Healthy Foods That You Thought Were Not Healthy

Nutrition is an ever-changing field and new research constantly analyzes, discovers and sometimes disproves popular thought about healthy foods. This in turn changes nutrition recommendations for the general public. It is true that some foods once thought unhealthy are being viewed much differently. Here are a few of those foods and the reasons why they are being more readily accepted as part of a healthy diet.
Butter versus Margarine

Butter was eliminated from most recommendations for healthy eating some years ago due to an assumed link between saturated fat and cholesterol and heart disease. What researchers now realize is that the margarine used to replace butter contains compounds that are even more harmful than butter ever was. Margarine is made from vegetable oils and in order to make these oils solid it must undergo a process called hydrogenation. The chemical processes involved in this create trans fats. It turns out trans fats from margarine are worse for the heart than those fats found in butter. While some experts still feel you should avoid both, much debate exists about the use of vegetable oils as a butter replacement. Your best action for the time being is to choose olive oil most often and butter over margarine.
Heart-Healthy Chocolate

You will have to develop a preference for the dark stuff if you look to chocolate for its health benefits. However, it still falls into a category of foods that was once seen as only an indulgence and now may actually be nutritious. Cacao from which chocolate is made contains flavonoids. These act as antioxidants in the body, protecting cells from free radical damage, which in turn promotes heart health. Dark chocolate is less processed, helping it to retain some of these antioxidant properties. In addition, when making an effort to lose weight through diet the allowance of chocolate can curb cravings giving you the motivation you need to stick to your plan.

Choose dark chocolate and make sure it is at least 60 percent, however, 70 percent and even higher is better. Limit yourself to a 1-oz. piece a few times a week, due to the fact that it does contain extra calories, especially if you are on a weight loss plan. Choose high-quality dark chocolate, which often costs more than other chocolates. Many less-expensive brands can contain unnecessary sweeteners and additives such as high fructose corn syrup so be sure to check the ingredient labels.
Carbohydrates from Grains

In recent years carbohydrates have been targeted as a popular nutrient source to eliminate from the diet in order to lose weight. It is true that reducing refined carbohydrates made with white flours offering little nutritional value and refined sugars offering only unnecessary calories can be beneficial for health, but all carbohydrates are not created equal. Carbohydrates are the main source of energy for the body and are needed for it to function properly. In addition, many of the carbohydrates being cut for weight loss also offered valuable fiber, which promotes a healthy gastrointestinal system. Whole grains are a welcomed form of carbohydrates and a healthy food. Choose unrefined varieties such as whole grain breads made fresh by you or a local bakery. Include steel cut oats or oat bran for your breakfast. Use flours such as amaranth, buckwheat and millet in your baking. Choose quinoa, brown or black rice and wheat berries for meals.

You like cooking China (Chineese Food)? Japanese cuisine (Japaneese Food)? Or maybe like fried noodles? Grilled fish? Even the roast beef? Be careful, because the possibility of cooking delicious dishes cooked with wine. The use of wine in cooking that seems to have stuck, difficult to separate. Many of the expected utility of these illicit goods. The first uses a network soften the meat. The chefs believe that the meat is marinated in wine will be tender and delicious. Therefore, the meat will be grilled or cooked in the form of Tepenyaki often soaked in wine.
In addition also produces wine aroma and distinctive flavor, which the cook can be inviting taste. The smell when it comes to baking dish, pan-fried, fried, or other types of cuisine. The emergence of wine that’s become one of the features of Chinese cuisine, Japanese, Korean and local cuisine wine oriented.

Types of wine used in a variety of dishes that have a variety of white wine (Pek Be ciu), red wine, white wine (Ang ciu), wine noodles (Kue Lo ciu), wine barrel, and others. Produsenya vary, there are imported from China, Japan, Singapore and even many locally made using tape juice fermented glutinous information (wine tape). Use of this wine were varied, ranging from great restaurants, small restaurants and even stalls are open on the street.

The existence of this wine is still rarely known by the public. Meanwhile there was an error understanding among entrepreneurs or chefs who do not consider wine as something unlawful. If the pork, may be sufficient to understand the various circles that the food was forbidden for the Muslims. Although there are some people who violate it, but most restaurant managers know that it should not be sold to a Muslim
Another case with wine. Most of the restaurant manager did not consider the material that is unlawful food. Moreover, in the process is already pemasakannnya wine evaporate and disappear. Thus the assumption that causes them not to feel guilty when you serve food to Muslim customers.
Assuming, of course, needs to be clarified because in Islamic law regarding liquor or wine is already quite clear, that is unlawful. Not only consume but also produce it, passing it around, use the benefit, even helping people to use it. Well, this is certainly a warning to us all to be more careful in buying cooking, as well as a concern to the managers of restaurants that sell their products to the general public for not using the wine.

Arak(Wine) in Various Food

1 kg of beef tongue, hot water dip, Kerik, wash clean
1 1 / 2 liter of water
Turmeric 1 bay leaves
2 cm galangal, crushed
4 lime leaves
1 stalk lemongrass, crushed
Kandis acid 3 cm
1 teaspoon salt
18 skewers
mix, mix well:
25 g rice flour
1 tablespoon sago flour

Blend:
8 curly red chilli
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 / 2 teaspoon pepper
1 / 4 teaspoon cumin
6 pieces red onion
1 teaspoon curry powder
2 cm turmeric
2 cm ginger
2 tablespoons cooking oil

How to Make:
Boiled beef tongue, soft spices, turmeric, galangal, lime leaves, lemon grass, Kandis acid, salt, and cook until soft tongue. lift, drain.
lindah cut the size of 1×2x1 cm. reserve water. 5 pieces per skewer beef tongue with a skewer. grilled over hot coals with a reversed – behind and dioles oil until cooked and fragrant.
Aloe Heat broth, add 500 ml water, boil the mixture enter the rice and sago flour and seasonings, stir well and thickens. lift.
Serve with satay sauce, pieces of diamond and tabusan fried onions.
Barbeque

Ayam (Chicken) kremes

Materials:
1 whole chicken cut to pieces
3 chicken thigh, cut to pieces
500gr of chicken liver
1 tofu sliced

flavor:
125gr garlic
80gr candlenut
4 Ms / 60gr salt
1,5 Ts / 9gr coriander powder
2 Ts Sugar
1 Ts / 5 Gr Vetsin (can be less)
1 blok of chicken broth (Any Merk)
Water at sufficiently

kremes dough for 750ml water of chicken stew:
9 Ms tapioca flour
3 rice powder
starch mucilage made from 4 Ms tapioca and 400ml cooked water.
3 Ts Baking Powder

How To Make:
Chicken with the refined flavor boiled with presto approximatel 20 minute start from when the presto fizzy.

Lift the chicken and put aside

Make the starch liquid

Get 750 chicken stew water and pour with the kremes dough… staff mixer until all blended

Dye the chicken in kremes dough the fried with hot oil (the fire not to big)

If you’re East Javanese food lovers, a place that call “Dapur Surabaya” can be one of your reference. ofcourse all the menu provide here  all East Javanese foods such as Soto Daging, Kupang Lontong, Nasi Goreng dan Rawon.

One interesting menu that must try is Surabaya’s Gado-gado  that has delicious flavor. slice of salads and crunch of shrimp crakers that be the typical of this gado-gado. with separate hot souce makes the longing of east Java food fullfil.

for drinks there’s kopyor ice and sour ice that made from sour syrup.  And for desert try Frie bakpao.

Ok then, See you at next experience…

Note: Dapur Surabaya, Jl. Kemanggisan Raya No. 56 Jakarta Barat

For my first post i give you

“Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting”.
It’s a cake made from carrot that coverred with fros cheese cream. This cake is very deliciouse especially acompany with hot chocolate,….

For The Cake
Materials;
250g Egg
300g Kastor Sugar
2g Salt
5g Emulsifier
260g Wheat flour
1g Baking Soda
1g Baking Powder
1g Cinnamon Powder
450g Carrot (finely pounded)
150g of Oil

How To Make;

1. Mix adn shake egg, sugar, salt until thick, put in the emulsifier, shake until thick and leave mark. (with High Speed Mixer)
2. Sieve dry material then put in to batter mix until well blend.
3. Put in the finely pounded carrot and mix it.
4. Put in oil slowly to batter until well mix.
5. Pour into baking pan (20-22m) that already  layered with paper.
6. Bake with temperatur 180C for 30 – 45 minute.

For the Cream.
Materials;
250g Philadelphia cream Cheese (Can Use Other Merk)
80g Margarine
1 Cup Of Icing Sugar
1 Spoon meal of limejuice

How To Make;

• Shake Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Margarine With mixer for 4-5 minute or until fluffy.
• add icing sugar and limejuice, than shake for 30 second or until well blended.
• Spreads on the Carrot Cake.