Archive for October, 2010

How to pick fruits and vegetables in supermarkets?

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

How to pick fruits and vegetables in supermarkets?

My fruits and vegetables comes from the supermarket, because there is no farmer's market near his home. Because it had no experience in the country to buy food, and some fruits and vegetables have not seen eaten before, so how to choose is often a troubling thing. But do not know if it has to learn, here sum up a few around to find their own, and hear the way the selection of fruits and vegetables, want to help you. What is wrong with requested guidance, so I go to the supermarket next time you can come in handy.
Fruits and vegetables of different varieties of each type of fruit, but personal preference can also affect the selection of skills.

Mangosteen: look at the color of the skin and pedicle, pedicle is the green hair, skin is shiny and not traumatic; most important thing is to gently pinch the skin under the mangosteen can be Niede move like, stiff is an old Debu can eat.

Watermelon: This is a television think alike saw a happy life, and try to look pretty good. Pick the sweet and natural ripe watermelon, and melon umbilical Goity to concave, watermelon skin should be smooth, skin is hard to be. When knock watermelon have "pound," the drum. Listen to the sound I think that is always difficult, with the first two, it should be pretty close, the sound is a melon taste to judge the (crisp or sand).

Asparagus: In addition to ensure that there is no rotting asparagus tip to see the roots of asparagus should not be shrinking, asparagus as a whole should be full of, domestic mostly slender asparagus.

Avocado (avocado): The best buy cooked. Hold hands, you can gently press down is ripe, but not too soft. Skin color should be dark brown, with green, crunchy undercooked. If the pedicle gently touched off also shows what can be done.

Peach: peach varieties are too many individuals have very different tastes. I like the hard, brittle, non-sweet does not matter. News about flavor, but usually there should be a very fragrant peach flavor, indicating not fatten the. The top of the peaches should be red, indicating to see the sun. Certainly can not have skin scarred and flawed in. In addition, if elected, then peach, peach, red flower points to more and more is said to be relatively sweet.

Pitaya: I usually see is the white meat of the dragon fruit erythrodermic, erythroderma, but red meat is said to be more sweet. Pitaya must pick round, singly large, this will demonstrate that the growth of mature; skin color of red to red-green to green, yellow note is not new after all; whole fruit should be plump and not shrinking; peel on the "scales" to Foreign rolled; pinch up should be a little bit soft; another will depend on the Boss have two moldy, there is mold may be too long in a supermarket where the damp.

In addition, we all know the basic common sense is that those who have to lay plastic packaging of fruits and vegetables depends on the production date; of course, better day; but I also found a great supermarket brand to make the production date label will tear up the circumstances, I will not name criticisms. In fact, I found that when the fruit itself is not spoiled, but still feel that this practice is not honorable.

There is the general direction of the spirit of the principles of eating seasonal fruits and vegetables, not only fresh and delicious, nutritious, and is also a Broadwood energy-saving moves, because fruits and vegetables during storage and transportation of energy consumed in many.

Temptation # 17: bring nature into home - chandeliers and wall flowers

Monday, October 25th, 2010

temptation # 17: bring nature into home - chandeliers and wall flowers

In modern society, man and nature alienated. In fact, space, distance is not alienation, but psychologically. Most people hard at work every day, on his way to work, even when at rest, such as at home watching television, and eat with friends, go shopping, or even standing in nature, to have forgotten the feelings of natural existence. May also be because of this, and I particular like the designer to the impression of natural objects into the interior decoration, furniture, particularly in the people to unimaginable corners. However, there is a little do not understand why I like those works were created by male designers, while being touched by their subtle and savvy.

Exquisite chandeliers and the "open" in the top of the white wall of the flower in sharp contrast, not only in form and lines, the kind of comparison is the comparison of ancient and modern, realistic and impressionistic, realistic and dreamy.

Look at the open over a white flower chair, I always could not help but imagine myself sitting in a chair, his hands touching those who ride in the chair outside the flowers, stems, leaves feeling.

Designer: David Wiseman (wall relief),
Tord Boontje (chair)
Favorite cause: a special virtual but gives back to natural feeling, and I figure out why.

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For health to eat a little bitter - rough Mai Mafen dark chocolate hearts

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

for healthy eating a little bitter - dark chocolate hearts rough Mai Mafen
I love bitter chocolate,
I insist that every day for breakfast. Taken the trouble to have said many times, I was kind of typical for health to eat a lot of "bitter" people,
For example, the Muffin to do, really bitter, put some sugar,
Not enough pressure to the bitter dark chocolate powder. I still have to pay attention to doing the kind of person to achieve some purpose, so you are suspected of a variety of ingredients, I put too much before the release of several materials, say a few reasons.

Sugar-free chocolate powder: loves chocolate, but the latest study indicated that dark chocolate has a strong anti-oxidation, but also to prevent cardiovascular disease.

Coffee powder: to help raise the metabolism a little.
Peanut butter: contains a healthy fat.
Oats skin, big flour, bran skin: coarse grains to increase fiber, nutrient-rich than the wheat flour.
Eggs and protein: of course, to the protein of the. Breakfast must be protein, nutrition, the more tube saturation.

Flaxseed: There are Omega 3, pairs of vegetarian people, it is more difficult to obtain the Omega3's
Material:
Chocolate Heart batter
Dry material: 5 tsp dark chocolate powder (not I just use the sweet, you can also melt chocolate) 1 teaspoon of freshly ground coffee powder
Large flour 1 tablespoon sugar 2 tsp 1 / 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon peanut butter
Liquid: 2 tsp vegetable oil 1 egg white (scatter)
Coarse wheat batter
Dry material: 1 / 3 cup oat flour a / 3 cup bran skin 1 / 3 cup flour 1 tablespoon linseed big end of 3 tsp sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
Liquid: 2 eggs + 2 egg white (scatter)
Approach: two containers, one to do dark chocolate heart,
To do a rough part of the wheat. Should first dry material are mixed together,
Then add the liquid ingredients. Preheat the oven 375 Fahrenheit, 190 degrees, grease paper muffin molds,
First place thick wheat batter, and then put chocolate batter in the center; bake 20-25 minutes,
Or go to insert a toothpick and then pull out the stick to any batter to be good. One can not eat it frozen up. Probably can do a fist-sized muffin 6.
Experience: Because sugar little more freely,
So, after doing a good job muffin tastes more light,
People can enjoy sweet two to three times more sugar. There are no major flour with whole wheat flour can be replaced. Because it put peanut butter, chocolate, baked out of mind is not that of the fluffy. May be increased next time I do put a little baking powder, or add an extra egg white.
I did look at other breakfast or a chocolate pizza, or go to my home page

Hong Fen Zheng brown tofu balls

Monday, October 18th, 2010

This recipe written in a long time, too lazy to paste,
Because it did not want to check the spelling. I found that my other characters are entitled to, statements are not fluent, so is not clear-cut talk.
Cook these dishes to do more than write a clear out is also time-consuming.
Xiang-Fen Zheng brown tofu balls

Tofu is a vegetarian's necessary. But indeed, I do not eat tofu,
Because it is not spicy, fish-flavored, then will be very no taste. Spicy, Stir of intestinal upset stomach will eat.
So, coming up with this eat. In fact not very time-consuming, and can conjure up a lot of tricks.
One more thing a good freeze up steam.

If you host a party for someone, it is a good dish, because after a cold or the color bright,
The taste is not bad when the specific heat. I was later brought to the company when the two lunch
With palm leaves and orange slices, or fragrance in a microwave oven excitedly.

Material:
Lao Doufu half of the stone, a small sweet potato, and bean curd size similar to a little glutinous rice flour, salt, soy sauce,
Diced green onion, garlic, rice noodles (homemade or bought to do Fen Zhengrou of that clock), mushrooms (white mushrooms, or mushrooms),
A little vegetable oil, palm leaves 2-3 tablets, orange an
approach:
Xiang-Fen Zheng brown tofu balls 1. sweet potato steamed cooked; palm leaves soaked in boiling water for years;

2. Tofu, chopped, and then twist into a Rong;
3. Cut diced green onion, garlic; mushrooms chopped
4. Sweet potatoes and tofu mixed with twisted pieces, add diced green onion, garlic, mushrooms at the end, salt,
Soy sauce, vegetable oil (optional Canada)
5. Add a little glutinous rice flour (which is to finished product will not soften the process of steaming into the pie) until the tofu, sweet potatoes are malleable and able to shape into balls as well

6. Steamer heating; palm leaf cut into small pieces, sweet orange cut sheets,
The same as the number and tofu balls
7. Tofu, sweet potato twist about an inch diameter balls,
Placed on a plate
8. Palm leaf cut into small pieces, sweet orange cut sheets, quantity and tofu balls, like
Palm leaves in the next, sweet orange in on the yards in Long Ti-ri
9. Meatball roll a layer of rice noodles, wrapped on the orange after the on-chip
10. Steamer gas round, the Long Ti wok pan steam for 10 minutes

Experience:

Use Laodou Fu, otherwise not easily into a ball
If not do other dishes can be quickly steamed is good, put some broccoli, steam 1-2 minutes,
As a garnish.

Xiang-Fen Zheng brown tofu balls
Mood for children:
1. In addition to using glutinous rice flour, can also add oatmeal, or starch
2. Sweet potatoes can be exchanged for yams, potatoes
3. Purple rice vermicelli can be used to do (practice: Preheat the oven 200 degrees,
Health and purple rice placed inside a thin layer of oven and put it into the middle oven, 3 minutes. Take out double,
Back into the oven, turn off the heat, and then roast Yuwen 3 minutes. Cool and let stir broken machines labeled as less-fine powder.
Do something once, seal put the shade saved)
4. Banhao tofu can also be wrapped eggs, fry bread, with or without glutinous rice powder,
Package pie or steamed buns.

Just a simple - fried bean sprouts and peas peppers

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

just a simple - fried bean sprouts and pea pods red pepper
Materials: bean sprouts peas (shred) a little red and a little vegetable oil Pepper Wire
A pinch of salt
Method: non-stick pan put oil, heated place, such as wash the bean sprouts, fried and cooked when you get five points put peas silk, Zaichao two minutes, put bell peppers and salt.
Experience: Using non-stick pan is to put less oil, bean sprouts and crisp vigor in order not Cheuk
Mood: Pepper can also be replaced with a red pepper; the first burst point xanthoxylin Zaichao also good
Heat:


Per 100 grams of bean sprouts: 30 calories, 1.8 grams fiber 3 grams of protein
Per 100 grams of peas: 42 calories, 2.6 grams fiber 2.8 grams protein

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just a simple - fried bean sprouts and pea pods red pepper