Apr 30, 2012
Week 33 - The size of a pineapple
Good news! Thanks to the dieting, Sel lost a bit of weight. The baby gained a healthy 200g in 1 week and she is still measuring acceptable average size.
Bad news! Due to the low placenta placement, our baby is unable to turn. Thus, she is in transverse position. Sel will most likely need to deliver her via c-section.
Anyway, what's most important is that the baby is healthy. Alhamdulillah.
Apr 23, 2012
Week 32 - The size of a large turnip
Apr 12, 2012
A Sneak Peek of Baby's Room
Lemon Pepper Pan-Fried Cod with Spinach & Mashed Potatoes
1 fillet of boneless cod fish
1 cup of spinach
1 small potato
2 pinches of lemon pepper seasoning
Some butter
Some skimmed milk
1 slice of lemon (wedges)
Method
Put the potato in the microwave oven on high for 5 minutes. Heat up a frying pan and melt about 1 tablespoon of butter. Season the fish on both sides with the lemon pepper and place it in the hot frying pan. Turn the fish when it’s slightly golden. When the fish is done, place it in your serving plate. Leave the heat on and add some butter to the leftover juices in the frying pan if it’s too dry. Add the spinach and stir-fry until it is cooked before placing it in the same serving plate. Take the potato out of the oven and peel the skin. Add a bit of butter and mash the potato. Add some milk as you continue to mash the potato until you get the right texture. Then serve the mash potato on the same plate with a slice of lemon wedges.
The spinach and mashed potatoes if eaten individually could do with a little more seasoning of salt and pepper but it taste fine when eaten with the nicely seasoned fish. Not sure if the serving is filling enough for Sel to last till tea break.
Apr 11, 2012
Apr 10, 2012
Garlic Fried Rice & Steamed Chicken with Pek Chye
Ingredients
2 cups of steamed rice
2 eggs (scrambled)
1½ bulbs garlic (chopped)
2 tablespoon of butter
1 tablespoon teriyaki sauce (which I omitted)
Light soy sauce to taste
Some prawns
Method
Heat up a wok and melt the butter. Add garlic and saute until golden brown and fragrant. Add the prawns. Then the rice and eggs. Pour in some light soy sauce. Toss the rice to allow the sauce to mix well with the other ingredients at medium-high heat.
It's not the same as the garlic fried rice that Sel craved for. But it's just lacking the slight "chao ta" taste.
To add on more protein and some fibre to the meal, she cooked steamed chicken with pek chye.
Ingredients
4 pieces of chicken
Some pek chye 1 shitake mushroom (sliced)
1 clove of garlic (chopped)
1 clove of garlic (sliced)
1 slice of ginger (shredded)
1 chilli padi
2 table spoons of light soy sauce
1 teaspoon of oyster sauce
Method
Marinate the chicken with the light soya sauce, chopped garlic, ginger and chilli. Place the pek chye on the oven dish and spread the oyster sauce over the vegetable. Throw in the mushrooms and sliced garlic on top of it. Place the marinated chicken in the same oven dish and pour over any left over marinate over the chicken. Cover the oven dish with aluminium foil and put it in the oven. It should take less than 15 minutes to cook.
Apr 9, 2012
Steamed Cod Fish with Vegetables
Ingredients
1 fillet of boneless cod fish
2 slices of onion
1 slice of ginger (shredded)
1 chilli padi
1 salted plum
A few slices of carrot
½ cup of cauliflower
½ a tofu
3 pieces of shitake mushrooms
1 small tomato
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Adequate water
Some parsley
Method
Place the fish fillet in an oven dish. Rub the flesh of salted plum on the fish surface. Take the leftover flesh on the seed of the salted plum and soak it in a little water. Spread the onions, ginger, chilli and parsley on top of the fish. Mix the vegetables and place it in the same oven dish. Add salt and pepper over the vegetables. Pour the water with the salted plum over the vegetables. Cover the oven dish with aluminium foil and put it in the oven. It should take less than 10 minutes to cook.
It’s so easy and it taste good too!
Apr 6, 2012
1st Day of the Home Blood Glucose Test
Blood Sugar Level at 10.30am was 7.7mmol/L.
Blood Sugar Level at 4.05pm was 7.1mmol/L.
Boiled Cod Fish with RiceStir-fried Vegetables - Tofu, Mushrooms, French Beans
No afternoon tea.
9.00pm - Dinner (Seafood fried rice from Simrah - with egg, squid, crabsticks, prawns & fish)
Blood Sugar Level at 11.00pm was 9.1mmol/L.
Apr 5, 2012
Chicken Soup
This is Mama's recipe.
Ingredients
4 pieces of chicken thigh
¼ of an onion (chopped)
1 small piece of garlic (chopped)
1 slice of ginger
½ a carrot
2 cups of cauliflower
1 potato
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Adequate water
Some parsley
Method
Saute chopped ingredients and ginger. Then add 3 cups of water and let it boil. Add chicken and after 5 minutes add the potatoes. 5 minutes later add the carrots, vegetable and parsley. Add salt and pepper to taste. Turn off the heat when your vegetables are cooked the way you like it. Done! It’s so simple.
It somehow doesn't taste like Mama's but it could be because Sel had put lesser salt. The nurses had advised that her food should be as bland as possible.
A "Gift" from the Gynae's Clinic
Apr 2, 2012
Week 29 - The size of a butternut pumpkin
The gynae is concerned that our baby is considered big compared to average. She’s at least 100g heavier than the normal range. She is particularly concerned especially since Sel has been gaining a little too much weight and she has a family history of diabetes.
Sel had done the 2 hours post prandial test to screen for gestational diabetes first thing this morning. The test requires her to fast (no food and water) from 12.00am the day before and to finish a bottle of the glucose drink 2 hours prior to the test. We’re hoping that that she passes the test but we’ll only know the result later this week. Even then, the gynae has advised to improve her diet by eating lesser carbohydrates and more protein.
On a lighter note, we are both amused to see that baby has hair now.