Chinese Food Blog

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Cooking Eggplant

For Crispier Puris Add a teaspoon of Semolina / Rava and 1 teaspoon of Rice flour to the wheat flour while kneading. Quick Tomato Paste Cubes : Spoon tomato paste into ice cube trays. Freeze overnight. Transfer into plastic bags and freeze. Frozen cubes can be dropped right into curries, Chinese recipes fried rice.

Eggplants Retaining Color : When cooking eggplant add a spoon of milk to a bowl of water and add the cut up pieces to that water. The eggplant will retain their color without becoming black. Remedy for Salty Curry : Wash a potato. Cut into two. Place a the two halves of the raw potato in the curry and it will absorb the extra salt.

Ready To Use Masalas Indian cooking requires a lot of pre-preparation. Make wet and or dry the masalas ahead of time making extra portions. Divide the masala into the desired portions according to the recipe. Place the portions in Ziploc Freezer bags and freeze till the next time. A great time saver....for next time you make the same recipe !

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Cooking schools

Cooking schools are a great way to land culinary jobs in the real world. However, more and more students are using culinary programs as a stepping-stone to setting up their own successful businesses. If you've ever wanted to work in the culinary world, but don't fancy the idea of having a boss, working for yourself may be the ideal solution. Culinary education can help you learn the skills you need to get started in your own business, Chinese recipes fried pork with spring onions.

Cooking schools can actually be a great way to start your own business. They teach you all the skills and knowledge you need in order to get started, and the best schools will often have you gain hands-on training experience in restaurants, as well. This can help give you the basis you need to understand how businesses work. Plus, most cooking schools allow you to network with a number of professionals in the business and provide you with resources you may need in order to set up your own business.

If you're looking at cooking schools with the hopes of becoming your own boss someday, choose your programs wisely. Look for programs that offer lots of hands-on training and interaction with instructors.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Living a Healthier Lifestyle

The extreme examples are more of a light-hearted way of looking at a serious global problem. Whilst it is true that fitness and health are now far higher on the public agenda than 10 years ago, it is also true that poor diet and fitness related illnesses are higher than ever before.

Obesity and heart disease statistics have seen a phenomenal growth in the last 10 years.
We have all seen some of the shock tactics used to educate people into living a healthier lifestyle, but this seems to have bought it's own problems. Fad diets are not new, but the amount of people using them and the extremes of these diets are like never before, fast food yum marks delicious decade. Is there anybody left who simply enjoys life, eats healthily, and builds exercise into his or her daily routine? There is no need to buy fast food every day and there is no need to spend half your life at the gym.

In fact, if you are sensible and think things through there is no need for diet and health to even be an issue!

What do I mean by this? Well, let's look at why we have these health issues today. Most of us lived fast-paced, high-stressed life-styles. We eat what's quick and convenient. We drive because our lifestyles require it. Before the age of all our wonderful technology dawned we didn't have these details getting in the way. Instead there was a massive divide between wealth and poverty but that's another story.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Modern Lifestyle And Food

Recent studies have suggested that the human body does not react to a diet in the way it was first expected. The body has been designed over a period of hundreds of years and has adapted. The human body can cope with lean periods very easily, and this is exactly how it sees a diet. Our bodies are very complex machines, and you need to trick them into losing weight.

Another reason why it's so easy to gain weight is thanks to the modern lifestyle. Now everyone is rushed off their feet and you'll find junk food everywhere. Fast food is one such culprit, it's a high energy food but it doesn't fill you up. This will cause you to consume many more calories than you need. Cars also mean that we're not walking as much as we used to. Plus most of us work behind a desk rather than hunting, which is another way we used to lose weight (as cavemen).

Snacks are all too easy to get your hands on. They contain too many calories, and they're far too easy to buy. The best thing to eat in between meals is fruit. It might not taste as sweet as what you're used to, however it is pleasant and it's good for you.