2012年3月31日星期六
吃多了螃蟹 too much crab
前几天在华人超市罕见的发现鲜活梭子蟹，买了七只回来。以前从来没有在家自己做过，都是吃现成的，所以特意跟公婆请教了做法。用电饭锅蒸格分两次蒸熟了螃蟹，开吃。这梭子蟹竟然只只膏满肉肥，非常鲜美。我家先生边吃边开心评论加国螃蟹物美价廉。吃完剩下一只，放冰箱冷藏，第二天做了螃蟹汤，也很鲜美。先生吃得很满意，我却吃多了，感觉上头，胃里发热，直想喝凉水，这几天都没胃口。看来＂美味不可多用＂说得一点错也没有。
蒸螃蟹（两人份）
原料：梭子蟹4只（约170克/只），姜4片，料酒少许
做法：
1、螃蟹在水龙头下冲刷干净，待用
2、电饭锅放适量清水，放上蒸格，将螃蟹壳朝下摆好，每只螃蟹肚子上放一片姜片，再淋上料酒（白酒应该也不错，我觉得放酒主要是为去腥味）
3、按下煮饭键，待饭锅里水开并且锅盖冒出蒸汽时开始计时，蒸15分钟左右，熟了出锅享用
Tips：
1、如果饭锅盖缝隙大，可以用干净毛巾将锅盖边缘盖住防止漏汽太多，有助于食物快点蒸熟
2、螃蟹一定要新鲜的，垂死的和死螃蟹容易引起食物中毒
2012年1月13日星期五
Is Pasta tasty?
Pasta often comes to my mind as a tasty food, So I sometimes want to buy and cook some. When we were in Shanghai, I bought pasta for some times, but every time I was disappointed since it tasted hard and flavorless. The hardness of pasta made my stomach uncomfortable. So, I told myself that pasta was not my dish and I should not buy it anymore. But, some time later, I would want to try again when it appears as a delicious food in my mind again although I am sure that I don't like it if I cook it myself. Today, I think about pasta and want to try some again.
I am so curious about pasta. Is it tasty or not?
I am so curious about pasta. Is it tasty or not?
2011年12月29日星期四
Serious illness
Anyone got ill after having the eggs bought from Food Basics supermarket?
On Christmas Eve we went to Food Basics nearby to buy some food. A kind of eggs is on sale for 1.88/package, so we bought two packs.
On christmas, I made a plate of scrambled egg with them. He ate more than I did. On Christmas evening, I cooked rice with scrambled eggs.
The next morning, my honey said that he had a serious bellyache, and after boxing day shopping, he got a high fever without any strength on the whole body, together with muscle ache on two legs. We thought he might have caught a cold. The evening of boxing day, I made pancakes with egg and onion, he felt nauseated on the smell of pancake. So he just had some porridge. I had some pancake though I felt a little sick of them too.
On December 27, his fever went away. I made simple pancake without onion and applied less vegetable oil, which made the flavor very light. Then he had a little pancake. I thought he was better since he could eat pancake. I had a lot of pancakes.
On December 28, I made light pancakes again. He ate a piece of that and felt bellyache again. I ate more than him. In the evening, I felt sick and didn't have any appetite, which I thought was caused by hunger. I bit some pancake before meal. Then I felt very nauseated when having meal. Immediately after I had a boiled potatoes I suffered from Vomiting and Diarrhea.
At that time, we realized that we could have got Food poisoning. Then we carefully remembered the foods we had had. Probably, the eggs are the poisoning food, which is the only food we continuously had these days.
Anybody has suffered from similar illness with food basics eggs?
The information from the egg package: Burnbrae Farms, best before Feb 04
PS: the food we had before illness
1. eggs, Burnbrae Farms, best before Feb 04, from food basics
2. potatos, yellow fleshed, 10lb in paper bag.ONTARIO potato dist.(Alliston) Inc., from food basics
3. pancakes, Selection all-purpose flour, 10lb, from food basics
4. onion, as seasoning in the eggs, potatos and pancakes, from food basics
Among these, eggs and potatos are the main suspects.
On Christmas Eve we went to Food Basics nearby to buy some food. A kind of eggs is on sale for 1.88/package, so we bought two packs.
On christmas, I made a plate of scrambled egg with them. He ate more than I did. On Christmas evening, I cooked rice with scrambled eggs.
The next morning, my honey said that he had a serious bellyache, and after boxing day shopping, he got a high fever without any strength on the whole body, together with muscle ache on two legs. We thought he might have caught a cold. The evening of boxing day, I made pancakes with egg and onion, he felt nauseated on the smell of pancake. So he just had some porridge. I had some pancake though I felt a little sick of them too.
On December 27, his fever went away. I made simple pancake without onion and applied less vegetable oil, which made the flavor very light. Then he had a little pancake. I thought he was better since he could eat pancake. I had a lot of pancakes.
On December 28, I made light pancakes again. He ate a piece of that and felt bellyache again. I ate more than him. In the evening, I felt sick and didn't have any appetite, which I thought was caused by hunger. I bit some pancake before meal. Then I felt very nauseated when having meal. Immediately after I had a boiled potatoes I suffered from Vomiting and Diarrhea.
At that time, we realized that we could have got Food poisoning. Then we carefully remembered the foods we had had. Probably, the eggs are the poisoning food, which is the only food we continuously had these days.
Anybody has suffered from similar illness with food basics eggs?
The information from the egg package: Burnbrae Farms, best before Feb 04
PS: the food we had before illness
1. eggs, Burnbrae Farms, best before Feb 04, from food basics
2. potatos, yellow fleshed, 10lb in paper bag.ONTARIO potato dist.(Alliston) Inc., from food basics
3. pancakes, Selection all-purpose flour, 10lb, from food basics
4. onion, as seasoning in the eggs, potatos and pancakes, from food basics
Among these, eggs and potatos are the main suspects.
2011年12月28日星期三
Recipe for Chinese style pancake
My honey is better than yesterday. He had a hight fever after shopping and didn't want any food yesterday. This morning, he had a little porridge with pickles. In the afternoon, the fever is away and he looks better. I know currently he can eat nothing but light food, so we decide to have porridge for dinner as well. Since he is better, with his permission, I made pancakes for him. He loved the pancakes and ate two of them with some porridge and pickles. I am so happy that he ate pancakes which indicates that he is much better.
Pancake is very easy to make, and is popular among Chinese families as breakfast. Below recipe is a simpler Chinese style soft pancake for my honey with bad appetite.
Ingredients:
1 cup of all-purpose flour,
1 egg,
water,
a spinkle of salt,
vegetable oil,
a sprinkle of the Chinese five-spices
Directions:
1, put all indigredients including a little vegetable oil into a large bowl and whisk them into very smooth fluid batter
2, let stand for 10-20minutes
3, heat a clean non-stick skillet over medium heat, brush lightly with vegetable oil
4, pour some batter into the hot pan and swirl the pan quickly to form a thin even round pancake
5, turn the pancake over carefully when the top becomes dry(the color turns to beautiful light yellow), and the bottom becomes light golden
6, heat the second side for about 20 seconds and one pancake is done
7, repeat with remaining batter
Acturally, in a typical Chinese style pancake ingredients, there must be green Chinese onion as one important flavour sources. Nowadays, people sometimes replace the green onion,salt and spices with sugar and milk to make sweet pancakes .
Typical Ingredients:
1 cup of all-purpose flour,
1 egg,
1 tbsp minced green Chinese onion
water,
a spinkle of salt,
vegetable oil,
a sprinkle of the Chinese five-spices
Pancake is very easy to make, and is popular among Chinese families as breakfast. Below recipe is a simpler Chinese style soft pancake for my honey with bad appetite.
Ingredients:
1 cup of all-purpose flour,
1 egg,
water,
a spinkle of salt,
vegetable oil,
a sprinkle of the Chinese five-spices
Directions:
1, put all indigredients including a little vegetable oil into a large bowl and whisk them into very smooth fluid batter
2, let stand for 10-20minutes
3, heat a clean non-stick skillet over medium heat, brush lightly with vegetable oil
4, pour some batter into the hot pan and swirl the pan quickly to form a thin even round pancake
5, turn the pancake over carefully when the top becomes dry(the color turns to beautiful light yellow), and the bottom becomes light golden
6, heat the second side for about 20 seconds and one pancake is done
7, repeat with remaining batter
Acturally, in a typical Chinese style pancake ingredients, there must be green Chinese onion as one important flavour sources. Nowadays, people sometimes replace the green onion,salt and spices with sugar and milk to make sweet pancakes .
Typical Ingredients:
1 cup of all-purpose flour,
1 egg,
1 tbsp minced green Chinese onion
water,
a spinkle of salt,
vegetable oil,
a sprinkle of the Chinese five-spices
2011年12月22日星期四
买了一袋面粉Bought a bag of flour
Food basics十千克普通面粉(all-purpose flour)特价七点九九刀乐，比原价便宜两刀。价签上写的特价22日到期，傍晚去买了一袋。准备用来烙蛋饼和蒸馒头。关于怎么做这两样面食我早已看了一些方子，尤其是关于电饭锅蒸馒头的方子，因为我们目前只有电饭锅带一个很小的蒸格可以蒸东西。不过我想好好利用的话应该可以蒸不少花样出来。总之，买了一袋面粉很开心也很期待能做出好吃的面食。
Update:12月23日第一次用电饭锅蒸馒头失败。面是发了，可是馒头不松软。我是按照网上二次发酵的方子做的，可是不成功，有点受挫。以前在上海做过两次发面，第一次失败因为面团发过头，第二次成功了可是我忘记怎么做的了，实在是太久的事情了。不过以前好像是一次发酵就做的。还得继续摸索。
Update:12月23日第一次用电饭锅蒸馒头失败。面是发了，可是馒头不松软。我是按照网上二次发酵的方子做的，可是不成功，有点受挫。以前在上海做过两次发面，第一次失败因为面团发过头，第二次成功了可是我忘记怎么做的了，实在是太久的事情了。不过以前好像是一次发酵就做的。还得继续摸索。
2011年12月18日星期日
Cola is expensive
My sir loves soda water. When we were in Shanghai he used to drink a lot of soda water each day, especially during summer. Among them, his favorite is Fanta, the second Sprite, Cola comes last. So he drank Fanta a lot. In fact, I don't want him drink so much soda water, cause having too much sweet is bad for health. But he is too stubborn to persuade. Then I suggested that colorless drink was better than Fanta which contains not only sweet but also coloring materials. Then he turned to Sprite.
That time soda water was very cheap-a little more than six Yuan RMB per 2.5L bottle, equals to one dollar CAD. Soda drinks are very well sold in China these days. People tend to love sweet flavor, and people like acceptable prices too. In Toronto, the soda water is sold at about two dollars per 2L bottle in supermarket, much more expensive than that in China. Is it for health concerns that cola is sold much more expensive here?
That time soda water was very cheap-a little more than six Yuan RMB per 2.5L bottle, equals to one dollar CAD. Soda drinks are very well sold in China these days. People tend to love sweet flavor, and people like acceptable prices too. In Toronto, the soda water is sold at about two dollars per 2L bottle in supermarket, much more expensive than that in China. Is it for health concerns that cola is sold much more expensive here?
2011年12月16日星期五
每天一杯牛奶A glass of milk every day
在国内的时候我们很少喝牛奶，即使在著名的三聚氰氨事件出现之前也几乎不喝，主要是出于食品安全的考虑，其次不太喜欢牛奶的味道，再次喝牛奶常常引起胃部不舒服。来到多伦多以后室内很温暖，胃就比较舒服，以前不敢吃的香蕉经常吃也不会让胃疼或引起胃酸过多。我们开始每天喝一杯牛奶。目前我们只吃过百分之二脂肪的袋装牛奶，这个牛奶味道很淡，喝起来与国内买的雀巢奶粉味道差不多。脂肪含量在百分之二及以下的牛奶比较平价，百分之三点二五的贵一刀乐以上每袋。脂肪含量再高的就不是饮用的，而是用来调味的，比如制作各种点心。盒装牛奶普遍比袋装的贵。
多伦多的牛奶用塑料袋包装。第一次在超市看见这种奶让人感觉很奇怪，想不出怎么吃。回家以后查网络，才明白吃袋装牛奶的方法。第一次买牛奶是在吃完一桶四升装那不勒斯冰淇淋之后的事情，因为吃加拿大袋装牛奶是需要一个牛奶桶的。这里一大塑料袋牛奶四升装，内里包含三小袋，每袋可以倒出大约六杯。剪开一角的一袋牛奶吃不完怎么办呢？只能放桶里用夹子夹好，放在冰箱冷藏室下次再吃。据说只有加拿大的牛奶用塑料袋装，真的很奇怪。到底有什么好处呢？
话说回来，每天晚上喝一杯热牛奶就一点点全麦皮塔饼真好；）。
多伦多的牛奶用塑料袋包装。第一次在超市看见这种奶让人感觉很奇怪，想不出怎么吃。回家以后查网络，才明白吃袋装牛奶的方法。第一次买牛奶是在吃完一桶四升装那不勒斯冰淇淋之后的事情，因为吃加拿大袋装牛奶是需要一个牛奶桶的。这里一大塑料袋牛奶四升装，内里包含三小袋，每袋可以倒出大约六杯。剪开一角的一袋牛奶吃不完怎么办呢？只能放桶里用夹子夹好，放在冰箱冷藏室下次再吃。据说只有加拿大的牛奶用塑料袋装，真的很奇怪。到底有什么好处呢？
话说回来，每天晚上喝一杯热牛奶就一点点全麦皮塔饼真好；）。
2011年12月13日星期二
Olive oil and Honey- health beliefs
I have been curious and keen on olive oil for quite a long time ever since I heard about this oil and it's benefits. Olive oil is much more famous than before in recent China, since it's rare, foreign made, expensive, healthy, tasteful, good for skin, etc., which really appeal to the wealthier Chinese.
On the internet, with the olive oil introduction in Chinese, there are a lot of benefits followed after the article. You are always crowded by too many beneficial describtions to hold yourself from expecting for one bottle to have a try. In Chinese, olive oil embodies not only healthy food, somehow, it is given a label of luxury and modern life and more.
Due to economic consideration, I have not tried it yet, so the curiosity still lives in my heart. But is olive oil that much better than other edible oils? Is the cost performance better than other oils? I am not sure. I believe olive oil is a healthy oil. And I believe other oils are healthy too, like soy oil, sunflower oil and peanut oil.
The other day, I bought a bottle of billy bee honey from foodbasics. Most people in China consider honey not only a source of sugar, but a very healthy food, though the reason why it is healthy is always not easy to tell clearly. The most common way to have honey is to add it to some cool water and drink it. People believe drink some honey water every day is very good for health. Sometimes, people dip food with it, but this is not a common way of having honey in China to my knowledge.
I don't know how local people in Canada have honey. I guess most people use it in bakery, or dip food with it according to local cooking style. In the view of Chinese people, heat will break some healthy substances in the honey. So honey in bakery has hever been a Chinese way.
It's really different that people treat food. And it's funny.
On the internet, with the olive oil introduction in Chinese, there are a lot of benefits followed after the article. You are always crowded by too many beneficial describtions to hold yourself from expecting for one bottle to have a try. In Chinese, olive oil embodies not only healthy food, somehow, it is given a label of luxury and modern life and more.
Due to economic consideration, I have not tried it yet, so the curiosity still lives in my heart. But is olive oil that much better than other edible oils? Is the cost performance better than other oils? I am not sure. I believe olive oil is a healthy oil. And I believe other oils are healthy too, like soy oil, sunflower oil and peanut oil.
The other day, I bought a bottle of billy bee honey from foodbasics. Most people in China consider honey not only a source of sugar, but a very healthy food, though the reason why it is healthy is always not easy to tell clearly. The most common way to have honey is to add it to some cool water and drink it. People believe drink some honey water every day is very good for health. Sometimes, people dip food with it, but this is not a common way of having honey in China to my knowledge.
I don't know how local people in Canada have honey. I guess most people use it in bakery, or dip food with it according to local cooking style. In the view of Chinese people, heat will break some healthy substances in the honey. So honey in bakery has hever been a Chinese way.
It's really different that people treat food. And it's funny.
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