Chocolate Banana Smoothie

By ThingsWeLike

Our household members, which consists of only TheSilentTiger and me, become very health conscious ever since we went through a hair loss phase last year (that explains the stir fry veges without salt). We got even more health fanatic this year when our university schedule isn't as packed as previous years. 

Being in a design course really drains the youth out from us. Not only dark eye circles, wrinkles, acne popping up as if they paid rent to stay on our face, but also rapid weight loss because we can't afford to feel hungry or obesity due to high intake of junk food. Try asking a few architecture students if they remember what do they eat for the last few days, I bet they can't even remember. They would most probably say: "Hello.? We don't even have time to shit and you expect us to fill our stomachs?"

But, as health freak architecture students, we overturn the conception of the unhealthy lifestyle a design student could have. We hold back ourselves from those mouth-watering unhealthy cooking outside food (occasionally breaking the rule), oats (for snacks), constant supply of vege and fruits aaannndddddd now we discovered SMOOTHIE!

Ingredients:

1 banana
1 tbsp of milo/ cocoa powder
2 tbsp of oats
4 tsp yogurt
2/3 cup of soy millk
1/3 cup boiling water

1. Cut the banana into pieces and put aside.
2. Prepare a drinking cup and put in milo/ chocolate powder and oats.
3. Pour in hot water and mix well.
4. Fill the cup with soy milk.
5. Put in the cut up banana into blender and pour in the milo/ chocolate oats mixture.
6. Add in the yogurt and start the blender with pulse for the fruit to come down to the blade.
7. Continue with mode 1 and 2 for a while, and you're done.

And here's the video recipe:

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What health crap talk I just gave.  Now that I notice the unglam scene of oil swimming across the plate, I think we have the tendency to become obese.

HO MAI GAWD. *runs off to gym and do weightlifting* 

Stir-Fry Asparagus

By ThingsWeLike

Well, uni started weeks ago, which explains the lack of updates, due to the insufficient time to grow mold and to develop stuck-in-front-of-the-computer-all-day disorder. To avoid having our blog heading towards abandonment, we got our butts back into the chair and present to you stir fry asparagus. 

As mentioned in the "About Us" entry, we do occasionally bring packed lunches to uni, not because we're that reluctant to boost the consumption growth of the country's economy, but really we're that health conscious to avoid eating out so often. Did I mention we stir fry our veges without using salt? But the Aussies grow their vegetables so well that they taste absolutely fine without seasoning. Ohkay, back to the packed lunch topic, we as typical Asians can't live without rice, and stir fry dishes goes well with it and they don't exude odd smell when we reheat them. (no, we can't live with just salads and fruits, our stomachs will be growling even before the start of lectures)

Asparagus taste really nice whether it's simple boiled or stir-fried with fresh garlics so that you get to taste its original flavour. But we got bored with that and decided to try an Asian style cooking with it. What's more when steam white rice goes really well with it! (TheSilentTiger did a video on how to make steamed rice in our ThingsWeLike TV, do check it out here!)

Ingredients:
4 fresh asparagus
1 carrot
2 garlic cloves
2 shitake mushrooms
1/2 chicken breast meat (sliced into quater inch think)

1 tbsp toasted sesame seed
1 tsp of corn starch mixed with 1 teaspoon of water
handful of toasted cashew nuts to be sprinkled on top (optional)

Seasoning:
1 1/2 tsp oyster sauce
1 1/2 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
white pepper
1 tsp sugar


1. Toast the sesame seeds and cashew nuts. At the meantime, slice the asparagus and cut up the carrot using a peeler in order to get the thin elongated appearance. Prepare the ingredients and put aside.
2. Sauté the garlics and put in the sliced meat.
3. Pan fry the breast meat till brown for both side.
4. Put in the rest of the ingredients and combine with the seasoning.
5. Pour in a little bit amount of water and cover with a lid for a couple of minutes on medium heat.
6. Pour in the mixed corn starch and mix well. Sprinkle the toasted sesame seeds after that.
7. Lastly, you could serve the dish with some toasted cashew nuts.

And here's the video recipe:

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Bays of Fires, Tasmania

Bays of Fires, Tasmania