Dumpling Sunday

I've been thinking about dumplings lately.  So glad that I finally had the chance to make some this afternoon for lunch.

It took me a while to prepare all the veggies, but it's okay since the end product is really yummy!

The filling I made is a mix of finely minced mushrooms, carrots, onions, turnips, garlic and spinach.  I also added sesame oil and oyster sauce.  I didn't follow a recipe for this one so I don't have exact measurements.  It's always like this when I cook but I steamed a couple of test dumplings before making a lot just to be sure.

I need to practice my dumpling folding skills!

 Freshly steamed!  I also made chili garlic sauce to go with the dumplings.  Yum :)

Curry Day

Do you like curry?

When I lived in Singapore, I considered Japanese curry as my comfort food.  I really don't know why but i was something I craved for whenever I was homesick or super stressed.  I kept a box of S&B curry in the cupboard along with my Century Tuna and Lucky Me stash :)

Now that I'm back home I realized that I haven't had Japanese curry in a long time so I got a box of S&B in the grocery and started cooking :) 

We had chicken katsu (deep fried chicken fillet coated with panko and egg) and assorted veggies cooked in curry sauce.  It was a yummy and simple meal... not to mention cheap too!  I think I spent a total of p500 ($11.43) for this dish that served 6 people :)

Yummy!

No diet on Sundays!

Since it's a Sunday (or should I say, Sinday) we decided to give Nugget a break from his usual low calorie organic food. We got him 2 cans of Tiki Cat food (still organic but yummy) from Bow and Wow - one can of chicken & egg and the other one was tuna with tiger prawns! Yes, tiger prawns! Very fancy, huh? Haha. Here's the product description on the website:

"Tiki Cat Manana Grill Ahi Tuna with Tiger Prawns In Tuna Consomme Canned Cat Food is manufactured in a human-grade factory and are truly human-grade quality. All products are made with whole meat from preferred, premium portions of seafood that are left whole and intact verses traditional meatloaf or other mystery meat pates. All meat ingredients are called out in the primary flavor names without mystery or unnamed "ocean fish", chicken and other inferior filler meat sources."

Did they just say human grade quality? Does this mean that I can eat this too? Haha. My mom fed him this morning and said that the food was gone in 5 minutes. Hmm. Must have been yummy :)

Tiki Cat 2.8oz can costs p105 ($2.26) for the Tiger Prawns and p65 ($1.40) for the chicken.And since Nugget was having tiger prawns, we had shrimp for lunch too :D