Yummy Sunday homecooked meals!

Though busy with work over the weekend, I managed to make time yesterday to cook two out of the three meals we had at home. Turned out much to my liking (and quite to Hubby's :p) so am really pleased.

Breakfast was...

No Japanese style breakfast, cos woke up later than planned and didn't have enough time to cook porridge and the mini dishes. But this worked fine for me too! Toasted bread, pan fried luncheon meat (wanted breakfast ham but couldn't find any at the last minute grocery shopping), grilled tomatoes, egg sunny side up with melted garlic & herb cheese and sprinkled seaweed flakes, and seedless black grapes. Yum! Actually I 'stole' this idea from a recipe book I was browsing at a bookstore the day before and sort of reinvented it with whatever ingredients I could find at home. :p

Then, dinner was...

Yum, one of my favourites -- pumpkin! Experimented with this for the first time last Monday after work, and it turned out to be quite ok, so I tried it again a second time last evening, hoping it'd taste just as good for Hubby to try. It turned out even better, I thought! But too bad Hubby just has this thing about pumpkins... he'd never quite fancy it, I guess! Never mind... shall cook this for myself in future then. Like the experts always say, choose food items that're bright and colourful cos they've got more nutrients. Pumpkins are great cos they contain:

• a good amount of Vitamins C, K and E -- great for skin and immune system
• a burst of Vitamin A -- great for the skin
• antioxidants -- help to lower the risk of cancer
• lots of minerals, including magnesium, iron, potassium, zinc -- reduce risk of hypertension, boost immune system, aid bone density support
• fibre -- prevents cancer and heart diseases

I also cooked wanton noodles to go with the pumpkin (hmm, actually it's the other way round :p). Bought the noodles last week but didn't quite get down to cooking it, so thought it'd be good to cook them last night. Added some leafy green veggies and prawn/fish dumplings, plus some stir fried diced luncheon meat (left from breakfast) and red capsicum. Cooked enough to pack a portion to work today and had it as lunch. Yummy!

To top it off, there's also my white radish and carrot soup, which I grew to really love. Hee.

Actually, with all these dishes I've been experimenting, I'm wondering if I should start a food blog. Haha... so 不要脸 right? Not a gourmet chef, can't even bear to touch raw meat etc. yet wanna start a food blog? :p Just thought it'd be interesting to take pics of what I cook or maybe what I enjoy out there and put them in a separate blog for records. After all, I do love looking at pictures of food! *drool* ;P Think they're kinda therapeutic, just like how cooking sometimes is to me.

Anyway, we shall see...heehee...