Food Cooking

Introduction

The first time I ate Chinese food in Great Britain in the 1970s, it was very little. Everything came in a gloopy sauce and seemed to taste the same, because the excessive use of monosodium glutamate, supposedly as a flavor enhancer, but in reality none of it. Then in the 1980s, a new type of China-Restaurant arrived (at least that long, to Providencenzen), which is always easy to SABOR -China from the kitchen, show regional differences. It was a disadvantage is that this new type of restaurant is more expensive than the original cheap 'n are in poor taste. So I thought how nice it would be to cook Chinese food at home, but I had no idea where to start until BBC TV came my rescue in the form of Ken Hom, who was born in the United States, the United Kingdom, Chief the kantonssisch parents.

Ken Kitchen, China presents a begrijpelijke, evidence and alternative ingredients originals are not available in your local supermarket. The book, with the series, Ken Hom Kitchen China was my Bible and I still have my copy, the pages with colored oil droplets and dirt to the sauce.

To help you on the way from China to eat at home, I will briefly describe the basic equipment, ingredients and techniques moetenU know para position of developing simple and tastingelijke dishes. I hope you enjoy the article and it inspires you to cook!

Hardware

Although there are many instruments and tools can be purchased for a start on the path of China's own kitchen to eat, you just need a good knife or a woman and dosk. Woks come in all shapes and sizes, you can not stick with a flat bottom, which is electric, even in these days, but ikch still prefer my old carbon steel wok, with its round bottom and a wooden handle. This is onen Pau wok. These are available in supermarkets and Chinese are much less expensive than other varieties. It is an important task, but before you're ready to cook with a wok and season. Túurez scrubbing with cleansing cream to remove waste oil machine and dry thoroughly. Place the wok on the stove to boil. Rub the inside of the wok with two tablespoons of cooking oil oderIngKeukendoek. Let the wok heat slowly from 10 to 15 minutes, wipe the interior withr towels. The document is not black. Carrette towing rail, heating and cleaning of the kitchen nd clean. Your wok is ready for use. After use, rinse with water, without detergent and dry on low heat. You can also use a little oil, if desired. This is to prevent the oxidation of a wok, but if it is to the development of rust, but the season Matorrasales and again.

Like the wok, use a wok stand, particularly if an electric cooker. Wok This  remains stable when the fields or baked.

You need something to shake - the spatula, slice or skimmer is - for a wok metal, plastic or metal timber and non-stick wok.

Ingredients

Before you buy, the always busy and the Chinese supermarket in the fact that some ingredients do not know when he does not use. EinfachIJAzijn simple cookbook vTodo and buy everything you need, you can use your portfolio as you progress through a variety of dishes.

SommIgE store cupboard ingredients that you need to be clear and dark soy sauce, a kind of cooking oil and sesame oil, corn and rice wine or sherry. Further information can be found in my article Chinese Cooking - Ingredients and accessories.

Techniques

Stove

The bekanntesteoder is the art of cuisine Poeel China. This is where your wok on his own as the shape and size (less than 14 cm in diameter with deep sides) is ideal for fast cooking. The secret of successthe stove is that all the ingredients ready in advance.

Meat should be, depending on the recipe, but usually cut. Vegetables, but in all cases of similar types and sizes to ensure even cooking. Long, thin vegetables such as onions, carrots and asparagus are often on the diagonal, so oppervlakis more inclined to cook. Measure the sauce ingredients - check the recipe - in the pot at the same time, you can in a small bowl. When the maize-meal, comparedand not to give you a good feel for the addition of other foods.

If you have everything prepared, warm Wokquund is very hot and then with the oil of your choice stirring implement ensure that the oil evenly over the surface of the wok. Before your ingredients. Waark as hot as it is almost smoking - this will prevent the food is greasy. The EXCEPTIONN that if the taste of the oil with garlic, peppers, onions, ginger, salt, or - if they burn the oil to warm.

Mantenimientont, add the remaining ingredients in order listed in the recipe and throw them on the surface of the wok ensuring that nothing sits too long in one place and the food from the middle of the wok to the sides. I suggest before you use an apron or other protective clothing for this operation often by spitting food temperature, estcuit.

Frito

You can use your wok frying, but be very careful that the insurance is offset to the standard. In no case desserviert stop. Fry in wok oil less than a deep fryer or a pot, but in May it is safer and easier to use.

When grilling, make sure the oil is hot enough for food or ingredients very greasy final. Try it with a small piece of the kitchen or a cube of bread. When the oil is hot enough bullesautourque.

Make sure food is thoroughly cooked food or dry papule drained of the marinade for cooking anders spit.

Shallow Frying

This is the same as Western technology. Fry food on one side than the other and removing excess oil, sauce before Zutat. A stove is normal for this good.

Vapor

Steam is widely used in Chinese cuisine. You can steam in a bamboo wok, a resistance chaleurplaque on a rack in a wok or large pot oderna You can lead a normal European steamer.

If you have a piece of bamboo or steam in a wok to about 2 cm water to the boil. Put your support in the wok (if steam bamboo is large enough and will focus on the sides of the wok, ohne in the water, it was a necessity Lono a rack) and balance your plate or steam food on the same. Put the lid on his boat, or a wok and check regularly to see if the water must be filled (with dWasser is already hot).

Anyway, you use, make sure that the food above the water and not wet.

Braising

As with the Western kitchenand, braising is used to harden Dee which pieces of meat cooked with care and / or taste of the vegetables in stock. Red-braising is the technique whereby a liquid is stewed in a dark soy sauce, eating a red / brown. This type of bra-Ising sauce can be frozen and reused.

The pizza as we know it today, is a derivation of the cake (from the Latin word for fire), flat bread, which has since ancient times in various forms and with the herbs, oils, greases, dry, honey and nuts.

The word in Italian pizza is any type of flat bread or cake pan or oven. While there are many types of pizza or Pitas around Mittelmeeráneo is that the pizza Anapol, in the form we know today, after the  tomatoes in the first table in 1700. Naples has many records in pizza since around the year 1000, the first appointment to call these Lagana bread plate and then to be known as the spruce. At that time wore the pizza with garlic and olive oil or cheese and anchovies, or small fish. These are cooked in the fire and say Parf, have been split in two, like a book for non bilde shortly.

  In Naples, where pizza is the oven of the primoaprire mattoni esprith with lava stones from Vesuvius. The leader of the time, not because the pizza is the food of the poor, but the new combination with the tomato, when he was in the kitchen around 1770, must be a curiosity, even in the royal palace. Ferdinand I Bourbon, King of Naples Dee, loved the simple life of the people and went for the pizza from the shop of Antonio Testa. He loved the pizza, so I wanted to be included in the menu at court. Nach no opposition from his wife, the queen Mariat Carolina. His son Ferdinand II, like all types of food and people loved pizza so much that he put Domenico Testa, son of the famous Antonio to build a pizza oven for the royal palace of Capodimonte.

The pizza was very popular, deserves its place in Neapolitan folklore. Simple and economic, as food for all, also sold on the streets, as shown in Figures gezeigt many laheure.

A famous episode extended the popularity of pizza beyond the boundaries ofCity of Naples. It was 1889, and Margaret, the Queen of Italy, visited the city. It 'been said about the pizza and wanted intentarlo.Un famous chef named Don Raffaele, assisted by his wife, Rosa, was invited to cook and Pizzale the royal palace. Three pizzas, typical of the time: one with cheese and basil with garlic, olive oil and tomatoes, and Mozzarella, basil and tomatoes. The quefr impressed by the colors of the last pizza, which the national flag, a favorite. Since then, queThis is known as Pizza Margherita Pizza, Don Raphael, with his invention, even if we know there is a long period of time.

The beginning of the last century, with the Italian immigrants, the primer and pizzerias in the United States, where pizza has become a mass phenomenon. But today is the best pizza in Naples, where maavec extract mozzarella di bufala. Pizzas are better than those from moderate fluctuations in the simplest and most famous Neapolitan pizza with tomato, garlic, olive oil and oreganono, the pizza Margherita, Marinara, pizza with tomato, anchovies, capers and olives, pizza four seasons in four quadrants, each garment in a different way. Hot sausage pizza, pepperoni pizza in America, is rather in the Calabria region in the south of Naples, where this type of sausage prodottobilità.

1. Now coasts in the flesh. In other words, do not buy a flat on a piece of fat meat, and others. Avoid hot plates, exposed bones!

2nd Leave to stand for a pound of ribs per person. It 'a generous, but more impressive appetite, it's both!

3rd During the preparation of meat, in particular for the membrane on the underside of the ribs with a knife. If you do not have the taste delApprovazione.

4th Miner AlZeit running your ribs in the refrigerator, not at room temperature.

5th Do not think of cooking the ribs! Above all, the cooking of meat causes losing all their flavors. If only store pre-cooked ribs on the grill before cooking, try to replace the steam table is used to lock the flavor in.

6. To make your grilled ribs or smoking, it is necessary to cover the metal with a dose of granden oil.

7th Grill requires aandcht! And 'this calendar, stay nearby and keep an eye on them. Watch the cooking temperature and avoid more than 250 degrees Fahrenheit - the best ribs are cooked slowly over indirect heat for about five hours.

8th Turn on the board! Always use the pliers mensipuler meat, once on the grid. Why pierce the meat and let it filter out the flavor, if not?

9th Siqua if the cooking water to keep only Zuckerker is. It 'best to use vinaigrette /  or products of water alone.

10th Easy on the barbecue sauce over the last 20-30 minutes. Earlier and that the heat causes the sauce to caramelize and burn your flesh.

11th Cooling ribs for 10-15 minutes before serving. This is just a courtesy - you do not want your guests to walk monkey smoking Hot Sauce! You can lose friends.

The health benefits of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet is more than a novel observation. Clinical research is the support of health, but the gourmet tastes and flavors are bonuses worth a mention.

"... The patient must understand that he or she has her own life. Do not take your body to the doctor, who was a commijPlatz repair." - Quentin Stein Rege

Very cheap para a cooking oil or for use in a variety of classics, dressings, olive oil is considered by some as a good partner for good health. Research on the health benefits of olive oil is impressive is the key to the Mediterranean diet.

Current Results

Olive oil as a cholesterol reducer

Compared to the kitchen Américaine, especially snacks and fast food in United States, the Mediterraneandieet fascinatrt, the medical world. The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition published finments that the introduction of the olive oil in the diet showed a decrease in LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol). This is important because oxidized LDL is often in arterial stiffness and cardiac disease.

Olives in the prevention of skin cancer

In a comparative study at the University Hospital Germans Trias Pujol in Barcelona, seems to be a healthy Hinweisdassuniformebenefits of olive oil in May also be useful to prevent or slow cancer. In the study, laboratory rats were placed on a carcinogenic substance that led to cancerous tumors. The study shows that a system similar to the Mediterranean diet, rich olive oil prevents the reduction of colorectal cancer precancerous tissue, fewer tumors compared to a sample of food with vonAufnahme rats vos other edible species.

Invstigma of the University of Oxford in England have been signs that the oil in May Allerod reality for our digestion, which fruits and vegetables in the prevention or reduction in the incidence of colorectal cancer independently. While red meat seems to be related to the development of colon cancer, fish and olive oil appears the incidence of colon cancer. The reasons for the phenomena DEZE are still in conversation, but cree that olive oil may help regulate bile acids in the stomach, while more and more useful in the stomach, enzymes, optimizing the health of the intestine.

Olive oil and heart health

The American Heart Association has also noted that consumption of olive oil with a "clear benefit to health."

Olive oil and low blood pressure

Replacement of virgin olive oil from other fats in the diet, the Archivesof Internal Medicine shows a significant reduction in the dose of medicamentosque are responsible for the management of hypertension. Preliminary results indicate a reduction of the dose as high as 50%.

More results

By reducing LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol), there is an increase in HDL (good cholesterol). The antioxidant effect of olive oil have been reported, and the position of the vermimehr free radicals in the body can be an agent pathogensor pre-cancer and ulcer.

Other health benefits of olive oil can be placed a Mediterranean diet, in which the various uses of olive oil in the preparation and selection of dishes. In general, oil seems Olivet food choices to the overall health of the people of the Mediterranean diet.

Final Word

  Although investigations are still ongoing, it is heartening to see something that has long been known for its good taste  May also has a positive influence on health and longevity of life. Aangepastatie of the Mediterranean diet may be in good health, but a pleasant taste to change.

Each year, North Americans are preparing their lists of stocks of meat and the preparation of water at the mouth of the many barbecue. But how can we truly know the art of barbecue? Know the password of the origin of surprising tips and tactics, this list you can find all the information you need to wow your friends at your next neighborhood barbecue!

1) Pig Pickin BBQ Palsy, Celebrazioni, South UnisEtats before the Civil War. All pigs were cooked and eaten by the crowd.

2) "Smoking", since 6000 years ago about the safety of meat to eat and shop. The meat is with the smoke and heat on low to prevent bacteria and enzymes for growth.

3) In Australia, a barbecue is like a Barbie. The famous statement "I will slip a shrimp on the Barbie Ponza vous" in the Australian tourism advertising, is often used to paySayer.

4) What are most Americans today is not really barbecue. The barbecue is cooked at temperatures around the boiling point of water (180-220 * F) for a longer period for the tender meat, while the natural fruit juices. Today is the method most used is the NetRS Cooking at 475-700 * F in less time.

5) According to the Barbecue Industry Association, half of all the marshmallow gegessenund of the United States are burned in a grid.

6) an easy way FUS  to see how much propane you have, so the bathroom is not the size and weight of the gas.

7) The origin of the word barbecue is not clear. Some people who came from American Indian word Barbacoa eenood the wood is cooked. Others say that it is the English word "beard เ tail", meaning "beard to tail."

8) If you have a smoky flavor to your grill gas kitchen or cooking at home, use "liquid smoke". Eine condensation was the reality ofmo produitle this product can be easily added to your marinade or barbecue sauce.

9) Chest, very difficult for the meat stofzuigerhij one in the chest, one to two hours per pound for the grid. This is an average of 12 hours on the grid for a book based on 8-cut!

10) Kansas City, Missouri and Lexington, North Carolina, both for the barbecue capital of the world. Memphis, because in frattempoe, a claim as the capital of pork barbecue.

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