Ups and downs to simplicity

I am not sure what to do. I am not sure whom to trust. All I know is that I need to take care of myself and sort out my life first.

He told me 'Do what you want to do'.

What do I want to do? I am not happy at all to be asked out by guys. I cannot move on to a new person so easily. I don't want to make decisions now. Like most girls, I just what to be in love and be loved with THE special one. How simple is that?

Maybe it will be easy just to give up love for now and just have fun. Practically speaking, you cannot control someone's feelings unless you play a mind game successfuly. I don't want to be having to play the game. I just want to be myself. I just want a simple relationship or friendship.

I will follow my dear friend's advice - 'follow your instinct' as this is all I can do.

Happiness starts with healthy, yammy food! :)

We, people, are not always happy. As we grow older, we have more things to deals with and we realise there are so many things that are beyond our control. . .

One of the things that we cannot control is how people feel. I was recently broken up by my boyfriend. He does not feel the same way as he used to any more. We shared a lot of memories together. He was the one who always stood beside me when I needed warmth. Being in a foreign country, going through difficult times, he was always there for me and he was my battery who gave me power to be positive whatever happened. On the Valentine’s Day, he woke me up with a bunch of flowers with a card saying “Here is the token of our love, let’s have a wonderful day and many more...”. I felt like I was the happiest woman in the world… After 5 weeks from that day, his feelings for me no longer existed. It was so easy. He just disappeared from my life, having left me the words “We should move on, once and for all…”

Another thing that is beyond our control is……the NEED to be FED! Despite I was depressed about the break up and had no appetite for a long time, I had to eat something to live my life. I have my family back in Japan, I have to do what I have to do here in London... I have reasons to be in London … I have friends who love me here and back in Japan. We cannot control the fact that we need to eat but we can indeed control WHAT we eat. Same for the relationships. Your partner’s feeling is beyond your control but you can control WHAT you want to be. I chose to be healthy, happy, and successful!

For me, cooking used to be something mostly for those I cared about. I cooked for my boyfriend very often so even cooking made me sad after the breakup. I am now on my own. I should love myself and I do now. I need to supply battery by myself. So I started this blog to remind myself of the necessity of eating healthy food and take a good care of myself. So there won’ t be many impressive recipes but there will be easy-to-make healthy recipes for one potion (sometimes two potions for a friend or to save for next day) for busy people.

Wagamama Easy Risotto

Healthy Chiken and Potato Soup

Easy Eggs and Tomatoes with Oyster Sauce

Easy Italian Salad

White Japanese Curry and Salad

~Japanese White Curry~

My dear friend N visited me today so I made some Japanese curry for us. I was going to make the normal brown curry but I realised I only had the white curry cube in my cupbord... Ok, let's try this...... This actually turned out to be good! This is not so spicy and such a confort dish - the best way to deal with hangover!

***Ingredients***

• Onion (1)
• Carrot (1)
• Mini tomatoes (a few)
• Potatoes (2)
• Pork (400g, alternatively use chiken or beef)
• Mashrooms (as much as you want)
• Black paper
• Olive oil
• Japanese White Curry paste (can be found in Japan Centre/ Rice Wine etc...)
• Milk
  

Step 1.

Chop up the vegetables into small pieces (about 1.5cm x 2cm), and fry the onion with a bit of olive oil until it's brown (use low heat), and then add other vegetables except the potatoes and tomatoes [A]. Put the potatoes in a bowl filled with water.

Step 2.

Chop up the pork into small peices and put some black paper, then fry it with a bit of olive oil [B].

Step 3.

Put [A] and [B] in a large source pan and add some boiling water so that all the ingredents are under the water. Boil it for 10 mins with the lid on. Then add the potatoes and tomatoes into the sauce pan.

Step 4.

After 7 mins or so, when you can poke the potates with a fork smoothly, add the curry cubes into the pan. Dissolve them with chopsticks and a spatula. Stir it for a few minutes and add a bit of milk.

Step. 5

Serve curry and boild or fried rice on a large plate. (If you have left over rice, you can fry it with a bit of butter and put some dried basil paper to increase the fragrance)

Curry cube