2009年3月23日
Chinese Fast Food - Malatang from Sichuan
2009年3月18日
Men That Cooks The Best Looking Fried Eggs
How is Your Cooking Knife Skill Goes
It is because high quality knives obtain and keep an extremely sharp edge, one capable of slicing off a good part of a finger in a split second, that knife skills are a critical part of a cook's training. If you are going to spend a lot of time preparing food, acquiring superior knife skills for gourmet cooking is the single most important thing you need to do.
Buy the best quality knife that you can afford.
Make sure there are no gaps at the joint where the blade and handle meet.
Sizes range from 6- to 12-inch blades, but an 8-inch blade is standard.
The blade should curve toward the tip to allow a rocking motion.
A hefty bolster (the metal part between the blade and the handle) will help balance the knife and give you more control.
The tang (metal extending into the handle) should extend to the butt of the knife handle.
There is no rule on how heavy the knife should be. Some people like a weighty knife while others like a lighter one. It’s important to hold the knife before you buy to make sure it feels right for you.
2009年3月17日
Heat(Fire) Control in Chinese Cooking
How to Made the Most Nutritious and Delicious Egg Recipe
Tip one: Soak in water
Before poaching eggs,you'd better lay the eggs under the cold water for a while and place them in the pan of cold water for cooking,after that doing,the egg isn't liable to be broken down.Of course,it's only one of the methods for holding the complete shape of egg.
Factor two: Heat control
If cook the egg by using the hard fire,it easily induce the air expand sharply within the egg causing the shells into crash;or using the opposite will prolong the duration of cooking even hard to control the degree of eggs.According to the experiments,it's most appropriate to use the moderate fire for cooking the eggs.
Factor three: Duration
After ensuring the extent of fire,you can control the degree of maturity of eggs as you wish only if acurrately you master the time of poaching eggs well.For instances,it's fit for poacing the soft-shelled eggs for three minutes after the water is boiling when the egg white solidify ,the yolk is in the form of fluxion;cooking soft eggs for five minutes after the water is boiling when the egg white solidify,the yolk is in the form of thick liquid,soft and smooth;cooking hard eggs for seven minutes after the water is boiling when the egg white solidify,the yolk is dry.The note for poaching hard eggs is that not prolong the duration arbitrarily for when cooking the eggs too long in the boiling water up to ten minutes thereby happen a serie of chemical reaction in the internal eggs and low the nutritious value of egg.
It's best to poach eggs for five minutes
Chinese Overview: 不要折腾了,白煮蛋最营养,简单。
How I Like Baked Potato
Risky food is the kind of food that is tasty enough to drive out your previous bad thoughts about them in an instance. Baked potato is just like this. Because you know it will make you fat, it contains too much oil and bad stuff, but when you taste it, you can't drop it.
I acturally don't think baked potato is such an unhealthy food like other people thought. If baked in a proper way, and put less oil and salt, it maybe good anyway, since potato itself is a terrific food that has a lot of benifits.
There is once a true story about a villiage, where people all live long life, they share the same habit as eating potatos eveyday. There is various way of cooking potatos, the most delicious one I think is baking it. Chinese people often like to fry it, but the slicing process is too hard and time taking.
The most healthy way is to use it into making soup, it may keep the nutrition well in the best state.
Chinese Overview: 煮,炒,烤土豆,哪个是你的最爱? 我爱烤的。
How to Keep Your Egg as Fresh as Possible
Keeping eggs fresh is an important part of maintaining their taste and nutritional value. Eating fresh eggs can keep you healthy and provide you with essential daily nutrients. Follow these tips to ensure a fresh egg at your next breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Top one: keep the bigger header of the egg to the down side. That's the best way to place an egg.
Ensure that the eggs in the carton do not have any cracked shells. Check the carton for any breaks, too. Whole cartons help protect eggs from absorbing unwanted smells or tastes from surrounding food. Consider replacing the carton if big cracks or tears are present.
Check your refrigerator's temperature. Eggs need to be stored at 40 degrees F or 4 degrees C or lower to retain freshness.
Those above are just some details in life, but overlook them is not what a good housewife should do. Life is just a bunch of plain details being together. So comand the more, the better you would be living.
Chinese Overview: 鸡蛋大头朝下放置
Understanding Sichuan Food Culture - Pepper Part
What it does is gives you a burning or tingling sensation when it touches your lips. It could scare you at first (or worst pee your pant), but shortly after that the pepper will leaves with a numbness feeling.
If the hot is unbearable to you, eat something sweet to cool it down. Cake can be a perfect solution.
2009年3月16日
Ginger is Such a Amazing Food
Ginger Soup for Fighting Flu
So I was heard that if there is not anything wrong and is just a pure fever, then we should not always go to the hospital and take the antibiotic, that's what the doctor tipically tells you to do. In fact antibiotic is not very good for health and totally unnecessary in some cases, but we now can seldom meet any doctors that really cares for you.
So we need to take care of ourselves. I google how would I do to make a little better. So I find a great one. Giner soup with a little red sugar in it. Pefect soup for fighting flu because it can helps you to drain your sweat out, that's the key point when we need to cure the fever due to catching cold.
It's extremly impotant to remember that ginger soup is for cold type fever only, not for heat type fever, most happen in summer. That's two totally different thing.
Chinese Overview: 发烧分风寒和风热型,如果是前者,大可服用生姜红糖水哦。
2009年3月12日
My Special Hobby Towards Eating
Raw Carrots vs Cooked Carrots - Choose The Latter
Women often eat raw carrots instead of cooked ones, time passed, and it turns out raw carrots may do harm to their health. The carrots contains many knowlege that we would like to learn to better assorb their norish.
Do not overdose - your skin will turn yellow!
- It's called Carotenemia! Consume too many carrots or drink too much juice and your skin, mostly the hands, will turn yellowish-orange. There are two possible reasons why your skin turns orange. Either your body is unable to process all the carotene properly in the carrot juice you are drinking , or your liver is toxic. Either way, the colour shows up in your skin. If you are having difficulty processing carotene: You may be drinking too much carrot juice at once. Your body can't really assimilate more than 8-10 oz. of carrot juice at one time (taken on an empty stomach).
Cooking also increases antioxidant power
High temperature is usually not the best thing for many of the sensitive compounds that are contained in our food and new research from the University of Arkansas indicates that for carrots, at least, cooking may in fact increase their goodness. Carrots are one of the best sources of carotene which is a strong antioxidant. But carrots also contain other phenolic compounds that are antioxidants. Many people do not realise that numerous phenolic compounds are located in the skin of fruit and vegetables, many of which are removed by peeling prior to processing.
Chinese Overview:胡萝卜的营养是脂溶性的,生吃不但不利于吸收,还会把你吃成黄脸婆的哦
2009年3月9日
Natural Cereals and Whole Grain
Consume whole foods, not supplements. Strong evidence suggests that people who have high blood levels of certain nutrients—selenium, beta-carotene, vitamins C and E—age much better and have a slower rate of cognitive decline. Unfortunately, there's no evidence that taking pills with these nutrients provides those antiaging benefits. "There are more than 200 different carotenoids and 200 different flavonoids in a single tomato," points out Ferrucci, "and these chemicals can all have complex interactions that foster health beyond the single nutrients we know about like lycopene or vitamin C." Avoid nutrient-lacking white foods (breads, flour, sugar) and go for all those colorful fruits and vegetables and dark whole-grain breads and cereals with their host of hidden nutrients.
Don't take those so-called pills for granted. They are just eating your money and your trust. Turn to natrual cereals and whole grains, it will improve your health if you persist.
Chinese Overview: 吃吃五谷杂粮,完全胜过任何补充剂和营养品
Try to Add More Green Vegetables in Your Breakfast
Is your breakfast contain too much oily stuff or fat, which won't do any good to your morning work spirit. Never skip green vegetables, expecially in the morning.
Green vegetables such as cabbage, celery, they can be added into porriage to make it more delicious and yet more nutrient too. Good idea and recipe for a simple breakfast. There it is, a traditional chinese way of porridge.
When I was growing up, nearly every night my family ate dinner together. No matter what else was for dinner, there was always a green vegetable. On the rare occasion that we'd have breakfast for dinner, my mom would serve apple slices and tell us to pretend that they were green (cauliflower and all squashes counted as green). Because of this early conditioning, I have a very hard time feeling like my dinner experience has been complete if there wasn't a green vegetable on my plate.
Chinese Overview: 多吃蔬菜要放在行动上
2009年3月8日
Don't Eat Too Much Before Sleep
My boyfriend and I went out to eat the fried bullfrog last night. For this late only because it may got the price cut half during the night time. But it turns out the saved money could not compensate for the suffernig my stomach now undergoing. And after I eat too much oily frog at night, I left so little time to give the stomach to consume them and digest well by going to sleep after a short bath.
So when I get up the next morning, I got a vomit and don't have any appetite. I think I would never go out to eat at nightm, no matter how tasty or how cheap it is. It hurt my health.
Chinese Overview: 很后悔昨天半夜出去吃了牛蛙,没来得及消化,很suffering.
2009年3月5日
Pure and Wild Mushroom Soup
Flavour and health, all in one, so what are you waiting for, trying learning the mushroom recipe now.
I've often prepared this soup simply with cremini mushrooms. But, to tell the truth, I enjoy it the most when I use a variety of "wild" mushrooms (which are now cultivated), such as cremini, shiitake, chanterelle, and oyster, each offering its unique flavor and texture. At the supermarket, select the freshest-looking mushrooms to create your own signature combination.
Mushroom hotpot which is crispy, mellow, fresh and slippery and moreover, its effect is the same as medicine. Many species of mushrooms and fungi used in folk medicine for thousands of years are being studied by researchers. Maitake, shiittake, chaga and reishi are prominent among those being looked at for their potential anti-cancer, anti-viral, or immunity-enhancing properties. Psilocybin, originally an extract of certain psychedelic mushrooms, is being studied for its ability to help people suffering from mental illness, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Chinese Overview: 煲一碗纯杂菌汤,为你,为家人。让健康和美味共存。
2009年3月4日
Taking Cooking as a Way of Relax
Maybe it's just different attitudes. For those housewives who needs to figure out what to eat everyday, cooking surely couldn't be a fun thing. In fact, I'm suggesting not cooking everyday, just once in a while, for example, every weekend when you have time, or the other days to satisfy your stomach.
Cooking so frequently would hurt its fun, just like working everyday, not any interest. So skip it a day or too, relax outside for the sake of making the cooking more fun the next time. A flexitble time schedule is needed to keep the fun with it.
Be a lady who loves cooking and cookes well, then your husband would love you more, since there is an old saying as: keep a man, you should keep his stomach first. " Very to the point.
Chinese Overview: 下厨其实很享受,隔三岔五,给自己找点乐子。
2009年3月2日
Understanding Sichuan Food Culture - Geography Part
Crazy in Love with Spiced Fish Stew
1. Please do not eat the dry chili pepper and flower pepper. It is just for the flavor. 2. Serving with a bowl of white rice can reduce the spicy for you if this dish is so spicy for you.
Tasty Vegetables that Fits Morden Healthy Lifestyle
It's a healthy life habits with consume less sugar and less meat. People should change their long hold prejudice about vegetables that they are just too ordinary and can't made to be delicious.
That's just prejudice, since if be cooked in creative style, the vegetables could turn out to be outstandingly tasty. The most common material we utilize when making vegetable recipe is dofu, mushrooms, and carrots... Those are my favourites and they are very good for our health, and besides, they are very tasty.
Mushrooms is often made to have the tasty of fish, or even better than fish. Dofu is a most famous representive of chinese food that make foreigners wonder and run at the mouth. Carrots is often been carved to make any styles and shape.
So, taste more vegetables and learn how to cook them in a way you previously didn't know, enjoy them and embrace a better lifestyle that with less meat. Anyway, it also can help weight control, good news for the women.
Chinese Overview: 中国人讲究,素菜荤作,美味又健康
2009年3月1日
Orange Juice To Prevent Sun Damage to Face
-Also known simply as "OJ"
-Even more refreshing with crushed ice and Sprite
-High in vitamin C
The recipe is simple: an orange juice. That.'s right. Plain orange juice. My Mom rubbed half the orange or half the tangerine (or clementine, or even satsuma) all over her face, avoiding the eye area.
And it makes perfect sense: orange juice contains alpha hydroxy acids, and just the right type for your skin. Even the most fragile skins are safe with most fruit juices, apart from lemon and lime. Still, you can use them diluted.
Eat Bullfrogs Contains Anti-ageing Substance
The striking good news was decared by South Korea life scientists. No wonder since Korean people are so much delicated to the body and face care, face reconstruction field, so the achievement should be theirs. The homely bullfrog may harbour a valuable anti-ageing substance for humans, South Korean researchers say.A team led by Professor Kim Se-kwon of Pukyong University in Busan says it isolated a peptide with antioxidant properties from bullfrog skin.
Because of the properties, the material is useful in removing free radicals -- molecules that hasten the ageing process of human cells.Alpha-tocopherol, also known as Vitamin E, is traditionally considered as the most active antioxidant in humans and widely used in medicines and health supplements.But its price keeps rising because of surging world demand."The new substance can provide an economic alternative to tocopherol," Kim told reporters Tuesday, referring to another antioxidant.
The team's discovery was published by Bioresource Technology, an international journal, last year."Because it is water-soluble, the substance may be consumed in much more diverse ways than the oil-soluble tocopherol. You may put it in soft drinks, for example," he said.The newly found material is also 10 percent more efficient than tocopherol in curbing oxidisation, he added.Definitely it's a good news for humans, but I was unclear about whether it's great news for the bullfrogs themselves. They will be enter into our dinning table more often now.
Chinease Overview: 牛年吃牛蛙,牛蛙营养又美味,还抗衰老