food

Sunday in Paradise

October 26, 2014

I love food, and the cuter and prettier the food, the more I love it! That is probably why beautifully made sweets are one of my favorite things on this world. I treat myself to sweets when I want a “sweet” experience. I just love sitting down in an adorable cafe and enjoying amazing food. Half of the time I can’t even bring myself to start cakes sometimes because they look too perfect! Sitting at this cafe-Sakura Cakes- with my best friend Tiffany made me miss Shanghai so much! I ate at cute little cafes in Shanghai so often, and they are abundant among the streets and malls. Thankfully, there are some awesome ones around Palo Alto too! 🙂 I loved seeing all the fall and Halloween decorations and paintings all over the windows of stores in Los Altos downtown-absolutely lovely!

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Sunday Morning Crepes!

November 4, 2013

Came home from a date yesterday and Tiffany was at my house!!!
We ended up sleeping late, and we woke up and just lay around in bed for a couple of hours. We decided to make crepes!! So we were off to Safeway to buy whipped cream and strawberries.

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Diet Day 1!

October 22, 2013

Resuming/starting a new diet today!!! (hopefully my face will slim down too a bit! it’s been pretty swollen and just weird lately )

I haven’t been doing well the past few weeks in terms of being healthy, eating well, or working out. I definitely find myself needing to get into the habit of things, especially when it comes to working out! I have weeks where I’ll work out and run a mile and then do other cardio for an hour or so every night, and then I’ll stop for various reasons, and find myself scared to go to the gym. LOL. And when that happens, it takes me a couple of weeks to even force myself back there. That’s not just me right? I feel like it’s a pretty common thing among lazy people xD

Anyway, I’ve been feeling pretty bad about myself these last few days/week, and just been reconsidering some aspects of my life. I haven’t been doing too great at school either! (because I find myself being extremely unproductive with my time)

I think going on a diet and working out more is definitely going to make me feel a bit better about this current point in my life!! Also, I have a special date in two weeks that I must be skinny and pretty for ;___; gambatte allyy!

Recently, the diets I’ve been doing are basically

1. granola breakfast
2. small healthy snacks like banana or rice crackers (I’ll usually bring something to school because I get hungry and it’s embarassing if my stomach growls during class LOL)
i try not to eat more than two healthy snacks a day, and even less if its unhealthy
sometimes it happens though, some food is soooo tempting and its soo hard to stay away from sweets because I HAVE A SWEET SPOT FOR SWEETS okay i need to stop talking about it im getting hungry
#dietstruggles
3. for lunch I usually just bring whatever leftovers, which are usually pretty healthy as well
i try to cut down on rice too! (I don’t normally eat much rice to begin with anyway, so that part isn’t too too hard)
4. for dinner I just eat a lot of vegetables, mainly kale and spinach!
5. work out after dinner for 30 minutes to an hour. the last time I dieted, i did a lot of running. I haven’t run recently so I’m kind of scared to, but I think I’ll get around to the treadmill again sometime soon. for now I’ve just been doing cross trainers, which is pretty okay too

Normally, a week into the diet I find myself being quite impartial to food, especially if I’m very motivated to lose weight and get skinnier, like I am for this diet! (Sometimes I just diet to cleanse or to slim down certain features, but this time I want to lose lose lose!)

My body works in the way where I can eat a considerably large amount of food and not gain much weight. I have pretty good metabolism, so if I can manage to eat less for two weeks the difference becomes visible! But I love food so much, so it’s really really really hard.

too scared to weigh myself but I’ll find some way to give qualitative measurements of progress (hopefully there’s progress!!)

Okay everyone! Wish me luck and give me love !

-A

Happy Mothers Day!!

May 12, 2013

Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there!
Both my parents provide me and my sister with so much, and we’re so grateful for our mom (AND dad!). A day of appreciation is not enough for our amazing mom!

Without them, I couldn’t have achieved such happiness in my daily life. What the hell, I wouldn’t even be here right now haha.

Today is a really busy day for my family, so Bridgette and I did most of our mother’s day work yesterday. We decided to serve her breakfast in bed and cook dinner as well! (This is harder than it sounds, at least for us haha)

For breakfast, we made a really simple French Toast, with a berry yogurt parfait.

Here’s a picture!

For dinner, we made two salads and a baked spaghetti!

We used lean turkey breast in the spaghetti, and lots of tomatoes and herbs! It was my first time making a baked pasta dish, and was much simpler than I expected! Bridgette and I cut up all the ingredients, cooked them into a sauce, and then layered sauce, spaghetti, and cheese into a casserole plate and just let it bake!

One of the salad sides that we made was a simple pea and salmon fry. The ingredients we used were very simple, (shallots, salmon, and peas) but the flavor of these turned out great!

Hope everyone’s making their mother’s feel special today!!
Feel free to leave me comments or questions, and look forward to more posts.

-A