Outdoor Pre-Wedding Session

We had our second photo session for my pre-wedding with William from Fotomalaysia. Me and Hubby had lots of fun during the outing. William brought along Paul and Peggy for the shooting. Five of us had a marvellous time together. We started at 8.30am for make-up in William's place and proceed to our first destination - Heritage Station Hotel and KTM. We reached around 11 a.m plus and spend about 3 hours there. The Heritage Station Hotel is a very classic and full of heritage hotel. I will recommend for those who had never been there to go and have a visit to feel the atmosphere themselves. Thanks to Lloyd for opening the doors for us to capture the beautiful Heritage Station Hotel. We loved every shots that we had taken there. After the hotel and KTM photo shooting, we proceeded to Bagan Lalang and Putrajaya to take some seaside and sunset sceneries. Just simply love my pictures! Thanks everybody who had been there to make this happen. :)

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Steamed Fish with Oyster Sauce

I had been 'missing' for some time. Didn't really follow the diet plan over the weekend but so far I am kinda happy with the results. Guess that I can't ask much of reduction since I didn't followed it strictly for this few days. Ok, so tonite for dinner, another version of steamed fish a.k.a ala Chinese style with oyster sauce and lots and lots ginger, onion and garlic. Slurp slurp..

Ingredients

2 slice of sutchi fish fillets

1/2 garlic bulb, minced

1 onion, minced

1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, sliced thinly

2 tbsp of oyster sauce

2 tbsp sesame oil

salt

pepper

spring onion for garnishing

Methods

1. Seasoned the fish fillets with salt and pepper at both sides.
2. Take two large pieces of aluminum foil. One should be about six inches longer than the fish and the other should be three-fourths longer than the first piece.
3. Brush oyster sauce on each side of the fish fillets.
4. Lay the fish on the smaller piece of aluminum foil.
5. Scatter the onion, garlic and ginger over the whole length of the fish fillets. Cover with the longer piece of aluminium foil and wrapped the fish.
6. Transfer the fish into steaming tray and steamed for 20-25 minutes.
7. Take the fish from tray, unroll the edges and carefully peel off the top piece of foil.
8. Heat the sesame oil in a skillet until smoking and pour over the fish. Garnish with spring onions.
9. Serve hot.

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BBQ Chicken Fillets with Herbs

Since my BBQ sauce will be expiring real soon, I am going to fully utilized it for this few months. So I just marinated the chicken fillets with the BBQ sauce and sprinkled some Italian seasoning and heat it up in the oven. Serve the chicken with some salad with thousand island dressing. Simple yet wholesome meal.

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Lemon and Herbs Steamed Fish

This is the 5th day of my diet and today's dinner will be another version of steamed fish - Lemon and Herbs Steamed Fish. This few days, I had been busy looking for recipes of different type of recipes for fish and also poultry for my diet menu. Since I have few more lemons sitting in my fridge, I decided to try on this recipe. The herbs gives a really fantastic aroma to the fish and with the lemon, it was indeed a refreshing and yummy meal to try on. Something different from the conventional way of steaming the fish. Worth a try.

Ingredients

2 fish fillets, cleaned and washed

1 1/2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1 inch ginger washed, peeled and thinly sliced

4 garlic cloves, peeled and washed

2 spring onions, washed and trimmed

1/2 lemon, washed and sliced into roundels

dash of Italian seasoning

salt to taste

Methods

1. Marinate the fish fillets with 1 tsp lemon juice and salt to taste. Set aside.
2. Cut spring onion into round slices.
3. Mix ginger, garlic, spring onion roundels, Italian seasoning, salt and half a cup of water.
4. Soak fish slices in this marinade.
5. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. Transfer fish slices into a steam pot and steam for 12 minutes.

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Lemon Garlic Broccoli with Hard Boiled Egg

Today, I broke my diet plan for lunch. I had 2 piece of my favourite Taman Eng Ann's fried chicken, of course without the skin (all given to my Hubby). I was so tempted to have a bite of them. Guess that I can't asked too much since I broke the rule at the first place. I guess the diet plan suggested meat, fried chicken are in that category too. Haha, telling lies to comfort myself. So for today's dinner, I had prepared hard boiled eggs and lemon garlic broccoli. Yum yum, especially the taste of the lemon which bring more flavour to the broccoli. A very appetising recipe indeed.

Ingredients

3 tbsp butter
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 1/2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
salt, to taste
pepper, to taste, optional

Methods

1. Steam broccoli until tender but firm, about 5 to 7 minutes.
2. Heat the butter in a heavy nonstick skillet over medium heat; add the garlic and saute for 1 minute.
3. Add the cooked broccoli, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste, cooking briefly to combine.

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Stir-Fry Ginger Chicken with Siew Pak Choy and Grapefruit

This is the 3rd day I am trying out the Grapefruit Diet. I had simple breakfast and lunch for three consecutive days. I had hard boiled eggs with grapefruit for breakfast and hard boiled eggs with carrots and grapefruit for lunch due to time constraint and of course due to the reason I am working during weekdays. Therefore, I can't really cooked for this two meals. For dinner, I'll try to pamper myself with something special rather than having the same stuffs over and over again. If not, sooner or later I'll turn myself into a bunny, munching carrots everyday. Oh my god, I am starting to hallucinate due to all this constraint from eating all my favourite food. Hehe. Just kidding. :p Today, I had dished up stir-fry siew pak choy and chicken marinated with ginger marinade. Yum yum.. It might be a simple meal but for a person who is on diet (me), the dishes was really superb and a saviour to my hungry tummy. It was so fulfilling. What shall I prepared for tomorrow?? I am running out of idea for my dinner tomorrow. Headache, headache..

P/s: Do have a look at the last picture, guess that I am too hungry until I can finished up everything within minutes. Kakaka...

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Easy Steam Fish Fillet with Carrots and Grapefruit

Well, by now you should have guess what's the reason of me not taking the 'sinful' Dog. I am on a diet plan starting from August. The reason will be simply because I hope to lose the extra pounds to look better for my upcoming wedding in December. Four months to go, therefore, I shall keep my fingers crossed that I can achieve my MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.. So, here's my dinner tonight, easy steamed fish with carrots and of course grapefruit. Its so simple that I am lazy to type of the method.. Hehe..

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Grapefruit Diet

Grapefruit diet is based upon eating lots of 'fat-burning' grapefruit to kick-start your metabolism. This plan lasts for 12 days, if practice correctly you can lose up to 10 lbs. After 12 days of dieting, if you wish to continue you must take at least 2 days off before doing so.There are quite a few different Grapefruit Diet plan versions available but the principal behind each and every of the plan is the same i.e. eat half a grapefruit before every meal, to enjoy the benefits of the fat-burning enzymes. The calorie intake is limited to not more than 800 per day. Fat-free, low-calories and low in sodium, the Grapefruit diet plan causes rapid weight loss, primarily due to loss of body fluids. The best part about this plan; that is No Starvation. You will be enjoying normal meals at normal times. This is the diet that has been introduce by my friend to me to try out. Basically, we can still enjoy food but of course with moderation. Keep my fingers crossed that I can followed the diet dilligently. Read more from this link.

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Cream Cheese BBQ Dogs

DOGS, what will be the first picture that will be popping up in your mind when you hear this word. For lots of people, definately the first thing that comes into their mind will be of course dogs a.k.a the animal. You guys must be wondering by now, am I preparing dog meat as my meal. HAHAHA!! Of course not, though I wonder how does the taste of their meat. Hmm, or maybe should I cooked the real dog to find out to answer my curiosity. Today, I am preparing the other type of dogs, HOT DOG a.k.a SAUSAGES. Its a quick meal that we can actually dish it up in a short duration of time. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to savour this yummy DOGs, its all for Dearie Hubby. Wondering why, you'll find out in my next coming post. ^Keep guessing, wink wink^.

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter

2 ounce of cream cheese

1 onion, chopped

2 hot dogs or sausages

2 hot dog buns

BBQ sauce

Methods

1. Preheat grill or grill pan for medium-high heat.
2. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions, and cook slowly until the onions have softened and turned deep brown, about 15 minutes. Warm the cream cheese over low heat in a small skillet until very soft.
3. Grill hot dogs until well browned. Spread some butter on the hot dogs bun and lightly grill hot dog buns on both sides.
4. To assemble cheese dogs, spread warm cream cheese on toasted hot dog bun, add hot dog or sausage, top with onions and BBQ sauce.

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