What we eat tonight,spiced corned egg

Spiced conrned egg is a very useful dish, it is not just as snack to eat, but also can with rice and noodles.

Ingredients：
6 eggs (or you can cook more eggs, it can fresh for at least 3 days)
1 Cinnamon （just little cinnamon has big taste）
2 Anise
20 Chinese red pepper
1 soup spoon Mushroom dark Soy Sauce
1/2 soup spoon Soy Sauce
2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar

Instructions：
1，eggs with cool water (water just litter over eggs) cook for boiling and continue cook for 10 minutes
2,   Soak cooked eggs with cool water for 15 minutes
3,   Remove eggs shell
4,   Use knife cutin eggs, just cutin about 1cm. and cut in every side
5,   Put Cinnamon, anise and Chinese red pepper into cool water cook them until boilling, than add 1 soup spoon Mushroom dark Soy Sauce,1/2 soup spoon Soy Sauce,2 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon sugar, cook for 20 minutes
6, Put all eggs in the soup, use middle power cook for 20 munites, then stop cooking, keep eggs soak in soup and wait it cold

Then you can eat, if you want eggs with greater taste, just soak eggs into soup for long time 2 hours is great, or you can soak eggs until eat all eggs

China's local dishes introduce

Hi, you are, do you want to know more about Chinese dishes? I made this video, hope can give you are briefly introduce.



In this video, after every different place have some dishes, these dishes are the most famous dish in these different cuisines.

Chinese supermarket in Preston

Maybe there are lots British people want to know where can buy Chinese dish's metieral, this post is introduce Chinese supermarket in Preston, UK. You all can buy lots of Chinese food.

 88 Oriental Supermarket. (Address:71 Plungington Road，Preston  Post Code: PR1 7EN)

In last year it is most of Chinese favorite supermarket, it have discount for students and if you spend over 30 pounds, it have free dilivery service, but now lots of things in this supermarket always out of stock and it is not near to university, these leads 88 Orientgal Supermarket lost lots of customers.

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Far East Oriental Food Store:( Address: 34-35 Moorlane,Preston, Lancashire Post Code: PR1 7AT)


Far East Oriental Food Store is the biggest Chinese supermarket in Preston, it is very near the university compus, there are lots of Chinese food there and genarally appera rarely out of stock situations. Near the Far East it has a Chinese take away which popular in Chinese, Royal China.

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Ishop （clike here to visit the website of Ishop）

Ishop is online Chinese supermarket, and it is free dilivery. If you spend less than 30 pounds, you can choose a place in the website where is near to you to dilivery, if you spend over 30 pounds it will dilivery to your home, some times it will have 10% off.

Interview

This person I interviewed is a student and have live in Preston for three years.

Chinese seasoning introduce:

SHAO XING HUA DIAO JIU

This wine is used to remove the smell of cooking. Its role is like white wine.

Soy Sauce

It is a salty condiment. It can be used instead of salt, and add texture.

Mushroom dark Soy Sauce

This is a color flavoring. Taste like Soy sauce, but a lot of light. It is mainly used to make colorful dishes.

Chinkiang Vinegar

Sour spices, but also a little sweet.

Vegetable Refined （Chicken Powder）

This is an extract in vegetable condiment. It will increase the food's flavor.

oliver schwarzwald: breakfast in the world

It is designed by the German photographer Oliver Schwarzwald a group of interesting pictures, also his understanding of the world the traditional breakfast. Can you guess each portfolio on behalf of the country? Together to do it under this fun game! Breakfast of integration in different countries, representatives of the world.

Artists have found a pair of beautiful eyes. Oliver Schwarzwald get inspiration from breakfast with his earlier assumed the characteristics of the national costume, and photographed, recorded, composed of a series of unique photographic portfolio. Guinea pig meat, baked bread and vodka, natural that the Russian; coffee and croissants plus cigarettes, France; traditional bread, fried eggs, accompanied by sausage, then refer to the United Kingdom. Look at, and missing  doujiang and fried fritters which is classic Chinese breakfast!

 

Sweden

Russia

International

France

US

UK

Pictures Reference:http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/9327/oliver-schwarzwald-breakfast.html

Haha， I just take picture and traditional Chinese breakfast

what we eat tonight: Hong Shao Rou （Red-Braised Pork ）

Red-Braised Pork is as famous as Perking Duck in Chinese mind. Red-Braised Pork take greasy and delicious combination of pork  together, taste very good. Try to do a dish which is Chinese favorite.

Ingredients：

• 1 pound pork belly  
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil  
• 2 tablespoons sugar  
• 1 tablespoon Shaoxing wine  
• Spring Onion and ginger 
• Star anise
• Small cinnamon stick 
• Soy sauce, salt and sugar  
• Mushroom dark Soy Sauce

Instructions:

Plunge pork belly into a pan of boiling water and simmer until partially cooked (3-4 minutes). Remove and cut into bite-size chunks）. Heat oil and sugar in a wok over medium heat until sugar melts, then raise the heat and stir until sugar turns caramel brown. Add pork and Shaoxing wine. Add ginger, star anise, chilies, cinnamon, and enough water to cover pork. Bring to a boil, then simmer (40-50 minutes). Turn up heat to reduce sauce, and season with soy sauce, salt, and sugar. Garnish with  scallion greens.

Fruits Recipes

Fruit Diet Meal Plan
Wild Blueberry Sauce Recipe
Fruktsoppa (Old-Fashioned Fruit Soup)
Star fruit And Strawberries
Marshmallow Fruit Salad
Fruit Jellies  
Fruit Soup (Veg Times)
Plain & Fancy Fruit Pops- Ice Cream Recipe
Pink Grapefruit Honey Sorbet Recipe
Mandarin Fruit Sundae Recipe
Cranberry Soda Molded Salad Recipe
Banana Pineapple Streusel Muffins Recipe
Ghoulish Gruel Recipe
Mango Chutney Recipe
Mango Jalapeno Sauce Recipe
Peach Vinegar Recipe
Fruit Pizza Recipe
Ben & Jerry's Kiwi Ice Cream Recipe
Kiwifruit Muffins Recipe
Huckleberry Muffins Recipe
Huckleberry Crisp Recipe

what we eat tonight: Curry chicken wings

Carry is one of normal seasoning in the UK, this recipe is use carry and according to Chinese taste to cook.

Recipe of Carry chicken wings

Ingredients:

Instructions:

That's it Carry chicken wings

You may find, we always cooke carry with onion, but I did use onion in this recipe. Because as a Chinese I donn't like onion and I instead of spring onion and ginger, they all can remove meat flavor.

Eating habits comparison Chinese and British

I just use my life experience to take this vedio, it's about Chinese and British different eating habits.

What we eat tonight: Milk chicken porridge

Milk, carrots and chicken breast are very normal food in British, but less Chinese use these to cook. Today I will introduce this easy and delicious dishes combined with milk, carrots, chicken breast and traditional Chinese food rice to cook a Milk chicken porridge.




Nutrition Tips: Milk is the best dietary source of calcium, combined with low-calorie, low fat, low cholesterol chicken, carrots have lots of vitamin D and carbohydrate in the rice, Milk chicken porridge which is a complement of both nutrition and healthy It contains calcium, iron and zinc.

I love fruit： Banana milk shake

Are you ready for the summer? Are you ready for the sunshine?
On BBC weather, this saturday tempareture will grow near 20℃.
In this post I will give you a tutorial about made Banna milk shake, Traditional Chinese medicine said, Banana is one of the top 4 fruits in summer.The role of bananas（more information click here）

Banana milk shake can make banana in diverse taste

Follow my cooking tutorial and create your own banana milk shake

Ingredients


2 bananas
5 ice block
2 spoon sugar (it can accord your taste to increase or reduce)


Instructions

Put everything into the table blender


You also can make strawberry milk shake, mango milk shake or anything else. The instructions are same. Just do your own milk shake

What we eat tonight: Chicken soup

In the 10 April post, I did Roast Chicken, maybe some of  you find why I do nothing to chicken wings and bones. Now it is time to solve puzzle. I used them to do a Chicken soup.

Ingredients:

• Chicken wings and Bones
• 2 Carrots
• 3 Spring Onion
• 4 pieces of ginger

Instructions:

• clean the chicken wings and put all of them into stockpot with 2 whole spring onion, 4 pieces ginger and plus water until water over the chicken
• use the biggest power until the water boiling
• than turn down power on 2 or 3 cook about 1 hour
• add carrots keep on cooking 30 minutes
• according you taste to add salt

What we eat tonight: Roast Chicken

Recipes for Roast Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 chicken
• 5 pieces of ham
• A bottle of beer
• celery
• Salt
• English Mustard

 

Instructions

1. Cut open the abdomen of chicken, cut chicken wings, remove the chicken butt  
2. chicken legend ：Start with cut the edge of some boneless, and then tick the meat  
3. Ribs：cut off the connect sternum and ribs, isolated bones
4. Completion of cut off bones  
5. Rubbed salt on the chicken, spread evenly Mustard  
6. put ham on the chicken  
7. Plus 1or 2 Celery
8. Wrapped around both ends of the chicken, put all materials into a large chicken wrap and then tie the rope, topped with half a can of beer, placed into 200 temperature preheated oven, until chicken became to golden color. Tips, topped little beer every 15 minutes.

 

It need roast about 1 hour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love fruit: Kiwi Yogurt

Do you think fruit yogurts in supermarket  are too sweet or haven't your favorite taste?
Watch this video and create your Kiwi Yogurt. Of course you can this way to do any fruit yogurt.

Kiwi is a wonderful fruit (more information about Kiwi), and Yogurt can keep you health and keep diet. Just need 5 minutes make your fresh fruit yogurt.

Ingrendients：

for 250 ml yogurt

• One and a half Kiwi
• 250ml yogurt
• table blender

Instructions：

• Kiwi peeled put into table blender
• Add yogurt

If you want to eat the fruit pulp with yogurt can stir them about 30 second or want to complete integration of fruit and yogurt just stirring more time about 1 minutes

I love fruit: The role of Kiwi

Kiwi or is also called Chinese gooseberry, derived from the Chinese, and this is a commercial crop in several countries, especially in Chinese, Italy, and New Zealand.


Fruit Kiwi has a soft texture and a unique flavor, rounded oval shape, with the color brown feathering on the smooth skin of fruit. Flesh fruit color with bright green seeds black small, delicious fruit eaten fresh as a table or fruit salad,

Nutrition and Health Benefits

Fruit Kiwi contains arginin and the amino acid glutamate. Arginin a vasodilator or decreased blood pressure and help increase blood flow. Amino acid is also able to treat mild symptoms of impotence.

Kiwi fruits contain many very important minerals. Such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, mangan, and phosphorus. Mineral potassium in the kiwi could reach 5.4 mg / calories. Potassium movement working to maintain the function and the automatic nervous system to maintain muscle function. This mineral also decreases the role of high blood pressure. While the kiwi in the mineral magnesium is able to prevent heart attacks and hypertension.

Fruit kiwi contains different types of vitamins. vitamin C in the kiwi fruit, two times more than citrus fruit. Also contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, E, The role of vitamin C and E in kiwi function as antioxidants, oxygen free radicals cause prophylactic old process early, and prevention of cancer cells. The high vitamin C contents in kiwi fruit can be made to maintain the body’s attack of flu and stress. Kiwi fruit also contain fiber which is very high, so is suitable for those who are running the program diet.

Allergy and dairy products

Raw kiwi fruit is also rich in the protein-dissolving enzyme actinidin, which is commercially useful as a meat tenderizer but can be an allergen for some individuals. This enzyme makes raw fruit kiwi unsuitable for use in desserts containing milk or any other dairy products which are not going to be served within hours, because it soon begins to digest milk proteins.

Reference： This post copied in http://thebest-healthy-foods.com/fruit-kiwi/

I love fruit:The role of bananas

Chinese are famous in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Traditional Chinese medicines are different with the doctors in hospital TCM and doctors research in difference field, TCM study more in-depth with the role of each food at benefit for human and medical use. Recently, I collected some information from some famous TCW study website and then translated them into English, hope to give everyone some suggestion and information about the role of bananas.

The nutritional content of bananas

Per 100 grams of bananas containing 1.2 grams of protein, fat 2.6 g, 19.5 g carbohydrate, 9 mg calcium, phosphorus 3l mg, iron 0.6 mg, 0.25 mg carotene and vitamins B, C. In addition, it also contains pectin, 5 - HT, norepinephrine, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid and various enzymes are added. In recent years, scientists have found that bananas are rich in potassium. Per 100 grams of banana pulp in the amount of up to 472 mg of potassium, the highest for the fruit.

The role of banana

1. Traditional Chinese medicine said that the role of banana includes helpful to lungs and intestines, through blood, filling the essence of such effects for constipation, polydipsia, fever, heat boils, swelling drug embolism.

2. Banana contains tumor suppressor, anti-cancer substances, regular consumption of beneficial in preventing cancer.

3. Banana contains a human brain to help produce serotonin material, it is similar to the chemical "messenger", can send signals to the brain's nerve endings, bananas encourage people to become peace of mind, pleasant, pain relief role .

4. Unripe bananas before, contains a can promote the growth of gastric mucosa, gastric wall from the repair function of a substance, which is undoubtedly the majority of patients with gastric ulcer of the Gospel.

5. Bananas can help you lose weight, the main components of bananas are sugar, bananas digested quickly, can added energy imminently. Banana is high in starch content, so it is easy to let you fill full, together with starch change into sugar in the body should take some time Therefore, the energy does not produce excessive accumulation.

6. People of constipation would be recommended, try bananas! Because bananas are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin A, potassium, etc., so there are great intestines, strengthening muscles, it features soft diuretic. For ordinary constipation, dry skin, crush, this is thin and beautiful models fruit!

7. Beauty. Bananas rich in vitamin A, which can safeguard the health of skin and hair

8. 60 grams banana peel of boiled water to drink can help hangover.

9. Banana can prevent stroke and hypertension, lowering blood pressure to play to protect the blood vessel.

10. Treatment of cough. Cough Hyperactivity 1 2 banana, rock candy stew served. 1 to 2 times a day, and even clothes for several days, the best effect.

11. Banana other medical role: lowering serum cholesterol, treat depression, the treatment of skin pruritus.



Banana's role: Five Note

1. do not eat banana when you have not eat anything for long time. Bananas contain a lot of potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, for normal people, a high intake of potassium and magnesium can body sodium, calcium and loss of balance, adverse health. Hyperkalemia can not eat banana.

2. Banana is cold, stomach Deficiency, stomach pain in patients with diarrhea should be less. Bananas contain a lot of magnesium, more bananas in the blood can increase the magnesium content, on the inhibition of human cardiovascular system, can cause significant drowsiness, muscle weakness fatigue symptoms. In particular, drivers have not fasting bananas.

3. Things are double-sided nature, are not ripe bananas prone to cause constipation.

4. Bananas too. More bananas also because of significantly reduced gastric acid secretion caused by gastrointestinal disorders and mood swings too.

5. can not eat banana combined with sweet potato.

Resources from: http://ks.cn.yahoo.com/question/1406103100714.html
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I love fruit: Honeydew Yogurt

Today, I will give you there a recipe about honeydew yogurt. Generally yogurt we eat as usual is in a plastic or paper fixed container, this recipe I will give you all not just yogurt, you can eat yogurt with container.
Firstly， let's have quick look the nutrition about honeydew

Honeydew Melon Nutrition Facts

The honeydew melon is:

• Low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium
• High in Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Folate and Potassium

The nutritional value and health benefits of honeydew melons make them ideal for:

•  Maintaining optimum health
•  Weight loss

Don't include honeydew melons in your diet if you're interested in:

•  Weight gain

Nutritional Values

•  Per 160g  Honeydew Melon (raw, peeled) includes 10.5 g Carbs, 1.5g Fiber, 0.5g Fat and 210kj Energy

(Reference：http://www.great-workout.com/nutrition/fruit/honeydew-melon-nutrition-facts.cfm)

So this follow is the recipe of  Honeydew yogurt.

Ingredients:

• Honeydew Melon
• Yogurt
• I top some strewbarries around the honeydew, you can without them or change any fruits

Instructions:

• Place half of honeydew
• Take the honeydew's inside out
• full with yogourt

Tips:
When you eat yogurt you can eat with the flesh of honeydew，so honeydew is not just container, it is a part of yogurt.




This video might help you more intuitive understanding of how to do Honeydew Yogurt

Chimpignon and Fungus Recipes

Fugnus:
White Fungus Soup
Ginger and Black Fungus Chicken Recipe
Obesity Diet Recipes-Black Fungus
Champignon：
Champignon Pan
Shashlik Pan
Fried Kingclip with Mushroom Sauce
Hot Sausage Goulash

15 minutes delicious： Celery Fried Black fungus

Black Fungus, one of totally Chinese food and what is Black Fungus? Also known as cloud ear; tree ear; wood fungus, mouse ear, and jelly mushroom. It grows rapidly on a variety of woods including mango and kapok and is very similar to another fungus called Jew's ear (A. auricula). Some say the smaller cloud ear or mouse ear has a more delicate flavour than the larger wood ear.

It is mostly sold dried but is also available fresh. In its fresh form (or after the dried fungus has been reconstituted by soaking in water) it is easy to see how it derives its rather fanciful names. The frilly, brownish clumps of translucent tissue with a little imagination resemble the delicate curls of the human ear or billowing clouds. In the case of tiny mouse ear fungus, the rounded shapes which result when it is soaked are amusingly similar to those observed on the heads of Mickey Mouse and his Mouseketeers!
Wood fungus is prized in Chinese cuisine for its crunchy texture and therefore added to dishes only for the last few minutes of cooking. Delightful in salads, soups and stir-fries, it has no flavour of its own, but absorbs the seasonings it is cooked with.  More about Black fungus

Ingredients:

• Dried fungus (notice: after soaked dried fungus will become twice big as before, so in general it just need little dried fungus)
• Celery
• Salt
• Chicken powder (It can help dishes more delicious)

This is soaked fungus, is it much bigger than befor? Be careful the quntity of dried fungus

Instructions:

• Soak dried fungus into water and wait for 20 minutes
• Chop celery into strip
• Heat oil in a pan
• Put celery to fry for 2 minutes and add fungus
• Add one and a half soupspoon water
• Keep fry until water become litter
• Then add a half of teaspoon salt and chicken powder

This is celery fried black fungus, simple, delicious and health














Reference:http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/asian/fungus.jpg

15 minutes delicious： Bacon Enoki Mushroom Roll

In this dish we will not use oil and it combined British cooking way and Chinese taste. It is Bacon Enoki Mushroom Roll.

 

Enoki (エノキ, enoki?, /ɪˈnoʊki/)[1] are long, thin white mushrooms used in Asian cuisines, particularly those of China and Japan and Korea (see Cuisine of China, Cuisine of Japan, Cuisine of Korea). These mushrooms are cultivars of Flammulina velutipes also called golden needle mushroom. Wild forms differing in color, texture, and sliminess are called winter mushrooms, velvet foot, or velvet stem among other names.

 

 

The mushroom is available fresh or canned, the fresh mushroom being preferred by many. They are traditionally used for soups, but can also be used for salads and other dishes. They have a crisp texture. The mushroom can be refrigerated for about one week. When purchasing fresh enoki, look for specimens with firm, white, shiny caps; avoid those that have slimy or brownish stalks.

 

 

 

Ingredients:

• Enoki Mushrooms
• Bacon

 Instuctions:

• Cut the button of Enoki Mushroom and wash it
• With bacon, roll it into a package
• Take into the oven, 220℃ and cook 15 minutes

 

 

 

 

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enokitake

15 minutes delicious： Xiang Gu Cai Xin (Champignon cabbage)

This is a new theme again, this week I will give you some suggestions about cooking  in 15 minutes dishes. Lots of people feel that  spent too much time in the kitchen on cooking, this theme can give you some of the dishes within 15 minutes.

Firstly, I will intorduce a very famous and it is one part of daily life of a family in China. It is Champignon Cabbage, named in Pin yin is Xiang Gu Cai Xin

What is Champingon?
Champignons and mushrooms appearance is similar to but different colors, it is a kind of mushroom, all human beings can be useful it as ingredient to cook, Champignon's name is because it has a unique flavor

Ingredients:

• 7 Champignons
• 3 Cabbages
• A half of teaspoon salt
• A half of teaspoon chicken powder
• A half of soupspoon water

Instructions:

• Heat oil in pan
• Fried  champignon for 1 minute and take them off
• Heat other oil and add cabbage to fried
• Add a half of soupspoon water then put cooked Champignon in
• Keep fry for 3 minutes add salt and chicken powder