Try Things You Dont Think You Like

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When our parenting editor Meghan Walbert wrote a few weeks ago that she was determined to learn to like running, several of the comments on that piece (and its sequel) argued against the very idea of trying to like something you hate. I would like to propose an alternative viewpoint: that trying things you expect to hate is a fantastic way to find things you’ll actually love.

In fact, it’s how I’ve found many of the things I now love. Here’s one: I used to hate coffee, even avoiding coffee-flavored desserts. But one day I said, okay, let me try some mild-flavored coffee, and if I can finish a whole cup maybe I’ll be less of a baby about the bitterness. My intuition was right: After a week or two, coffee was a thing I could tolerate, and soon after, it became a thing I enjoy. I love it now. I drink it black.

I asked the Lifehacker staff if they could relate, and got a resounding yes. Here’s personal finance writer Mike Winters:

Cooking! In my twenties I couldn’t fry an egg properly (the heat was too high for over a decade), but I also knew that I had no idea what I was doing, which fed into a negative feedback loop of discouragement which made cooking seem like a chore.

In my thirties I got more serious and used a handful of remedial-level recipes for things like chilli or salmon cooked with leeks, but it wasn’t until I got into subscription food boxes that cooking became less intimidating. I’m still no cordon bleu, but at least I can improvise a proper meal if I had to.

As Mike’s story illustrates, sometimes we don’t like a thing because we aren’t good at it yet. Get better at the thing, and it suddenly becomes more enjoyable.

Here’s more, from editor-in-chief Jordan Calhoun, for whom three things came to mind when I asked:

I hated working out in the mornings; it was really hard for me at first. And it would’ve been easy to quit and just work out later in the day, but I’m glad I stuck it out for a little while longer. Now I enjoy it, which basically opens up my busy schedule for a lot more flexibility: Depending on crammed my week is, I can move my workout around to whatever schedule works for me and still have the motivation to go.

Also, reading. There’s a remarkable decline in reading that happens in kids—particularly young boys—when reading becomes less interesting compared to other passtimes, and I definitely fell victim to that. I hated reading. Fiction felt too slow compared to the cartoons I could watch, and non-fiction felt like school. Obviously, though, reading can be a great pastime once you learn to sit quietly with a book, and I’m glad I did.

Also, learning to appreciate alternative sports—”alternative” for me being anything other than the two sports I was raised to watch, which were basketball and football. Other sports felt boring because I didn’t know how to watch them…I didn’t know when to get excited, or how the game was paced, or whether a particular feat was spectacular or commonplace. Learning to appreciate a new game meant feeling pretty bored and stupid in the beginning, but I’m glad I stuck it out because eventually sports like soccer and volleyball became ones that I understood better and learned to enjoy watching. Even games like poker or chess (especially games like poker and chess) felt absolutely boring when I didn’t know what I was looking at, but getting over that hurdle turned them into some good entertainment with skillsets that I admire. I’m glad I stuck them out and endured the learning curve instead of writing them off as too “boring” to endure.

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Sometimes it’s not until you try something that you understand what it’s even like. Is it fair to say you dislike chess if you’ve never learned how the game works? Can you really say you don’t like working out in the mornings if you’ve never given it a chance?

I asked on Twitter as well, and the trend continued. Sushi, roller coasters, hot yoga, ice swimming, zip lines, reality TV, opera, brussels sprouts, mezcal, and more. Here’s a story from a diehard fan of K-pop icons BTS:

I always had a certain snobbishness about pop music and thought BTS would be a novelty to mock. But I was immediately hit by their sincerity and work ethic which reminded me more of opera singers and ballerinas than “pop acts.” After a few music videos and interviews, I was in.

Reflecting on my own experiences, it turns out I’ve found almost everything I love by taking a chance on something I didn’t expect to like. It’s why I’m so open to new experiences: so many of them have worked out well for me. I hated sports and gym class growing up; now I work out every day and compete in multiple strength sports. My mission to train myself to like coffee was so successful I did it for other bitter flavors as well, and I’m now a huge fan of beer, seltzer, and even black licorice, all of which I absolutely could not stand at first.

Sometimes hate takes time to turn to love; other times, it happens in an instant. The first time I bent a nail (one of those old-timey strongman stunts), I did it purely out of spite. It seemed like such a pointless thing to do, but I’d met several people who were addicted to bending nails. I remember the exact moment a switch flipped in my brain: I had wrapped a thin steel bar in cloth and was pushing into it with all my might. It wasn’t bending, and I had the thought “Oh great, this isn’t just stupid, it’s stupid and impossible.” Suddenly the steel gave way, which was immensely gratifying, and my very next thought was: “What else can I bend?”

The truth is, you can’t know if you like something until you find out why people like it, and give yourself the chance to experience that. Sometimes the fun part isn’t available to beginners—as in Lindy hop, a dance where the fundamental move is also the hardest one to learn—so you have to invest time and energy before figuring out whether or not it’s for you.

This is easier to understand in some contexts than others. We all know that you need to taste a food to find out whether you like it, and that if you had a bad experience with, say, spinach, that you might still like a spinach dish if it’s prepared differently. We’ve all seen those memes about the dad who doesn’t want a dog, and then ends up ordering a custom t-shirt with the dog’s face on it.

So do yourself a favor and try something you always thought you would hate. Seek out the part of the experience that people like, and give yourself a chance to like it too. You just might find yourself falling in love.

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How to Avoid Being Triggered by Fake Viral Recipe Videos

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Last night, as I was trying to wind down, I saw a tweet that read “what a normal and ultimate spaghetti hack!” There was a video attached. In this video—which is a rip-off of an older TikTok video—a white woman in a “Plant Lady” shirt pours cold two cold, Costco-sized jars of Prego onto a granite (or maybe it’s marble) slab, while a different white woman coos in the background. She then adds meatballs of an indeterminate temperature, far too much powdered parmesan, and a whole lot of steaming, clumpy spaghetti before mixing it all together. Everyone who sees it hates it, and that is the point (I think).

It’s also fake as hell. The food is real—the white Plant Lady really is wasting all of that pasta—but the video is not genuine. As Eater reported just today (as I was writing this, conveniently enough!), all of these videos with blandly attractive, thin, white women can be traced back to a magician who has the audacity to be named “Rick Lax.” Lax described the production of the videos as “both friendship and business,” and told Eater he would “object” to anyone calling the recipes “gross.”

Him??

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But they are gross. And—worse—they aren’t even funny. The women in the spaghetti video can’t even fully commit to the bit by using their actual countertop. (If you look closely, you will see this coward is actually assembling her pile of garbage on a slab set atop her actual counter.) There is a vague attempt at humor at the end where both women instruct you to “fold it in” with an ever so slight Moira Rose affectation—a reference loved by white women everywhere—but the video is not entertaining. There is no joke. There is no payoff. There is no resting place. (Blackhead extraction videos are more satisfying—and less grotesque!)

After falling for exactly two of these types of videos (one of which came from Rick Lax productions), I’m over it, and I invite you to be over it with me. There are so many real things to be angry about; there’s no reason to let a woman in a “Plant Lady” shirt take up valuable space in the rage portion of your brain. The impotent anger you feel after watching someone smear food on a countertop (or slab set on top of a countertop) in an otherwise pristine and quite spacious and probably expensive kitchen is what gives Rick Lax power, and he and his army of white women will not go away until we stop looking at them.

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How do we do this? There are two steps here: identify and ignore. Once you know you’re dealing with this particular type of troll, simply pretend you do not see it. Do not comment. Do not share. Do not send it to anyone. (Then refresh your brain by gargling your mind throat with a good food video—like Sohla’s on Food52, Lucas Sin’s or George Lee’s Instagram content, or Kevin Ashton’s TikTok, to name a few.)

Identifying can be the (kind of) tricky part, but once you know what to look for, spotting this kind of troll is easy. Here are some questions you can ask yourself if you think you’ve stumbled upon such a video in the wild, whether produced by a magician or not.

The impotent anger you feel is what gives Rick Lax power, and he and his army of white women will not go away until we stop looking at them.

Does the food look good?

Look at the food on screen with your eyes and ask yourself if you would want to eat it. If the presentation is slovenly, cartoonishly unappealing, or if a real human guest would be insulted by it, the food is probably not meant for actual human consumption.

Does anyone eat it on camera? 

If they won’t eat it, you shouldn’t either.

Does the reasoning make sense?

A “hack” is only a hack if it solves a problem, or makes a recipe easier, faster, or better. Let’s take one of my absurd blogs as an example. Smartfood popcorn grits could easily be interpreted as a straight-up troll, but if you read the article, you’ll see that popcorn grits have been around for thousands of years, and all I did was used cheese-flavored, pre-popped popcorn rather than popping it myself. It’s a small, kind of silly “hack,” but it makes the recipe take less time, and it tastes pretty darn good (if you like the flavor of white cheddar popcorn).

Is there any sense self-awareness?

Popcorn salad is another example of a recent piece of food content that made people very mad. But if you watch the original video, you see a cheerful, but self-aware Molly Yeh explain that she knows that the concept seems flawed, but promises you that “you taste it, and it’s really good.” (Molly was, as it turns out, correct about this.) Lax’s are completely devoid of hubris, or any real human emotion. With the glaring exception of whatever “recipe” is being featured, these clips are cold and sterile; would be mocking if they were just a little cleverer. Be aware of the tone, is what I’m saying.

Was it produced by Rick Lax?

As Eater points out in their absolutely engrossing and very well-reported piece, you can, “[s]earch the phrase ‘Rick Lax Productions,’” and, “be greeted with the source code to pure Facebook virality.” You can then search Rick’s videos with the subject matter of the video your questioning—which is how I found out that the Flaming Hot Cheeto sludge recipe was, somewhat unsurprisingly, one of his gross babies.

We must not let this magician continue to dominate the conversation with boring, ugly food videos for the sake of garnering rage views. It may seem impossible—Lax has pretty much dominated the Facebook Watch algorithm—but magicians are kind of like Tinkerbell. Quit clapping, and they disappear.

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Help Your Garden Thrive By Pairing These Plants

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Like some humans, certain plants are more comfortable in pairs. Sure, they could survive on their own, but to really thrive, they need a special (plant) someone by their side.

Known in the gardening world as “companion plants” or “helpmates,” these pairs have FWB (foliage-with-benefits) relationships. Typically, it involves things like helping each other source nutrients or keep pesky garden pests away. Think of it has the horticultural buddy system.

If this sounds like something you might want to try in your own garden, Rachel Brougham at BobVila.com has some companion plant suggestions. Here are a few to consider.

Plants that grow well in pairs

Need some help playing plant matchmaker? Brougham has some recommendations:

Basil

• Pairs well with: Tomatoes, potatoes, beets, cabbage, beans, asparagus, eggplant, chili, bell peppers, marigolds

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Beets

• Pairs well with: Plants in the cabbage family, carrots, celery, corn, cucumber, garlic, strawberries, marigolds

Carrots

• Pairs well with: Cabbage, leeks, lettuce, onions, chives, peas

Cucumbers

• Pairs well with: Beans, corn, peas, tomatoes, radishes, vegetables from the cabbage family, marigolds, oregano, nasturtium

Lettuce (including romaine, Bibb and loose-leaf varieties)

• Pairs well with: Beets, carrots, onions, garlic, members of the cabbage family

Melons (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew)

• Pairs well with: Corn, pumpkins, radishes, squash, marigolds, oregano

Peppers (spicy or mild)

• Pairs well with: Carrots, eggplant, onions, parsley, tomatoes, basil

Potatoes

• Pairs well with: Beans, cabbage family plants, corn, eggplant, peas, horseradish

Squash (butternut, carnival, other varieties)

• Pairs well with: Corn, melon, pumpkin, marigolds, oregano

Tomatoes

• Pairs well with: Asparagus, carrots, celery, cucumbers, onions, parsley, peppers, basil, dill, chives, mint

What next?

Enjoy your bountiful harvest(s)! And if you’re not sure what to make with your bumper crop of cucumbers and squash, there are plenty of recipes and other suggestions in Lifehacker’s Skillet vertical to keep you well- and healthily-fed all summer. In the event you grow more than you can eat or give away, we also have plenty of canning– and preserving-related content to check out.

 

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How to Become a Vegetarian (or Eat Less Meat)

I have some personal news: I went vegan about three or four months ago. Considering that I’ve written thousands of words about how much I love tofu and black bean burgers, this “news” is hardly shocking, but with meat discourse reaching furious new heights (or depths?) every day, it seemed too relevant not to share.

To be honest, this has been a long time coming. I’ve never been morally or ethically opposed to eating animals—I’m still not—but capitalism is another story, and at this point there’s no separating the two. You don’t need me to tell you that industrial meat production is an enormous contributor to global warming (and climate denialism) or that meat processing corporations are almost cartoonishly evil in their exploitation of an underpaid, often undocumented workforce. The facts are out there for the whole world to see, which is probably why more people are choosing to eat less meat.

But making the choice is easy; figuring out how to eat less meat is less so. What do you eat instead, especially when you’ve eaten meat your whole life? Whether you’re going fully vegan or just cutting back, these tips will help you find some answers.

Ask yourself the hard questions

OK, I lied a little—there are a few more questions before the answers. Big lifestyle changes should be cause for reflection, but if the idea of eating less meat still makes you uncomfortable, you owe it to yourself to ask why.

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What are the downsides? Well, you’ll eat less meat. That’s pretty much it. Meat will still exist, of course, but most of the time you’ll just eat other stuff. Is that really a dealbreaker for you? If so, why? You can get protein and fat from a zillion other foods—do you have to have meat? Once you’ve thought about it a little, you’ll find your personal reasons, or you might realize that you don’t need meat at all, or at least not all the time.

Do a little brainstorming

The easiest way to eat less meat is to eat more of everything else. A good first step is to sit down and make a list of non-meat foods you already love. Don’t be afraid to take this assignment extremely literally: Even a list of 10 vegetables you like is valuable, and it’ll make meal planning easier.

Your list should not include foods that could be meatless with the right substitutes. Known quantities are fair game—like your favorite frozen vegetable dumplings or a great vegan burger from a local pub—but don’t count on fake meat to save the day, especially if you’ve never had it.

Get an air fryer

Oh my God, I can’t believe I waited until the year 2021 to buy an air fryer. It makes short work of every roasted vegetable you can think of, plus a wide variety of goodies like crispy tofu, extra-crispy potatoes, fried bread, frozen gnocchi, leftover fries, crispy shallots, and of course, frozen tater tots—and that’s just off the top of my head. Please don’t be a dummy like me: Get an air fryer before you give up meat.

Get really into beans

You probably saw this coming, but beans are a cornerstone of a meatless diet. This will be great news to some and a real downer to others—but if you’re not a big bean guy, try to keep an open mind. The world of beans is wider and more delicious than you might think.

Beans don’t have to come from a bag or a can, and you don’t even have to eat them whole. Tofu and tempeh are wonderful examples of the humble soybean’s versatility; falafel is just chickpeas and herbs in a convenient, deep-fried package. You can even make pancakes and fritters entirely out of beans: In Indian cuisine, chilla (or cheela) are pancakes made from either besan (chickpea flour) or soaked legumes that have been puréed into a batter. (If you soak the legumes with some rice and let it ferment, you’ve got dosa batter.) Korean cuisine has nokdujeong (or bindaetteok), a mung bean-based fritter stuffed with kimchi, bean sprouts, and scallions.

Broaden your horizons

Beans are just the beginning. For the majority of our time on earth, human beings have eaten anything but meat—which means we’ve figured out about a billion ways to make plants taste good.

Every cuisine on the planet has a rich tradition of meatless dishes, and you don’t have to dig very deep to find them. Whether you get them from YouTube or cookbooks (my two preferred sources), homestyle recipes from pretty much any culinary tradition will never steer you wrong.

My go-to dinner is usually either some form of homestyle Mexican food—beans, tortillas, salsa, potatoes, the occasional soyrizo—or literally any recipe from Priya and Ritu Krishna’s Indian-ish, the best cookbook of the decade. As always, seek out recipes created by people who are actually part of the culture they’re representing. The recipes will be better and you’ll learn more.

Buy more food

My final tip for eating less meat is super obvious but rarely mentioned: If you’re used to a meat-heavy diet, you’ll need to eat way more other stuff to make up for it. I’m not talking about nutrient macros—I’m talking sheer volume. A big steak is still a big steak after it’s cooked, but an enormous head of cauliflower can shrink down to a single serving in a hot oven. When you go grocery shopping, err on the side of buying larger portions than you’re used to, at least until you get a feel for your new normal. Something tells me that won’t take long.

 

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Amazon Echo Show 8 y Echo Show 5 (2021): los nuevos altavoces de Amazon se pueden convertir en cámaras de vigilancia

Amazon acaba de renovar su gama de altavoces inteligentes con pantalla. La compañía ha lanzado los nuevos Amazon Echo 8 y Echo Show 5, cuya principal diferencia, como se puede intuir por sus nombres, es el tamaño de la pantalla. El primero tiene una pantalla de ocho pulgadas y el segundo se queda con una diagonal de cinco pulgadas.

Sin embargo, no es la única diferencia entre ambos dispositivos, ya que el Amazon Echo 8 tiene una peculiar función en su cámara: se desplaza y acerca la imagen para mantenernos encuadrados durante una videollamada. A continuación los conoceremos mejor, no sin antes destacar que el precio del Echo Show 5 es de 84,99 euros (cinco euros menos que el modelo anterior), mientras que el del Echo Show es de 129,99 euros (el mismo que antes).

Amazon Echo Show 8: la cámara que nos sigue

Amazon Echo Show 8.

En lo que a diseño se refiere, el Amazon Echo Show 8 es muy parecido al modelo anterior. La principal diferencia radica en el espacio dedicado para la cámara, que ahora cuenta con una cubierta integrada para que podamos taparla cuando no queramos usarla. Es una de las formas que Amazon tiene de garantizar la privacidad.

El dispositivo monta una pantalla HD de ocho pulgadas con ajuste de color adaptativo desde la que podremos ver pelis en streaming, seguir recetas paso a paso, reproducir fotos para convertirlo en un marco digital e interactuar con la domótica. También incorpora altavoces estéreo y un procesador de ocho núcleos que le da vida a Alexa, el cerebro de la domótica desarrollado por Amazon.

Pero sin lugar a dudas, el punto más llamativo es la cámara. El Echo Show 8 incorpora una cámara de 13 megapíxeles que se desplaza y acerca la imagen durante las videollamadas, algo pensado para mantenernos siempre encuadrados. De esa forma, si nos movemos, la cámara se moverá para mantenernos en el centro. Es una función que viene del Echo Show 10, aunque no tan potente ya que no tiene una base giratoria.

La cámara, por cierto, no solo podremos usarla para hacer una videollamada con hasta siete personas, sino que también podremos usar el Echo Show 8 como una cámara de vigilancia. Desde la app de Alexa u otros dispositivo Echo Show podremos acceder a la imagen en tiempo real de la cámara del Echo Show 8 para ver nuestra casa en directo.

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Amazon Echo Show 5: más pequeño y con mejor cámara

Amazon Echo Show 5.

El Echo Show 5, por su parte, es igual al modelo anterior. Tiene una pantalla de cinco pulgadas y está disponible en un nuevo color (azul marino). Por lo demás, y a priori, es similar al Echo Show 5 que teníamos hasta ahora. Desde la pantalla podremos acceder a contenido en streaming, a información de todo tipo y a Alexa para controlar la domótica.

¿Dónde está el cambio, entonces? En la cámara. El dispositivo tiene una cámara HD con el doble de píxeles, algo pensado para hacer videollamadas. Como el modelo anterior, también se puede acceder al feed de la cámara en tiempo real para ver cómo está la casa y que todo está en orden. Como el Echo Show 8, el Echo Show 5 también tiene cubierta para la cámara.

Nuevo Echo Show 5 (2.ª generación, modelo de 2021) | Pantalla inteligente con Alexa y cámara de 2 MP | Antracita

Versiones y precio de los Amazon Echo Show 8 y Echo Show 5 (2021)

Amazon Echo Show 5 y Amazon Echo Show 8.

El Echo Show 8 está disponible en color antracita y blanco, mientras que el Echo Show 5 lo está en antracita, blanco y azul marino. Se pueden reservar desde hoy y los envíos comenzarán a lo largo del mes que viene. El Echo Show 8 vale 129,99 euros y el Echo Show 5 se queda en 84,99 euros.

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Nuevo Echo Show 5 (2.ª generación, modelo de 2021) | Pantalla inteligente con Alexa y cámara de 2 MP | Antracita

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Tus dudas sobre la Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro tienen premio: participa y gana una de estas freidoras de aire caliente

Los alimentos fritos están deliciosos, pero comerlos en exceso no es recomendable si se quiere llevar una vida saludable por el exceso de grasas y calorías que tienen. Si te has planteado adquirir una freidora sin aceite pero no te decides, tus dudas pueden llevarte a ganar una Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro totalmente gratis con este sorteo de Create Ikohs y Xataka.

Cómo ganar una freidora Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro

Para optar a ganar una freidora Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro debes hacer únicamente estas acciones en la red social Instagram:

1. Seguir a @Xataka en Instagram.
2. Seguir a @createikohs_es en Instagram.
3. Déjanos en los comentarios una pregunta sobre las dudas que tengas acerca de la Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro en la publicación de Instagram.

Como veis, los pasos a realizar son muy sencillos. El sorteo estará vigente y podrás participar hasta el próximo día 9 de mayo (domingo) de 2021 a las 23:59 horas. El sorteo solo es válido para España. Tienes toda la información y las bases legales disponibles aquí.

La Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro es una freidora de aire caliente con la que es posible comer nuestros alimentos favoritos con un resultado igual de crujiente que si se cocinara con aceite, pero, además, de una manera más limpia, sin humos y sana. Con una capacidad de 3,5 litros para cuatro raciones, es programable, viene con varias recetas preinstaladas y ofrece también la función de horno.

¡Mucha suerte!

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Egg Fried Noodles | The Best Way To Make Delicious Noodles In 20 minutes

Egg Fried Noodles | The Best Way To Make Delicious Noodles In A Very Short Time:

Egg Fried Noodles in 20min

Egg fried noodles are a delicious food that contains a variety of nutrients. Saturated with calories, fiber, protein, and sugar, this food is rich in vitamins. One of the main reasons for this is the green food ingredients including eggs, noodles, carrots, vegetables, mushrooms.

The funniest thing is that you can easily serve this food in a very short time. If you are ready to give only 20 minutes, then you have no reason to worry. You can always be ready to taste or provide interesting and tempting food on a busy day or entertaining guests. I think you will choose egg fried noodles among many other types of noodles including wheat noodles, rice noodles, Hawkian noodles. Because of the high quality of time and taste, these egg fried noodles are perfect for you.

You do not need any special training to prepare the food but you must follow our guide to get good cooking results.

Table of contents:

1. Time limitation
2. Necessary ingredients
3. Cooking process
4. Nutrition
5. Egg fried noodles can be kept in the fridge for later? 
6. How to make delicious egg fried noodles in a short time at a low cost?
7. Top 15 Best Dinner Recipes Ideas
8. Origin of making Egg Fried Noodles

Time Limitation:

• Serves: 4
• Preparation: Just 5 minutes
• Cooking time: Need only 15-20 minutes for Egg Fried Noodles

Necessary Ingredients:

• Dried egg noodles – 250 g
• Spring onion, cut in one corner – 2 
• White button mushrooms, chopped – 300 g
• Eggs (white part with yolk) – 3
• Olive oil – 2 tbsp
• Smoked paprika – 1/2 tsp
• Soy sauce – 2 tbsp
• Divided into small florets – 1 head of broccoli
• Frozen peas – 50 grams 

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Cooking process | Egg Fried Noodles | Anywhere- Home Or Restaurant:

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To make the Egg Fried Noodles- Very short term method:

Step 1

At First, you take a pot that can heat 3 liters of water. Leave the noodles in the pot and take time until boiled.

Step 2

Sift the cooked noodles well. So that excess water is removed from the noodles. Then store the cooked noodles in separate containers. Cook the broccoli in low heat for about 3 minutes.

Step 3

Pour the amount of vegetable oil into a pan and leave the mushrooms in the hot oil. Mix salt and paprika and fry until soft. Add seasoning according to the amount and stir with soy sauce and keep stirring till it turns brown.

Step 4

Leave the eggs on the pan. Keep stirring at a certain temperature. Stir well with the browned ingredients.

Step 5

Add the noodles and mix well with all the ingredients including mushrooms, peas, broccoli, eggs, carrots so that each ingredient is blended one by one. Stir the ingredients to the required temperature and finally sprinkle the spring onions over the food if the food is suitable.

Notes

You can use frozen peppers, vegetables, carrots, and onions as needed. But after returning to normal from a cold state. And the main thing is to refrain from applying excessive temperature to the pan or use pot. Follow the cooking rules written on the packet for special needs. 

Nutrition: Exists in every serving

• Protein- 17g
• Sugars- 3g
• Saturates- 2g 
• Fiber- 8g
• Carbs- 51g
• Fat- 12g
• Salt- 0.9g
• kcal- 395

Egg Fried Noodles Can Be Kept In The Fridge For Later?

Of course, you can be stored this type of food in the freezer for a very short time. But you have to understand that food that is delicious and full of taste in hot conditions never tastes good in cold conditions. So it is possible to eat if you expect food later but the taste of food will change.

You can reheat fried egg fried noodles stored in the fridge. But in that case, the food will come back a little from its quality. Moreover, as a result of reheating, the color of the food will change from dark brown to dark red.

How To Make Delicious Egg Fried Noodles In A Short Time At Low Cost?

In a very short time, in a restaurant or at home, in a simple way, in 20 to 25 minutes, you can easily create a recipe. You can add some beautiful ingredients to make the food taste better including mushrooms, carrots, green vegetables.

An easy way to curb hunger and interesting to eat, this recipe is very popular at home or in the marketplace. 

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• Easy butter chicken
• Pea & ham soup
• Cod with Caper Brown Butter
• Grilled Sausages
• Sweet Potato Chorizo Noodle Soup
• Crispy Chicken Thighs With Garlic and Rosemary

Origin Of Making Egg Fried Noodles:

The introduction of noodles in Liaoning, China began in the East. Moreover, later on, this food gradually became at the top of popularity in different countries of the world.

Step by step the different types of noodles and the taste and shape or texture change. Appreciation of the incomparable taste of noodles continues to grow rapidly around the world, including in China, Korea, Japan, and Asia.

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kraft cheesecake

kraft cheesecake

kraft cheesecake

Kraft Cheesecake is one of the most common desserts globally and perhaps one of the oldest in which they use dairy products other than milk. Maybe it’s with the American cheesecake or NY Cheesecake, or any of the baked cheesecakes on the blog.

Those with that unique texture, denser, and a lot of dairy flavor remind me of the homemade cheesecakes of a lifetime.

It does not need an oven, and your children can help you, for example, to prepare the crushed biscuit base and, of course, to eat it later because this cheesecake, in addition to being accessible, is delicious! Easy Philadelphia kraft cheese recipes.

Beat cream cheese and sugar well in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed.

Gently fold in the prepared topping.

Use a spoon to scoop the mixture into the base.

Put the cherry filling around the edge of the cake.

Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

Store the leftover cake in the fridge.

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Ingredients:

For the cake base:

1. One package of digestive biscuits
2. 100 grams of butter
3. One teaspoon vanilla extract
4. 500 grams of Philadelphia cheese or similar
5. 100 grams of white sugar
6. 500 ml of whipping cream (35% fat)
7. Two envelopes of curd
8. One sachet of powdered gelatin
9. One jar of strawberry or raspberry jam
10. a lemon
11. Three tablespoons of pastry flour
12. a pinch of vanilla

For the raspberry sauce:

1. 300 g of raspberries (can be frozen)
2. juice of half a lemon
3. a sheet of gelatin
4. Three tablespoons of sugar

HOW TO MAKE THE CHEESECAKE RECIPE

1. The first thing we will do is make the cookies and crush them to powder. I have used the mixer of the blender, but you can put it in a bag, and with the help of a roller, we will leave them crushed.
2. Melt the butter in the microwave and mix the crushed cookies with the butter and a touch of vanilla essence.
3. We put the bottom of the vegetable paper in a mold and make the base of the cake. With the help of an espalier or with the hand, we press well. We put it in the fridge for 15 or 20 minutes.
4. In a saucepan, we put the cream to cook together with the Philadelphia cheese, the curd envelopes, and the sugar. Let it simmer for 1 minute for the curd to act. If we do not cook, the curd may not work. Once all the cheese is melted and mixed with the other ingredients, we pour it on top of the biscuit base. We put it in the fridge for at least 4 hours.
5. After that time, we put the strawberry jam in a saucepan with a splash of water and the gelatin envelope. Cook over low heat for a minute and remove. Let it cool a little (taking care that the mixture does not curdle) once it is warm and that it continues to be liquid; pour it on top of the cheese base and put it back in the fridge for a couple of hours. I let it cool a bit because I put it directly from the saucepan, and the cheese base melted completely hehe. So wait a few minutes.
6. The next and last step is to add the sifted flour and mix everything with the rods again.
7. Once our homemade cheesecake dough is made, we are going to take it to the mold and the oven

Preparation of the base of the cheesecake

• We melt the butter (we use the microwave, it is faster). The mincer we crush the cookies (if you did not, we put the 25 cookies on a kitchen cloth and wrap them and then crush them with a spoon or something heavy, it is not OK, but it works the same) and add the melted butter on top.
• Take the butter and biscuit mixture and spread it around the base of a large removable mold.
• We press against the bottom with the help of a spoon or with our fingers. We put it in the fridge while we make the cream cheese.
• In a bowl, we put the two tubs of cream cheese cream.
• Add half of the condensed milk and mix with the mixer.
• The most confounded advance comes from the gelatin issue. We put ten g. of neutral gelatin in a dry bowl. 300 ml of water (1 and a half glasses approx.) Of cold water.
• We put the rest of the water in a saucepan over the fire until boiling (or directly to the micro for 2 minutes). We eliminate and empty the water into the holder where the gelatin had been left. We stir until its complete dissolution. Mix with the cream cheese and the rest of the condensed milk. Lightly beat all the mixture so that it is homogeneous and without any lumps.
• We whip the cream. The best exhortation that every one of the fixings is cold. In contrast to the meringue (which should be at room temperature), the cream should be utilized hard. The cream, sugar, and holder should be straight from the fridge. We beat the sugar and cream until it is compact. I assure you that with the cruel trick, it comes out perfect.
• Mix the whipped cream with the cheese mixture but gently. We better use a wooden or silicone spatula so that the cream does not fall.
• We remove the container with the biscuit base from the fridge and add the cream cheese. We put it back in the refrigerator for about 4 hours.

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How to bake the homemade cheesecake? : kraft cheesecake

1. We will put the baking paper on our mold that we will have previously wet the countertop, and we will have put on it to make it more manageable (see video)

2. Once this is done, we place it, and with our hands, we are giving the shape of the mold, we pour the homemade cheesecake over it.

3. We will place the tray on the first support of the oven, almost at the bottom.

4. And now we take the mold, and we will take it to the oven at 200º for the first 10 minutes.

5. After that time, we will lower the temperature to 180º, and we will have it for 35 more minutes.

6. After that time, we will put the air, leaving ten more minutes.

7. After that time, the homemade cheesecake will be ready

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9. Let it cool for two hours at room temperature before unmolding it, once it has been removed for another two hours in the fridge or out of it, as you like.

10. It only remains to enjoy this easy cheesecake

Perfect cheesecake

• When it comes to whipping the cream, the best advice is that all the ingredients are cold. Unlike meringue (which must be at room temperature), the cream should be used hard. The cream, sugar, and holder should be straight from the fridge.
• This classic recipe or classic cheesecake is the most straightforward recipe you can find because it mixes and is done. To make the cheesecake a success, I have added quality strawberries, but you can use the jam or jam (as in the video) that you like the most.
• It admits many variations, peach, strawberries, berries, bitter orange, mango, pear, lemon; the fruit is the ally of this cheesecake.
• The other trick of this dessert is an envelope of neutral gelatin, and you can buy it in any supermarket or trustworthy store; it will make it have the exact texture.
• As you are not going to use an oven, all you need for this cake is to prepare it from one day to the next. It needs about 10 hours in the fridge to come out perfect, and the most fundamental thing is that you like cheese.

Tips on homemade cheesecake….(kraft cheesecake)

1. You will notice that the cheesecake during baking sulfa (rises) a lot, don’t worry, it’s normal.

2. When you take it out of the oven, it will lower that padding, and it will sink, so don’t worry.

3. cracks can also come out. Nothing happens.

4. When you take it out of the oven, you will notice it liquid, don’t worry, when it cools, it will solidify.

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Salt And Pepper Chips | The Best Way To Make Delicious Food In 30 minutes

Salt And Pepper Chips | The Best Way To Make Delicious Food In A Short Time:

easy to cook Salt and pepper chip

Salt and pepper chips are a favorite food that is delicious, healthy, comfortable, and fun. It is delicious to eat, thin to look at, and attractive calorie-rich food. Moreover, you can make these salt and pepper chips at home in a short time.

To make a healthy, fun side dish in a short time, you only need a few ingredients, including a few fresh peppers and onions. Using these ingredients, you can easily enter into salt and pepper chips slimming world. That means you can easily make and eat salt and pepper chips at home, which will taste incomparably beautiful and will look tempting.

Table of contents:

1. Time Limitation
2. Necessary ingredients
3. Cooking process
4. Oven method
5. Actifry or Air Fryer method
6. Nutrition: Exists in every serving
7. Can salt and pepper chips be frozen
8. Are salt and pepper chips suitable for diet
9. Make delicious salt and paper chips in a short time at a low cost
10. The exact place of origin of this great recipes

Time limitation:

• Preparation: Just 10 minutes
• Cooking time: Need only 20 minutes for these recipes

Necessary ingredients:

• Large-floury potatoes – 4 to 5
• Vegetable oil – 5 tbsp
• Black peppercorns – 1 tbsp
• Sichuan peppercorns – 1 tbsp
• Finely chopped onion – 1
• Red chili, sliced – 1 piece
• Green pepper, finely chopped – 1 tbsp
• Garlic cloves, cut – 2 pieces
• Red pepper, cut into pieces – 1 piece
• Chinese five-spice powder – 1/2 teaspoon
• Castor sugar – 1 tbsp
• Sea salt – 1 teaspoon
• Chili Flakes – 1/2 tsp
• Spring onion, finely chopped – 3

Cooking process | Salt and pepper chips | Anywhere- Home Or Restaurant:

To make the chips- Oven Cooking process

Period 1
Preheat the oven to 200C / 220C. Cut the potatoes into lime chips or wedges and cook in a pan with cold water for about 5 minutes until the water bubbles. Must release steam.

Period 2
Take 4 tablespoons of oil in a shallow-lipped baking tray. Heat the top of the oven and carefully place the parboiled chips in the tray. Stir for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.

Period 3
In a large frying pan, chop the raw peppers into pieces, turn them into pastels, then pour in the mortar and grind. Stir in the remaining part of the pan, pepper, garlic, onion, and chili. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes until golden brown and set aside to preserve.

Period 4
Mix the sugar, salt, five spices powder, ground chili, and chili flakes then place the cooked chips in the pan and stir in the medium ache.

Period 5
Sprinkle well with pepper mixture, spring onion, salt. Toss all the ingredients together at the top for 1 to 2 minutes and make sure that all the ingredients are seen intertwined with each other.

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To make the chips- Actifry or Air Fryer Cooking process:

Step-1
Peel a squash, grate it and squeeze the juice. Place the chips in a container. Then spray a small amount of cooking spray low-calorie.

Step-2
Sprinkle the right amount of pepper spice and salt mixture. Set aside about 20 minutes in Active.

Step-3
Add fresh red chillies and chopped chillies and continue cooking for another 10 to 12 minutes.

Step-4
Add chopped spring onion and cook again for 5 minutes. When the chips are cooked, serve with golden-colored peppers and spring onions in the style of your choice.

Notes

You can use frozen peppers, chips, and onions as needed. Do not remove the onion brown for good taste.

Nutrition: Exists in every serving
• protein- 6g
• sugars- 8g
• saturates- 1g
• fiber- 7g
• carbs- 49g
• fat- 14g
• salt- 1.3g
• kcal- 364

Can salt and pepper chips be frozen?

First, it is best not to freeze the finished dish as it will lose its crispy taste if frozen.

Second, to freeze you must store portions of food after boiling. Then later you will be able to cook and serve the food again.

Are salt and pepper chips suitable for diet?

Salt and pepper chips are considered suitable foods for vegetarians and gluten or dairy diet followers. Because it is milkless. And for people with allergies, you must take into account the number of ingredients you are providing.

Is it possible to make delicious salt and paper chips in a short time at a low cost?

In a short time, at home, in a great way, in 20 minutes, you can easily make a recipe and eat it by adjusting the amount of chilli and chilli flakes.

Everyone is more or less attracted to Chinese food. Again, we have an idea about the British that the origin of food is in their hands.

But the delicious food of salt and pepper chips has been prevalent in Chinese cities since the aftermath of World War II.

The exact place of origin of salt and pepper chips:

The exact place of origin of salt and pepper chips is the Chinese takeaway. Even then some spoke of the British. But the happy thing is that nowadays anyone can easily make this dish while sitting at home and it is known as a very attractive delicious dish for entertaining guests.

New dishes have emerged for serving food and food was provided especially to those interested in experimentation. Salt and pepper chips became very popular in London’s Chinatown in the 1880s and were later seen in small and large food shops along the way, including various restaurants. Salt and pepper chips became very popular in Chinese restaurants in the aftermath of World War II.

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