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7-Color Cuisine: Guiding Principles
Learning from Nature
Today's fast-paced lifestyle has robbed us of the time we need
to care for the most basic human need: sustaining life by
feeding ourselves well. We eat more than enough calories, but
the quality of what we eat is so poor...
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Grow Your Own Produce For Fresh Cooking
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way to have them readily available then to grow your own kitchen
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The French Paradox
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Wok this Way! (Part 1 of 5)
Introduction Woks have been synonymous with Chinese cooking since the emergence of Chinese cuisine. They have been used for some 3000 years in China for a variety of cooking methods, including stir frying, boiling, and steaming. A wok is a large,...
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Sweet & Sour Pork (Gu Lao Rou)
Sweet & Sour Pork is the most well known Chinese food abroad. According to a Cantonese chef, the primitive or the authentic cooking method of the dish is to add Cantonese pickled vegetables. When cooking, simply sauté the pickled vegetables along with the deep fried pork. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to find Cantonese pickled vegetables, so here I'll be pleased to introduce everyone a Sweet & Sour Pork recipe without the pickled vegetables but still tastes as delicious. Ingredients:a). For step 1 & 3: - 300g (10 oz) pork tenderloin
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon cooking wine
- ginger juice
- cornstarch
b). For step 4 & 5: - 1 small bamboo shoot
- 2 dried mushrooms (soaked)
- 1 small onion
- 1 small carrot
- 1 green pepper
- 2 slices pineapple
- 1 clove garlic
- 3 tablespoons oil
c). Seasonings for step 5: - 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup soup stock
- dash of monosodium glutamate
d). For step 6: - 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons vinegar
Method: - Cut pork into bite size cubes
- Marinate pork in soy sauce, wine, ginger juice for 15 minutes.
- Add cornstarch. Coat pork with starch. Fry in 370°F oil till crisp. Drain.
- Thin slice bamboo shoot. Cut pineapple in 6 sections. Slice mushrooms. Cut onion and green pepper in 8 sections. Slice carrot and cut into flower pattern for interesting look.
- Heat oil. Add garlic, onion, mushroom, bamboo shoot, green pepper. Fry quickly. Add seasonings and soup stock from c). Bring to boil.
- Thicken with cornstarch mixed with water. Add vinegar, Add fried pork, pineapple. Mix well. Serve while hot.
Cooking time: 40 minutes Nutritional information:Yield: 4 servings Each serving provides: Calories: 422.3 Protein: 18.1 g Note: You may freely republish this recipe as long as author bio and active hyperlinks are kept intact. Thank you. About the Author
Jacklyn Chen - Webmaster of news-blogs.com, satellite info, and emobile-news.com. She is a full time mom who works very hard to make living with multiple web sites.
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