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June 24, 2013October 29, 2014 | San

Have your kids been journaling/doodling more during the past hazy week? This is a second exercise book I wrapped with brown paper and simply decorated with a checkered floppy disk label.

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Hi, glad you found my site where I write mostly about my bread recipes + other things I do daily to slow down a little and pare down a lot, especially on food waste and single-use plastics. After all, we only have one earth, let’s be nice to it.

I post a mixture of my own photos and sometimes images that I really like by others, giving proper credits. Email me at {monoandco} at gmail dot com if you like me to remove the post with your image.

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I only cooked the rice and sliced a tomato for this lunch meal. The curry dishes were leftovers from a weekend gathering. I hate wasting food and I rather buy/order less and not deal with excess food to begin with. But when I open my fridge, I see plenty of containers filled with leftover food and half-used/prepped ingredients. As a regular homecook, I can never clean out my fridge, no matter how hard I try. Swipe to see my well-stocked fridge despite no grocery runs over the long weekend.

New habit: packing homecooked lunch to work. Save money. Avoid crowd.

Recently, there have been many articles on how to cut food expenses given the rising price trend. My best tips are:

15 years of eating meatfree and counting, cos it's getting easier! I cook with mostly fresh, unprocessed ingredients and this is the cheapest way to go vegetarian.

I harvest sweet basil from my corridor garden very often. My plants fully understand my consumption pattern and have been syncing their supply to my demand! A plant seller once told me that the more we prune the herbs, the more leaves they will produce. Great tip!

I am so comfortable with cooking stovetop rice that I prepare Nasi Lemak the same way too. Sharing my small batch recipe that uses two cups of uncooked rice. I hate leftovers, especially rice, so I make sure to cook only the amount of rice that we can finish.

盆菜 Poon Choi is an easy CNY dish to make at home. Traditionally prepared with premium ingredients to symbolise a bountiful year ahead, I made mine vegetarian with ingredients that I wish to eat -> 心想事成/ wishes fulfilled, equally auspicious, right? 😅

This should be my last Yu Sheng for 2022. I have been sharing Yu Sheng photos in my stories and some of you asked for the recipes. Truth is, they were all made with leftover Yu Sheng! I don't know why we can never finish the dish despite ordering the smallest size. I can save the leftovers in the fridge as they are vegetarian ones and don't contain raw fish. Sharing how I turned one into today's lunch.

There's something very zen about cooking rice on the stovetop. Always let the rice and water sit for a while before turning on the fire. This helps to prevent the rice at the bottom from sticking on the pot. How long to soak depends on the amount and type of rice. If cooking white rice, soak for about 30 minutes. If brown/black rice, 2 hours or more. I cook vegetarian chicken rice this way too. No mock chicken today, served with airfried bean curd skin!

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