- Chowing our way through two tubs of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Chocolate Macadamia & Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Actually got some clear blue skies & pool weather this week, Tan:Stage One - nearing completion
- Started a proper gym workout (I'm gonna need it!)
- Buying a pretty dress for $10
- Dave found some trainers in his size & a very nice pair of sunglasses that suited him
- Dave bought me a nice new apt mug (we have the tiniest tea cups in the apartment, so small that it's not actually worth the effort of making the tea!)
Lows
- Not being able to stop thinking about the ice cream and running around the apartment in an ice cream withdrawal craze, shouting 'I need ice cream' and not having any ice cream.
- No more shopping allowed!
- My legs are feeling considerably less than 'perfect' after my 'Perfect Legs' workout
And for the foodies
Monday - I was feeling a bit under the weather so in the need of some healthy food, Dave brought home Thai Beef & Smoked Chicken salads for dinner and a yummie NZ smoothie (Mango, peach, apricot, orange and yogurt), they were quite good salads for Singapore and Dave is so impresssed by the smoothies he has one a day! At least they're healthy.
Tuesday - We cooked stir fry again and was yummie again.
Wednesday - Dave came home with chocolate brownies for dessert, he said he couldn't resist as there was a whole bakery dedicated to chocolate brownies and if you eat-in they are served in a chocolate soup with ice cream! We're going to eat-in soon. We cooked Prawn Laksa for dinner and oh my it was GOOD! And how we relished in our accomplishment of creating this fine dish, that was until we looked at the fat content of the coconut milk and it had 60g of saturated fat in it!! That's probably the last time we cook that unless we find a low fat coconut milk! :(
Thursday - After some more shopping we stopped for a quick meal at a Food Court called 'Food Opera' on Orchard Rd. We decided on Indonesian, Nasi Kuning Ayam Goreng(a chicken quarter in a very savoury aromatic sauce served with rice cooked in coconut milk & turmeric and a side of marinated cucumber/courgettes/chilli) and a chicken quarter in this light batter (not sure what it was called, Dave just picked it coz it looked good!) with rice & Okra with chilli, yummie yum yum! Dave ate every last bit of chicken he could find on those plates! It was pretty tasty just like everything else we've sampled (apart from the KFC!) Then on the way home we were cunningly seduced into a Frozen Yogurt Parlor by an evil girl standing out on the hot sweltering street with samples of the most deliciously flavoured frozen yogurt AND they were fat free! Just the thing we needed to solve our Ben & Jerry's problem. So with that we stomped into the Parlor, now whoever opened up this place had the right idea, it's set up like Woolworths Pick & Mix (you know the one where you put a few sweets in a bag and next thing you know it's sitting on the scales and the lady is saying "that's £8.35 please"). Well 10 flavours = 10 'help yourself' machines and at the end a whole world of SPRINKLES! Trying not to get too carried away we picked the biggest tub and filled it with 3 flavours; Passion Fruit, Mango and Chocolate, then we sprinkled it with nuts and chocolate chips and we could have kept going as they had everything you could possibly imagine sprinkling on Frozen yogurt, until Dave expertly deduced that the sprinkles were probably the thing that made it expensive as they were 'heavy'! lol! So we quickly stopped and put our tub on the scales and the lady said "that will be $8.45 please".
My new Mug
PRAWNS!
Prawn Laksa
"I do not recommend canned "light coconut milk" – it has little flavor, if any at all. Usually, some kind of flour has been added to make it look thicker and whiter than it really is, although this is not made known in the listing of ingredients. Better results can be obtained by thinning a good-quality, creamy coconut milk with water or cooking liquids to the lightness desired. If you are concerned about the saturated fat content in coconut milk, know that this saturated fat has been shown in many independent studies to be a good saturated fat, easily metabolized to give your body quick energy. Contrary to popular myth, it does not transform into bad cholesterol to clog up arteries. In fact, cultures around the world that depend on coconut as their main source of fat have been found to be free of heart disease. The principle fatty acid in coconut milk is lauric acid, which is the same fat found in abundance in mother's milk and is known to promote normal brain development and contribute to healthy bones. It also has important anti-carcinogenic and anti-pathogenic properties and is less likely to cause weight gain than polyunsaturated oils.
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Awesome because I just realised today that we have another can of it in the cupboard, thanks Gray! ;)
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