Stop the presses!!! I didn’t eat a banana oat cookie for breakfast today!!! And I do admit I feel kind of weird about it. I’m a creature of habit, and when I get a good thing going, I usually stick with it. Like my beloved green smoothie and banana oat cookies for breakfast. But I …
Sometimes the best things are born out of necessity… like these wonderful little bite-sized balls o’ energy. I often come in from teaching 2 bootcamps so ravenous I could eat my right arm off, and feel like face planting into the closest food handy. I usually take time to make a smoothie bowl or chickpea omelette, …
One of the difficult things about food blogging is that sometimes I make a super-fantastic dish like this roasted eggplant & zucchini casserole… but it’s 6pm, dark outside and my family is clamouring for dinner. And then look what happens to it… I never intended to blog this casserole; in fact, it’s a brand new …
So I think you can assume by now that I had my green smoothie and a banana oat cookie with almond butter first thing this morning! I’m definitely a creature of habit when it comes to my first breakfast: it’s quick, easy, healthy, and sits well with me during bootcamp, or any exercise. That’s always …
As much as I’m looking forward to home leave at this point in the season, I admit I do get a bit misty when I think of going all summer without Philippine mangoes. My whole family loves them, and I think we eat our way through at least 15 or 20 per week… not kidding! …
Well, it’s that time of year again for us ex-pats… the (wild) anticipation of summer home leave! Oh, the joys of being back in our home countries for several weeks!! We all start counting down the days right about now… One of the things I’ll miss, though, is working out with “The Fit Chicks of Alabang”… …
The key words here are: SALADS and SMOOTHIES!!! It’s so darn hot here in Manila that I find myself living solely in the air-conditioned rooms in my house, scurrying as quickly as I can through its “obligatory hot-spots” (i.e., the living room, stairwells, and landings) which are un-airconditioned and usually hotter than outside. If I were …
My Ma used to make “salmon patties” when I was a kid, and the whole family loved them. You couldn’t help it… they were crunchy, mild in flavour, and Ma always served ketchup alongside in the cutest little pewter pitcher with a lid you could flip up and down with your thumb. I ate more …
I love birthdays!! And it doesn’t even have to be my own! But now… I do have another birthday to celebrate each year: the birthday of this blog!!! Can you believe it was one year ago today that I first hit that “Publish” button to bring “The Expat Dietitian” into being? Friends, looking back on …
Back in my day, spinach salad was topped with crispy bacon, the fat of which was kept warm and whisked up as the base of the dressing. This warm dressing was then poured over the salad just before it was served, so its heat would wilt the spinach. Nice, huh? I associated spinach salad with …
