Monday 22 February 2010

INTERVIEW

Hey, which kind of food do you prefer most? Which one is your favorite restaurant that you would like to recommend to your friends? Will you spare some time to learn to cook Chinese food in future? Let’s see how a native speaker answers for these questions. If you are also interested in delicious food, or want to share some DIY food with us, or recommend some restaurants for others. Please do not hesitate to visit this website, and share with us your comments.

INTERVIEW

Hey, have you ever eaten Chinese food?What are the differences between Chinese food and British food? Will it take more time to prepare Chinese food compared to British food? Let’s listen to what the native speaker says about the above questions, do you agree with her or not? Any different opinions, please feel free to contact with me, and you leave your comments or opinions on my website:
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Saturday 20 February 2010

Lamb Slices with Scallion



The main characteristics of this cuisine:
Mutton Huanen, delicious does not smell of mutton, Wang-oil sauce, fresh food for thought later. The meat is tenderness, slight onion flavor.

In the following, I will give a short introduction of how this cuisine has been cooked.

• Ingredients: lamb (legs) (150 g), green onions (150 grams)
• Seasoning: Vegetable oil (25 g), sesame oil (5 grams) of soy sauce (15 grams), Garlic (15 grams), wine (10 grams), vinegar (5 g), Ginger (5 grams)

• Operation:
1. Lamb with soy sauce, chicken and dried starch grasping mix, marinate for 10 minutes, poured extra sauce, drain backup.
2. Put up fire so as to heat two tablespoons oil in wok until very hot, stir-fried lamb 1 minute, and then pour it into the pot.

3. Fire wok heat 1 tablespoon of oil, into the onion silk, sliced onion, scallion, stir-2 minutes to the wafting aroma. Jiang roasted lamb wok with stir fry, and transferred to white vinegar, sesame oil, as well as white sugar.
4. Wok to stir-fry of all the materials in the flat-bottomed pan for about 2 minutes, and keep up the fire to heat, and at last, just pour into water, starch can thicken slightly.

Healthy tips:
1. Mutton nourishing qi, warm the Yang Wei.
2. Mutton, in addition to rich in protein, but also contains large amounts of vitamin B1, and the onions with the food, can promote its absorption.
3. Dish of replenishing qi and blood, suitable for the infirm consumption.

This picture is took and edited myself.

Porkin Sweet Bean Sauce



This is a traditional Beijing style cuisine. Selected pork tenderloin main material, supplemented by Beijing, "Liu Biju" specialty miso and other condiments, special cooking techniques with the North, "6 explosion," one of the "paste" made cooking.

• Ingredients:
Pork tenderloin 400 grams, egg 1, cooking wine 20 grams, 1 gram of monosodium glutamate, salt 5 grams, wet starch 30 grams, onion, ginger, soy sauce 10 grams, 100 grams of broth, oil and 50 grams.

• Operation:
1. Cut the pork into pieces, and put them into the bowl, adding wine, salt, eggs, starch grasp uniform, that is, sizing.

2. Cut the light blue wire into pieces and put them into the disk. A little slice ginger shoot, take a bowl of onion in the same place, adding water so as to soak into the onion, ginger water.

3. Make a fire so as to heat the pan, refueling, cooked into fried pork will be dispersed to eight mature removed, and then place it on disk drained oil.

4. Put oil into the pan and heated the pan, adding sweetened soybean paste stir into the onions, ginger and water, cooking wine, sugar, non-stop moving fried sweet soybean paste until all the sugar melting, and the sauce begins to stick, it will be put pork income, constantly moving fried, so sweet soybean paste evenly on the pork on a stick..

5. Filled with onion pork on the dish, which will cover the basic onion, and mix them well before you can eat.

This picture is took and edited by myself.

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Laba Porridge

It is a long history that people used to drink laba porridge in China. May be it has more than a thousand years’ history. First began in the Song Dynasty. Laba every day, whether in court, his official temple, or Lebanon's people have to make laba porridge at home.Ming Dynasty, the materials, add glutinous rice, ginkgo, walnut, chestnut porridge and so on. To the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking laba porridge is also popular. In the palace, the emperor, empress, prince and so on to civil and military ministers, odalisque thanks laba porridge, rice distribution to the various temples, fruits and other food for the monks. In the civil society, every family has to do laba porridge, worship their ancestors; the same time, the family reunion with food, gifts, friends and family. The famous Lama Temple laba porridge, apart from glutinous rice, millet and other grain cereals, but also added a small lamb and butter, congee and noodle sprinkle with red dates, longan, walnut, raisins, Guazi Ren, green their names and so on.
• Ingredients:
50 grams of rice, yellow millet 50 grams, 50 grams of sticky yellow rice, glutinous rice, 50 grams, kaoliang cereals (sorghum, rice sticky) 50 grams, 100 grams of red beans, lotus seeds 100 grams, 100 grams of longan, peanuts 100 grams, 100 grams of chestnuts small red dates 100 grams of sugar amount.



• Operation:
1. Cut the bacon, mushrooms, dried bean curd into small pieces.



2. Boil a pot of water boil and then add the sticky rice, peanuts, mushrooms, bacon, lotus seeds into the water.



3. Bring to a boil after adding the above-mentioned materials, adding jujube, spades, ginkgo, edible fungus.



4. When all the materials have been almost cooked then add the soft tofu, so laba porridge has been ready now.



These pictures are took and edited by myself.

Scallion Enoki mix Dusi

Hereby I will introduce one dish that is easy to prepare but with good taste. Do you want to learn? Maybe you can cook it for your friends some day when they have a visit.

• Main Material:

1.Pork bellies cooked 1 / 4, Flammulina 150 grams of onion a little master.



2. Cooked Pork bellies and green onions shred alternate, respectively. Cut off the roots of flammulina, and then cut them into two sections.



3. Pot of water into the boiling, put the Flammulina Billy to put off after birth, picked up the dry moisture control, and into the basin with the Dusi, the sprinkle with spring onion and ginger.



4. Take a small bowl put into a pinch of salt, soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine, and pepper, mix well by adding a small bowl of water back into the sauce.

5. Another clean wok pour about 3 tablespoons of peanut oil heated to the oil began to smoke, they promptly fell on the Dusi sprinkling of spring onion, then pour sauce into the pot after boiling pour in the Dusi on a delicious Scallion needle mushrooms completed the Dusi



These pictures are took and edited by myself.

Coca-Cola Wings

Coca-Cola chicken wings are commonly homemade delicious dishes. There are many kinds of practices, but the main materials are chicken wings and Coke. Taste delicious, colorful, tender and chicken wings, another cola aroma, well received by the diners loved. Hereby, I just introduce one of the cook ways for Coca-Cola chicken wings.

• Main Material:

Complete chicken wings 4, a can of Coke.
• Seasoning:
Ginger, green onion, aniseed, soy sauce, sugar (sugar that can be put, are arbitrary).

• Operation:

1) Put the water into the pot after boiling; add hot chicken wings Cheuk 2 minutes after the fish out. Wash the surface with water wings floating foam, the drain backup. Cut the green onions into sections, ginger slice.



2) Pour the oil into the pot, and when the fire is heated up to four hot, add cloves, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon, and geraniol, fried smell out after the Festival and the ginger into the onions until fragrant.



3) Put the chicken wings into the pot. After stirring fry for about one minute, put into the coke and water.



4) And then pour soy sauce and then stir well, the cover lid into the fire, and stew cook for 20 minutes.



5) Open the lid and change into a fire, cook about 3 minutes, until thick soup can be eaten. Then you can put the chicken wings into the plate.


Coca-Cola chicken wings are commonly homemade delicious dishes. There are many kinds of practices, but the main materials are chicken wings and Coke. Taste delicious, colorful, tender and chicken wings, another cola aroma, well received by the diners loved. Hereby, I just introduce one of the cook ways for Coca-Cola chicken wings.

These pictures are took and edited by myself.

Water Boiled Meat


Shuizhu is a traditional Sichuan dishes, almost every household in Sichuan will be done. Water Boiled Meat is characterized by "hemp, spicy, fresh, hot". In the following, it will give a short introduction of how to cook this water boiled meat.

• Ingredients: pork tenderloin (150 g)

• Accessories: Chinese cabbage (50 grams)

• Seasoning: egg (30 grams) Pepper (3 grams) bean paste (10 grams) ginger (10 grams) onion (10 grams) pepper (red, sharp, dry) (5 grams) pepper (5 grams) of soy sauce (10 grams) wine (8 grams) monosodium glutamate (5 grams) salt (10 grams) starch (pea) (10 g) vegetable oil (50 grams)

• Operation:
1. Cut the pork tenderloin into thin slices (going against cutting lines) with flavor for 15 minutes Marinade yards.

2. Cut the garlic, celery and some other vegetables you like into sections.

3. Clean the pot and heat the oil. When the oil is heated by six percent hot, put into the dry chili pepper festival, sliced onion, ginger, onion festival. And then mixed with an appropriate broth or water, adding salt, and make the water boiled. And later, put the vegetables down into the water a bit hot look on and finish it on the bowl.

4. Put the meat slipped into the water pot, call spread, breaking just after birth, and finish cooking on top of pot of soup into the bowl, not too little, in order to do so than meat shall prevail.

5. Sprinkled above the relatively large number of Chinese prickly ash surface and dried red pepper powder, garlic in the meat, and chopped green onion adequate backup. In the other pot, pour lots of oil, making it burning, and then pour it on the meat. So now the water boiled meat is ready to eat.

This picture is took and edited by myself.

Pickled fish

Just ask one question, “How many kinds of ways can fish be cooked?”

I think there is no answer, because I've eaten with a fish to make the whole banquet table, skin, scales, floats are both vegetables, I used to think fish is indispensable to feast on the protagonist, but it did not expect a fish will be able to Gaoding banquet table, so the fish - whether there is really as much as possible.
Sichuan pickled cabbage, fish & Deli in the north drift of the dishes earlier, visibility is quite high, even in a very long period of time, a friend I once knew is Sichuanese, the next sentence is: "Well, you will pickled fish? "
Pickled fish, as if boiled, but may choose the old authentic Sichuan pickled cabbage. Pickled fish, resulting in the Chongqing area, in fact, Sichuan, Chongqing, in order to do a lot of fish known to not work where there are numerous delicious fish dishes. So in the following, I will give a short introduction of how to cook the pickled fish.

• Operation:

1. Firstly clean the fish.





2. Cut the fish into pieces.



3. Put these pieces of fish into plate.



4. Pickled up cabbage, fish, and ultimately, of course, is the pickled cabbage, shredded




5. When materials are ready, you can start cooking, and now the pan-ri until fragrant pepper and red pepper.



6. And then put into the dried chili, millet spicy, shallot, ginger and fish bones.



7. Add about a liter of boiling soup over. Cook up a delicious tune after about ten minutes or so. Put the sauerkraut and fish bones and other ingredients retrieve the plate, and then sprinkle with pepper, and then a tasty pickled fish is finished.



These pictures are took and edited by myself.

Garlic shrimp Lachao



Hey, do you want to have a try of the above Big Shrimp? Yes, it looks very delicious. Actually, it is not hard to cook for the above food. In the following, I will introduce how to prepare for this food.

• Operation:
1) Prepare for Large shrimp 8-10, and make them peeled to the sand line wash (keep tails on the dried small shrimps, it seems it will look better), other materials includes 2 Baner garlic, 4-5 dry red chilli.
2) Chopped garlic, and then cut the hot pepper with the scissors into a small circle.
3) Put 2 spoons of olive oil into the pot, and do not need to wait for having oil heated, just put the minced garlic and pepper into the circle --- I like to do it in this way, since it can make the garlic could be better penetrate into the oil inside, so you do not need to wait for the oil heated and then put the garlic down inside.
4) Put the shrimp into the pot, and also add into salt and pepper seasoning, which could make the taste be more delicious.

5) Fry of them for about 3 minutes, or until they are fried.

This picture is took and edited by myself.

Monday 8 February 2010

Potato pumpkin soup



Ingredients: potatoes, pumpkin
Ingredients: apricot, jujube, Chinese wolfberry, salt, and mushrooms fine
Practices:
1. Cut the potatoes and pumpkins into pieces, and cut the apricot, jujube into small grains. At the same time put the Chinese wolfberry into the water.

2. Put into the pot a little oil, and start to stir fry of these potato and pumpkin pieces for a few times. Then add water, coupled with a little fine salt and mushrooms.

3. Put all the materials in step 2 into the pressure cooker, add chopped apricots, dates, and soaked Chinese wolfberry. Then braised all of them for about 5 ~ 8 minutes (They also can be stewed slowly in the stew pot, until the potatoes and pumpkin become soft.)

Note: This soup is tasted acid, fresh and delicious, which is an magic soup to maintenance beauty for girls. As a result, it is very popular in Asian. For example, in Korean Cuisine, this soup is served as the Appetizer for all customers. And most customers, especially young girls, will order the soup again since it is good for keep beauty.
Believer it or not, this soup is really a good cuisine to recommend. Let’s have a try together, try to do such delicious and magic soup for your family.

This picture is took and edited by myself.

Granny Potato


To explain: Granny means the old lady

Ingredients: Potatoes
Ingredients: onion, red pepper powder (with a single mountain middle class in Kunming, Yunnan Dip fish seasoning better), salt, mushroom essence, and onion.
Practices:
1. Put all the potatoes into the pot, regardless of the size of potatoes (according to personal preference, I would like to cook all the potatoes almost into the mud size, just like a rotten. Usually, the potatoes need to be cooked as such station, that is, you can insert the chopsticks into the entire potato)
2 When all the small potatoes are cooked well, you can pulled them out, and at the same time put these potatoes into the cold water after peeling (if you are not afraid of hot water, it can also be directly peeled) And then, you need to cut the potatoes into pieces with a knife.

3. Get from the pan when the oil till the Liucheng hot surface and then put into the chili fish sauce, little small potatoes until fragrant look into duplicating. (Do not deep-fried red pepper paste, and the deft hands and feet, like the extent and the furnace important, stir fry red pepper evenly wrapped on to the potatoes). Later, add salt, green onion, as well as mushrooms.

Characteristics: This food is tasted delicious and smoothness, importers will turn back, which is a local food in Yunnan province, in the southwest region of China. Just because this food can be eaten by old ladies who have no teeth, it is called Granny Potato.

This picture is took and edited by myself.

Friday 5 February 2010

Roberts Potatoes


Ingredients: Potatoes
Accessories: cooking oil, sugar
Practices:
1. Peeled of the potatoes, and cut them into chunks. Put these potatoes into the pan, making them got fry until the outside crust of these potatoes become golden, and then put them into the pan and waiting for eat.

2. Put a little oil into the pan, heated, and add sugar, stirring constantly until the sugar boiled starch syrup. Then put into the fried potatoes, stir fry constantly until the potatoes are all stained starch syrup, so you can put them into the pan immediately.
This product within the outer crispy soft, sweet and delicious, but you need to eat immediately when they are hot, otherwise they will become too hard to eat. Actually, when I am studied in China, almost every time we go to the restaurant we will order this food, that is, Roberts Potatoes, not only because it is cheaper compared with other food, but also because it is really tasted wonderful. And the way of eating is very special, as you need to add these potatoes into water, so we find it is a good way to have fun when have dinner.
Do you want to have a try? Do not hesitate! Let’s cook of the Roberts Potatoes together!

This picture is took and edited by myself.

The blog introduction

In this blog, the main content is food. That is, I will share delicious and special food, especially Chinese food with others, and also I will recommend some famous restaurants in China where I have been visited. Of course there will be introduction of famous restuarants in other countries. So in this blog, there will be a food column for the comments of all readers about different food in different countries or regions.

Besides, there also will be a part about cooking or some DIY food, with relevant pics or videos. As for readers, most of them will be young people who also are interested in delicious food. Though they may come from different countries, and do not know each other. They can share their comments and recommend special food in their regions in the blog. And in the column of DIY food, we also can teach readers how to do a special food personally or recommed a new food in a creative cooking way.

As far as I an concerned, young people worldwide will be more interested in new food, such as the DLY food. And more and more people become interested in Chinese food, especially for western people, who are strong curious about how Chinese food are cooked. So this blog will focus on this market.