Toast again! + Cake January 3, 2009
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dessert.Tags: banana, berries, coffee, cottage cheese, smoothies
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Yesterday:
Garlic Toast!
+ almonds & peanuts
And oatmeal smoothie! Except I was running low so the whole thing probably contains 10% oatmeal.
- oatmeal, coffee, cottage cheese, milk, rice milk, cinnamon, banana, frozen berries
It’s like a fruity, chewy latte 
I also baked a green tea cake:
I haven’t baked in a while! But I’m glad it turned out well–could have been a bit more moist though…maybe more milk and/or less oven-ing next time.
Oatmeal #100 August 28, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Recipes, Snack.Tags: almonds, beans, chocolate, mochi, smoothies, tea
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Heheh.
Birthday card for my friend, Tina–happy birthday dude!
[I like rats 
]
Yesterday!
Oatmeal #100
I basically threw in the dessert mom made from the night before into my oats. So combining two of my favorite things seemed fitting for the 100th oatmeal experiment!
- 0.33 cup oats
- 0.25 cup water
- 0.5 cup adzuki bean & lotus seed dessert
- 9 glutinous rice balls
- 0.25 cup milk
- 6 almonds
For some reason, the almonds make me think of squirrels 
It looks so forest-y with the green bowl!
Post-run snack
Oatmeal #101: Chocolate Matcha Smoothie
The partay continues after my 49 minute run [couldn't quite make it to 50 after going up a huge hill ]
This smoothie was the only reason I only had 0.33 cup of oatmeal this morning–didn’t want no overdosin’!
- 1 cup boiled water
- 1 tsp matcha powder
- 0.25 cup soy milk
- 2 tbsp quick oats
- 1 tbsp chocolate chips
I dissolved the matcha powder in boiled water and let that sit for about…half an hour? And then I blended everything else together–it was a great way to make drinking tea fun! [I'm not really a tea person ]
I actually ended up with a bigger cup than I was expecting–oh well!
Needed either some sugar or more chocolate~not quite sweet enough, but it was pleasantly mild with a very prominent green tea taste–so no complaints there!
2 more days til I leave for California! [I think after this trip, I'm going to have to stop spending $$$ for the next 5 years...]
Reminding you all of my updating skills August 26, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dessert, Lunch, Snack.Tags: almonds, apples, smoothies, strawberries, tea, walnuts
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Vacationing has lazied me! [so much that I can't be bothered to use proper verbs] Haven’t been blogging, haven’t been catching up with other blogs–roar.
Saturday
Oatmeal #98: Peppermint Tea
In yet another digging-through-the-pantry quest–I discovered a box of peppermint tea. Of course, I immediately thought: oatmeal + blogging = EATING ADVENTURES
Not much stuff in this one–I think we were out of fruits:
- oats
- water
- 2% milk
- brown sugar [sprinkled on top 'cause it was a last minute addition]
- walnuts
- ground almonds
- cinnamon
- 1 peppermint tea bag
Oats + peppermint tea + toast + margarine
I think this tea the only kind [that I've tried so far] where I can actually taste the flavor. Don’t remember if the peppermint came through in the oats–but I could tell there was tea in there
Post-something snack:
Could have been just a FEED ME snack for all I know Don’t remember if I yoga-ed in the morning or in the evening~
Digest crackers dipped to sogginess in milk = favorite snack from since…at least high school?! This is the first time I’ve had this since I came home, so naturally I had to go back for another cracker and more milk
Sunday
Oatmeal #99: Smoothies – Part IV
Am going to use the blender as many times as I can before I leave for school!
This is possibly the simplest ingredients list you’re ever going to see on this blog:
- 0.5 cup quick oats
- 0.5 cup milk
- 0.5 cup water
- 0.5 Fiji apple
- 5 strawberries
Largest cup of smoothie I’ve made so far! Fruits really fills up space
Oh oh so I ran on the treadmill instead of going outside since it was raining. So after a 45 minute run and I was walking to cool down, the machine said I was close to 1000 calories, but I saw that there were only three digit slots for the calorie counting slot! So I got curious and decided to walk a little longer to reach 1000 just to see if the machine would explode or something
As you can see, nothing happened:
Not even a happy triumphant ditty or alarm bells or scientific notations or anything! What a cheap piece of crap!
Yesterday
Pile of mush
Cereal for breakfast!!!
Bran flakes, digest cracker, raw brownie, strawberries, milk & soy milk.
With raspberry mocha.
Post-yoga snack
Toast with blueberry yogurt spread on top I have such a huge sweet tooth, it’s ridiculous.
Dessert
!!!!!!
Home-made glutinous rice balls! Courtesy of mom, of course I stayed up just for this!
The other stuff: red beans + lotus seeds. I think I can die happy now~
Off to run in about half an hour!
Oatmeal #96: Smoothies – Part III August 22, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Lunch, Snack.Tags: almonds, banana, orange, smoothies
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Yesterday’s breakfast:
Orange-banana smoothie I only threw in half an orange ’cause I wasn’t sure how orange I wanted the thing to be! I think that was the right choice, otherwise my cup would have overflowed!
Despite the amount of fruits I added this time–the drink wasn’t too sweet–which is, frankly, a-OK with me ’cause I dislike excessively sweet stuff anyway. More important was that I could actually taste and smell all the ingredients–which I could [except for the vanilla--but I didn't add that much so that's most likely why], so that was good
Other things: vanilla extract, soy milk, milk, oats, almonds
With a piece of bread and leftover fruits! Was pretty filling for a breakfast that didn’t have much chewing involved. [Liquids just doesn't hold me over that well--maybe 'cause I like eating more than drinking ]
Lunch:
DUMPLINGS! I’m so touched
Imagine this but multiplied by 3
Post-yoga snack:
Yogurt + 3 or 4 more dumplings
Rhythmic gymnastics is on right now! So exciting!
Oatmeal #94: Smoothies – Part II August 20, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Lunch, Snack.Tags: carrots, corn, goji berries, smoothies, strawberries
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Monday’s breakfast: More smoothie adventures!
This time:
- 0.25 cup oats
- 0.25 cup mixed grains
- 0.25 cup soy milk
- 0.25 cup 2% milk
- 0.25 cup water
- last of my goji berries [1.5 tbsp?]
- 0.5 small carrot [yeah...I was looking for things to bulk up my smoothie with]
- 0.25 cup corn
- 2 medium strawberries
I’m not sure but I think I might have gotten a bigger cup this time? If not, well…I felt much more full after drinking, so…?
But yeah I was really impressed with the strawberries ’cause I could smell and taste them even though I only threw two random ones in! Awesome And I couldn’t taste the carrot & corn at all–even though I definitely chewed on some carrot pieces.
Tasted good though! Not too sweet, doughy, crunchy, chewy Kinda like last time!
Got hungry a while later, so had some soup:
Winter melon…? And shitake mushrooms.
Another snack…may have been after running…? I think that was the day I went running with my dad…? [oh no--early onset Alzheimer's?!]
My raw brownies!!! Turned out actually brownie-like this time! ZOMFG. I used almonds and raisins [I threw in 2 pieces of apricot in 'cause I didn't want to use up all the raisins], and I think I overdid the raisins ’cause it was too sweet–but that problem was solved by throwing in the peanut butter!
The stuff in the bowl is just soup with a scoop of congree [rice + water] mixed in.
Lunch–take-out.
I had like…3 bowls ’cause I was starving! I don’t understand why I’m always hungry…?
But anyway–the red stuff is something called Honeymoon fried rice? Or something? It comes with tomato sauce & chicken & onions on one side, alfredo & shrimp on the other side. And the rice + egg is underneath the sauce. It’s very yum
The noodles’ just rice noodles + shrimp + egg. <3
Nooo I can’t believe it’s almost the end of August–this has got to be the fastest summer ever!
Oatmeal #92: Smoothie August 17, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dessert, Lunch.Tags: blueberries, corn, raisins, smoothies, walnuts
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Friday’s breakfast:
Smoothie with toast [margarine with cinnamon sprinkled on top]!
I know lots of people have done oatmeal smoothies before–but I haven’t! Therefore it’s obligatory that I give it a try–as we have a blender and everything! Damn, how did I live without this miraculous apparatus before?!
- 0.5 cup oats
- 0.5 cup soy milk
- 0.25 cup milk
- 0.25 cup water [i think??]
- 0.25 cup blueberries
- 0.25 cup corn [yeah...]
- 0.25 cup walnuts
- 1 tbsp raisins
Um yeah it’s a very random list of ingredients–but that’s ’cause we didn’t exactly have a ton of fruits and stuff around the house at the moment, I suppose I could have added more blueberries–but I didn’t want to use up the whole thing by myself And I was originally planning to make a green walnut smoothie…but I was too lazy to wash the veggies, so I used corn and blueberries!
It was pretty good though! I ate the smoothie with a spoon since it seemed easier than sipping. Unfortunately, this breakfast wasn’t very filling 
I miss the flax!
For some reason I was feeling tired that day [jet lag?], so I ended up going back to bed…to wake up at 3: 30…so I had to make my own lunch:
I hate washing vegetables So there were only two types of veggies and three pieces of dumplings [<3] with shrimp egg noodles [basically just shrimp and wheat--not sure why they called it egg noodles...]
Dessert–MY VERY FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD [aside from oatmeal, of course]–yamssssss!
My favorite is the purple ones–so chewy and soft! Yams are amazing
The soup the yams are cooked in is basically just water, rock sugar, and ginger. SO. GOOD. I can chug this stuff down like oatmeal!
We’re having steak for dinner tonight–so excited! Haven’t had this stuff in so long! [Oh man, I never want this vacation to end!]
