Hobby: Nutrition and Black Bean Curd

Hobby In the past ten years, ca-caing has become one of my deary hobbies. I deplete had many experiences that ar worth writing about. My husband and I love to eat, cook and dine out. We dumbfound enjoyed unalike provision activities that have brought us a lot of pleasure, and up to this daylight we still engage in formulation. We love to explore divergent kinds of cooking directions because we love to eat different types of food. The most popular cuisines that we have cooked the most are Chinese, Italian and Ameri end food. Also, we experiment in different cooking styles and trying Japanese, French, Mexican, Thai, and Mediterranean food as well.My husband and his friends formed a gourmet order a few years ago. sever everyy couple that joined the club loves to eat and cook. So all(prenominal) weekend, a couple go away pick up a theme and invite their friends to their house to have a nice dinner. Usually I will cook Chinese food for our guests. mainland China is a big co untry there are about 56 regional styles of food in China. Each region has it own cuisine due to varying weather conditions, environment, tastes and products (web. ) For example, Cantonese food is well known in America Cantonese food specialized in seafood and Dim Sun.If you go to a Cantonese style restaurant, you will picture a big fish tank with live fish and seafood in every restaurant. Customers can take up the fresh seafood and fish that they like on the spot. The chef will cook your selection in any style that you pauperism. The most popular cooking styles for fresh seafood are steaming, sauteing, stir-frying and boiling. Two other cooking styles that I want to introduce are those from the provinces of Si Chuang and Hu Nan. These cuisines feature very spicy, sour, sweet, and salty dishes. If you cant handle the heat, enliven stay away.The most famous dishes from that region that American people are familiar with are GongBao Chicken, Ma Po Tofu and Fish in Chili Bean sauce. One interesting idea that comes from cooking is that we can turn back about different refining and history as we cook their cuisines. Since Chinas history dates back 5000 years, so do the styles of cooking. Todays Chinese cuisines are blending handed-down and modern techniques representing that very long history. I love spicy food. One of the Chinese cuisines that I mentioned above comes rom the province of Si Chuan. Si Chuang province is the mountain district in the center of China and its food is famous for its heated and spicy dishes, and one of my favorites dishes is Ma Bo Tofu. Taste, color and smell are the ternary most distinctive features for Chinese cooking. My secret to cooking this dish is how to control the alters. First, I will crack all the spices in three levels mild spicy, medium spicy and very spicy. My husband loves spicy besides he does non like it when the hot spicy numbs his tongue because he wants to taste the food.Every period I cook my Si Chuang d ishes, I have to be very careful with how much spice I should put in because I do not want him to cry. Secondly, I have to prepare several main ingredients a piece of soft Tofu, few black covered stadium curd, twain sponge of hot chilly and half pound of mince pork meat, and a little chip shot of kB onions for the final touch. After I get all ready, I will start cooking my famous Si Chuang Dish, Ma Po Tofu. Cooking a delicious and testy Mo Po Tofu is not easy. I did learn almost tricks from my mother. I start by putting rough virgin olive oil in a hot pan.While the pan is getting hot, I mix hot chili sauce and mince pork together, and then I cut a piece of Tofu into a little tiny square shape. I have to do all these steps in a very short period of sequence because I do not want the oil to burn. At the same time, I have been soaking the black bean curd with lovesome water in a little serving bowl. After I finish all the preparations, its time to cook. I put the mixture of p ork and chili sauce into the pan. First, saute them for just two minutes and takes them out very quickly and put on a serving plate.Meanwhile, I will warm up the pan with a little bit of olive oil again, put a little square tofu into the pan, and then pinnacle it for 3 minutes. The reason I have to cover the Tofu while its cooking is because Tofu is a very delicate ingredient and I do not want to overcook it. The last step is to softly pour the hot chili mince meat on top of the Tofu, and then decorated with a few strips black bean curd with tiny chopped green onions. The whole process to cook this dish actually only takes half-dozen to seven minutes. It seems very easy to cook yet you have to be quick and know how.I assume that if a person loves spicy food, he will love my recommendation. Please do not forget that I just mentioned earlier, you can control how much spice you use to suit your taste. The bang of this dish is that the Tofu will melt in your mouth while you are eatin g them, and it is twain tasty and very healthy. Tofu contains lots of protein and it is the main source of protein for vegetarian diet. The final step is the presentation for this dish. A good dish contains smell, color coordination, taste and presentation. So I will use a pulchritudinous China plate to present it.The first step, I will put a piece of green lettuce on the button of the plate, and then serve with some beautiful little squares of Tofu with red hot chili mince meat on the top. For the final touch the black bean curd and green onions are placed. At this point, you should be able to smell and taste my Ma Po Tofu now. Do you bump too spicy? To enjoy this dish you must use the sense of sight, touch, smell and taste. Cooking is my warmheartedness and also requires lots of knowledge. In recent years, eating health and cooking healthy food is a big topic for American high society.American people love troubled food. The fast food culture has been merging into the America n society for a long period of time . That is why we have the biggest fast food industry in the world. On a recently television program it was stated that McDonalds golden arch icon is a more popular symbol than the cross of Christian faith. The results of this flatulent diet are many health problems. A lot of adults in America have soaring blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart disease. These diseases can be direct traced back to their unhealthy diet and liveness style.The fast pace of life and work are so busy, parents no longer have the time to cook for their children or themselves. Fast food is taking up a large-scale and large use of the family food budget due to convince. Now seems cooking as become a luxury because it takes so much time. Every night, parents will go to McDonalds, Burger King, or Jack in the Box to buy some greasy chicken, burgers and fries for their family. What are the results? We have obese kids because junk food has become too large a percentage o f their diet.It is so sad to see our kids suffer from the diseases of the fleshiness. So lets go back to cooking for our families. I will say that if everybody pays lots of attention to their health, this is will help our society to change its vision of the fast food industry. Everyone wants to live longer and healthier. No one wants to suffer the diseases that obesity can cause. So be your familys guard and teach your kids and their friends to eat healthy and nutritious food. You can also teach your kids how to cook, how to pick the good ingrains and create a health meal.At the same time, apologise to your kids why foods are either healthy or unhealthy. So that, in the future they can tax for themselves and make the right decision in the future. Our effects now will pay off in the future for the health of our families. Cooking health meals for my family is relaxing, fun and an enjoyable activity for me. I love it. I want my family to eat healthy meals every day. Actually, my dre am is to learn how to cook different types of cuisine. Especially learn how to cook Italian and French food. I think it will be a fun intimacy to do.