Tak boleh nak buat wordless wednesday, haha

Remember our supposedly romantic dinner for 2 to celebrate our anniversary last year?

Fikir punya fikir, last2 we all tukar ia jadi non-romantic lunch for 4, hehehe. Susah banget nak cari babysitter, nak cari time dinner yang sesuai and macam2 hal. So, tu yang tukar ke lunch and hangkut The Little Misses sekali!

Esok ni lah we all nak pergi our non-romantic lunch with the kids tagging along. Kalau ada budak 2 orang tu memang lah takkan romantik langsung sebab asik diaorang aje yang bercakap especially Miss 7, hahaha.

Tak boleh lah The Other Half and I nak berbisik2 ayat2 hangat cinta sambil melentuk2 manja dan bermain2 mata, hikhikhikhik……

(knowing us, we’ll be too busy shovelling food down our throats kot and we’ll be saying to each other, “less talk, more food!”.)

Muahahahahahaha……

Tu yang the past few days, we all berkobar2 berexercise and cutting down on our food intake. Sebab nak melantak sakan esok ni lah! Tak lah rasa guilty sangat kan kalau we all makan lebih2 esok kan.

Tadi when I entered my final food intake for today on myfitnesspal, it says, ‘If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 44.7 kg in 5 weeks .’

But I rasalah kan, kalau I enter all the food yang I akan makan esok, it will marah I and say, ‘If every day were like today...   You'd gain 5kg in 5 weeks.’ hikhikhikhik…

Malam ni for dinner I made a combination of frittata and crustless quiche. I guna this recipe. But I added diced potato and sweet potato, grated carrot and peas in it and kurangkan the cheese.

So, tak payah lah I makan or make another carb to eat with the quiche sbb dah ada potatoes in it.

Just came out of the oven.

Choc-a-block with things inside it .

My plate tonite. I had 1/8th of a slice aje (sebab nak makan banyak esok kan, hehehehe.)

But kenyang makan banyak ni aje pun especially if you drink lots of water with it .

Another normal Tuesday

Hari ni disebabkan I menjegilkan mata sambil memberikan dire warning to The Little Misses not to disturb me during my exercise, dapatlah I ber exercise dengan aman, hehehehehe.

But I rasa lagi teruk nak pengsan kaput exercising today! I am so unfit betul lah!

But the weighing scale is showing some imrovement so I rela rasa2 nak pengsan buat exercise tu asalkan hati I berbunga2 naik penimbang lepas tu, hahahaha. Sambil menyelam, sambil minum air lah kiranya kan. I nak keep myself fit and healthy but losing weight at the same time, yabedabedu lah kan!

Malam ni I makan salad as a main meal again. (Kan hajat hati I nak jadi ala2 kambing or rabbit, makan sayur aje, hehehehe).

I made green salad with tomato and grated carrot mixed with sliced chicken burger, torn lebanese bread, grilled eggplant and a handful of oven-baked chips .

This is less than 500 cals so ok lah kan for a dinner.

The rest had chicken burger with salad and chips.

And then lepas dinner, we all bercanda at the front lawn. The Little Misses and The Other Half bermain2 while I jadi papparazzi.

Layan lah ye some more photos of flowers and the girls.

Nak tengok bunga ros rumah my neighbour?

Lagi berderet dari rumah I! Tapi kaler pink aje lah semua, hehehe. Lagi lah rasa macam nak petik2 aje bunga ros dia ni kan .

And some photos of The Little Misses .

Serabai but Miss 11 and I tadi gelak2 cuba masukkan our fingers thru the corkscrew curls, hehehe….

Happy as can be…….

I think she really wants to be a cowgirl .

Weh, dah maghrib weh, masuk masuk!!!!!

I only need 30 minutes!

I takdelah exercise lama mana hari2, cuma around 30-45 minutes aje in a day. Selalunya I exercise with Wii Maya for 30 minutes, dapatlah peluh2 jugak buat all those moves.

But hari ni I tergerak nak guna balik the elliptical machine yang dah lama dok tersadai kat luar tu. Sebab I jeles The Other Half rode to work today and he told me yang he spent 800cals riding to work pagi tadi.

I pun lepas buat  the housework, dengan penuh semangat started using the elliptical. I dolu2 slalu guna the machine on max resistance but today I could only do it at half resistance, itu pun rasa macam dah nak kaput aje…..

I’ve only been on it for 10 minutes when…

Miss 7 started asking me so many questions and not fully listening to my answers..

Miss 7: Can I have an apricot?

Me: There’s….no….more…….(sambil panting like mad)

Miss 7:You know that fruit that’s orange in colour, the one that I had before?

Me: There’s……no……..more…….(gilanya trying to pant and talk at the same time)

Miss 7: What is it called again? Or can I have another fruit.

Me: What..e…ver….. Don’t….ask…me….I’m…exer…cis……ing…….. (Dalalam hati dah tension habis2 sebab dah lah penat nak bernafas, pastu nak kena jawab her questions lagi)

Miss 7: I’ll have the plums then (Apasal lah kamu tak paham2, tak nampak ke Mak kamu tengah termengah2 tu, still tanya soalan gak!) .

Pastu tak sampai 2 minutes….

Miss 7: But this one doesn’t taste nice. Can I have another 1?

Mum: (Masa ni tengah geram sgt2 , terus lah dapat energy sekejap untuk membebel). Can’t you see I’m exercising. Don’t ask me any questions, do whatever you like. I only need 30 minutes.

Terus senyap Miss 7, muahahahahaha….

Then masa I tengah betul2 rasa nak pengsan at 25 minutes, Miss 11 pulak datang and asked me a question.

Mum: Agggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! I only need 30 minutes of peace!

Typical kids! I don’t disturb them when they are playing with their toys or on the Wii or on the computer. I nak exercise cuma setengah jam aje pun tak senang!

Ada aje orang kacau. Kalau lah I exercise jenis yg lepak2 masih boleh gelak2 sambil exercise takpelah nak answer all the questions.

Ini, nak bernafas pun semput, lagi lah nak jawab questions! Hikhikhikhik…..

The Other Half kata I should have advised/told/threatened them first not to disturb me during the exercise, baru lah diaorang tak kacau.

Hari2 kah mau kasi tau?

Tapi bila dah tengah hari, dah tak geram dah, dapat lah I buat bread rolls to have for dinner.

I buat white bread rolls untuk cicah dengan honey mustard chicken with leek, mushroom, carrots and beans.

That corn is called snow white super sweet corn. They are definitely very very sweet .

It is not a soup, but it is not a stew either, hehehe….

Chefs jemputan in the house

Hari ni hari sangat2 relax sebab The Other Half memang sangat2 rajin hari ni. Dia jemur kain baju, angkat kain baju kat ampaian, basuh pinggan mangkuk and cooked tonite’s dinner with Miss 7!

Uwahhhh…. tergugat kedudukan I nak jadi suri rumah mithali macam ni!(hakhakhakhakhak).

I wonder what’s the udang sebalik mee buat dia rajin sangat hari ni…. hehehehe .

The Other Half and his assistant, Miss 7 made a really yummy tuna mornay pasta bake. Recipe from here. Sangat lah sukanya Miss 7 sebab dapat jadi assistant chef but occasionally masa tengah masak tu, dia boleh lupa and thought dia yang head chef, hikhikhik…..

At the end of the cooking session, she said to The Other Half, “Thanks Dad for helping me cook dinner tonite!”

Dad dia kata, “Eh? You were the one who helped ME cooked dinner not the other way around, hahaha”

I made the salad though. My pinggan separuh salad and separuh tuna bake. Cepatlah turun my weight hendaknya, hikhikhikhik….

So colourful their tuna bake sebab letak peas and cherry tomatoes .

The Other Half found a free downloadable program on the net that tracks our weight loss journey and also what we eat. It’s called http://www.myfitnesspal.com/. And it also recommends how many calories you are supposed to consume in a day. So we all ni sekarang (well, baru sehari aje, hehehe) gigih lah enter in all the things that we eat and also the exercise that we do every day.

Hari ni I suka sangat2 sebab after I’ve keyed in everything, I only consumed 1007cals which is less than the 1200cals that I’m supposed to consume.

Pastu dia bagi note, ‘if you keep on eating and exercising this way, you will weigh 46.2kg after 5 weeks.’

What???? That long???????

I might turn into a goat first from eating too much salad before I can achieve that weight, muahahhahaha…….

How big is that!

Miss 11 suka sangat2 baca books like ‘Guinness Book of World Records’ and ‘Ripleys Believe it or not’. I guess it is fascinating to find out all these strange facts about the world and the people.

So, masa Christmas hari tu, we bought her the latest edition of Guinness Book of World Records as one of her presents.

Sejak dari tu, apa2 benda pelik aje dia akan kata, “maybe we can put it in Guinness world record.”

Hish…..

Sampai kan sayur zucchini I ni pun dia nak suruh I masukkan dalam Guinness Book of World Record!

Tengok lah betapa besarnya zucchini I ni, muahahhaha

Ini Miss 7’s foot with the zucchini

And ini pulak Miss 11’s leg with the zucchini.

Nasib baik I tak ambik gambar dgn kaki I yg ala2 balak ni, memang mcm adik beradik lah saiz nya! hehehe….

Saje je I nak biarkan dia membesar kat pokok tu. I nak tengok how big it can get to, hahahahaha….

Tapi bukan semua sayur I that size lah. Tadi I pergi menuai sayur eggplant/terung kat belakang rumah. Dapatlah 1 bekas yang dah besar2 and sedang elok untuk dimasak.

I petik some chillies as well.

And since dah seminggu I masak Western food yang sangat2 sempoi, malam ni for dinner I masak nasi and lauk pauk penuh 1 meja .

Ini baru namanya I rajin memasak. I masak 2 jenis lauk and 2 jenis sayur, hikhikhik…. I masak butter chicken, taucu telur goreng, stir-fried kubis with egg tofu and steamed terung with sambal.

Ini sebab meleleh air liur tengok taucu telur goreng kat rumah Hana, I pun masak lah taucu malam ni. Recipe boleh dapat kat rumah Ayu S’pore. Thank you Ayu n Hana.

I guna cili api n cili besar (petik kat kebun )in the taucu tapi I tak bagi tahu The Other Half. He loves taucu and konon nak tunjuk macho, dia gigit lah one of the chillies.

You should have seen muka dia terus jadi merah menyala, wahkahkahkah……

And ini guna terung yang I petik tadi. So, memang sedap lah sebab so fresh .

Inilah sebabnya I kena exercise 30 minutes hari2…. Energy in, energy out…..

Roses in different colours

Sejak masuk rumah yang dah siap sedia ada taman bunga ni kan, I memang selalu usung camera ambik gambar the roses. Selalunya I akan ambik gambar at around 7 pagi masa wave The Other Half keluar rumah gi kerja. I hantar dia sampai kat pagar aje, tak kuasa I nak hantar dia sampai kat bas stop (takde paedah, hehehe).

Lepas kiss kiss and wave wave (muahahahaha, tak kuasa you all nak membaca), sempat lah I gi belai2 all the roses sambil snap sini sana. masa ni selalunya all the neighbours still tak keluar rumah lagi so tu yang tak malu2 nak ambik gambar, hehehe.

But kadang2 I ambik gambar waktu petang after dinner sebab lighting cantik . Tapi masa ni banyak kereta lalu lalang so malu lah sikit nak feeling2 ala2 pro photographer, hehehe.

Pagi tadi I dapatlah ambik a few photos of the roses (asik2 roses aje kan, tak larat you all dah! hikhikhik. Apa nak buat, itu aje pokok bunga yang ada kat rumah we all ni apart from the sunflowers).

The pink ones

The kaler oren+merah+pink rose, hehehe.

The purple one

I tried to figure out all the colours of the roses in the garden tapi most of them probably just different shades of red and white kot.

I dah lama tak letak some cut roses in a vase sebab I rasa lagi cantik biarkan the roses bloom fully on the plants.

This week we all makan western food aje including tonite.

Dah 3-4 hari berturut2 we all makan potato in so many different forms. Nasib baik lah tekak semua ala2 Mat Saleh so tak lah rasa nak muntah bila I masak kentang aje .

Malam ni we had burger with oven-baked wedges and salad.

I parboiled the whole potatoes with skin on. Then bila dah sejuk, cut them into wedges and mix them with olive oil, cumin, coriander, paprika, garlic powder and salt.

Letak atas tray and baked them in the oven at 200°C for about 35-40 minutes. Baru lah rasa so gebu di dalam but nicely cooked on the outside.

Makan pulak dgn sour cream and sweet chilli sauce, memang yummy!

But sebab I konon2nya still berdiet lagi (muahahahahaha), my pinggan penuhlah dgn salad .

Tongue-tied Thursday

Bloggers lain buat wordless Wednesday, I buat tongue-tied Thursday, hahaha.

Pastu, The Other Half kata, pretend I’m tweeting and keep it below 140 characters aje yg I boleh tulis .

(tak sudah2 dia nak memujuk I!)

Tonite’s dinner, malas nak masak punya hal, I made baked chicken wings with potato nuggets and green salad.

I added seedless grapes in the salad, jadi lagi sedap!