Yes, I Am Not A Chef

Meal Prep Week 3 consisted of the following dishes: Truffle Mushroom Cheese Rigatoni ,  Hickory Barbecue Bacon ,  Roasted Zucchini, Bell Peppers, Cauliflower and Sweet Potato in Balsamic Dressing ,  Spam Omelette , and  Steamed Rice Simplicity was key this week.  I felt like the dishes I cooked last week required a bit too much in preparation, so this time I scaled down and decided to cook simpler dishes. It also helped that my schedule this week called for less meals than last. Like my first week of meal prepping, I decided to cook roasted vegetables again, only this time I remembered to add one of my favorite vegetables in the whole world: Zucchini. I've always wondered how anyone could  not love Zucchini. It's perfect in its crunchy, light freshness in any dish. Zucchini is what cucumbers wish they could be ( aka a TRUE vegetable ). Basically, Zucchini haters can suck it. I noticed that my roasted vegetables last time around wer...

Meal Prep Week 2 consisted of the following dishes: Pizza Mac & Cheese ,  Baked Barbecue Pork and Chicken ,  Broccoli and French Beans Sauteed in Garlic and Butter ,  Enoki Mushroom Bacon Wraps , and  Steamed Rice Why didn't I straighten the tupperware before I took the photo?? Now I'll have to live with this for the rest of my life. Feeling confident due to a pretty successful attempt at Meal Prepping the week before, I decided to try my luck and cook more dishes the second time around. Hence, the mishmash of dishes you see above which all don't really go that well together. Oops. I also gave myself a new goal of making twenty- yes, twenty individual meals, enough to sustain my husband and I for both lunch and dinner five times during the work week. It was harder than I thought. First of all, I never even considered whether the volume of raw food I painstakingly prepared all morning would even fit in the pots and pans I'd use to cook t...

Meal Prep Week 1 consisted of the following dishes: Fried Rice ,  Stir-Fried Beef with Broccolo , and  Roasted Vegetables Yum. As you can see, the theme was all over the place. Looks like we're in for a fun Asian-themed week then wha-? Roasted veggies? Believe me, together with the other dishes, it tasted just as out of place. I like roasted veggies though, so suck it. I'm an adult! I do what I want! Kidding aside, please see my very un-cheffy attempt at providing a recipe for the dish that turned out to be the best of the bunch: Fried Rice  Ingredients: Cooked Rice ( better if 1 day old) - 4 to 5 cups Frozen Peas - 300g Carrots - 2 medium-sized ones, cubed White Onion (please don't use red) - 1 large, chopped Eggs - 4 pieces but I should have added more, beaten Japanese Soy Sauce (must be the one used for sushi/sashimi, don't even THINK of using any other kind) - I probably used up 3/4 of the regular-sized bottle Sesame Oil - Just ...

Yes, I am not a chef, but I like cooking food. I am also not a writer, but i'd like to get into the habit of blogging. Thus, this blog was born. Specifically, a blog about food. A blog about my meal prepping journey, to be exact. Just like everyone else, I decided to mark the new year as a time for me to get back on the road to fitness, which I had slowly abandoned sometime in 2016, causing me to gain 15 lbs in the process. During this time I ate way too much, felt weak and lousy, and my clothes no longer fit well. So naturally I consoled myself by eating even more. Yum. Several terrible holiday pictures later however, I told myself that I finally needed to change. I promptly marked January 1, 2018 on my calendar as the last day of my old unhealthy life, and made sure to imagine upbeat 80's motivational music playing in my head as I did it. 2018 would be the year I lose weight old school style. You know, by counting calories and working out. BO-RING... but effective. ...