October 13, 2008 at 7:40 am (Breakfast, Main Dish, Snacks, Stories)
Tags: asparagus, banana, beans, beverage, black fungus, blueberry, Breakfast, cashew nut, cauliflower, Dinner, egg, Lunch, macadamia nut, mueslie, mushroom, noodles, nuts, peanut, pumkin seeds, rice, tomato, walnut, zucchini
This was my first day staying, working, and eating at home in a long time. It was such a great pleasure to enjoy homemade meals – and three of them!
Breakfast: Muesli
- Soyogurt (with real vanilla)
- Fresh blueberries
- Banana slices
- Pumpkin seeds
Lunch: Noodles
- Japanese buckwheat noodles
- Chili bean curd (famous brand 王致和 Wang Zhihe)
- A touch of rice vinegar (镇江香醋)
- Zucchini with mushrooms
- Stir-fried cauliflower
Snacks: Nuts and Juice
- Raw Spanish peanuts & walnuts, roasted salted cashew nuts & macadamia nuts
- 1 QT of Odwalla antioxidant vitamin C micronutrient fruit juice drink
Dinner: Rice with kidney beans
- Rice with kidney beans
- Tomato with scrambled eggs (the most common Chinese homemade dish; well, I think my version tastes just a little better than my dad’s, hehe)
- Asparagus and black fungus
Wow, my diet can’t get better than this. Maybe I should spend more time at home than in the PhD office!
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September 4, 2008 at 11:45 pm (Breakfast)
Tags: apple, banana, blueberry, Breakfast, peach, pine nut, pumkin seeds, strawberry, walnut, yogurt
I’ve only come to know about muesli in a very short period of time. And in order to write this blog post, I also checked on wikipedia:
Interestingly, muesli was developed around 1900 by a Swiss physician called Maximilian Bircher-Benner for his hospital patients and popularized in the 1960s in many Western countries given the increased interest in healthy vegetarian diets.
My understanding of the major ingredients in muesli include: raw oats, fresh fruits, nuts, and some kind of liquid such as milk or juice. The original recipe from Bircher-Benner posted on wiki is as follows:
- 1 tablespoon rolled oats, soaked overnight in 2–3 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon condensed milk
- 200 grams apple(about one large, preferably a sour variety), finely grated and mixed with the above directly before serving
- optionally top with 1 tablespoon ground hazelnuts or almonds
Everybody has their own way of making fresh muesli. You can probably google or youtube hundreds of nice recipes if you’d like. I don’t really like raw oats, as I usually boil oats to make oat meals or add them into my multigrain congee. I also like chunks of fresh fruits better than grated. Plus, I tend to substitute the liquid with yogurt. So here comes my version:
Major ingredients:
- diced apple, peach, and banana
- plain yogurt – I like it with vanilla flavor
- berries: blueberry or strawberry
- nuts/seeds: walnut, pumpkin seeds, or pine nut
I love it! Oops, I was gonna show a picture, but it was all gone too fast to be caught on camera, haha 
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