Mrs. Constance Wang's Blog

During my pregnancy, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes.  My husband was very supportive to keep my blood sugars under control. He was very careful to shop for healthy groceries. He has always been a healthy food conscious shopper anyways but he was super conscious about it during my pregnancy. During my first visit at the diabetes clinic at the Women's Hospital, I started chatting with another expectant mommy in the waiting room. We exchanged contacts because we seemed to enjoy chatting. We met up once after our babies were born and gave each other baby gifts. We also exchanged diapers and a baby outfit.  During our next meet up, I am getting us bubble tea to celebrate that we have no diabetes now! I am grateful to make a new friend in such an unexpected environment; the diabetes clinic.

First, I pan fried the pork chop two minutes each side and then 1.5 minute longer to ensure it is cooked. I did not use oil as I used a copper non-stick pan. Then, I threw in the tomatoes and onions to cook in the pork chop juice/oil.

Today, I used the leftover soy sauce chicken sauce to cover my vermicelli. I also added Chinese "Xue Quai" preserved vegetables for extra flavour. It was yummy.

Tonight, I stir fried garlic with kale. Then, I baked salmon with garlic, dijon mustard, lemon juice, dried parsley and olive oil. "clear: both; text-align: center;">

My mom and baby and I had the Subway Melts for lunch because we had a coupon for them.  For dinner, I made soy sauce chicken tonight. I had leftover onions, carrot and tomato so they were thrown in there. So this was how I cooked it. I first use oil to fry up the minced garlic,  ginger and onion to get the flavour out. Then, I threw in the chicken drum sticks, added some light soy sauce and a teaspoon of dark soy sauce. I added a cup of water and waited until the mixture boiled. Then, I threw in the tomato and carrot and boiled everything for five minutes. I had to flip the drum sticks over at the three minute mark. Finally, I simmered the pot for around 15 minutes and it is ready.

Today, after my new friend and her 5 month old baby went home, I took advantage of my pot that has a steamer on top. I steamed broccoli on top and then steamed a common Cantonese dish that has salted duck egg, chicken eggs, marinated minced pork with green onions, on the bottom steamer.  I put the timer on for five minutes. Once it boils, I loosen the lid so steam is released. Then, I continue to steam with the loose lid. That is the trick to get the egg smooth and soft. I will show the results in a bit.

Today, for lunch, I made a sandwich with scrambled eggs, bacon and tomato. My late dad used to make this for me as breakfast. My dad was an amazing cook.

Kale, mushroom, onion stir fry with beef burger with parmesean cheese melted on the beef patty.  I also made Choyote broth with pork bones, orange peel and carrots. My aunt came over to play with baby and enjoyed dinner with mom, hubby and I.

Tonight, I made Hong Kong Style Baked Pork Chop.  I made it because I always order it in Hong Kong Cafes.  It was easy.  This is was how I made it.  First, I marinated the pork chop with soy sauce and corn starch. Then I fried the pork chop over medium heat for 2 minutes on each side.  Then, I made the tomato sauce, which is the highlight of this dish.  It is easy.  Stir fry some chopped onions over high heat.  Then, throw in the tomatoes.  I had some packets of ketchup at home from McDonald's so I used 3 packets.  I put in a couple of drops of light soy sauce.  Finally, I poured half a can of chicken broth into this mixture and brought this "soup" to a boil.  To thicken the sauce, I poured in a slurry of corn starch and water.  For the rice, I made fried rice with scrambled eggs, frozen carrots, peas and beans. I poured the fried rice into a casserole dish, placed the fried pork chop on top, covered it with the tomato sauce and sprinked parmesean cheese on top and put it

Good Evening, I want to share my thoughts with you about how we manage food at home.  I lived with my parents until I got married, which was 2 years ago. It was after I learned my husband's system of managing food that I realized that my parents and I did not have a system so a lot of food and money was wasted.  I discovered that my husband's system saves money and lessens food waste. The former benefits our wallets and latter benefits the environment.  So this is how he does it.  He is very organized.  He actually has an inventory list of the staple food in our home and that includes the examples of rice, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, milk and eggs.  He checks the physical inventory at home to see which ones he needs to buy during his weekly grocery shopping trip.  He also checks flyers of his two favorite supermarkets to see what is on sale to determine what groceries to buy.  He only buys groceries that are on sale so he has a list of sale items that he refers to.  Only buy