Microgreens!

Late post>>>My newest babies-literally! These little veggies are more powerful than you think! They are very easy to grow, fast to harvest,  are up to 40 times more nutrient dense than mature veggies, and of course, pretty! They are mostly used for garnishing/plating, but they are more than just that! What I love most is that I can just cut them anytime I need it! Can you spell f-r-e-s-h? You can check out their facebook if you are interested!

Hello babies!

Great idea, right?

More ideas from the net!

She loves watering them!

It is recommended to use spray only to avoid overwatering them

I also think it's the best way to involve Simone into teaching how vegetables grow, and how to take care of them, and of course eating veggies makes you healthy and strong!

Picture from my visit to Farmer's market

My beautiful kale!

Trial test-they are very tasty, see if Simone approves

*That's southern lentils with garlic, tomatoes, cumin & thyme with quinoa.

Waiting for carrots

Boom! Carrots are the tastiest ones.

"Mommy, I want to eat the plants." haha!

Cheesy salmon baked rice with microgreens!

They're soo tall now!

I need to cut,cut,cut!

Hello carrot shoots!

Harvesting! 

I bring it to work as well :)

I can't keep up with them, they grow soooo fast! So that's a motivation to eat veggies everyday!

xx,

chicmom&baby

Donuts and Cupcakes!

With much interest in baking, I bought a Mayer donut and cupcake maker for Simone! I thought it would be more fun to do.

Here is a compilation of healthy vegan donuts!!!! For starters, I used #17, whole grain strawberry donuts, but replaced it with chocolate frosting (melted Ghirardelli chocolate chips + coconut oil) and added sprinkles!

It is actually so much faster to bake in this Mayer donut and cupcake maker. Like, 5 minutes? Really. They were more than golden brown! haha

When I finished preparing the ingredients, I called her out and.....

*photos are from my iphone only. apologies!

But first, #MOTD! aba!!!

Played with my makeup again. I need those Poppy chemical free kids cosmetics!

They cook really fast! haha

 She did all the mixing of ingredients, cracking eggs (her fave part), and putting batter in the donut maker. Yep...that's quite a mess, but I don't mind at all. She is learning! I'm being positive here. haha

Favorite part

She was like, sooooo ecstatic!

Looks yummy, right?

Aftermath!

Well, that's just one out of 28 recipes! Now... time to clean up. double mess for this toddler!

xx,
chicmom&baby

#thirtyisthenewtwenty

Gaaaah!

I'm already thirty, but my weight is still the same as I was when I was twenty. Or even at 17! I seriously thought I would "keep" the baby weight, but it disappeared within a year after Simone was born! What's sad to think is, I only had big boobs and booty for a year in my 30 years! HAHA! but SERIOUSLY, gaining weight is just as hard as losing weight, I swear. Moving on! haha

I don't have room for negative vibes anymore, Live the life you love, Love the life you live, as what Bob Marley said! LOL

I didn't like dungarees/shortalls til I saw this from Topshop. Biased!

I wasn't in the mood for festivities (only shopping!), but hubs wanted to have a dinner BUFFET at Rise. What? I only planned our annual korean BBQ buffet. I guess maybe it's been a long time since we had buffet! Our second time there. No hor d'oeuvres, churrasco, spanish tapas, roast beef (it was roasted ham when we came!), nor hot japanese/korean cuisine.  I guess my best buffet resto still goes to Spiral at Sofitel Luxury Hotel in Manila (where I last worked, and has 21 stations! and at least S$100++), and The Line at Shangri-La near Orchard road. I hope I can try Melt The World Cafe next!

Buffet on weeknight

My plating sucks haha

This guy only attacks the cold station, as always. Ate a LOT of oysters and crab!

Parma ham, port salut & provolone

small delicatessen

I literally finished the spread.

And again. hahhaha

I only ate salmon sushi--- I eat unlimited salmon, but whenever I think about the farmed salmon (farmed salmon has a lot of pesticide and GMO, and wild salmon is preferable), which is always obviously used, my brain quickly tells me to cut back. I also had a lot of parma ham, and port salut cheese (melts in my mouth!) I haven't eaten continental food since forever!!!!!

The next day lunch, I finally stepped foot at Sin Lee Foods! I was contemplating between that and Clinton Street Bakery. Saving the latter for next month!

The waffle sucks but Simone finished it haha

Wahaha!

Chicken & waffles, sweet potato fries in salted duck egg sauce, and skillet roasted pork chop was the bomb! 

Simone<3

 Me and Simone rode the Sampan ride at MBS because she kept bugging us the night we had buffet and cried when we passed by it was closed already.  "Mommy, I wanna ride the boat" over and over again. Why nat?

photo by David Montasco

photo from here

We actually have pictures but it was sold for $20 per picture or $30 for 2! My card didn't work, so it was a sign not to buy haha!

"Mommy, I wanna ride the boat" 

She was SOOOOOO ecstatic!

"mommy, I want to touch the water"

Helped paddle the boat LOL

After that, I spent the rest of the day (wahaha) at Topshop thanks to my jie-jie for the voucher! Simone fell asleep inside the fitting room! And used my bag as her pillow haha please forgive me it's my birthday naman!

Where I always only end up! (only where clothes fit me!)

First day of being thirty was great indeed!!!

xx,

chicmom&baby