Someone shared this egg breakfast recipe with me recently and I quickly fell in love with it after learning how good it tastes and how cute it looks (with a cute name too!). It is definitely something different for me, even though it's still the same egg and bread that I have every morning.

{How can it be a good friday without a good homemade breakfast?}

Every now and then, I get bored of eating the same breakfast every morning. So during the weekends or when I am on holiday, I try to make myself a fancier alternative with still the same ingredients found in my fridge. I eat spinach salad everyday at work, so there's always a box of spinach sitting in my fridge. For breakfast this holiday, I try to incorporate these spinach into my dish so that they can be finished sooner. And yes, another breakfast dish with eggs.

It's finally Saturday! That means only one more day to go and I can progress towards the second phase of my South Beach Diet! For the second week of phase 2, I can then have both serving of carbs and fruits on the same day! YEAH! But for now, I still have to stick with eating one serving of either carbs or fruits, so this morning, I made tuna sandwich with whole grain bread. But because it's only one piece of bread, I think the portion is a bit too small, so I added in scrambled eggs. I rather have a big breakfast in the morning so I don't have to eat as much later on.

Starting my morning with a spinach and cheese omelette with salsa sauce. Pretty straight forward and simple. I just grabbed whatever I find in my fridge and toss them into the pan. Obviously I'm going to have some spinach and onions lying around because I have been eating them in my salad every lunch now. I added non-fat cheddar cheese because I really like the melted cheese flavour in my dish.

I hate gloomy days! It's been raining the past days and it makes me very depressed. I thought I should bring in some sunshine by making these lovely egg dumplings in a shape of a sunflower with broccoli and cauliflower.

Ever since I started on this south beach diet, I've been cooking for myself. And all I've been eating evolves around western style dishes like baked fillet, pan-fried chicken, roasted veggies etc. This morning after having some french toast sticks and away from eggs for breakfast, I decided to bring eggs to my dinner instead. So I made the most basic yet most popular Chinese dish of all time, Fried Eggs and Tomatoes 番茄炒蛋.

It's my last day of my south beach diet phase 1!!! I'm so excited to bring back some breads, fruits as well as fruit-flavoured yogurts!!! I'm so excited! I know I have to do it gradually but still I haven't been eating anything with sugar for 2 weeks! That's sooo long!!! I'm glad it's done and I lost 8 lbs so far in these past 2 weeks. So I have to say I'm quite proud of myself. I've never been so successful on a diet before...now to maintain and continue losing more while maintaining a healthy lifestyle, I'll have to make sure I stick with phase 2 as hard as phase 1.

It's weekend again! That means another temptation challenge! And this time, I have to attend to a friend's pot luck dinner gathering...sigh. Everyone needs to bring in one dish so I want to make sure the dish that I bring is something within my south beach diet menu. You know during pot luck you will see all sorts of greasy dishes and starches, like rice, mashed potatoes and spaghetti, so at least I can make sure my dish is "safe" to eat and I won't be starving to death.

I made the vegetable quiche again but this time in mini cups because it's easier to share in pot luck! I already posted my recipe last time as a breakfast here but this time I added red and green peppers to create more filling inside.

Hard-boiled egg is one of my favourite ways of eating eggs, so of course, I'm going to include that into my diet. Some people eat them as a snack after gym to get some protein, but for me, I like to eat them with my salad. Whether it is a fruit salad or vegetable salad, I think the eggs adds more depth and more colour in general.

I made Chawanmushi (Japanese steamed egg custard) for breakfast today. I know this is quite fancy for the morning but if I don't find some way to make my meals look good and presentable, I think I'll end up having depression. Haha...this is my first attempt ever making steamed egg. It's not smooth enough and lack the flavour that normal chawanmushi has...Oh well, I couldn't put too much ingredients to make the flavour pop out more because the south beach diet phase 1 is a bit restricted...and I also left out the dashi stock that is supposed to be in the recipe.