GUATEMALA FOOD ON WEEKENDS

  My diet and eating habits have changed a lot since i moved to The United States because now i only eat Guatemala food on weekends.  I took this picture at my house over the weekend.  On the weekends my two brothers don't work, i don't have school, and most of our friends are off too, so every weekend we get together at our house or at their house to socialize more, to have a Guatemala barbecue, and cook Guatemala food. So, when i took this picture i was with my two brothers, two Guatemala friends, and three Mexican friends to celebrate ''5 de Mayo''.  This was on Saturday at 11:00am.  This is a dish fish Guatemala style.  So, here's what it is made from; poached wild sea bass, on its side steamed Guatemala rice with carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, green onions, garlic, and celery, and topped with a roasted spicy tomato sauce with green onions, spicy jalapenos, and cilantro.  My brother Fausto usually cooks for us because he likes to cook and he works as a cook, so we really like when he cooks and enjoy the Guatemala food he prepares every time he cooks.  This dish tastes really delicious because of its spicy sauce and the flavor of the vegetables that are mixed with the rice, that gives this dish a great savor.  I chose this Guatemala dish since Fausto cooked and it was a hot day, and because it is the dish that our mother usually cooks on hot days and on summer.  In Guatemala, i never thought or realized that this dish was either healthy or unhealthy, but now i realize that it is actually healthy since my professor asks us whether we eat healthy food.  And i think food should be healthy as long as you prepare it at home because you know what it is made from.

Balanced Soup, Balance Your Body

Do you agree the saying that " the best dinner always makes by your mother "?  I absolutely agree it. I am so lucky that my mother is really skilled cook, and she is most adept in cooking "balanced soup". As you see, the picture I posed is " balanced soup" which was cooked by my mother today.

Why do I call this soup as " balanced soup"? Its name comes from a Chinese healthy magazine. When I was a high school student in China, because of heavy study pressure, I always caught a cold and fell ill. My mother was so worried it. So she usually looked up the data of  some treatment which can improve my resistance. One day she found a soup recipe in a Chinese healthy magazine that seem  be useful. The soup named  balanced soup because it can balance people body function. The ingredients of this soup is very ample, it includes seven vegetables: corn, carrot , turnip, onion,  lotus root, dried mushroom and ginger. This dish is simple that just needs to chop these ingredients, put them into a pot and boil them for one or two hours. When my mother cooked balanced soup for the first time, I had loved it. It was so tasty and have no any greasy. In addition, it fits all people even you are on a diet or a vegetarian. After I started to love to eating this soup, my mother often cook it for me.  Surprisingly I found my health was better and better. For now, I very rarely get colds. So I consider balanced soup is a magic soup because it is not only delicious, but also good for our health. Even though  there are just a bowl of balanced soup and a bowl of rice, I already feel that is a perfect dinner.

I am so happy there is a opportunity to share this soup to everybody, and I hope you also can try to do it. I think you will also love its deliciousness.

lobster club sandwich

  The picture above is a lobster club sandwich that I ate in The Rotunda with my aunts few weeks ago. The Rotunda is at Neiman Marcus in Market street.  One of my aunt love this place very much, even thought here is a little bit overprice. We knew that it opens at 11am, and we came ahead of time to avoid waiting for a long time.  Luckily, we got a good seat just next to the window.

  15 minutes later, here was packed and had a long line outside of the restaurant. We had stained glass ceiling and open balcony area, and the atmosphere is quite lovely with some great views of Union Square.

  Looked at the picture, in the middle of the dish is the potato chips.  And inside of the sandwich is avocado, lobster, tomato, and arugula. In spite of this one, we tried smoked tuna&escarole salad as well. And they will serve bread too. The bread is very delicious and tender. Everything is perfect in here. They have great decorations with any dish as well. I think a appropriate decorations can give us a good mood to eat and enjoy.

  All in all, the restaurant is pretty good and beautiful though it is expensive. In my point of view, it's good to try some food that we haven't tried or to enjoy the enviroment that we haven't enjoyed. It's a good experience there. Very recommanded all of you go there to try.

The Special Food

         Do you think that these food aren't special?  All chinese people usually eat them. They are usual for chinese people.  They are special for me though i often eat them.  These food were cooked by my father on Monday this week.  I always had lunch and dinner with my family before i came to the United States.  When we came here, my parents got a job and they always are very busy.  They didn't spend much time together with us.  However, we moved to a new house this month. According to chinese tradition, we sould eat a meal with our family. So that my parents spent a day together with us.
        These food are chinese traditional food. One of the food was made from some vegetable and mushrooms.  And the other one was made from some beans and noodles. The third one was made from some tofu,egg and onion.  Because my father is a good cooker,these foods which were cooked by him were very delicious.  If you ask me whether they are healthy, i won't know how to answer them. In my family, we never consider if the foods are healthy for us. We just eat some food that we like. Maybe there are a lot of food we eat is harm for our health, we didn't know.
        I would choose these food because my family and i ate together and i had a happy time in here.  Now i learn a lot of thing about diet, so that i will cook some delicious and healthy food to my family when we have time to eat together. Now let's pay attention our health on the diet.

    This is a kind of sushi which named "dragon roll".  Last week I went to Tokyo House, a Japanese resturant, for dinner with my husband.  A nice waitress recommended this sushi to us. 

    This dragon roll is expensive but very delicious.  There are deep fried shrimp inside and some eel and avcado on the top.  At beginning we don't want to try this one because the price is 12.95 dollars, but that waitress said "just try it, you will love it, dragon roll is very popular in our reaturant."  Then we ordered it and found it's really good.  Also I found this roll very healthy,  the eel is rich in protein, avcado is also very healthy.  The most important thing is it's very delicious. I love this roll.

Wnderful Party, Wonderful Food

   Last Wednesday I joined my Chinese class party. The food was vegetarian. My classmate in the middle cooked. The food was made of beans, and was very healthy. In both China and Ameraca some people are vegetarian. My classmate is vegetarian that she wants us to become vegetarian, too.

  My husbend doesn't like it. He likes meat. I don't care. Sometimes I eat meat, sometimes I eat vegetarian. My classmates  are interested in this food that they are never taste it. We were excited. We talked, we ate, and we laughed. My teacher in the middle was putting some rice soup in the bowl. She was very happy, because she will retire this term.

Do you like vegetarian? Do you want to try it?

Do You Want to Try?

    

    

     All the food you see in the pictures was made by me. I like eating. I will check yelp when I want to try some different styles food. I think if we are hungry and eating is for live, but if we are not hungry too much, then we should enjoy the food.

     Before I came to America, I was like other kids in China. Do everything for school only. I do not need to do laundry by myself and I do not need to cook. We all have housekeeper is our parents. When somebody else helps you to finish everything you need and you will never know you have the nature talent to do some work. For example I cook for myself. I know I can cook a dinner for three of four people after I came to American two month later. I never did this before. At the beginning of I learned cooking. I stood far away the fire and after I dropped the vegetables into the pot I just went away because I was afraid of oil spilled out from the pot. I have no idea for how much salt should I put into the pot and I do not know which vegetables use which sauce better. At that time the food I made just for live because I do not want hungry and I have already done the cook and I can’t waste the food. After a long time exercise, I like eat the food I made and so does my roommate. After that I begin to try the way that I didn’t do before and like you see in the first picture. I put the meet in the tofu and then I fried them with sauce. The second one is broccoli with chicken, carrot, and shelled coin. I pay more attention to the colorful of combine the vegetables. I think looks good will let you want to try and balance the nutrition is good for health. The third one is my breakfast. This is the first time I did so successful. I tried to do some American style, but I found make the egg so beautiful is very difficult. This is only a successful and I took a picture to encourage myself.

     I also will care about the health. I know we should put little sauce, little oil, and little salt in our meal. I think the most important thing is I enjoy the time I cooking and I feel so happy, then probably the food will better than I was angry. The food taste good and the people who eat my food will feel happy too. That’s I want. To the health eating my opinion is you can eat everything you want, but not too much just a little bit. I did like I said. I hope someday the scientist can tell us exactly what we can eat and no one will get disease from food. Enjoy eating and enjoy life.