 cup all purpose cream or avoset
2. French dressing: Mix together, ½ cup cooking oil, 2 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tbsp bottled lemon or calamansi juice, ½ tsp salt, 1 tsp paprika, 1 tsp mustard, 1 tbsp sugar
3. Italian Dressing: Same recipe as for French dressing but add 1 small head minced garlic, ¼ tsp each of thyme and oregano.
4. Thousand island: Mix together, 2 cups Kraft mayonnaise, ½ cup catsup, 2 finely chopped hard boiled eggs, ¼ cup pickle relish, 1 tbsp karo syrup. If Kraft miracle whip, omit pickle relish in your recipe.
   
   

Yesterday, I was missing Tokyo Tokyo so badly that I had to ask DH to drive me in the nearest Japanese FastFood. This is what I got for myself. It was a 15-maki-dish and then more hahah! I know I broke my diet routine but I fasted the whole day as I have been craving for Tokyo Tokyo's Red Iced Tea, Beef Terriyaki, Tempura, Yakisoba and Maki. I was so full last night that I immediately check these colon cleanse product reviews.