Salad days

Salad-eating days are here, what with the meltingly-hot weather nowadays.


The other reason for eating salads is to get rid of tummy bloatedness and this humongous water retention, which had stubbornly stuck to me for almost 2 weeks!

Er... I assumed and hoped that it's water retention and not weight gain...!?! :-( The SO doesn't mind eating more healthily and lose a few pounds, although nobody will say he's fat lah!

There was a saba (mackeral) salad, which we had last week, with red wine vinaigrette dressing.



The saba was purchased from Carrefour, already cooked, which I think is a great concept, coz they can then sell off whatever unsold raw saba that's leftover at the end of the day.



It was a big piece of fish, almost as long as my small oven.


I think the saba was pre-marinated coz it tasted savoury and sweet, with no need to add any sauce.

For lunch today, we had "chapalang" salad, ie the "anything-goes" salad.


There was broccoli and green beans (blanched in boiling water), celery, tomatoes, capsicum and onions...

...lightly dressed with Japanese sesame dressing.



The protein came from a can of "Whole squids in their own ink" - yep, that's what the packaging says in English.



Plus some wonderfully-fragrant Atlantic salmon, also from a can.


Whole squid in its own ink + salmon salad, topped with a dollop of black squid ink. I found the squid ink to be quite delicious, if you don't mind the whole black thing.

Of course, since we're not small eaters, eating a salad for lunch means we need to have snacks for afternoon tea, which we usually do, anyway. ;-)

Answer to "mystery food" post

It does look like luncheon meat eh? Or even some kind of canned pet food.



It's actually this!



Mexican style "refried beans", no meat at all.



Beans were once regarded as the perfect food, coz they contain most of the protein groups, without having to resort to a meat diet.

Recent food sightings

Rectangular muffins from Cedele bakery - Blueberry-cranberry and Cuppucino



Fried Tilapia from Carrefour - fried and saltless



The "Ang Golly" that EJ mentioned; the English name is sea bream (I didn't know that!)



Red Delicious #4015...today's the day to buy 4D. ;)



There's no more MaLing at the provision shop *sob*, only the ang moh Tulips brand and this Yifon, which has ham and yet is cheaper than the ham-less ML (that's how much prestige ML commands in the market!)

Warhol copycat

Saw a new brand of evaporated milk at the supermart! I know I am very aunty-ish for noticing such things, but I really enjoy grocery shopping. Kekeke! I find it relaxing.

There are many things I like about the packaging - the b/w cow against the pinkish-red & green background.


Is this art?



And this seems to be the most common and sometimes the only cheap luncheon meat available on the supermarket shelves nowadays



I haven't tried it, as I would prefer to check out more Maling. Anyway, I still have one can of ML after giving one to mom. I don't think she appreciates it or realise the significance of actually possessing a can of ML luncheon meat nowadays...haha!

Saturday's lunch

Looking at the photos of luncheon meat sandwiches at KSN's blog tempted me to open a can myself. So I did, with an old can which was purchased way before the ban/restriction was imposed.

I like this version with added ham.





To be eaten with char ban mee.
First time I'm using this no preservatives, no "kee" noodles.



The preparation always takes longer than the actual time spent eating the dish.



Cooked with whatever ingredients that's available in the fridge, leftover from CNY.



Luncheon meat & fried ban mian.

Endangered species of the epicurean kind

Heh heh heh!

Temptations for KSN?



I found them today...can you believe it?

I remembered your "gian-ness" for Maling luncheon meat, and decided to drop by at the provision shop.



They are newly-produced.



We can have a party, but hor, see how much fat there is!?!



怕了吗？

Apparently, this shop I bought from has a "special connection" with the supplier and hence they could get these limited cans. There were only a few cans left, and I grabbed 4 cans only ...coz I was very loaded with stuff already (plastic rack to make cat condo, packs of plant fertilisers, new cat bed, cat grass boxes, etc.) :P

Will find some way to pass a can to KSN...or if you happen to drop by for dinner at your friend's place, let me know.

Anyone else would like to have a can too?

:)

Miscellaneous food and snacks

Some of the foodstuff I'd eaten recently. :)

Fish luncheon meat, anyone?

This Ayam brand product came out just in time during the shortage of the very comforting Maling pork luncheon meat from PRC; comes in original, spicy and black pepper flavour (as shown). It tastes ok lah...that is, after piling on the butter, cucumber and tomatoes in a sandwich!


Taiwanese vegetarian stuff made of mushroom, from this emporium I discovered at People's Park Complex that imports lots of its own Taiwanese foodstuff. It tastes like 肉酱 (meat paste), and great with porridge, though a bit salty.




I've been wondering about the English name of this fruit for ages.


I've seen the supermarts and sellers calling it 太阳瓜 （sun melon?) and honey melon or honey sun melon. They're really good, sweet and crunchy when in season (which this one is not; skin too thick) and cheap too (when in season). It's my 2nd fave fruit after the Hamid melon which we ate in Xinjiang, China (not the unripe, imported ones though).

I bought this pack of crisps at the ozzie section of "Aunty Lucy" mart when it was at the intro price of $2.95, and my, it tastes great! Best of all, it's baked and supposedly low in fat, so I can eat lots of it without feeling guilty (self-consolation only).



I've since bought 2 more packs in different flavours, but they're more pricey than even Kettle's potato chips, at $3.50 for 100g nia. I've to refrain from eating my fave Kettle's chips since I'm on a diet...coz once eat liao, can't stop!




A reprisal of my vegetarian aglio olio pasta...this time with less oil.



My fave Subway "cold cut trio" sandwich...which is great as a diet food dinner.



But I started to feel hungry around bedtime...which is a very dangerous thing...


I always ask for everything from the salad counter, plus extra olives...and usually on oregano parmesan bread, non-toasted please.

Spud's mom had just given me more of her home-baked goodies...will post next time. :)

Oops...there goes my diet!