Miss 7 making pasta

I love cooking and baking with The Little Misses but it is definitely a ‘chore’ when doing it with Miss 7.

First, I have to tune my ears to listening to non-stop talking mode. Kira macam dengar morning talk show without any songs intervals lah, hehehe. Lama2, bosan jugak kan .

Second, I have to brace myself for getting usurped from my job as head chef by the assistant chef! Like just now for example…

Tadi I asked her to help me make pasta. I wanted to make lasagne for dinner tonite (the low fat version, hehehe). So, I pun keluarkan lah mesin pasta and showed her how to roll the pasta nicely and all the steps. Sambil2 tu, I masak the bolognaise sauce to use in the lasagne.

Pastu, dia boleh cakap kat I, “that’s ok Mum. I can do the rolling by myself. Why don’t you go and do something else?”. (sambil tepis2 tangan I tak bagi tolong dia roll the dough).

Say what? Hahahahahahahaha…..

Memang lawan tokey betul lah budak tu. Baru aje dilantik jadi assistant chef, dah pandai2 suruh head chef retire, hikhikhikhik…

Nasib baik lah head chef nya perangai bukan macam Gordon Ramsay tu! Maybe sebab tu kot assistant chef tak takut, hakhakhak…

Pastu, dari awal sampai akhir tak berenti bercakap!

Even The Other Half pun geleng kepala dengar dia cakap non stop (and he wasn’t even in the kitchen with us, hehehehe).

Happy sungguh dia sebab I tak ‘kacau’ dia menggelek pasta, hehehe.

Sungguh tekun bekerja sampai bibir pun herot merot .

Masa ni terpaksa panggil head chef datang tolong sebab assistant chef tak cukup tinggi nak pegang the dough sambil pusing the roller. Pastu, siap berdiri atas kerusi lagi!

And the end product, low fat beef and vege lasagne. I letak diced capsicum, diced eggplants and diced carrots in the bolognaise sauce.

I tak letak bechamel or cheese sauce langsung for this lasagne. I cuma tabur low fat mozzarella and a bit of grated parmesan cheese on the top most layer.

It still tasted good even without the cheese sauce .

Malam esok The Other Half nak makan nasi and lauk. Macam mana lah I nak avoind makan nasi 2 pinggan ni ye? hehehe…..

Sambungan cerita our non romantic lunch for 4

The lunch yesterday went well. The girls were very well behaved and the adults were very well behaved too (takde adegan lentuk2 manja atau hembus2 telinga, hakhakhakhak (tak kuasa I)).

Macam mana lah nak buat adegan lentuk2 manja kan, The Other Half and I weren’t sitting next to each other or even bertentangan each other (nak main footsie bawah meja pun tak boleh sebab my kaki not long enough, hehehehe).

I was sitting next to Miss 11 and opposite Miss 7 so senanglah I nak pantau both of their perangai . And takde masa pun we all nak berdua2 an sebab bila sorang duduk kat meja, sorang lagi kena bawak the girls pergi ronda2 buffet tables and vice versa. The girls were good but we would rather take them to get the food instead of bagi diaorang pergi jalan2 sendiri. Ye lah kan, kalau jadi apa2, we the adults yang responsible.

Then The Other half said to me, “Happy anniversary Dear!”

The Little Misses said, “ Wasn’t your anniversary last month?”

I said, “Yeah lah, but we couldn’t find anyone to babysit you and we couldn’t find the right time to go so we decided to celebrate it with lunch with you girls instead!”

(aren’t your parents baik hati! hehehehe)

Then they asked, “So, how did you propose to Mum anyway?”

That my daughters will be another story all together, hehehehe….. One day when we have the time and the inclination, we’ll tell you all about it .

And if you asked me to show you what we had, memang tak boleh nak tunjuk lah because we were too busy stuffing our faces to take photos, hehehe.

(and The Other Half were too busy  writing down all that he ate so he could enter it in his daily food diary. I pulak couldn’t be bothered doing that and just told him that I’ll put the same on my food diary.)

And seperti yang di jangkakan, memang our calories intake semalam berlebih2 giler just for that lunch and yet, we didn’t eat that much either sebab tak nak pig out beria2. We definitely tak ambik carbs sangat semalam. And I guess sebab dah berhari2 diet, our perut pun dah kecik sikit so memang tak boleh nak makan banyak sangat, hehehe.

I was saying to The Other Half, no wonderlah kalau balik M’sia memang akan naik 2-3kg even cuma balik for 2-3 weeks aje. Sebab hari2 melantak sakan all these high calorie food! Pagi makan roti canai 2 keping with kopi ais, tengah hari makan nasi with all lauk pauk, petang makan goreng pisang and kuih muih 2-3 ringgit and malam makan mee or KFC or nasi again. We probably eat a week’s worth of calories in 1 day, manalah berat tak membelon masa tu, hahahaha…..

(Luckily lah balik M’sia cuma occasionally aje kan! ).

So, last night we all cuma makan sup aje and The Little Misses cuma makan toast aje sebab everyone was still so full from lunch.

But malam ni I masak balik dah, mana boleh malas2 lama2, hehehe..

I made vegetarian pizza (loads of veges and not much cheese and all low fat ).

I letak thinly sliced onions, diced eggplant, diced capsicum, diced tomatoes and diced pineapple.

And then makan dengan scrambled eggs and smoked salmon and green salad.

This is about 400+ cals aje so ok sangat2 lah kan for dinner .

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…….