Relaxing After a Day’s Work

Electronic Massage Chair

Electronic Massage Chair

My dad was given an electronic massage chair very similar to the one pictured above. I don’t forget to give it a run everytime I visit. It has buttons for different types of massages: swedish, kneading, tapping, rolling, therapy. You can even adjust it depending on the intensity you like – low, medium, high. It has worked wonderfully for me whenever I’d like to have some sort of relaxation after a day’s work – it never fails to put me to sleep!

Nothing beats a real massage à Montréal et massothérapie done by a certified masseuse though. It’s been three months since I treated myself to a good
massage montréal home service. My favorite masseuse knows my pressure points and my weak points so she knows how to get rid of all the aches and pains in my body, especially the stress balls in my back and arms and relieves the lower back pain plaguing me all the time. I have a tendency to bloat and have “cold” air in my body, so after every session I feel very “inflated” and light.

It’s a new year and after a long happy but tiring and sometimes stressful holiday season, I think we deserve a break. A massage needs to be scheduled, ASAP!

Shrimps & Prawns: The Kids’ Favorite

If there is one thing that my kids love to eat other than fried chicken and steak, it would be shrimps. Technically, they love prawns, because they love to eat what they call the “big shrimps”.

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During the holidays, they were treated to a seafood fest of tiger prawns via a seafood delivery made to my mom’s house a few days before Christmas. It came as a gift since my mom is now a pesco-vegetarian after battling with cancer a few months ago. She was gifted with a variety of seafoods including her favorite, scallops!

She had the prawns cooked in different ways, kebab style and one fried with butter (my preference and favorite!). Suffice to say, even the pot roast was snobbed on Christmas Eve because of the prawns.

According to sea2kitchen.com, here is the way to pan-fry unshelled raw prawns or shrimp:

Rinse the prawns or shrimp under a cold running water and then pat dry with a paper towel.
Melt some butter together with some olive oil in a large frying pan over a high heat.
Add the prawns with a few cloves of chopped garlic. Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
Fry the prawns, stirring frequently, for 3 – 5 minutes or longer for larger prawns, or until the shells have turned pink.
Remove from the heat and serve immediately.