NWVA moments from Last Year

NWVA meaning Not Worshipping Vegetables Anymore. I went through a phase where I diligently made my own breakfast EVERY MORNING. Kept it up for two weeks, as rightly predicted by Mutter.

Not sure when I stopped exactly, but from these pictures, it seems very very long, and very very wrong...

I bought this at Taipei Daiso, they had cute food accessories to amp up the cute factor in your bento. Unfortunately these cherry tomatoes don't look like balloons, but red SPERM? Judging from the heart, I think I made this for B1. What is this? "I am in love with your sperm" bento. Hahahahhaha.

Notti Breakfast

This one is just breakfast

This was a bit sad looking.

Filling.

NWVA - Japanese Breakfast Bento

I tend to associate certain foods with certain traumatic events, such as becoming sick, and start to perversely rejecting it ever since. Just like B1 associates ikan bilis with illness, because his mom used to buy him marcaroni soup with ikan bilis when he was sick as a child. No surprise that he hates marcaroni. It's a huge pain for me sometimes because I am fond of resorting to ikan bilis and ginger as a soup stock versus boiling chicken and veggies from scratch and having to get rid of the chicken fat and guts.

I don't eat tomato ketchup with a sunny side up egg on bread. My brother once made a sandwich for me with the above composition, and I became heartily ill after that. Since then, I refuse to eat ketchup on bread, even for bratwurst mit brot.

I also don't eat raw tofu. It's disgusting, and also because I became very ill (though I don't think it is related to what I ate) after that. This is the breafast bento I had on the day I became extremely ill and was given a lovely cocktail of 4 multi-colored pills by my evil doctor. I am still a bit leery of Korean strawberries right now.

NWVA 7 - Pancakes at Breakfast

NWVA 5 - It's Official, I am sick of Veggies

By Friday, I am getting quite bored with the veggies and eggs, yet I cannot stomach eating heavy meats and sweets in the morning. However there isn't much time to debone chicken thighs (which meat is sweeter and softer), so I bought chicken fillet (oops turns out it's not deboned thigh meat either) the evening before. I make some minced chicken rolls with cucumber. I also make some cheesy pasta and force myself to eat the nasty baby carrots. Where's a rabbit when you want it?

I forget to prepare fruits, but I steamed some Japanese sweet potato stars.

NWVA 4 - Instant Tomato Mee Mix

I used up the remainder of the Tomato Instant Mee I bought from my favourite Korean supermart. The Tomato Instant Mee tastes as much of tomatoes as I taste of miso. So no. I will not buy it again. I did not even use that noxious paste that comes with the package.

I used oyster sauce and tomato ketchup instead. This was the first time I could not finish breakfast without much difficulty.

NWVA 3 - Stir Fried Vegetarian Udon

As you can see, I bought a lot of frozen endamame beans and corn. You will see these two ingredients pop up until I hemorrhage beans and corn or they run out.

I also cut apple slices and dumped in some really ugly grapes Vater bought.

NWVA 2 - Ang Mo Style Sushi Rolls

I made some hot dog rolls, sliced up some cheese sticks and my egg blew up in the hot water because I had just taken it from the fridge. Bad idea.

Veggies murdered for this cause:
endamame beans, baby tomatoes and corn.

Not Worshipping Veggies Anymore 1 - Veggie Bolognese

I used some leftover prepared Italian tomato paste (I forgot the name) as the base of my spaghetti sauce. To my horror, it was not as sharp as a lemon but twice as sour).

I also discovered I still hate baby carrots, blanching or no blanching.

The pasta was accompanied with some water chestnuts and papaya cubes. I remember reading somewhere that papaya is known as pawpaw in Australia. That is one disturbing name, if you consider the local Singaporean context.