a sharp sword to swallow...

swordfish in teriyaki marinade, garnished with finely juliened long onions and white seasame seeds (J's concoction! I was not so keen on the swordfish, felt it has a strong aftertaste. Might be just preggy tummy talking

red and yellow capsicum, button mushrooms and sashimi leftovers cooked lightly in marinade sauce leftovers

tofu with melted cheese, topped with soy sauce and black pepper - this was yummy!

carrots and cabbage, namul style. This was a good little side recipe, will be using again (prob next time I am stupid enough to buy a WHOLE head of cabbage, lol!)

rice

edamame

イクラ (leftovers)
and of course a cupcake for dessert ;)

Tacos party (part 2)

Had some friends over in an impromptu "lets do tacos" type moment. We still had some tortillas, picante and mince so it was easy to just whip it all up. Friends brought yummy cupcakes along with them, so it was a very yummy, very filling dinner!t

Birthday Dinner

The photos pretty much speak for themselves, but we had

手巻き寿司:

マグロ

洋食マグロ

ホタテ

金目鯛

うに

いくら

avocado









with 煮付け金目鯛 and しじみ　味噌汁

















followed by a Fruit platter with:

melon (yum!)

persimon

strawberries (K ate all of these, lol. actually, you can already see her hand in the photo, grabbing a strawberry)

kiwi fruit

apple

papaya (bit bitter, unfortunately)

and rounded off with Mr. Donuts, since they have re-introduced the "golden chocolate", my ABSOLUTE favourite!

Is that 33 different foods for my 33 years? lol. It was a yummy meal,and quite enjoyable with J, K and PIL here to celebrate with me.

get some pork on ya fork

I went down to the new Sanwa supermarket this morning - new as in grand opening day. The hoards of people lining up to get into the big shiny new shopping centre put me right off though, so I stuck with the small supermarket down by the station , that disappointed me by not having any chicken carckasses. But I did get some pork, and 牛すじ and a few cheapie veges, didn't go overboard.

Anyway, being Frugal Friday and all, I used up leftovers to go with the pork, following this great recipe from Nay. I had to adapt it as had no cream, so made up a little white sauce and used up the half leftover tin of diced tomatoes from the other night. J even commented on how nice the sauce was, bonus!!

Dinner:

pork chops with creamy tomato sauce

steamed cabbage

mashed potato

I seem to be making more 洋 dinners recently, not sure why. I may have come to an impasse with my Japanese food repartee...will have to search out some more/new recipes next week, maybe BEFORE I go shopping to make sure I have the ingredients to make them. Hey that's a good idea - menu planning!

frugal Thursday

the titles are getting repetitive. So is the frugal theme apparently. Tonight J suggested that next time I make a cream stew, I add prawns, scallops, squid and mushrooms. 豪華やね～. Well, yesterday was payday, so I can go out shopping again to restock the fridge!

Lunch (@ playgroup) : onigiri in the shape of a dog and rabbit for K, regular for me. Last night's rice leftovers. K also had ham, cheese, eda-mame.

Dinner: cream stew, with chicken, carrots, onion and potato. Served with "French" bread, made in home bread maker. The "french" bread was the same shape as regular loaf of bread, so we were a bit weary as to what it would be like, but the taste was yummy. J reckons his favourite bread so far. It was very hard to cut, though. I think next time I need to cook on the middle setting, rather than light(colour) setting.

frugal Wednesday (on a roll!)

Still only using what is in the house:

cabbage and ham soup

chicken and eggplant

さつまいもとにんじんのきんぴら

rice (the old one, cooked up with 備長炭 of course

left over いくら

kimchee






(do I need to mention that while the rice and soup is my individual serve, the chicken/eggplant is a shared dish? don't wanna look like a piggy, hehe)

and in the process, I learnt the kanji for mirin (味醂）ha!


Even prepared tomorrow night's chicken cream stew while I was at it! yay for me, lol.

frugal Tuesday

Still trying to save pennies and use up what is in the fridge and cupboard rather than keep buying bits and pieces. So today was a mish-mash of left over vegies:
* eggplant
* shiitake mushrooms
* enoki mushrooms
* broccoli
* onion
* bacon

served in a tomato sauce with spiral pasta.

We made bread again today, so K and I took egg s/w (the last of the 2 eggs!!) for lunch on our playdate.

long weekend round-up

Sunday Lunch: Maccas
Sunday Dinner: ramen, at home

Monday breakfast: Brown rice with fish and miso soup (J only haha. Although K did eat almost half a fish, and that was *after* her weetbix breakfast! I settled for a cuppa tea)
Monday lunch: くら寿司. I enjoyed my yuba and あぶりチーズほたてsushi followed by caramel chocolate cake
Monday Dinner: left over costco chicken pizza

fresh bread for breakfast

yuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm! freshly cooked out of the bread maker bread for breakfast. I don't think there is anything better.
There were even a few slices left for K's cheese s/w for lunch.

PIL dropped by this evening with a box of mikan (they had another 18boxes in the car, to give out to people, like a mini-o-seibo I guess). As we had only about 15mins notice, there was nothing for dinner, so J suggested the new Chinese place down the road, beside the 焼き豚 place. He rang up and booked, so we got in (lucky as by the time we left at 7pm there was still a line up of people trying to get in).

But it was very dissapointing - we won't be going back. Expensive, small serves (even for Chinese) and just average taste (should have heard MIL go on about how the 酢豚 was too sour, haha. And all we ordered was:
* subuta
* chicken and cashew nuts
* fried rice
* prawns in sweet sauce
* mixed entree (which had pieces of chashu pork, 1 pitan egg cut into 1/4s, about 5 slices of tomato and some shiitake mushroom slices and cost 2300yen!)
* and a 焼きそば
and it came to nearly 9000yen (no drinks as we were PIL were driving home)
Very dissapointing.

Feels like we are on a chinese food boom, but it was just random, and last minute that the PIL came. I am guessing we won't be having chinese for a while now.

Friday night surprise

So I had in my mind that I was going to make a quiche, but realised half way through the day that, surprise, surprise, J had used all but 2 off the eggs in his egg roll last night. So no quiche possible. Worked out well, as I hadn't made the pie crust yet (am having trouble getting motivated to make it again).

So it was a quick change of plans to:

spag bol

salad (lettuce, 水菜, button mushies, tomato, cucumber)

えのきbacon巻き

broccoli

K is just waiting to dig in!

Anniversary meals

J took the day off work (unbeknowns to me) for our wedding anniversay....We did some fun stuff like banking in the morning, then went out to lala port for a look around, since we haven't been there before.

We had a yummy and filling buffet lunch at a chinese restaurant - the 酢豚 was yummy! And the tapioca dessert good too.

A bit of a look around the shops - J bought ties for work, I bought a maternity/nursing top, K cracked a wobbly when we tried to leave the amusement centre "conveniently" located next door to Akachan-honpo - honestly(rolls eyes)

Dinner is going to be いくら丼 with マグロ - J's choice. And K nearly ate half a tunafish the other day, so I am guessing she will devour it again tonight, raw of course!! Dinner will conclude with some cake to celebrate 4 years of marriage!

****edit******
Dinner was 漬けマグロ、イクラ、アボカード丼　with なめこ汁 and 玉子焼き (using 4 eggs). j makes his egg roll with dashi and sugar and a touch of salt, and it was very ふわふわ。 I m gonna try to 真似 the way he makes it (although I prefer a more savoury egg roll, made with こんぶつゆ, but I did like the way it was really fluffy)

almost chinese

I had decided that I was not going to go to the supermarket to supplement for the rest of the week, even for something small - only gonna use what is actually in the house!

So, with a head of cabbage and chicken thigh meat, what does one make but "Cabbage and Chicken saute" which turned out to be a poor effort at a Chinese chicken chop suey dish. I have been dissapointed before when using English languge/western recipes for chinese meals. They just never seem to "cut it", seem to be missing something. This time was no exception. Actually, at first I really didn't expect the recipe to turn out as a Chinese meal......although I guess my take on it, using しめじ, 長ネギ and 鶏がら soup as the "mushrooms" , "onions" and "chicken stock" helped on the way to a chinese feel. I also cut back on the garlic - surely 5 cloves of garlic is just wrong, no matter how you look at it???????

Anyway, it was nice, but not ground breaking, and I won't bother using this recipe again. I will look for a Japanese language chinese food recipe next time I have cabbage and chicken to use up. How weird is that? lol.

Veges to ward off a cold

Nabe with:

shrimp balls

cabbage

shiitake mushrooms

enoki mushrooms

shimeji mushrooms

carrots

tofu

konyaku (the black one... I know, I know, a bit wierd, I thought so myself when I got it out tonight, but for some reason in the supermarket yesterday it seemed right...)

miso flavoured 寄せ鍋 soup.

まぁ、 it was average. I think the miso flavoured soup didn't do much for me.
Finished it off with 雑炊 which was yummy.

Had to laugh when J asked what the "main" was, "oysters, pork, what??" - I was like, we have shrimp balls with it. He shut up for a while, then as we were eating I said "you know, sometimes, we just have to slum it a bit" haha.

Monday curry

J is home today with a headache, probably cold-related. We bought up some condiments at the supermarket on saturday as they were having a closing down for refurbishment sale, and it was all 30-50% off, so we bought a whole heap of curry too. Apparently he had it in his mind that tonight was going to be curry, so, who am I not to indulge a man-with-a-man-cold, so tonight is pork curry, with rice that has been cooked with some 備長炭、bincho charcoal thrown in (saw it on tv last night!) to make the rice taste better (or some crap like that, hehe. actually we have some "old" rice that i have to admit is not tasting so nice anymore, so hopefully this will improve it)

Lunch was a mix- pasta and miso soup for J, curry and rice and miso soup for K and ham and cheese s/w for me. Left overs, and packet stuff. Didn't realise J wanted curry for dinner, so K will probably have to have natto rice or something like that now instead for dinner, as 2 meals of curry in a row doesn't sound like a good idea to me......

Also made some mochi in the bread maker! Boys and their new toys, hehe.

****Edit*****
wow. more power to the bincho. the rice was NICE! Def different to the last time we cooked it regularly. Very cool.

Party

Saturday
Saturday was a housewarming party with J's friends, so we indulged in:
* corn chips
* dip (from the three threes pickles hp, introduced to me by my Auntie E!, yum!)
* french bread
* french cheese (not for me)
* spanish olives - yum yum yum! thanks to K for bringing those along - I think i ate the whole can of them myself
* salami
* carrot and cucumber sticks (my attempt at pretending to be healthy)
and that was just for appetisers!

dinner - tacos with
* lettuce
*guacamole
* taco mince
* refried beans
* tomato
* cheese
* salsa

dessert - caramel creme pudding (J made it in the oven)
and supper - fresh bread in our NEW BREAMAKER!!!! woo-hoo - it was a housewarming present from the gang.

Sunday
Sundy breakfast with the hanger-on-er-ers:
* french toast (use up those eggs) with maple syrup and/or capilano honey
* bacon
* eggs sunny side up

Lunch - sushi for J and K from supermarket, and tuna-bread from bread shop for me
Dinner - went to try new Chinese joint down the road, but it was full, so went into 焼き豚 (?) place beside it, and had ￥2000yen p.p. course menu which was more than filling and 100yen yuzu sherbet to finish off.

All in all and over-indulgent weekend in every way, but boy was it enjoyable!

懐かしい

Nagasaki champon for dinner.

I have never made it before, but figure it can't be too hard - it comes like an instant noodle mix. I probably could have even made it from scratch, oh well.

I lived in Nagasaki (sasebo) for a year when I was on high school exhange, and my host family used to take me to Ringer Hut for champon. I never ate it at home - I guess Ringer Hut is so nice and cheap that even Nagasakiites don't bother making it at home. J and I used to go to Ringer Hut a bit, when we lived near his parents as there was one close by, but we haven't been for ages. I always end up ordering 皿うどん when I go anyway, hehe.

But since we had the prawns, pork, chinese cabbage, and carrots in the fridge, all I need i s J to bring home the snow peas and squid and we have an a Nagasaki champon to rival Ringer Hut!

A touch Korean

A BIG day out at a playdate, and we didn't get home until close to 4pm, both uf us utterly buggered. All the way home I was wondering what I could do for dinner - K was asleep in the car, so I didn't really have the option of stopping off to pick up anything on the way home either. Well, a bit of serious thinking cap action later and I came up with (da-dah!):

牛肉キムチ炒め (although we didn't have any コチェジャン, there was 豆板醤 and テンメンジャン though, hehe. it was lacking a bit of flavour coz of this)。And as luck would have it, the recipe requires nira, which we have left over from our pad thai the other night! yay, fridge-clean out to boot. I was sooo wondering what I was gonna do with that other half a bunch of nira - it always happens that I end up with it sitting there for ages only to throw it out, since I no longer bother trying to make home made gyoza (it was a disaster the first time, and not much better the 2nd or 3rd times - so NOT worth bothering I decided), the only other recipe I know that calls for nira, lol!

So using only what is in the house/freezer/fridge, I am going to scrounge up yet another meal. I feel like I am making progress on my plan to reduce the もったいない in the house, and where possible cut down on spending in regards to food. So, yay for frugal friday on a Thursday.

Will add the left over 牛すじトマト煮こみ (for me and K, probably to eat before J even gets home we all ate this together tonight) and some rice, salad (lots of lettuce still), miso soup for J, flavoured bean sprouts (like Korean style) that I must have bought yesterday with tonight's dinner in mind, like a premonition, and, well, surely that is enough? Or maybe even make an egg roll if I am feeling in the mood. We DO have about 3 doz eggs to use up (after a miscalculation at Costcos - not realising that we still had almost a dozen in fridge at home, oops!!). (edit: made an impromptu zucchini champuru that sort of toned down the korean)

Actually, all this thinking about kimchee has got me craving 石焼ビビンバ! And yaki-niku.....

Golden Eye, 007

Plans for tonight's dinner are:

金目鯛 (干物), cooked in the oven - wonder how that turns out?

pad thai left overs （具 only really) was gonna make a zucchini champuru but realised that that was basically what these leftovers were!

牛すじトマト煮こみ left overs, like as a soup not needed with all the other stuff

rice

natto, if needed　(K had this for dinner with brocolli as J was late comig home. She then had some of ↓ this and some 金目鯛 when J came home too.)

湯豆腐

salad - lettuce, tomato, button mushrooms

塩辛 that j made on the weekend because J didn't have ↓he didn't want ←

beer XXXX for J, and a Kirin "Zero" for me!

and brocolli with mayo

And ha! just googled 金目鯛　and it turns out its english name is the "splendid alfonsino!" . Reminds me of something out of Happy Days.

tie me up

When my friends and I were young and carefree and went to discotheques* (hehe,) we used to love to dance to the song "try me out" but for some reason we thought she sang "tie me up". It was always a bit of fun.

What ahs that got to do with anything? well, tonight was Thai night!

pad thai
using up the prawns and pork from costcos in the freezer, and eggs in the fridge. Had to buy some nira, moyashi and 厚揚げ which we did when killing two birds with one stone one our morning walk with R.

tapioca in coconut milk.
which we didn't actually have, as it was still cooling in fridge. We had ice cream for dessert instead.

*Speaking of discotheques, I remember when I was in Mongolia (2002) this is actually what they used to call the clubs. So very 70s. I also went to a Boney M concert in Mongolia. And drank lots of vodka. And ate lots of lamb. And "dried milk products" like aaruul. Ah, 懐かしい。

牛すじ

Found some 牛すじ (beef sinew?? There must be a better word to describe this so it sounds appetising?) at the supermarket on Friday, so thought I would give it a try. We used to buy 牛すじ at costcos, and it was really good, meaty and yummy. But they stopped selling it about a year ago, and it is hard to get in regular supermarkets, well they have it but it is usually rather expensive or in super small lots.

Was going to make a curry (no roux) or casserole (brought a few hot-pots home from Aus) but decided to use up the tomatos in the fridge and make a トマト煮, which I guess is really just a tomato based stew anyway. Or a tomato-ey flavoured 肉じゃが. Or a minestrone soup even....right?!? (J actually said he wished I had put quinoa in it, lol!)

Anyway, it was yummy, following this recipe, and adding a few more stock cubes, and some cheese at the end. Oh, and since I didn't have any red wine (or any red wine I was willing to open and then leave left undrunk!) I used sake instead. Turned out ok.

Served it with plain bagels, since the bread shop near J's work was already sold out of french bread when he stopped by on the way home from work. 残念.

Oh, and the 牛スジ was a good batch: that supermarket is now officially the best for chicken carcasses and beef sinew- what an honour for them!

o-dear, o-den

Saturday J was in charge of meals all day, which meant:

Breakfast: pancakes, with maple syrup
Lunch: Ramen, with moyashi, carrot, pork, wakame
Dinner: Oden with egg, chicken meatballs, duck meatballs, daikon, konyaku, mochi in little astuage bags, hanpen, chikuwa, surimi (fish puree or slurry, haha! so true! man I hate the stuff!)

And miles of mikan!

Sunday we left PIL's before lunch, and got to Costco around noon, but instead of hitting the food court, we did the shopping first - good idea as there was so much sampling going on, we got a full meal without K even leaving the trolley for the whole 1hr and a half we were at Costcos!!
Lunch: half a hot dog, shared with K
Dinner: BBQ chicken pizza, costco of course.
Supper: Costco poppy seed cake, yum yumm yumm! And a cup of pu-erh tea, before my heart started pulpitating, and a google later I realised that pu-erh tea was probably not a good thing to be drinking while pregnant. So a drink of water instead. Oh, and another mikan.

attempt at veges

Dinner tonight is chicken soup with carrots, long onions, and celery. Not much variety, but plenty of volume of veges in there. Will pump up the volume with left over rice, and also some yummy bread rolls from train station bakery before we got on train to come home after our big shopping/library/bank morning out.

Left home a bit later than usual this morning when going for a walk down to the station, so "Forest" was open - stopped in to get some bread for the walk, but there was not that much there even when the shop had just opened. Strange bakery. Ended up getting the same mini-sauasage in a roll for K, and a chicken teriyaki pizza slice for me (which was yummy). Lunch was maki-sushi for K, but she dropped all of them, so went lunch-less. I had 2 oinari-san. Why do they get a -san on them, hmmm? I think our bread was filling enough that we didn't need much for lunch.

just waiting for the rice to cook....

I couldn't have gotten more bleedingly stereotypical today if I had tried:

Pregnant (although simply fat looking to the outside world at this stage) 外人 with toddler in tow, pigging out on Maccas for lunch! Oh, I can hear the critisism already, lol. But I was craving a cheeseburer (low standards, easily pleased) from the time we stepped off the train on the way to playgroup this morning, and there was nothing I could do but satisfy that craving for lunch. And K ate 3/4 of a cheeseburger, wow! I am always surprised these days at how much she can eat.

Tonight, is another slap bang job, unfortunately, as I have still yet to go shopping (am thinking of maybe heading out after dinner, see how we feel):

curry and rice for K

taco rice style ensemble for me (not enough for both K and me)

and a big hatena mark over J, but as he will probably be home late again with work, I figure as long as I have rice, we can throw together something out of our "emergency" cupboard foods, which we are reallly working our way through lately! So much for my starting healthy cooking- tomorrow, for sure.

Last night was cupa soup corn soup with left over tomato pasta and chicken from Sunday night - yep, the leftovers are being well and trully put to use this week too, lol!

和, 豪 and 伊

So it turns out only FIL came today, and when J went shopping last night (after K chucked a tanty and thus I pulled the pin on her and me going) he couldn't find any nice meat for a nabe, so he made 豚の角煮 instead. I haven't had it for ages, and it was pretty yummy!! K ate two whole eggs out of it, but didn't like the daikon, which I can understand as it is a bit bitter. So lunch went well.

I also made some anzac biccies for afternoon tea, but as the first time in the new oven, it took a bit longer than I thought, trying to work out how to use it etc, so they came out of the oven as jiji was ready to leave, so he had it hot - obviously not the way Anzacs are meant to be, oh well. K, J and I had some after they had hardened up a bit, and they were delish, although perhaps a bit too buttery?? This time I used actual golden syrup that I had brough back with me, and as always cut the amount of sugar down to half that of the recipe. Oh, and they seemed to spread a lot more than they ever did in the old crappy microwave oven, so I guess next time I will have to consider that while making them.

ANZAC BISCUITS

1 cup rolled oats
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar (I only use half a cup to make them, I think it is enough)
3/4 cup coconut
125g (4 oz) butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup (I have used manuka honey and kuromitsu successfully as substitutes in the past)
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon boiling water


Combine oats, sifted flour, sugar and coconut.
Combine butter and golden syrup, stir over gentle heat until melted.
Mix soda with boiling water, add to melted butter mixture, stir into dry ingredients.
Take teaspoonfuls of mixture and place on lightly greased oven trays; allow room for spreading.
Cook in slow oven (150ｰC or 300ｰF) for 20 minutes.
Loosen while still warm, then cool on trays.
Makes about 35 according to the recipe, but I have never gotten any more than about 2 dozen out of them.

For dinner, J whipped up a tomato and onion pasta sauce which we served with oven baked chicken breast. Just as the smell of hot, crispy chicken was wafting through the house, I thought how perfect it would be to have some baguette to go with it, so jumped in the car and drove to bakery No.2 (the one near the 100yen lawson) and YES they were open and YES they had baguettes (at only 250yen) and YES it was yummy!!! Finally, some luck with the bread! I even managed to control myself and not overeat at dinner time.....which I reckon means that when the bread cravings come later tonight, I can act on them without feeling guilty♪

焼きうどん?

I am unsure about what to. do..tomorrow the PIL are coming over, and J suggested we do nabe for dinner (or lunch??I am not sure when they are coming actually) So do I use up the pork and chinese cabbage I have in the fridge tonight for dinner, only to have to buy more for nabe tomorrow OR go out shopping now for something for dinner, and again for nabe goods when J gets home or tomorrow morning (as I am not going to be in charge of picking the meat for PIL they are picky about food, and I am sure to get the wrong one!! Leave that to J!)

Dilemma.

As it stands, I can make yakiudon out of stuff I have at home now. Can't really think of anything else I can make without having to buy something to add to it. And I don't really feel like hitting the supermarket today - after all, I have to clean the house, hehe. Oh, and catch up on some US sitcoms online...oh and procrastinate on the internet....oh and lie on the sofa doing not much. Monday's are SO the new Sunday in my world!

Actually, come to think of it I probably dont have enough udon. Hmmmm. Might have to do a cupboard search too and see if I can't come up with another idea.

To be continued.....
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It's 5 to 12, and I am back after R's walk, which was via the 100yen lawson, where I picked up another packet of udon (and some pickles!) - problem solved, dinner decided. May even have some kind of mini-donburi type thing on the side. gonna see what I can rustle up.

I would like to say that I am back about to tuck into some yummy bread for lunch, but low and behold, the bakery near 100yen lawson is closed on Mondays AND the bakery the other side of train station, which I walked all the way back especially for took a special day off today. So no bread. Freezer foods to the rescue for lunch today.

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sometime after 10pm....

So dinner turned out like this:

yakiudon,
kinda following this recipe for 味付けat least, using only the veges we had.
and 炊き込みご飯 using this can (which has nothing to do with strawberries) I didn't eat it, as the smell wafting out of the rice cooker was too much for me (should have been forewarned by the blurb on the can "enjoy the ocean rock and seaweed frangrance")
to turn out like this

weekend eat outs

Saturday and Sunday were spent almost entirely in home centres looking for furniture. So meals were on the run (not that that is anything different to a normal weekend - I tend to avoid standing in the kitchen on weekends or public holidays, and either eat out, or let J whip something up!)

Saturday
Lunch : Sushi-ro, our favourite 100yen sushi train!
Dinner: No 18, the chinese shop down the road. I made J drive there as I was sooooo worn out from standing and walking all day. I think it took us longer to park the car, than it did to drive there from our house, that is how close it is!! The lady was happy to see us - second time in less than a week. Bet she thinks she has got some new regulars, lol. I had the 八宝菜 からあげ set, that comes with rice, pickles and soup. J had noodles and gyoza, and K had wantan soup. It was good.

Sunday
Lunch: Gusto, as it was the only place we could find after leaving one home centre, en route to the next one. I don't think I have ever eaten at Gusto before, so I was a bit dissapointed that the didn't have any bread sets, only rice and took me ages to decide on the menu(ended up having "cheese-in-hamburg" but hey, it is cheap family restaurant with drink bar so it did the trick. And K got an Anpanman lunch so she was happy too.
Dinner: J whipped up a lovely pesto pasta, served with salad. After the heavy/greasy lunch it was perfect. K had shirasu with her pasta, and yes, she lapped up the pesto pasta. She has had it before, when visiting a French friend of J's - their kids ate it, so K did too, seems that she is now a fan.

I feel like I ate too much and am still bloated this morning. I think I need to be more careful with my eating or else I am gonna explode, seriously! I am not worried about putting on weight per say while pregnant. but my body is usually pretty good at telling me when to slow down, I just feel off if I am eating too much on a regular basis. So more healthy, vege-centred meals and less snack (boo-hoo) for a little bit I thinks.