Healthy living comes with healthy cooking.  If you live in the west like I do now.. you know why the Westerners are a lot more bigger than us .. the Asians.  While the Asians would  not touch anything fatty  from a mile away, the Westerners .. just devours them down.  Some i seriously think .. they don’t mind it at all.  But the modern Westerners are more cautious about their  health.. and those of their children.

I still fry a lot of my food.. but steaming is always the best.. when it comes to a healthier choice of eating…. and cooking.  Plus i find that steaming one’s food is a lot less work .. like the washing part.  The George Foreman Grill .. is heaven sent.. when it comes to someone who loves BBQing their food.. and grilling.  Grilling is great.. because the fats are being drained away.  Especially in the winter.. when one has to stay indoors all the time.. a good grill meal does warm up the body.. and the heart.. and even the man .. who doesn’t like to cook.. must cook now.. because grilling is “the man’s” thing.

Being a food blogger has many benefits, not only do you get to make friends all over the world but you also get to receive many food gifts from them.  Being in Canada and unable to find certain foods from home has made me so home sick you wouldn’t believe what I would do to get a bowl of Laksa or a plate of char kway teow.  Because of all these wonderful food bloggers from home and other places around the world I am able to get a taste of home every now and then.  I cannot thank these wonderful big hearted people enough for all the kindness they’ve shown to me.

This Christmas you can be sure that they will be receiving some holiday cards from me and my family.  I’m getting some printed out from Vista Print because they are personalized and I don’t have to order them by the 100s like most printing company would want me to.  I can place my orders online and choose from the variety of folded cards or photo cards and even postcard types to send.   I have the design options, the type of fonts I want to use and the colors, or I can upload my own pictures of the whole family to put on the cards.  In fact, the whole family can get involved in this Christmas project, it’s gonna be fun. Lowest prices and satisfaction guaranteed, can’t ask for more.

It’s been a long time since I said that.  Those were the days.. where we would think about the wonderful beef noodles in Hong Kong and fly out in the afternoon .. for a bowl of it… with my boss and then fly back the next day.  Yes.. with our PDAs there was nothing we cannot do .. even when we were not in the office. Afterall, the head office was in Madrid, Spain.. muahhahaha!! i had great times.. working for my ex-boss.. Mr Fernandez.

It is sad when you are in another country and can’t get the food that you are used to.  But it’s even sadder when you can’t get the treats too, like my rum and raisin from Haagen Dazs (that even the not so developed countries like Cambodia has).  And the saddest is that the local grocery stores do carry the Haagen Dazs brand, but not the Rum & Raisin flavor.  Now who doesn’t love the rum and raisin, right?  Holy! I can’t get enough of it.

But for the last 8 years in Canada I can’t find it in Yarmouth at all.  Sad  eh?  Well, I’m throwing the ball into our local grocery stores court by leaving a note with my name card on it and hoping against all hope that he will come thru’ for me, finally.  So I wait.  Today I left the note for him, I had wanted to speak with him personally but every time I see him in the local store he never ever made eye contact with me.  Yup! Very sad!  But since he got me the Udon that ran outta stock a few weeks ago I’m inclined to give him another chance to earn more brownie points.  So we’ll see eh?  This is Canada after all, not a third world country.