Last night's dinner was...
Cheesy potato balls
Korean style Pan fried Tofu
Gyoza
Edamame rice and salmon rice (leftovers)
I'm trying to clean up my refrigerator until I leave for Japan so my husband can stock up whatever he wants in there... probably beer and sodas :)
I still have a lot of potatoes left which I bought weeks ago (5 lb bag of Idaho potatoes). And in the fridge, all the vegetables I've got left are cabbage, carrots, onion and green onions. Shiso leaves from my balcony.
So I may be cooking a lot of potato dish for this weekend :D
Here's the recipes of the day:
Cheesy potato balls
Potatoes---2 medium size
Milk---3 tbs
Potato starch---3 tbs
Cheese---whatever you like. I used American cheese
1) After pealing potato skins, wrap in saran wrap and microwave for 2 - 2 1/2 min on 1000w microwave until potatoes are cooked.
2) In a medium bowl, mush the potatoes with potato musher or fork, then add milk.
3) Add starch to the mushed potatoes, make balls with hands.
4) Put cheese inside.
5) Fry them up.
Tofu jun (Korean style pan fried Tofu)
Tofu---1/2 pkg 1/2 inch thick
salt and pepper
*soy sauce---1/2 tbs
*mirin---1/2 tbs
*Korean chili pepper---2tsp
*sesame oil---1tsp
*green onion---1tbs
1) Salt and pepper Tofu.
2) Use regular or sesame oil to pan fried tofu.
3) Mix all the *sauce ingredients.
4) Pour over the sauce on tofu.
So this week, I didn't go to a grocery shopping yet. Trying to use up all the produce I have in the fridge.
Although, I have asked my husband to pick up some stuff from Trader Joe's this week. I forgot to take a picture of them, but the stuff he bought were;
Whole Milk
Soy Milk
A loaf of bread
bananas
apples
cereals
Came up to $25.60
And then I used Chicken thigh, Salmon, Pork tenders, ground meat
for this week;
Total of $17.68
So This week's spending came out to $43.28!
But, I went to a farm and got some strawberries and some other fruits and a few veggies too. Each time I paid about $10. Add those to the spending, it's still $63.28!
YES, I made it under $70 :)
You know, I never knew how much I spend on food until I started this blog.
To be honest, it's pretty fun realizing how much I spend. It's like watching your weight.
If you don't weigh yourself on a scale every day, you wouldn't know if you are gaining or losing. But if you weigh yourself daily or weekly, you can maintain your weight, right? Well, at least for me this method works.
Anyways, my point is knowing how much I spend on food each week helps me not spend too much on junks. I used to buy some random produce because they were on sale or something, but then I often ended up not using them before they get old/bad. There were a lot of waste in the fridge before.
But now, I think I shop wisely, store them wisely, and waste less.
Making a change of life style helps me go though the tough times of raising multiple children. Because I'm actually taking this life style as a game, it makes me 'enjoy' being a housewife raising children. Gives me motivation.
Cooking dinner used to be one of every day task and I used to not get excited about what to cook for dinner until I started this blog.
I started to think that my doing this blog is actually helping me from not getting a postpartum depression.
A picture of the day:
One more year of living in southern California...
