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Dear, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Anna >>======================== Anna's Nature Regimen and Recipe Express -- Keep your life close to the nature >>======================== China's five-thousand years of culture and history reserved precious regimen. I'm digging out and would like to share with you. So this website, including this e-zine is not only about Chinese recipes, it's more about healthy life style. Visit our website: www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com
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>>======================== Dec.25, 2014 Issue #42 About Chinese Food Therapy
In last issue I mentioned that I involved in a project which is making a smart
hardware. I'm still doing it and we'll launch crowd funding campaign on
Kickstarter in January. Here is the website www.shiyiku.com. I really
appreciate your effort to help me with the survey. Anyway, I'll continue sharing with you TCM and healthy Chinese recipes here.
I hope I will finish my book soon(About holistic Chinese diet and food therapy).
In fact, I've been studying and trying to show you how to apply Chinese food
therapy in daily life. Chinese food therapy, or Chinese nutrition diet, or Chinese dietary diet is
very a small part of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM). Below is
Treatment tools and methods of TCM: Natural
Therapeutic Methods:
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Regulating
Emotions
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Environment,
daily life and clothing
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Life
cultivation with the diet (Dietary Therapy, Food Therapy)
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Therapies with
sports
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Therapies with
recreation
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Loutrotherapy Techniques:
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Acupuncture
Therapy
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Chinese Tuina
Therapy (massage)
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Traditional
Chinese medicines
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Moxibustion
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Cupping Therapy
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Scrape Therapy
But Chinese food therapy is based on TCM. Only after you learn TCM basics such
as Yin Yang, five elements, qi(chi), blood
====================================== Two vegetarian recipes
Last winter I recommended some beef and lamb recipes. This year I'll share with
you some vegetarian dishes.
I'm from northeast of China(Dong Bei). The following two recipes are very
popular stewing dishes in winter. a. Stewed Green Bean with
Potato Cook and Prep time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 1 lb green bean, 3 potato, medium 1 carrot, small 2 tablespoon dark soy sauce 1 teaspoon ginger, chopped 1 teaspoon garlic, chopped 1 teaspoon onions, chopped 2 tablespoon olive oil Procedure: 1. Wash green bean, cut into 4cm long if it's too long. Peel, dice potato. Dice carrot. 2. Heat oil in a wok, add garlic, ginger, and onion. Stir fry till fragrant
smell comes out. Add in potato, carrot, and green bean. Stir fry about 3mins in medium heat. Add dark soy sauce
and 2 tablespoon hot water. 3. Continue stir fry till soy sauce color evenly mixes with the vegetables. 4. Add 1/3 cup of hot water. Cover, simmer for 5-10 mins. Stir fry
frequently. Add water if it becomes dry. 5. Repeat step 4 till green bean cooked and the potato tastes mashy. Serve
with steamed rice. Tips: 1. The important seasoning in this dish is dark soy sauce. You don't need add more salt as the soy sauce is salty enough. 2. Must make sure the potato is mashy and there is a little mashed potato in the dish juice. ---------------------------------------------------b. Stewed Eggplant with Potato and Tomato Ingredients: 1 lb eggplant 3 potato,medium 2 tomato, medium 1 teaspoon garlic, chopped 1 tablespoon onion, chopped 2 teaspoon soy sauce 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoon olive oil Procedure: 1. Wash eggplant, dice. Peel, dice potato. Wash and dice tomato. 2. Heat oil in a wok, stir fry garlic and onions till fragrant comes out.(about 3 mins) 3. Add potato blocks. Stir fry 3 mins or till oil fully coated potato. Add soy sauce. Continue stir fry while adding water to prevent burned. 4. When potato becomes half-cooked(can eat but not mashy), add eggplant. Stir fry and mix well. Simmer for 10 mins or till eggplant becomes soft. 5. When the eggplant cooked, add tamato. Stir fry 5 mins. Add salt. Simmer for 5 mins or till potato tastes mashy and eggplant tastes soft. Serve with steamed rice or bread. Tips 1. Potato needs longer time to be cooked. You should cook it first. Tomato tends to become juice in short time. So put it last when potato and eggplant almost cooked. 2. Constantly add water when cooking potato. ==================> Hi, ,any suggestion,idea to my newsletter? Welcome and appreciate >>================
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