Day 12: A very lazy day

Friday is fasting day during this lent for catholics here in Dubai.  In the morning, I did not eat or follow any meal on the food list of the perfect diet.  When I arrived home in the afternoon, I drank a cup of milk and a glass of water.  I watched the movie The Impossible, the true to life story of a family during the phuket, thailand tsunamin in 2004.  Then, i watched Zero Dark Thirty, another true story of the fall of usama bin laden.  That was about it and then i fell asleep until maybe 8:30 p.m.  I did not feel hungry but forced myself to eat salad and oolong tea.  Caren arrived and we cooked another healthy option recipe calle UKOY.  

Recipe for Ukoy (shrimp and vegetable fritters) in herbs 

Ingredients:

1 egg

1 cup of flour

1 cup of water

bean sprouts

carrots

shrimps 

herbs of your choice (parsley, oregano, tarragon etc.)

salt and pepper to taste\

Olive oil for frying

Procedure:

Put flour in mixing bowl

Add egg

Add water

Mix together

Season with salt and pepper to taste

Add carrots, bean sprouts and shrimps

Fry in olive oil 

use vinegar and garlic as dip

Day 9: Dreaming of the last day

It has been nine days since we started the Hemani Perfect Diet.  Today, our weights are still the same as yesterday.  Plateau? Maybe?  Week two diet list of the Perfect Diet is quite heavy but the bowel movement is really, really smooth and suave :) I think it's because of the vegetables and fruits combined with coffee and tea.

We have been dreaming and planning of a "healthy feast day".  Yes, it seems that we have developed a habit of eating healthy and living healthy.  

What is healthy feast day?

Our healthy feast day is the first weekend after our two-week Perfect Diet.  In our case, weekend in Dubai is Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.  Our two-week diet ends on the 4th of March 2013.  We plan to have the healthy feast on the 7th of March 2013, which is my mom, Lucita Saulo Hernandez' birthday.  

What do we plan to eat.  Today, we were dreaming of what we wanted to eat right after the diet.  Surprisingly, except for Kentucky Fried Chicken hmmmm minus the skin and coco jam, we decided to have:

Vegetable cocktails

Fruit cocktails

Ham asparagus

some healthy pasta

cakes, cupcakes

I can't wait for the healthy feast.  This is the day that we test our new habit of healthy living.  Are we going to over eat or not? he he he

Caren and Lie's Recipe for today: 

For tomorrow's food, we cooked up our vegetable and fish menu. 

Fish fillet in herbs and vegetable ala first time :)

Fish Recipe

Ingredients

White fish fillet

Oregano

Ginger powder

Lemon

Bread crums

Egg

Olive oil

Procedure:

Marinate fish with lemon, ginger powder, oregano

Chill for 24 hours

Heat olive oil in low fire

beat egg and deep fish fillet one by one

Then, cover with crumbs

Fry

Vegetable ala first time

Vegetable of your own choice - anything goes

garlic

onion

olive oil

Procedure

Heat olive oil in low fire

Saute garlic and onion

Add vegetables 

Season with worcestershire sauce

I hope you enjoy our new healthy option recipes.