Ingredients:

3 pcs fried fish (small size is fine)
sliced ginger
sliced onions
cubes tomatoes
camote tops

Boil the water with ginger and tomatoes.  Add in the fried fish with the onions once the water boils.  Add salt to taste.  Cover until it boils then add the camote tops.  Let it simmer.  Then serve hot.

Sounds nice for a hearty lunch.   But i look forward to a romantic breakfast in bed when i go to a holiday get away in a San Diego hotel.  So I should not stop dreaming about my American dream.

According to the health magazine i am reading, some of the common medical causes in in women for fatigue are the following:

• Anemia – which is caused by lack of iron in the blood.  This is the primary medical explanation for fatigue in women of childbearing age.
• Thyroid disease, which may affect up to 10% of women.  Symptoms include fatigue, difficulty losing weight, extremely dry skin and hair, and sensitivity to cold.
• Depression, which an underdiagnosed  condition among women, says Dr. Moskowitz.  Fortunately there are now more options available than ever to treat it.
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).  Symptoms include: severe fatigue lasting for more than six months that does not improve with rest, impaired memory and thought processes, pain, and sleep difficulties.  Although CFS gets a lot of media attention, according to Dr. Robyn Goshorn only about one in 375 people has the disease.

If i do a self diagnosis,  i would pick depression but as am often reading about CFS, i am having second thoughts — maybe i fall for that too. This is not a joke problem for me.  I kept on gaining weight although i don’t eat much.  But if i go out with friends who loves to eat like there is no more tomorrow then i need best appetite suppressant so that i wont’ add more weight.

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I crave for “nice” food most of the day but most to the time i don’t give in to the craving.  At times i eat too even if I don’t feel hungry so i guess this what made me add on this unwanted weight in my body.   I decided that incase i will have the feeling to eat again, i wll just munch on diced cucumber and carrots.  Dried and baked peanuts is a nice choice too but i am allergic if i eat too much high protein foods.  I have tried this before but it does not fill my tummy.  I crave for something like noodles, or burger, or chinese bing but not anything sweets.  I love to eat sweets when there are no other choices of foods.

OH well, i just suddenly thought of food because of the Food Trip Friday meme.   I am going to post a food i once ate while in Bangkok the other year.  I think we had that from a Thai fast food restaurant at big mall.

Now am going to check on Outer Banks rentals to see if it will help me with my craving for food. Aha food!

We had this treat Thursday and Friday of the holy week.   Some are asking how did we cook this, so let me try to enumerate here the ingredients and the how to:

INGREDIENTS:

::sticky rice (according to how many people will eat)
::half kilo sugar (brown)
:: grated coconut

::banana (diced)
::sweet potato (diced)
::taro (diced – small size)
::jackfruit (strips)
::sago (colored or non-colored will do)
::ube (optional) (diced)

Steps in cooking:

1.   Put  2 cups of warm water in the grated coconut and press.  Set aside the milk.  (do it 2 times)  The second washing, put in 4 cups.  Set aside the second washing.

2.  Put the grains of sticky rice (or you can use the powdered sticky rice) with the local ingredient called “landang”  into a big kettle.  Put enough water to cook it.  Boil.

3.  After some 20 minutes, put in the coconut milk (the first wash) with the sugar, taro, sweet potato, and the colorless sago.  Stir constantly.  Let it boil again.

4.  When the sticky rice is fully cooked, add in the banana,  jackfruit and the colored sago.  Put in the second wash of coconut milk.  Let it boil with constant stirring.  Add sugar if needed.

5.  Remove the kettle from fire when all the later ingredients are cooked.

6.  Serve in a regular size  serving bowl.

Ginataan is great merienda for young and old.