Cold Bubble Tea

A popular drink in Asia, bubble tea can also be found in some U.S. restaurants and cafes. Use this simple recipe to make your own refreshing bubble tea at home.

What is Bubble Tea?
The bubbles in the tea are actually large tapioca pearls, which add an interesting consistency to the drink. This is a cold drink, so you need to make the tea well ahead of time so it has plenty of time to chill. Bubble tea is very popular in Asia, and it is beginning to gain popularity in the United States.
Bubble Tea Ingredients
For this recipe you need:
1. black tea
2. large tapioca pearls
3. milk
4. ice
5. sweetener
You also need a cocktail shaker for mixing together the drink, and extra wide straws for drinking up those bubbles.
Prepare the Tea
Begin by making a pot of black tea. While the tea is still hot sweeten it with sugar or honey. Generally, you will want to use about 1 tbsp. of sweetener per cup of tea. It is better to use less than more, because you can always add more later. Now, chill the tea in the refrigerator.
Boil the Tapioca Pearls
Tapioca is very delicate, so you want to make it right before putting the bubble tea together. Boil some water in a large saucepan. When the water is boiling, add one cup of tapioca pearls. Stir them up so they do not stick to the bottom. Follow the cooking directions for the type of tapioca that you are using. Generally, you want to let the tapioca boil for 25 minutes, then turn off the heat and let them sit covered in warm water for another 25 minutes.
Assemble the Bubble Tea
Drain the tapioca and rinse it with warm water. Add the tapioca pearls to the bottom of the cups. Pour one part tea, one part milk and some ice into the cocktail shaker. Give it a good shake so everything gets mixed up. Pour the milk, tea, and ice over the tapioca and enjoy the drink through one of the thick straws.

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Healthy Benefits of Oats

Oats are familiar in the world as a healthy breakfast food. Beside breakfast Oats can be used as ingredient in many kind of dish . oatmeal porridge, oatmeal cookies, oatmeal bread and cakes, muffins, etc.
Whole grain oats contain many healthy food nutritions and has lot benefits.
The soluble fiber so plentiful in oatmeal and oat bran can help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease ( heart healthy Food ).
Oats also have plenty of vitamins B1, B2, and E. And not many calories--only 150 in a half-cup of dry oats, which also carries 4 grams of dietary fiber. Oats Recipe is Inexpensive and quick to prepare and can be combined with many healthy additions like dried fruit, nuts, or chocolate.
Health benefits are attributed to regular intake of oatmeal. ( Oats Healthy Benefits )
These include :

• Lower blood cholesterol
• Reduced risk of heart disease
• Healthier metabolism
• Stabilized blood glucose levels.
• Healthy weight control
• Normalized blood pressure.

Start your healthy living with healthy food nutritions from Oats Benefits . Try many variations of Oats Recipe to complete your healthy daily food for your family.

Baked Oatmeal

Oats are familiar in the world as a healthy breakfast food.

Base made from the healthy Oats, which known has a lot Healthy Benefits (of Oats) .

Here's one Oatmeal Recipe for main dish, and don't forget to check the other Oats Recipe link bellow.


Baked Oatmeal Recipe
(served for 5)

Ingredients :

2 cups uncooked quick-cooking oats
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup raisins
1 tablespoonful chopped walnuts
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1 1/2 cups fat-free milk
1/2 cup applesauce
2 tablespoonful butter, melted
1 whole large egg, beaten
Cooking spray


Cooking Direction :

Preheat oven to 375°.
Combine the first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl.
Combine the milk, applesauce, butter, and egg.
Add milk mixture to oat mixture; stir well.
Pour oat mixture into an 8-inch square baking dish coated with cooking spray.
Bake at 375° for 20 minutes.
Serve warm.

Sea Food For Aging

 

Porphyra nereocystis
Porphyra nereocystis is epiphytic (real close neighbor to) on the Bullwhip Kelp, genus name Nereocystis. Porphyra as most know it, is commonly called nori. If you eat sushi, then you have probably seen Porphyra. It’s the seaweed that
your uncooked fish is wrapped in at the sushi bars.
Porphyra, commonly know as nori, is the most widely consumed seaweed in the world! It’s commonly found in Asian food, especially Japanese food, which has lead to the huge nori industry in Japan. With a very interesting
heteromorphic life history, Porphyra has just everything you would want in an alga! And they’re great to eat!
Nereocystis luetkeana
Otherwise known as the Bullwhip Kelp, Nereocystis is one of the giant kelps that make the great kelp forests, where sea otters and other critters live. Washed up on the beach they may look like dismembered tentacles of mythic sea creatures, or horrendously huge pieces of spaghetti. They have been used to weave baskets and also make great musical instruments.
Pelvetia compressa
Pelvetia compressa (now Silvetia compressa) is a common rocky intertidal brown alga on the west coast of North America ranging from Coos Bay, Oregon to lower California (Ensenada.)
Pelvetiopsis limitata
Resembling a dwarf Fucus, and even behaving like Fucus (if one were to believe that algae can behave in specific manners at all), Pelvetiopsis grows mostly atop of rocks in the upper intertidal zone. One way to distinguish these two from each other, is to look for a midrib. Fucus has a midrib and Pelvetiopsis lacks the midrib. Also, believe it or not, if you squeeze the receptacles (swollen tips) of Fucus, an ooze will come out.
This ooze undoubtedly contains Fucus eggs which if you have microscopic vision, you can see that the eggs are composed of 8, yes count them 8 functional eggs. Pelvetiopsis on the other foot, only has 1 functional egg.
Iridaea flaccida
Greek myths describe Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, as a messenger for the Olympian deities. The characteristics of the alga Iridaea flaccida strikingly reflect its namesake. The same properties of light which produce a rainbow provide Iridaea’s surface with its brilliant iridescence.
Vibrant colors wash across the thallus surface due to the multilayered construction of its cuticle. Flaccida subtly manages to communicate its phase of life history to the casual observer–yet it lives an isomorphic existence. Both its iridescent cuticle and the differences in blade strength between its life phases provide insights into the adaptations of wave-swept algae to mechanical stress.
Ulva fenestrata
Ulva is very common along California in bays as well as heavily exposed sites and easily recognized by the small holes in the thallus. Ulva is a genus of algae that includes species that look like bright green sheets and live primarily in marine environments. They can also be found in brackish water, particularly estuaries. They live attached to
rocks in the middle to low intertidal zone, and as deep as 10 meters in calm, protected harbors. Ulva are usually seen in dense groups.
Commonly known as the sea lettuce or the green laver, Ulva species can be eaten in soups and salads, and used as a substitute for nori (Porphyra), the popular seaweed in sushi. Ten species of Ulva exist worldwide, all of which have representation on the coast of California. The shapes of Ulva are quite varied- circular to oval to long and narrow, ranging in size from microscopic to 65 cm. They have fine, silky textures with waved or ruffled margins. The delicate blades of Ulva are usually only 40 microns thick.
Ulva taeniata
This alga characteristically has a ribbon-like thallus, and we have found it growing abundantly in semi-sheltered habitats.
Postelsia palmaeformis
The common name of this seaweed is the “sea palm”. It grows on the tops of rocks in areas associated with intense wave action. When they reach maturity, spores are produced that slime off of the sharply attenuated blades during low tide, where they then settle and differentiate.
Fucus gardneri
Fucus, pronounced like mucus, is a funny looking alga that grows in the upper intertidal zone. The inflated ends are called receptacles (these house reproductive parts, i.e. eggs and sperm), and they are fun to pop. But be careful, because Fucus sometimes feels like mucus.
Limpets
Limpets are in the group of sea snails that are found all over the world. You will find them clinging to rocks. Their homes are usually a scraped out region of a rock as large and as thick as their shells. During the day, they look for food. They live on algae. Limpets use their tongues to scrape algae off the rocks.

Chicken Porridge

Porridge in asia food are made from rice (Usually in western porridge is a soft food made from oatmeal) . Chicken Porridge Recipe is an easy recipe for daily cooking . This food recipe suitable for family breakfast . It's a Easy recipe and quick prepare for daily cooking.
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Chicken Porridge Recipe

Ingredients :

1/2 rice bowl measure of rice (rinsed and soaked in water for 15 minutes)
1 leg of chicken
3 cm ginger (julienned / slice as thinly as you can)
1 spring onion, chopped
4 shallots (sliced thinly)
1.5 litres chicken stock
1 1/2 teaspoonful salt or to taste
2 teaspoonful light soya sauce
White pepper powder to taste
sesame oil a few drop per serving bowl


Cooking Direction :

Bring chicken stock to boil.
Add leg of chicken and allow to cook until just done.
( Don’t over cook the chicken or the meat will become tough )
Remove leg of chicken and set aside allow to cool.
Shred the meat

Place rice in a pot.
Add chicken stock and bring to boil.
Once boiling, reduce heat to simmer
Stir occasionally till the rice grains are cooked (puffed up or broken).
Switch off heat and close lid and allow to stand for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, fry the shallots till golden brown and set aside the fried shallots.

Reheat porridge and add some water whilst stirring.
Bring to boil til you get a smooth consistency
Add light soya sauce and salt to taste.

Pour onto serving bowls
top with white pepper powder, sesame oil, some shredded chicken, ginger, spring onions and fried shallots.

Serve hot.

Grand Marnier Mussel

 

Grand Marnier Mussel Stew was a recipe that was created for a contest given to San Francisco chefs for alternate food creations for Thanks Giving. This mussel stew being an alternative for the traditional clam chowder.
The recipe is in two movements: a fume with mussels in alcohol and cream based soup with potatoes and vegetables.

Fume
• 4 tbsp. Butter
• ½ c Bacon or salt pork or barbecued tofu depending on your pleasure, chopped
• ½ c each carrots, celery, onions, mushrooms, parsley, chopped fine
• 2 cloves garlic, smashed & chopped
• 1 tbs. Each oregano & thyme
• Dash saffron, curry. & fresh cracked pepper
• 5 lbs. Mussels
• 1 cup each brandy and Grand Mariner
Melt the butter; put in the spices. meat or meat substitute, and sauté the vegetables in descending order of toughness. When onions are clear and carrots are soft, dump in Mussels. Don’t bother to clean the shells … adds more flavor. Pour in liquor cover to steam.
Remove Mussels when shells open and meat begins to coalesce. Don t over cook. Place in a pan to cool. Allow fume to simmer. You want to reduce the fume by ½. Remove Mussel meat from shells, discard beard, and save meat.

Soup
• 4 oz. Butter
• 1 slices Bacon. salt pork. or barbecued tofu, chopped
• 2 cup carrots finely grated
• 2 cup celery, onions, portabello mushrooms, parsley & cilantro, chopped course
• 3 cloves garlic, smashed and chopped
• 2 tbsp. Each oregano & thyme
• 2 c up 1 inch chopped, boiled red potatoes, aldente
• 2 qt. Whipping cream, or ½ & ½, or nondairy creamer—your preference
• 1 tsp. Each curry, saffron & pepper
• ½ cup flour

Melt butter in a 1-gallon soup pan. Put in ham meat and cook till clear. sauté vegetables in descending order of hardness. Save parsley & cilantro to the end. Mix in spices. When onions are clear mix-in the flour. When flour is well mixed add cream. Mix until smooth.

Add boiled potatoes. When Mussel Fume is to the desired concentration, filter it into this soup mixture. Do not pour the last of it for it contains the “enemy”, sand. Add parsley and cilantro at the end. As you serve add the 2 tbsp. of Mussel meat to each portion.

Plain Oatmeal Porridge

Healthy Oats for starting a healthy living family . Try this easy recipe Oats Porridge . Made from oats which know has a lot Healthy Benefits (of oats). It's very simple and quick in the making . Serve hot for your beloved family breakfast .

Oatmeal Porridge Recipe
(served for 4)

Igredients :

4 cups (1 liter) water
1 cup (180 grams) steel-cut Irish Oatmeal
1/4 teaspoonful salt

For Garnish:
Brown or White Sugar and Rich Milk or Cream


Cooking Direction :

Bring the 4 cups of water in a medium sized saucepan to boil.
Sprinkle the oatmeal over the boiling water,
Stirring constantly to prevent any lumps from forming.
Add the salt and reduce the heat to low and allow the porridge to simmer for 30 minutes,
Stirring occasionally.

Serve hot with brown or white sugar and rich milk or cream.

note :
Oats Porridge can be covered and refrigerated for another morning.
( Simply add a little hot water or milk to thin out the porridge and then place in the microwave or in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water till warm, to reheat )

Granola

Granola is an easy recipe and heathy food for whole family . Base made from the healthy Oats, which known has a lot Healthy Benefits (of Oats) . It has low fat in nutritions . Granola Recipe is a very quick prepare dish for daily home cooking . Try this homemade granola recipe .


Ingredients :

75 g butter (3 oz)
5 tablespoonful clear honey
1 teaspoonful vanilla essence
300 g rolled oats (10 oz)
50 g dried shredded coconut (2 oz)
50 g sliced almonds (2 oz)
3 tablespoonful sunflower seeds
3 tablespoonful pumpkin seeds
1 tablespoonful sesame seed
1 tablespoonful linseed
75 g rye flakes (3 oz)
75 g dried fruit (salad a mix of fruits 3 oz, roughly chopped)


Cooking Directions :

Preheat oven to 160C, 325F or gas mark 3.

Place the butter, honey and vanilla essence in a small saucepan.
Cook over a medium heat
Stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes or till the honey and butter are well combined.

Put all the remaining ingredients, except the dried fruit salad mix, into a large bowl and mix well.
Carefully stir in the butter mixture
Spread the mix over the base of a large, nonstick roasting/baking pan and place into the preheated oven for 20 minutes or till the grains are crisp and browned
Stirring occassionally to prevent the mix from sticking.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool,.
Stir in the dried fruit salad.

Granola

Granola is an easy recipe and heathy food for whole family . Base made from the healthy Oats, which known has a lot Healthy Benefits (of Oats) . It has low fat in nutritions . Granola Recipe is a very quick prepare dish for daily home cooking . Try this homemade granola recipe .


Ingredients :

75 g butter (3 oz)
5 tablespoonful clear honey
1 teaspoonful vanilla essence
300 g rolled oats (10 oz)
50 g dried shredded coconut (2 oz)
50 g sliced almonds (2 oz)
3 tablespoonful sunflower seeds
3 tablespoonful pumpkin seeds
1 tablespoonful sesame seed
1 tablespoonful linseed
75 g rye flakes (3 oz)
75 g dried fruit (salad a mix of fruits 3 oz, roughly chopped)


Cooking Directions :

Preheat oven to 160C, 325F or gas mark 3.

Place the butter, honey and vanilla essence in a small saucepan.
Cook over a medium heat
Stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes or till the honey and butter are well combined.

Put all the remaining ingredients, except the dried fruit salad mix, into a large bowl and mix well.
Carefully stir in the butter mixture
Spread the mix over the base of a large, nonstick roasting/baking pan and place into the preheated oven for 20 minutes or till the grains are crisp and browned
Stirring occassionally to prevent the mix from sticking.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool,.
Stir in the dried fruit salad.