Category: Chinese cuisine

“Sour powder” is one of the traditional snack between urban and rural areas of Sichuan widespread, due to cheap, has long been loved by others. “Sour powder” mainly sweet potato powder processing. “Sour powder” is divided into two: one for “gouache”, that their deployment with sweet potato starch production; the other is “dry”, that is processed into powder dry strip bar. Because the production of sour powder dry bar is more simple and convenient, the country mostly by dry powder production methods, and “gouache” modulation operation is relatively complicated. Here “gouache” production process.

Ingredients: 5000 g sweet potato starch, alum 35-40 grams of cooked gravy paste 125-130 grams.

Note: gravy cooked sweet potato starch for casual tone with water first, and then into the boiling water, stir into a thin paste, vulgar as “playing cooked gravy.”

Production:

1, the alum research into a fine powder, 100 grams of water, add water, stir into alum.

2, cooked gravy paste into the basin, add sweet potato starch, 2000 g of water, alum water, knead the dough stand softness and hardness.

3, with a large aluminum scoop it out with a tool is inserted into a hole the size of soybeans, the dough will be installed inside the bailer, pat the dough with the palm of the line to make it into the pot boiled water leakage into, then pick into the cold water in the Serve cool drift “gouache.”

“Sour powder” seasonings and pour modulation types Shao’s:

“Sour powder” used in pouring sweet potato, sweet potato, like pouring like noodles making, using acid eating mainly “Shao broth”, “jelly sweet potato”, “Ribs Shao,” and so on, especially in the “sweet potato broth,” the most famous. “Shao broth” into “hot and sour broth powder” and “soup broth powder”, that sour taste and fresh salty taste. The main components used pepper seasoning, chili oil, green onion, soy sauce, bean sprouts, celery, vinegar, parsley, bulk grain buds (Sichuan, a vegetable), pastry soy, MSG and other.

Hot and sour soup boil for a short hot pink to cook broth, stewed pig ear and other vessels concentrated white soup. Concrete action is: the vinegar, chili oil, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, bean sprouts into the soup, into the soup, made after the hot wok pick powder into a bowl, sprinkle with celery, parsley, the bulk of the buds, crisp soy can be.

1. Barley 50 grams, 15 grams of sugar. Porridge once a day, and even served a month. There is heat reactive dampness.

2. hawthorn, malt 15 grams, 6 grams of dried tangerine peel. Adding a small amount of crystal sugar, decoction.

3. Bitter half. Cubes, add water boil until pulpy, yellowish water to drink water on behalf of drinking gourd. Remember not to salt, sugar.

4. mung bean, lily of 30 grams. Plus a small amount of crystal sugar, decoction.

5. loquat chrysanthemum porridge: loquat 9 grams, chrysanthemum 6 grams, gypsum 15 grams, 60 grams of rice. All medicinal cloth, add water 3 bowls fry 2 bowls, rice porridge reentry. 1 day, 3 times a day, and even served 10-15 agent. This product Xiefei Qingwei, lung and stomach heat accumulation type of acne treatment.

6. Hawthorn peach kernel gruel: peach kernel 9 grams, 9 grams of Hawthorn, Fritillaria 9 grams, half lotus leaf sheets, 60 grams of rice. Former first four herb soup pan, to slag into the rice porridge. 1 day, 3 times a day, serving a total of 30 days. This product is blood stasis, phlegm Ruanjian, sputum silt condensation type of acne treatment (equivalent to modern medicine nodular cystic acne, or with keloids permanently, repeatedly made).

I was a junior, did not go to school for years to eat breakfast habits, but also very normal diet rules, just know that diet is not the law of the stomach is not good, but do not know what in the end harm.

A weekend night, my classmates and I go out to dinner, half-way to feel a little pain in the abdomen. At that time I thought for a moment passed, and who knows the pain was getting worse, fighting back back to the dorm, I’ve doubled over in pain, and the night went to the hospital, playing the night we go a little bit.

Precisely, there is a student dorm mother is Chinese medicine, I have found a weekend went to his home. Aunt said to be stomach looked to my own conditioning, and gave me a prescription treatment of stomach pain, simple, and that they can do. Let me tell you the specific practices:

6 grams of cinnamon, Hawthorn 10 grams of meat, 30 grams of brown sugar. Hawthorn with water to cook the meat first 15 minutes, then add cinnamon, until the meat will be cooked Hawthorn flame, filtered juice into the brown sugar and mix thoroughly, hot Beverage.

Because we are in the quarters, you can not use electrical power, I bought an electric cup, cook their own food. After following this prescription to eat for a week, I feel appetite has improved, but it will not have to eat a little uncomfortable feeling (formerly poor appetite, and eat a little more on the stomach). A month later, I still can not eat a little something to eat before the cold, but also greatly improve the complexion.

Human diet varied, our stomach also carries a lot of burden, I hope we can develop good eating habits, take care of your stomach.

Long supper man, stomach burden will be too heavy long-term, than the average person prone to stomach cancer. However, due to operational needs and stay up all night, “night owl” crowd, the morning is often “cold and hunger,” the suffering of the time, this time to eat supper, additional energy is necessary. How to choose the kind of supper? How to eat the fishes body hurt it? See below.

Often stays up late to eat supper best

For supper of choice, a lot of the beauty of women is often hesitates, fear of weight gain. In fact, as long as attention to nutrition, do not eat too much, eat supper on the body will not be affected. Dinner and supper must be combined with work time to determine if the work during the day at leisure, eat three meals a day is very full, go to bed early at night, you can not eat supper. And if you often work late, do not break the morning, snacks is necessary, not only can people stay up late to work more spirit, but also a sense of play to avoid the cold and fatigue caused by the effect of fasting.

Should not drink tea with dim sum

Dim Sum at supper camp is well deserved leader, a lot of people to the restaurant to eat at night is always night tea, shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, pork buns, chicken legs, rice rolls …… the face of these foods, everyone according to their preferences and physical condition, as appropriate, to choose their own snacks. Sweet fillings can make your excess energy at night to eat fried food is not a good idea. Select beverage snack also pay attention to, should be avoided, including drinking herbal tea, including tea drinks, to drink fruit juice, mineral water.

Fasting can not eat dessert

In addition to snacks, taste and smooth, sweet taste of milk soup and a variety of system of law is the favorite of many people pay attention to the quality of life.
However, fasting can lead to excess stomach acid to eat dessert, causing stomach upset. It would be best to eat dessert after eating dinner or supper after another, thus reducing the accumulation of fat, so that the sugar does not readily converted immediately to destroy the shape of the culprit.

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Congee is a healthy snack of choice

Porridge starch and water can be fully combined, both to provide heat, but also no shortage of large amounts of water, and taste delicious, easy to eat throat, nutritious and easy to digest, and therefore is a healthy snack choice for fish porridge, porridge liver, beef porridge we usually preferred eating porridge, but also a good choice to eat rice pudding, rice pudding is the main raw material grains, commonly used rice, glutinous rice and barley, add dates, beans, walnuts and other carefully brewed in porridge, these basically raw materials have good role deficiency nourishing the body, eat can repose heat, lungs and asthma, for recuperation stomach, stress levels are very good.

Four supper note

1. adequately replenish their energy, but do not eat the supper as a dinner, toast and porridge is a good choice, too much fat and Shabu try to eat barbecue.
2. supper and sleep time interval of the calculation must be good, not too close from between the two, should rest twelve hours and then go to bed. A lot of water and sugar, and some fruit diuretic foods to eat before going to bed, or considerable influence on the quality of sleep.
3. The total days of eating supper share should not exceed one-fifth of varieties can be varied, the amount must be small, the best match is milk, a small amount of carbohydrate and a little fruit.
4. Do not be too salty. This point is very important, in addition to causing you want to drink water constantly, lead to water is difficult to discharge, causing facial swelling up in the morning.

1. Pumpkin: with a lot of pectin, can protect the stomach, reducing the ulcer.
Note: pumpkin skin bad digestion, dyspepsia patients the best edible peel.

2. Papaya: Papaya contains enzymes that help break down proteins and to accelerate absorption, can relieve dyspepsia and gastritis, papaya is the spleen and stomach, cure stomach of good food.
Note: papaya cold side, fasting is not recommended for human consumption.

3. yam: spleen and stomach, kidney gas, can promote digestion and absorption, but also protect the stomach sticky texture effect, but also stimulates the appetite, stomach discomfort leads to long-term loss of appetite patient can eat.

4. Ginger: promote blood circulation, relieve stomach pain caused by cold weather; Ginger is also used in traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of nausea, vomiting, very helpful for patients with stomach. Note: ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux in patients with less.

5. Okra: contains a variety of nutrients, among fruit pectin and sugar composition of mucus can protect the stomach, but also promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation, stomach and intestines are the ingredients.

Is well known the importance of breakfast, breakfast not only nutritious, but very important point is that we must “top hungry” because one day in the morning hours of learning and the most onerous tasks.

Breakfast should eat food

Breakfast is the brain’s “switch”, its energy from carbohydrates, so be sure to eat some breakfast starchy foods, the best choice for coarse grains did not finish and mixed some nuts, dried fruit.

This relatively slow release energy food, energy supplements can prolong the time, such as the purple face bread, sesame rolls, dumplings, ravioli, Dousha, nuts, bread, toast, polenta and so on.

Second, to maintain the body with plenty of energy and protein sensitive reaction force and no less, because the protein-containing breakfast can continue to release energy in a few hours, so that we are more “top hungry.” You can choose eggs, butter beef, ham square, through the tenderloin, spicy chicken wings, vegetarian chicken soy and other foods.

Third, breakfast must be some vegetables and fruits, such as cold dishes, vegetable salad, fruit salad and more. This is just to supplement water-soluble vitamins and fiber, fruits and vegetables but also because calcium, potassium, magnesium and other minerals are alkaline foods, you can and meat, eggs and other foods in the body’s acid radical oxidation, in order to achieve acid-base balance.

Breakfast foods should not be

It is noteworthy that breakfast should not eat too many fried foods such as fritters, cakes, fried cake, etc., feeling of fullness after eating, although it would be more obvious, but too much fat and cholesterol intake, digestion time is too long, easy to make blood plot for too long in the digestive system, causing reduced blood flow to the brain, it may make people feel unable to concentrate the whole spirit of the morning. In addition, dinner time is also very important, in general, the activities of 20 to 30 minutes after waking up, most exuberant person’s appetite, eating breakfast is the most appropriate.

Healthy nutritious breakfast suggestions: a cup of milk, eggs or cooked a copy of a few slices of whole wheat bread or bread one, etc., a dish of vegetables such as hot spinach, kale or spinach, etc., can also eat lettuce salad, fruit one or fresh fruit cup.

Consumers recognize how to judge the quality of honey it? Generally from the color, smell, taste, shape aspects, namely light color, flavor, taste good, high viscosity, less impurities honey for the top grade.

You can use a clean bamboo chopsticks Stir the honey, the smell, mouth taste, odor-free and oil to smell; bottled or bulk surface from honey to see if more foam, Lees smell, taste acidic, this for low quality deterioration has been fermented products.

Honey can have shades of color, but transparency must be high, liquid honey is not available with debris; honey can also be placed in containers plus 3 to 4 times a clean distilled water (cold water can be), plus the amount of 95% ethanol solution (alcohol) slowly stir if they see any white floc prove incorporation of caramel (maltose, sorghum yee, etc.) components such as front matter without adulteration, the more turbid liquid, but it does not appear white floc.

Also the amount (1 to 2 spoons) of honey in containers filled with gas heating Wei Huo (honey contains about 17% water), the water evaporates After heating, cooling see weak after the honey is pure, On the contrary, that is hard and brittle caramel like sucrose containing inferior products.

Also, place a long time, honey and more from the bottom of the formation of crystals, pure crystals by hand when the twist, its crystal valuables, like creamy feeling without gravel, containing sucrose hand while rubbing a strong sense of twisting gravel, which coarse crystalline large blocks of these cases, we can try to judge for themselves what.

Winter nutrition should be to increase the heat-based, may be appropriate intake rich in carbohydrates, fats and vitamins.

Winter health should eat porridge, people have to eat, “Laba” habits, eat porridge such increase calories and nutritional functions. In addition, also eat nourishing the heart Chufan role of wheat porridge, Yijing yin sesame porridge, porridge radish digestion phlegm, Yin solid fine walnut porridge, porridge Poria Spleen Stomach, Yiqiyangyin jujube porridge.

In cold temperatures, drink a bowl of hot warm, fragrant and delicious porridge beauty, great people are home from work, school and children returned home recuperating tonic also need to vary the old people’s meal. Rice with and Stomach, and internal organs, spleen, bones and muscles strong effect, in addition to cook rice gruel, you can also cook mountain ones, chestnut porridge, sesame porridge, porridge almonds, walnuts wolfberry porridge.

Also be the first choice beef stew dates, peanuts and brown sugar, ginger, jujube can cook some beef soup to eat, to adjust the spleen and stomach function.

If you often feel weakness, mental fatigue, speech sounds humble, moving the sweating, which mostly belong to Qi deficiency. Optional service ginseng, Schisandra, Astragalus, Atractylodes or dangshen cream, ointment qi ginseng flower drugs; foods are beans, yam, jujube, chestnuts, carrots, beef, rabbit and so on.

Those pale yellow, pale lips, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, fatigue, insomnia, tinnitus, palpitations of the people, mostly belonging to anemia. Optional service gelatin, longan meat, foxglove, white peony root, Shiquandabu pills and ointment nourishing tonic medicine, foods are jujube, longan, litchi, grapes, black sesame seeds, beef, goat and so on.

Fog most affecting the respiratory tract

Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital Respiratory doctor Yu Hongxia introduction, mist seemingly gentle, but inside they contain a variety of acids, bases, salts, amines, phenols, dust, pathogenic microorganisms and other harmful substances, and its content is several times the ordinary atmospheric water droplets on pose a huge threat to human health. Fog greatest impact on the respiratory system, can cause acute upper respiratory tract infection, acute bronchitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma attacks and other diseases.

In addition, continuous fog lingers, it will increase the burden on the elderly circulatory system, may induce angina, myocardial infarction, heart failure.

Elderly: old chronic bronchitis multiple

Yu Hongxia told reporters, when the weather is cold, especially in dense fog appeared, tend to make old chronic bronchitis patients relapse, because the elderly bronchial epithelial atrophy, defense function decline, coupled with reduced immune function in the elderly, especially those suffering from elderly patients with chronic bronchial pneumonia, pulmonary heart disease, sensitive to changes in the external environment, there is fog in the morning to go out, easily onset.

Older patients with chronic bronchitis to develop good habits, certain physical exercise, increased disease resistance. In addition, we should strengthen nutrition, attention to climate change cold, change clothes, cold and warm (special attention to the back warm), try not to contact with flu patients, the use of diet to restore, vinegar fumigation, drugs taken orally or cold water bath and other prevention methods.

Children: Asthma recur

Children’s Hospital emergency department doctor told reporters, foggy day in addition to an increase in respiratory diseases, the probability that some children with asthma relapse is quite high.

Foreign pathology data reports have found that compared with the sunny, Children fog due to the onset of asthma symptoms and go to the emergency room increased 50 percent. When the temperature is below 17.7 ℃, the possibility of children due to asthma emergency department visits to four-fold increase.

From hospital admissions of children to see, children suffering from asthma in age from 7 months to 15 years of age, children hospitalized main symptoms are wheezing, shortness of breath and rapid breathing. Mist droplets contained affect bronchoconstriction in asthmatic children, changes in atmospheric pressure also make asthma symptoms worse.

Fog eat tofu and milk

Li Changping, Beijing Hospital of nutrition doctor told reporters, because of fog reducing sunlight, lack of children’s ultraviolet radiation, the body generates vitamin D deficiency, greatly reducing the absorption of calcium, can cause severe rickets in infants, children’s growth slows. In addition, due to the fog, low light and low pressure cause, some people will have the spirit of lazy in the fog, depression phenomenon. Winter foggy weather is very common, because of the resistance of the elderly and children is weak, this, Dr. Lee recommends should pay more attention in the diet, the elderly and children should keep the law of life sciences, avoid over exertion, drink plenty of water. To light diet, eat spicy food, eat more tofu, milk and other foods, if necessary, to supplement vitamin D.

■ Tips

Changes in breathing patterns to avoid smog

Experts advise that if you exercise in the foggy day, with the increase in physical activity, the person’s breathing is bound to deepen and accelerate, they will naturally be more harmful substances inhaled mist, so in foggy weather, especially with chronic respiratory diseases, should stop outdoor activities, but also the use of the following methods to prevent respiratory failure.

Abdominal breathing: the patient standing, sitting or lying position, try to relax, his hands placed under two costal arch, when requirements inhale the abdomen bulge. Reduced expiratory abdominal adduction. Can also be placed in the abdomen and hands a little pressure to increase intra-abdominal pressure, so diaphragmatic breath increased further reduce lung residual volume.

Shrink lip breathing: exhale tightening the lips, increasing expiratory airway resistance, preventing premature small airway occlusion, easy exhaled gas, can also reduce lung residual volume, improve ventilation.

Qiao Ying reasonable diet low mood [Therapeutic regimen ]

People can not always live in the world are tame, we must avoid the anger will appear, sad, bored and other negative emotions, this happens when we, how should we deal with it? Here we have invited experts from the diet aspects taught us how to cope with a reasonable diet to our depressed mood.

How is emotional health “bundling”

Depression, is a lot of negative emotions in a more common, not only exhibited significantly depressed mood, usually felt for the loss of interest in pleasurable activities, but also cause central nervous system function is changed, so that significantly reduced secretion of digestive juice, hard formation of hunger, food intake than usual to reduce 1 / 3-1 / 2, the body consumes oxygen and nutrients are 1-2 times more than usual. Over time, lead to nutrient deficiencies, mental, physical strength, blood sugar level imbalances, the impact of nutritional status. So, how clever choice of food, targeted to add nutrients to improve neurological function and eliminate negative emotions it? Increased nutrients regulate mood.

Tryptophan: must rely on food supplements. After the tryptophan to be absorbed by the body, can synthesize neurotransmitters serotonin, it is like the body of “messenger” to effectively play a regulatory role, so that the mood becomes calm, happy.

Food sources: tryptophan-rich foods are fish, chicken, eggs, cheese, oats, bananas, beans and their products. These foods are the best and carbohydrate content of many foods, such as vegetables (former Xiao Bian mentioned “how to pick fresh vegetables”), fruits, rice, flour and other edible together to facilitate tryptophan digestion, absorption and utilization.

Tyrosine: maintaining brain function is required substances. Tyrosine is converted in vivo into adrenaline, can enhance a positive attitude.

Food sources: dairy products, citrus, pickled sardines, breakfast 30 minutes before eating. Suitable for adults daily supplement of 1000 to 3000 mg of tyrosine.

Vitamin B6: to maintain normal levels of neurotransmitters, including serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and so on. Vitamin B6 in the body accumulate to a certain extent, it will produce a “antidepressant”, played the role of depression in remission.

Food sources: usually should eat soy, oats, walnuts, peanuts, animal liver and other food. Should at least daily vitamin supplements B6100 mg.

Vitamin E: helps brain cells to maximize access to oxygen in the blood, the brain cells alive.

Food sources: wheat germ, soybeans, nuts (Xiao Bian mentioned before, “[health] Chongyang frost made ​​clever use of nuts Diet”), vegetable oils and green leafy vegetables.

Folic acid: to increase brain levels of serotonin, an effective fight against depression.

Food sources: green leafy vegetables, broccoli, liver and so on. Yi and vitamin C with food.

n-3 fatty acids: a survey showed that Japanese dietary n-3 fatty acids in the supply of New Zealand residents and more than doubled its incidence of depression than the latter reduced by about 60%. Even more encouraging is that for almost ineffective use of antidepressants in patients with depression, taking 1 g n-3 fatty acids a day, the symptoms have been greatly improved, the effect is 2-4 times of patients taking placebo.

Food sources: the most abundant fish in seafood.

Drip habit kept in mind

In order to improve depression, we should always pay attention to their eating habits.

1 Choose a light appetizer foods, trying new flavors and variety of food, in order to mobilize a positive attitude. Usually also can add lemon, red bayberry, hawthorn fruit, stimulate the appetite, in order to facilitate the absorption of protein, carotene, vitamin C, zinc, iron and other nutrients.

2 However, intake of chocolate and coffee. Excessive intake of chocolate and caffeine, can make people feel depressed, aggravated depression. In contrast, some nutrients to stabilize the mood, such as calcium, magnesium, etc., should supplement 1500 mg of calcium for adults and 1,000 milligrams of magnesium per day. In addition, bananas can also play a calming effect.

3 quit smoking, drink less. Although cigarettes, alcohol can make depression get temporary relief, but after some time, the bad feelings will come back. Also, to stay away from carbonated drinks, high-calorie foods fried foods.