Hey sweeties! How was your week and weekend? Mine was busy and fabulous!!! I always like to work hard and play hard and being a grad student didn't allow me to always do the play hard part! :) But now, I'm a normal M-F working person so I appropriate adjust myself to the role! :)
A couple of things to announce, which are sooo exciting for me!
1) I'm going to CHICAGO!!!! yeah~~~ just for a leisure weekend! I've never been there since I came to US and heard great things about it, so I always wanted to visit. I'll be going on the weekend of July 10th.. so anyone from Chicago want for a blog meet up? let me know! :)
2) I signed up for the yoga retreat!!!! I was hesitating because although I love yoga and I love the idea of spending a whole weekend doing yoga with my favorite instructors in a nice mountain retreat, but it is kind of expensive. But my lovely dear Star encouraged me to do it because he knew I much I love yoga and going there will make me happy!!! Thanks dear to LOVE me sooo much!!!
Tentative planning:
3) Go to Toronto to attend a friend's wedding. I'm still not sure if I'll go or not because it's a lot of $$ and plus I need a visa to go there. Bummer!
4) Go to Ocean City with my 3 best friends!! Date isn't confirmed because they're all pretty busy! Bummer!
But I'm sooooo excited for the first two that are CONFIRMED!!! ^_^
As I showed thousands of times of my porridge and mentioned white fungus, I thought you might want to know what exactly it is and how to prepare it.
This is how it looks like if you go to asian market
It comes dry and has this flower form
You need to soak it for at least 2 hours. I soaked it for 4 hours and it expanded to this size
Split the flower and rinse 2-3 times. For this week's porridge, I soaked dry corns, aduki and mung beans overnight.
So now put white fungus and the rest of the ingredients to the slow cooker, put high and let it cook for 8-10 hours (adding some sort of thicker ingredients, I used wheat cream this time, but you can also add oatbran, oat meal or rice). It's so easy and delicious! :) Love it!
Now, recap from Wednesday to Sunday.
Wednesday: blog + 30 min yoga + work
Breakfast: toasted zucchini bread + AB + green monster with kale. I must say it doesn't taste half good as spinach monsters.
Lunch & snacks: pesto pasta was delicious
Dinner:
Dessert: KABOCHA
Thursday: 75 min date with Dave Farmer + work
Breakfast: a NEW COMBO inspired by B-cookies! Overnight soak oats + wheat berries + greek yogurt + chocolate pudding + berries + AB = FEATURED SUMMER BREAKFAST!!!
I'm serious, this is soooooooooooo good!!! You'll see it often now on!!! ^_^
Lunch & snack: the packages are lotus powder
Dinner:
Dessert: KABOCHA
Friday: gym + work
Breakfast: obviously the new favorite
Snack and no lunch because we had chinese food lunch with all stuffs at work
Dinner: 
Dessert: KABOCHA!!! I'm not getting bored of it yet! :)
Saturday: yoga + lunch with new friends + baking + swimming + relaxing at home
Breakfast: I had no more Greek yogurt so I had to use plain yogurt and it turned out a little watery. The combo: oats + plain low fat yogurt + berries + wheat berries + AB + frozen banana
No lunch pics. But we went to a taiwanese restaurant.
Baking: I made pineapples muffins for this week.
And this is mung bean soup. Chinese people drink this a lot during summer because it helps to cool your body.
Snack time: Arnold Thing with LC, a muffin and a gigantic grapefruit.
Dinner: tortilla pizza + kale chips
Dessert: Kabocha + mung beans popsicles
Sunday: yoga + facial at HELA + meet my best friends and had dinner with them in a fancy Italian restaurant
Breakfast: I love this combo for Sunday (I don't know why). 2 whole eggs omelet, toasts with LC and strawberries.
Lunch: had to be quick so chicken bamboo + bok choy + " noodles"
Dessert: strawberries with chocolate pudding
Went to HELA for a 90 min facial which made me feel soooooo relaxed and sooooo pretty!!! ^_^
Dinner: I only took a pic of the octopus salad, but I also had 2 slices of thin crust pizza, they were allll delicious.
I was a long recap but I had great time and wanted to share with you. I hope this week will be even better, for all of us! ^_^
A couple of things to announce, which are sooo exciting for me!
1) I'm going to CHICAGO!!!! yeah~~~ just for a leisure weekend! I've never been there since I came to US and heard great things about it, so I always wanted to visit. I'll be going on the weekend of July 10th.. so anyone from Chicago want for a blog meet up? let me know! :)
2) I signed up for the yoga retreat!!!! I was hesitating because although I love yoga and I love the idea of spending a whole weekend doing yoga with my favorite instructors in a nice mountain retreat, but it is kind of expensive. But my lovely dear Star encouraged me to do it because he knew I much I love yoga and going there will make me happy!!! Thanks dear to LOVE me sooo much!!!
Tentative planning:
3) Go to Toronto to attend a friend's wedding. I'm still not sure if I'll go or not because it's a lot of $$ and plus I need a visa to go there. Bummer!
4) Go to Ocean City with my 3 best friends!! Date isn't confirmed because they're all pretty busy! Bummer!
But I'm sooooo excited for the first two that are CONFIRMED!!! ^_^
As I showed thousands of times of my porridge and mentioned white fungus, I thought you might want to know what exactly it is and how to prepare it.
This is how it looks like if you go to asian market
It comes dry and has this flower form
You need to soak it for at least 2 hours. I soaked it for 4 hours and it expanded to this size
Split the flower and rinse 2-3 times. For this week's porridge, I soaked dry corns, aduki and mung beans overnight.
So now put white fungus and the rest of the ingredients to the slow cooker, put high and let it cook for 8-10 hours (adding some sort of thicker ingredients, I used wheat cream this time, but you can also add oatbran, oat meal or rice). It's so easy and delicious! :) Love it!Now, recap from Wednesday to Sunday.
Wednesday: blog + 30 min yoga + work
Breakfast: toasted zucchini bread + AB + green monster with kale. I must say it doesn't taste half good as spinach monsters.
Lunch & snacks: pesto pasta was delicious
Dinner:
Dessert: KABOCHAThursday: 75 min date with Dave Farmer + work
Breakfast: a NEW COMBO inspired by B-cookies! Overnight soak oats + wheat berries + greek yogurt + chocolate pudding + berries + AB = FEATURED SUMMER BREAKFAST!!!
I'm serious, this is soooooooooooo good!!! You'll see it often now on!!! ^_^Lunch & snack: the packages are lotus powder
Dinner:
Dessert: KABOCHAFriday: gym + work
Breakfast: obviously the new favorite
Snack and no lunch because we had chinese food lunch with all stuffs at work
Dinner: 
Dessert: KABOCHA!!! I'm not getting bored of it yet! :)Saturday: yoga + lunch with new friends + baking + swimming + relaxing at home
Breakfast: I had no more Greek yogurt so I had to use plain yogurt and it turned out a little watery. The combo: oats + plain low fat yogurt + berries + wheat berries + AB + frozen banana
No lunch pics. But we went to a taiwanese restaurant.Baking: I made pineapples muffins for this week.
And this is mung bean soup. Chinese people drink this a lot during summer because it helps to cool your body.Snack time: Arnold Thing with LC, a muffin and a gigantic grapefruit.
Dinner: tortilla pizza + kale chips
Dessert: Kabocha + mung beans popsicles
Sunday: yoga + facial at HELA + meet my best friends and had dinner with them in a fancy Italian restaurant
Breakfast: I love this combo for Sunday (I don't know why). 2 whole eggs omelet, toasts with LC and strawberries.
Lunch: had to be quick so chicken bamboo + bok choy + " noodles"
Dessert: strawberries with chocolate pudding
Went to HELA for a 90 min facial which made me feel soooooo relaxed and sooooo pretty!!! ^_^Dinner: I only took a pic of the octopus salad, but I also had 2 slices of thin crust pizza, they were allll delicious.
I was a long recap but I had great time and wanted to share with you. I hope this week will be even better, for all of us! ^_^
Question: How $$ enters in your decision when you plan for vacations? Are you a budget/planned person?
