Cass' Simple And Healthy Meals

Cass loves cooking and baking but she only does these to feed herself.  Unlike Sherilyn who will spend hours cooking and baking for everyone, Cass won't spend more than half an hour prepping her meals.  She only has the time to cook or do simple baking on Mondays and Saturdays when classes are held online. She'll prep her meals in between classes and quickly eats them while attending classes 😆. 

Most of her meals are befitting health freaks. She loves to include loads of veggies, carrots, pumpkins, and mushrooms in her meals.  Desserts are usually oat and yogurt-based or frozen smoothies.  She freezes her favorite fruits and then uses the Blendtec to blitz the frozen fruits with store-bought frozen berries and frozen walnuts.

Cass cooked this healthy veggie and shrooms rice for the first time last week where she dumped pumpkin, carrots, and oyster mushrooms into the rice cooker.  The rice turned out very sweet and flavorful. Even I liked it, though I don't eat rice.

Yesterday she cooked her healthy one-pot veggie rice again. This time she doubled up all the veggies and included a tomato. Then she placed a marinated boneless chicken thigh on a steaming dish on top of the rice cooker. Everything was cooked in under an hour and tasted yummeh!  This time she flavored the rice with freshly ground black pepper and garlic (from a grinder).
The marinated chicken thigh is meant for grilling or pan-frying but steaming tasted just as delish.  I recently replenished our stock of antibiotic-and-hormone-free seaweed chicken thighs from Beacon Mart (under Beacon Hospital and they have an outlet in our hood).  The marinated chicken thighs are available in several flavors and our favorites are the Nyonya, Green Curry, and Indonesia flavors.

Cass' version of healthy Bibimbap is assembled using her one-pot rice cooker veggie rice, added kimchi, poached egg, steamed sweet corns, blanched broccoli, chicken thigh, and a teaspoon of gochujang sauce.

Dessert is this baked organic oats loaf. She mixed oats with an egg, bananas, milk, and walnut and baked it for about half an hour.  It's served with melted butter and Gula Melaka syrup.  

If only everyone in the house could eat like Cass, cooking will then be easy peasy. All I have to do is chop up all the veggies and dump everything into the rice cooker.  But there are really finicky eaters at home who won't eat such healthy meals, making my life so much more complicated and expensive!