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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Hot Soup in the Office

One of my best "kitchen investment" so far is my La Gourmet Thermal Cooker. Bought it about 6 months ago and I just love it!

Main reason I bought it was to cook and bring soup to the office. Soup, particularly raw papaya soup is supposed to boost milk supply. Well, I'll do (almost) anything to increase my supply.


Hot Papaya and Corn Soup for my morning & afternoon tea break.
Yummy!



Cooking soup is such a breeze with this pot. What I do:

1.  At night - Cut ingredients for soup. (carrot/papaya/ corn/lotus root/ onion/potato etc)
     Transfer one portion of meat (I use either pork loin/pork ribs/chicken thigh/chicken breast) from freezer to fridge.
2. Morning - Boil water in inner pot. Chuck meat and soup ingredients into pot.  (if I have time, I boil the meat first then throw away water to remove scum).  I also like to add in red dates and wolfberries.
3. Boil for 10-15 mins.  (during this time, I shower, get myself ready for work and pack up my milk pump, ice-pack & bottles)
4. Carefully place inner pot inside outer pot.   DONE!


It's really nice to have hot piping soup in the office  :)    Ha ha....practically my whole office knows it when I bring my soup.  Should be good for loosing weight too, since I take the soup instead of eating biscuits.   (well, I use the word "should" since I'm actually NOT loosing any weight these days. *sobs*)

I  take it for my afternoon tea break too. By then, it's warm not hot but still good enough for me.



Hopefully, more soup = more milk supply = happier baby :)


11 comments:

Unknown said...

Not bad...At least you are self nourish with nutrients for baby Erin.

Daddy said...

Hahaha...my wife is also obsessed with the volume of breast milk that she produces ...and right now, both the freezer section of both my fridge is full and we bought another 4 feet Freezer and it is filled to the brim now ...and she is not stopping anytime soon....Not sure what I would need to buy now to store all those milk bottles...hahahahaha

MeRy said...

I like the papaya soup.....

Small Kucing said...

i LOVE papaya soup

Mummy Gwen said...

Yummy and nutricious soup. Hope your supply keep coming.

LittleLamb said...

everyday same soup, same taste...
Anything for the milk huh...

Mommy to Chumsy said...

that's is so nice. nothing beats good homecooked food/soup eh?

Alice said...

so hardworking la you....can prepare soup to the office somemore. got nice recipe of soups for the kids? my daughter is tired with ABC soup....

MayChing said...

i have one of those thermo pots too, but got to use it more often, so far only used to make red bean soup and green bean soup.
hmm, i've actually never tried papaya soup!

Family First said...

Hmmm ... you gave me an idea BUT i wonder if I am that hard working ;)

Mummy Moon said...

You are very rajin. The soup does look good!