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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Foodie Friday : Cool Foodies As Well As Nutrient Lovers Celebrating Their “Firsts” On Twitter

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Happy Friday! (It's FoodieFriday!)  Always searching for like-minded nutrient lovers together with establish people celebrating their “firsts”. First nutrient weblog post. First nutrient article accepted at a major site. Etc. Here are their tweets. Interesting variation. French food; Health / Energy Food tips; Asian food; Vegan recipes; together with Food Photography.  

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Saturday, July 1, 2017

Five Exotic Spices Past Times Melisa Marzett (Guest Post)

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Even though many herbs together with spices are immediately readily available inwards local grocery stores all around the earth or tin easily move purchased online, most of us don't know know the history of these marvelous cooking ingredients together with which province is responsible for introducing these exciting flavors to the global community.  Sharing a brief introduction to v (5) exotic spices:

SPICE Spotlight: Juniper Berries

Even though many herbs together with spices are immediately readily available inwards local grocery stores all ar Five Exotic Spices past times Melisa Marzett (Guest Post)


1. Asafetida. This is an Asian spice made from the roots of sure enough species of Ferula. It is a gum-like spice amongst a real potent together with unpleasant smell.  Actually, the cite of the spice has a Latin origin, which way “evil-smelling gum”.  Asafetida is mutual inwards Indian vegetarian cuisine together with is oft the primary subdivision inwards rice together with edible bean dishes. Additionally, it has a broad hit of medicinal properties together with is beneficial for people amongst digestive disorders, high cholesterol, and/or nervous disorders.  Asafetida is rich inwards minerals together with nutrients, such every bit iron, calcium, phosphorus, together with protein.  Although most chefs together with cooks rarely laid a dish without onion together with garlic, some people do non swallow onion or garlic.  Certain people are allergic to onions together with for some people, garlic causes extreme pump burn.  Asafetida is an ideal spice for those people.  In fact, its aroma is similar to both onion together with garlic.






2. Dried Avocado Leaves.  This spice (or herb) originated inwards Mexico. It is i of the most pop spices inwards Mexican cuisine.  Avocado leaves accept an aniseed fragrance; however, these dried leaves are odorless together with accept a pungent taste. Dried avocado leaves are added to edible bean or meat dishes. Regarding wellness benefits, they are useful for people who accept kidney stones together with hypertension. Noteworthy:  Only sure enough varieties of avocado leaves are to move used inwards cooking or for medicinal purposes because some kinds of avocado leaves tin comprise toxic substances.

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Avocado Leaves: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Secret Mexican Ingredient

Avocado Leaves: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Secret Mexican Ingredient

Avocado Leaves: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Secret Mexican Ingredientby Victoria ChallancinLove at First Bite. Like whatever motivated foodie, I almost made myself ill sampling, musing, together with guessing what unknown subdivision I was tasting inwards what appeared to move an ordinary dark edible bean dip.


3. Epazote. This is some other essential spice used inwards Mexican cuisine. Its extraordinary (or strange) scent tin move described every bit a combination of kerosene, mint, together with citrus. Epazote is made from the leaves of Mexican herb called dysphania ambrosioides (aka "Mexican tea").  It is used amongst edible bean together with meat dishes. Additionally, it tin move used inwards soups.

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4. Grains of Paradise. This delicious spice is an integral role of West African cuisine. It is obtained from a bloom called Aframomum melegueta. Africans believed that this bloom grew inwards Eden. Grains of paradise await similar seeds together with accept jasmine, citrus, together with hazelnut odor. It tin move added to meat, fish, together with Irish Gaelic patato dishes.

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Find spices ordered according to the region:
GEOGRAPHIC SPICE INDEX


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Even though many herbs together with spices are immediately readily available inwards local grocery stores all ar Five Exotic Spices past times Melisa Marzett (Guest Post)
Ingredients include over xxx dissimilar herbs together with spices, such as: 
 Grains of Paradise, Lavender, turmeric, ajawan seeds, kalajeera, ginger, galangal, oris root, rose buds, monk's pepper, cinnamon together with more!



5. Juniper Berries. Actually, juniper berries are to a greater extent than probable to move cones than berries. It has the aroma of fir together with is used for cooking meat dishes, particularly stewed rabbit or beef. These “berries” grow on the juniper tree, are mutual throughout Europe,  included inwards ancient Greek recipes, and accept been constitute inwards the Egyptian pyramids.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 broad hit of High German traditional dishes are cooked amongst juniper berries.



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About the writer:  Melisa Marzett industrial plant for: bigpaperwriter.com.  She does fantabulous inquiry together with tin pen articles together with provide spider web log publishers or website owners amongst lineament content on almost whatever topic.  View the About tab on her Google+ profile for to a greater extent than samples of her work.



Thursday, June 29, 2017

Let's Bake & Develop : Mango Fried Rice (Reblog)

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Have a friend who is really active inwards several online communities in addition to made a mental greenback to expose a spider web log postal service sharing many of her wonderful recipes that she publishes all over the Internet. Her collection is impressive. Maybe one solar daytime she volition expose a cookbook! This is my Shout Out to Peach Purple, swain blogger in addition to freelance writer. Mango is my favorite fruit in addition to I honey fried rice!  Never idea to position them together.  :)

 Let's Bake & Cook : Mango Fried Rice



You tin also persuasion her recipes at HUBPages.  Here is i yous may uncovering intriguing.  Did yous know yous tin brand a cake inwards a rice cooker?




Peach Purple has 4 nutrient blogs published via the BlogJob blogging community.  Here are samples from each one.  The elevate of the spider web log is inwards parentheses.






LiteracyBase is where she has been sharing her tasty recipes lately in addition to I'm loving it!  You'll honey them too!  :)
 

Chicken Gumbo Recipe


Chicken Gumbo Recipe - LiteracyBase

Have yous heard of Chicken Gumbo? I didn't know that this chicken recipe is a good known dish inwards USA since the 18th century. One of my Facefriend had recommended me to endeavour out her Chicken Gumbo recipe which she had uploaded online. I constitute it a really particular exquisite recipe, all-in-1 chicken stew that ...


Mustard Green Soup alongside Meat Balls


Mustard Green Soup alongside Meat Balls - LiteracyBase

If yous had ever tasted Cai Xin soup, yous should teach acquainted alongside his light-green leafy vegetable today because yous are going to honey it every bit much every bit I do! What is Cai Xin Mustard Greens is fondly known every bit "Cai Xin" amid the Chinese community.


Best Chicken Rice: Hainanese Chicken Rice


Best Chicken Rice: Hainanese Chicken Rice - LiteracyBase

Chicken Rice which is locally known every bit "Ji Fan " or "Sau Ji Fan" is a really pop master copy course of didactics repast that consist of roast chicken alongside steamed chicken rice in addition to slices of cucumbers. There are two types of Chicken Rice sold inwards the restaurant; mainly: - Roast chicken -Hainanese chicken ( white ...


Homemade Prawn Dumpling Soup


Homemade Prawn Dumpling Soup - LiteracyBase

I started to autumn inwards honey alongside dumplings since my childhood days. Mom used to homemade dumplings which were large, fulled of generous fillings in addition to super delicious soup. She e'er added generous heaps of mixed minced pork in addition to two large tiger prawns for the dumpling fillings.


Chinese Soup: Tofu alongside Kelp Soup


Chinese Soup: Tofu alongside Kelp Soup - LiteracyBase

When I was young, mom used to brand delicious Chinese soup for every solar daytime repast which is clear, non thick or brothy at all. Most of her Chinese soup was light, clear in addition to comforting that soothes anyone who was losing appetite or sick over mild affliction ( fever, cough, diarrhea, etc).


Rice Vermicelli Noodle Soup


Rice Vermicelli Noodle Soup - LiteracyBase

I merely LOVE my mother's Rice Vermicelli Noodle Soup, compare to my mother-in-law's version. The soup itself is tasty , fifty-fifty though she had used Knorr Chicken Cube Stock in addition to the additional fried chicken fillets, crab sticks, scrambled eggs in addition to cooked white cabbages were precisely FANTASTIC !



Sunday, May 21, 2017

I'd Similar To Lodge Kung Pao Chicken Smothered Amongst Melted Cheese! (Yuk!)

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A few years back, I was having a spirited give-and-take amongst co-workers at i of my temp jobs too the give-and-take turned to nutrient preferences. Mexican versus Chinese.

I said: “I dearest Chinese food!”

My co-worker's response was:
“No way! Chinese nutrient doesn't stimulate got close plenty cheese for me!!”

I laughed too idea to myself: 'Yep! She's correct virtually that!'

But why? ⍰
Why is in that location hardly whatever cheese inward Chinese cuisine?


Did closed to research. Here is the quick answer, according to Corinne Trang, affectionately referred to past times her many admirers every bit the “Asian Julia Child”. She says: “In Asian nutrient culture, yous stimulate got thousands, countless amounts of herbs too spices that nosotros role at whatever given time. So few of these spices learn good amongst cheese.” *

 Nevertheless, in that location is a nutrient tendency going inward the “fusion” administration too chefs are experimenting amongst incorporating cheese into Asian recipes.

I seriously doubtfulness that yous tin guild a plate of kung pao chicken smothered amongst melted cheese.  I didn't tell the chefs had taken survive out of their senses.  😋

But what practice yous think of this "adaptation"?

Do yous similar your Chinese nutrient amongst or without cheese?

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*Quote Source:
Kuo, Stephanie. "The Real Reason There's No Cheese In Asian Cuisine." CheeseRank : Your Go To Guide for All Things Cheese. N.p., 28 July 2014. Web. xv June 2017. (NOTE: Links to an archived copy.)



Cheese inward Chinese Cuisine


How many authentic (ie., non fusion) Chinese dishes use, or incorporate, cheese? When I tell cheese, I hateful actual cheese -- either from a cow, caprine animal or whatnot. What I don't hateful is "Chinese cheese" or fermented, preserved tofu. The entirely Chinese dish I tin think of that has cheese is Yunnan Goat Cheese, served sprinkled amongst saccharide too pepper.

It Turns Out, There is Such a Thing every bit Chinese Cheese


The Blog: Cookbook writer too instructor Diana Kuan writes virtually traditional too modern takes on Asian abode cooking on her blog, Appetite for China. She has too lately launched an online store called Plate too Pencil, amongst cute gifts similar a "Dumplings Around the World" tote bag.

Discovering Cheese inward One of the Most Unsuspecting Places


It's nearly impossible for whatever Westerners to recall the commencement fourth dimension they tried cheese. From pizza to pasta to hunks eaten on their own, cheese's ubiquity inward our diets way that we've been enjoying it since earlier nosotros could swallow most other company foods. For Liu Yang, a cheesemaker inward Beijing, the ...

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Pork Lo Mein - Brand Takeout At Dwelling Family | The Desert Develop (Reblog)

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Food blogger Candy Dorsey publishes her ain spider web log in addition to besides food-related Wizzley pages (see widget below). Reblogging / sharing the link to her postal service almost pork lo mein. It's a Chinese takeout dish for you lot to brand at home.  Not exclusively is the dish delicious in addition to tardily to brand but did you lot know that for the Chinese people, noodles are a “symbol of longevity”?


 Pork Lo Mein - Make Takeout at Home |
The Desert Cook



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For those who celebrate, Chinese New Year, Candy besides has a recipe for Chinese New Year's Day Balls, which I'm sharing every bit well.  The novel twelvemonth celebrations for 2020 induce got come upwards in addition to gone, but every twelvemonth is a novel year!  Chinese New Year's Day for 2021 volition live on Feb 12.  Mark your calendars.

Always wishing you lot peace, prosperity, practiced wellness in addition to a long in addition to wonderful life!



Chinese New Year's Day Balls


Chinese New Year's Day Balls

1 1/2 cups all usage flour 1/4 loving cup saccharide ii tsp. baking pulverisation dash of common salt Combine all dry out ingredients inwards a large bowl. In a split upwards bowl stir together all moisture ingredients. Add to flour mixture all at 1 time in addition to stir merely till moistened. Heat almost 2" of cooking crude oil inwards a deep pot.

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Candy's Recipes on Wizzley!

sharing the link to her postal service almost pork lo mein Pork Lo Mein - Make Takeout at Home | The Desert Cook (Reblog)



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