Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Eat your greens

Like to share this recipe. I dun reali like eating spinach nor broccoli straight n thus find tis recipe good as can't taste them at all.
Ingredients: 1 medium-sized chopped onion, 2 medium-sized potatoes, 1 head of broccoli cut into florets, 1 bunch of spinach (abt 250gms), 1 tbsp of butter (or 10g, those prepacked ones), abt 500ml of milk (uht packed ones, 2) n water - enough to cover all ingredients.
In a slow cooker, cook the above ingred except the spinach under high for abt 1 hour, then on low for abt 5 to 6 hours. Then you add in the spinach leaves n cont to simmer. When it's done, lift the lid and let the pot cool down. Next pour the soup into the blender, batch by batch, n blend them into smooth texture, say less than 10 sec each time.
After that, pour the blended soup back into the slow cooker, add salt to taste, n put under auto till dinner time. It serves abt 3 person, medium serving per pax as the cream soup is thick n shouldn't be taken too much. Serve it with toasts, or whole-grain breadrolls.

Another way of cooking chinese spinach, is by stir-frying it with chopped garlic before adding some tuna flakes, to make the white sauce for pasta meals. It may sound odd, but it's nice.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Stepping-up...


In today's world, in order to stay competent or to move up the ladder in the corporate world, many people feel that their job has taken too much of their sense of self, time and attention. Of course, this applies to people who does not believe in all work and no play, cos it'll only make Jack a dull boy. I guess this is why I just couldn't sit in my qb n face the pc screen the whole day- I might just die n rot there...which was one of the factors that brought me to my job today. Compare to my life now, then I could only do what I like during the weekends, which is about 6 days a month (those days, it was still a 6-day week on alternate weeks, n when u come in on a working sat, that's it - ur whole sat is gone by clearing the whole week's leftovers). And on sundays, u just have time to unwind n before u could really start to treasure that special day, mondays has rolled out.

Thus, the words "When work no longer works"..yes, we do need to work in order to pay the bills, for everyday's meals, for a roof over our heads, n in order to keep the world going. But surely, u can't devote ur life to the company u work for. If ur working time is 9-6 everyday, it takes up abt 1 third of ur day, not to mention the time going n coming back. N u work most of ur adult years til u're all dried up to give anymore. So u end up giving about 1 third of ur life away....
The golden question would be: wat gives u fulfillment, ur lil daily work accomplishment, or smtg tat is beyond tat.

"My life..My loves" will refer to the loves of my life, which i will go into step by step. Step Up Life will unfold what works - for me.