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Category Archives: Healthful Tips
Cooking Tip: Velveting Meat
Velveting meat is like the quasi-essential component to having tender pieces of meat in stir-fries. The video by Chow.com gives a quick walkthrough of how it can be easily done at home. One key difference worth noting though – at home, you would probably poach it in hot water to seal in the juices; but [...]
Choosing Oil: An Essential Guide
When you go grocery shopping and walk down the aisle with rows of cooking oil all lined up, do you feel somewhat overwhelmed? And when you do baking, and you see that different recipes using different types of fat, do you get lost as to which one to use or substitute? If you ever have [...]
Up the Fiber: 5 Quick Swaps!
Photo by StarsApart The current recommendation for fiber intake is 25-38g. Tweet This Post
5 Delicious Make-Ahead Lunch Ideas
Photo by iamtheo 5 weeks into my 37-week Dietetics Internship. Wow! It’s crazy how fast time flies! Tweet This Post
5 Steps to Making An Amazing Grain Salad
Photo by karenphotodesign When I think about packing lunch for work, the first thing that comes to mind is a hearty salad. And when I think hearty salads, I immediately think of grain salads — chewy, nutty whole grains paired with crispy, colourful vegetables dressed in a light and refreshing vinaigrette. Mmm, can’t get better [...]
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10 Must-Try Bean Recipes
I’m so happy to see that the USDA has changed their Food Pyramid to MyPlate, which makes it much easier for people to visualize their food intake and follow the recommendations. But, I personally think the Harvard School of Public Health’s Healthy Eating Plate is just slightly better. It has more detailed suggestions on what [...]
Pizza Making: Success & Mistakes
I got a little bored from making the usual multi-course Chinese dinner menu, so I decided to serve pizza for a change. I looked up a recipe for a thick, doughy pizza crust and kept it simple by topping it only with tomato sauce and 3 types of cheese: ricotta, mozzarella and parmesan. Tweet This [...]
Are You Eating the Rainbow?
Photo by Denim Dave Do you often that hear dietitians on the media keep telling us to “eat all the colours of the rainbow”? Tweet This Post
Refreshing Treats For the Hot Weather
Walking under the hot sun in Hong Kong is like putting yourself in a humid sauna room — you instantly start sweating and you will not stop until you go indoors into an air-conditioned building. To combat the extreme hot wearer, I’ve been treating myself to cold treats. The obvious choices would be ice cream [...]
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