Sunday, November 28, 2010

BREAKFAST

My usual Sunday breakfast: a Chinese hot dog and scallion bun.

(Taste: always greasy)

LUNCH

More Thanksgiving leftovers (courtesy of my girlfriend).

(Taste: good)

I had some pecan pie that my brother made too.

(Taste: good enough)

DINNER

I pile of random leftovers in the fridge, some fish, some vegetables, etc.

(Taste: acceptable)

Some upside-down pineapple cake my girlfriend made.

(Taste: delicious)

End of the day. = Time to walk my dog.

More Korean Food

Meal: dinner (Sat 9/11)
From: my girlfriend's fridge
Cost: N/A
Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

The Meal

(some Korean food)

Braised Beef

Fried Squid

Jap Chae

Fried Flounder

 Korean Side Dishes

White Rice

Taste: absolutely delicious

Conclusion: everything was good, and the variety allowed for a little taste of everything.

Drink: a can of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Diet Dr. Pepper

(Iron Man Edition)

Pick 4 Things (Chinese stuff over rice)

Meal: dinner (Wed 9/8)
From: some Chinese "restaurant"
Cost: $3.75
Location: Chinatown

I got home from the gym, exhausted and starving. Unfortunately, there was nothing in the fridge, except for some 3 week old bread. So I decided to grab something quick and cheap in Chinatown... the dreaded pick 4 things. Basically, they give you a box with rice and they have trays with Chinese dishes and pick 4 of them that they plot in your box cafeteria style.

The Box

 

My Meal

Another View of My Meal

I got steamed mackerel, ground pork cake, fried tofu and pan fried Chinese vegetables.

Taste: the fact that I was starving and everything was extra greasy meant it tasted very good.

Conclusion: even for Chinese for this is cheap. I am not sure of the true nutritional value, but I was starving and this is the fastest and cheapest food I can get and I bet it is still healthier than American fast food.

Drink: free soup that comes with the meal.

Soup

(I think it was just vegetable broth.)

Fish Katsu

My girlfriend and I decided to stay in for lunch. She had some basa fillets in the fridge. So she decided to make some fish katsu using some panko she had in her pantry.

Fish Katsu with Broccoli over Rice

(I added tonkatsu sauce later.)

Meal: lunch (Sat 9/4)
From: my girlfriend's fridge
Cost: N/A
Location: my girlfriend's place

I am pretty sure anything fried covered in panko and smothered in tonkatsu  sauce would be absolutely delicious. In this case, the basa fillets after the "panko-tonkatsu treatment" were great.

Taste: absolutely delicious
Conclusion: you can never go wrong with panko fried and tonkatsu sauce covered anything.

Drink: a glass of Dr. Brown's Diet Cream Soda with ice.

Seafood!

As I do most weekends, I head over to my girlfriend's place for some good old Korean food!

Meal: dinner (Fri 9/3)

From: girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: free for me!

Location: girlfriend's place

Korean side dishes

Korean Spicy Crab

Baked basa fillet (with homemade tarter sauce).

Taste: delicious and something different than frozen food from my fridge.
Conclusion: I always look forward to the weekend.

Drink: a glass of Dr. Brown's Diet Cream Soda with ice.

Frozen Food = Quick Post Workout Meal

So after my post work workout it was time for a quick and "healthy" post workout meal.

Let's see what I found in my fridge...

The end result of microwaving and pan frying the ingredients.

Meal: dinner (Wed 9/1)

From: my fridge

Cost: free for me because I did not pay for these groceries!

Location: my kitchen

I did not feel like adding sauce or anything fancy to this, so instead I just put some salt and pepper on it.

Radish Pie (pan fried)

The radish pie was pretty similar to a Chinese scallion pancake, except instead of scallions there was shredded radish. Basically it is fried dough, you cannot really go wrong, it was tasty.

Assorted Veggies (microwaved)
Not much to say here. Your standard bulk from Costco frozen assorted vegetables, not much flavor, salt and pepper was required.

Mahi-Mahi (defrosted via microwave then pan fried)
I am not sure what good Mahi-Mahi is supposed to taste like. The fish itself did not really have any taste, but with some salt and pepper and the oil from the radish pie it tasted good enough.

Taste: acceptable, I was pretty hungry from my workout, so just about anything would be "acceptable."
Conclusion: not starving anymore, although I might need some dessert later.

Drink: several large glasses of water.