Sweet and sour snow fungus and cucumber salad

Sweet and sour snow fungus and cucumber salad

Sweet and sour snow fungus and cucumber salad

Tea Name:

Sweet and sour snow fungus and cucumber salad (with garlic and red dates and goji berries) in a tart delightful mirin vinegrette dressing

Nature:  Slightly warming (due to the garlic, red dates, and vinegar)

Taste: Sweet and sour

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Making snow fungus 2-ways the other day for dinner.  Since I was soaking one for my soup, I decided to economize my efforts and soak another to make a delicious, tart and sweet appetizer.

Why not more snow fungus?  This powerhouse Chinese herb is amazing at nourishing the yin in the lungs and helps retain moisture and collagen!  (YEAH, did someone say COLLAGEN?).  LOL.  Yah, it’s known to be the “poor man’s” version of bird’s nest, which helps to keep the skin firm and glowing.  In the end, snow fungus is just a mushroom.

I always keep a stash of these in my pantry now because they are perfect for soups, stews, salads, desserts, and even stir fried!  Seriously, get experimental and try it!

 

What’s involved?
 Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: No cooking needed

Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 5 cups (or servings)

Ingredients

The sauce:

 

  • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of mirin
  • 1 tablespoon of white vinegar
  • 3 teaspoons of white sugar
Cooking Instructions
  1. Soak the snow fungus in cool water for at least 10 minutes, ensuring it’s fully covered.  You can check out this video on how to prepare snow fungus.
  2. Wash and dice half a cucumber, keeping the skin on
  3. Dice all the garlic
  4. Once the snow fungus is fully bloomed and relatively soft and squishy, using scissors or a knife, remove the hard orange middle (cut as best as you can as this part is tougher to eat)
  5. Dice the snow fungus into bite-sized pieces
  6. Add in all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and give it a good mix, ensuring all the sauce covers all parts of the salad
  7. Chill and serve.  Enjoy!

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Warming Chinese herbal tea for cold days (post run hydration)

Warming Chinese herbal tea for cold days (post run hydration)

Warming Chinese herbal tea for cold days (post run hydration)

Tea Name:

Warming red dates, longans, and red and black wolfberries Chinese herbal tea (which I use for post cold day runs).  In fact, I also add this into a thermal flask for the car post colder rides (which is like mid September in Toronto!).  Where’s Hong Kong weather?

Traditional Chinese Name:

红枣茶 (hóng zǎo chá)

Nature:  Warming

Taste: Sweet

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OK, honestly, I really feel the temperature variance in my lungs when it hits 13C or lower in Toronto.

This means, I’m already going into yin excess (too much yin in the body thanks to both cold and wind into the lungs first… and then ultimately, if I don’t address it, it goes into the body).

I think if it goes any lower in temperature, I’m taking out the base layers, the face buffs, the gloves, and ultimately, the thicker wear.

Here’s my post cold run routine:

  1. Slow down the pace. The slower the air turnover, the less yin I bring into the body. This means running in zone 2 or slower. Save the intervals for the indoor treadmill or the bike trainer (also indoors).
    2. I will also carry warm water with me to sip in a small plastic holder.
    3. As soon as I’m home, I’ll make this herbal tea with boiling water.
    4. Take a hot shower and spend 5 extra minutes to breathe in warm steam to the lungs.
    5. Sip on my tea all day (adding boiling water to it 2-3 times until it runs flavorless).

You can check this article that explains the balance of yin and yang in the body, AN INTRODUCTION TO YIN AND YANG IN OUR EVERYDAY SOUPS AND FOOD. 

The tea is primarily warmed by the red dates and longans, offering a sweet yang enhancing experience that is delicious and soothing.  This is one of my favourite and easiest teas to make from your Chinese Soup Pantry!

However, I love adding both the red and black goji berries to give it a little more sweetness and that tartness.  Goji berries are perfect for yin excess conditions (avoid if you’ve got patterns of excess heat) and are great for the eyes, liver, and kidneys.

 

What’s involved?

 Prep time: 2 mins

Cook time: 3 mins (steep time)

Total time: 5 mins

Serves: 1 cup

Ingredients
    Cooking Instructions
    1. You can put all the ingredients into an individual empty tea bag for easier management of the ingredients
    2. Drop all the ingredients into a ceramic or glass mug
    3. Add in boiling water to 1 cup full
    4. Cover and steep for 2 minutes
    5. No additional sweeteners needed for this tea!
    6. Serve and enjoy!
    Any benefits?
    • This Chinese herbal tea is warming and soothing
    • This tea tonifies and nourishes the blood and both red dates and longans calm the spirit, so this tea is perfect for taking some moments to yourself
    • Great for traveling, on the go, or in the office
    • Super easy to make

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    You can actually make these little tea bags or pouches yourself!  The ingredients are all part of my standard Chinese Soup kitchen pantry and then I use disposable and decomposable tea bags!

    Use disposable, environmentally friendly, degradable tea bags!

    There are various individual tea bags you can find out there!

    The two I’ve been using are these Japanese ones (sourced from Hong Kong) that fold over.  I’m not sure if they are degradable completely, but finishing up a batch I took back with me.

    I would recommend these disposable and environmentally friendly tea bags from amazon.  I also bought some and now have a pile of tea bag holders sitting in my drawer!  But I do love how convenient they are and will pre-make my own tea bags to bring to work or pre-fill in my thermal mug for drinking on the go!

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    Dried Black Goji Berries

    Dried Black Goji Berries

    Ingredient Name:

    Wolfberry (also known as goji berry, barbary matrimony vine, bocksdorn, Duke of Argyll’s tea tree, red medlar or matrimony vine)

    Traditional Chinese Name: 黑杞子(hēi gǒu zi)

    Nature: Neutral

    Targets: Kidney and liver

    The red goji berries is one of the those basic Chinese ingredients that you need in your pantry.  They pair nicely with most soups and herbal teas!  You can check out this post and video on “The basic ingredients for your Chinese Soup pantry”.

    The black one is less common, but is actually more powerful than its red counterpart in density of antioxidants per weight.  They can be eaten both raw or dried and are amazing when used in Chinese herbal teas.

     

    This ingredient is a must have in your Chinese soup pantry. It is used in soups, stews, porridge, sweet soups, teas and a variety of Chinese dishes. My mom will use this for most chicken soup stocks, especially during my confinement and quite frankly, these little things don’t taste that bad either, slightly sweet, slightly tart, with a bit of crunch from the seeds.  I actually really do enjoy eating them!

    What are goji berries?

    Dried black goji berries are definitely not as common as red goji berries, but are becoming more mainstream as the product makes it way around the world (from the Himalayan mountains) and is being domestically grown rather than wild.

    It is also known to be far more potent and carries greater antioxidant and healing properties than its red counterpart.

    These black goji berries are typically used in Chinese herbal teas more than soups or stews.  You can also find them in Chinese desserts.

    How do you prepare them?

    For use in soups, you can presoak or rinse in warm water to rinse any processing residue.  I normally just drop them directly into soups and teas.

    They travel very well, so it is something I do recommend you can take with you in little bags or reusable containers to make teas in hotels and away from home.  You can check out this video here on how to make herbals teas with wolfberries if you’re traveling.

    Where can I buy it and cost?

        • You can purchase these from most Asian supermarkets prepackaged
        • You can also purchase this in bulk from specialty stores (online herbal shops)
        • Be sure that you’re buying from a reputable source
        • The prices will vary but generally cost around $2 USD per oz
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    Any benefits?

          • From a Traditional Chinese medicine perspective, dried goji berries (or wolfberries) help tonify the yin of the liver and kidneys
          • These are amazing for eye health and brightens the eyes.  You’ll hear this very commonly in Asia from old ladies and men from the wet mart!
          • Wolfberries are high in antioxidants and contains a significant percentage of daily macronutrient needs such as: carbohydrates, protein, fat and dietary fiber
          • They also contain 6 essential vitamins, Beta-Carotene, Calcium, Potassium, Iron and Zinc
          • It is a natural supplement for improving eyesight and may assist with eye strain for frequent computer users
          • It is also known to be beneficial for the liver

      Any precautions?

          • There are many positive medical claims that involve the consumption of wolfberries, however for many claims, very little (if any) have been verified by western medicine

          • The consumption of pills and ground wolfberries should be under the consultation of a physician

          • Excess consumption of wolfberry tea may lead to bleeding in the elderly

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      Arrowroot and Water Chestnuts in Chicken Soup

      Arrowroot and Water Chestnuts in Chicken Soup

      Soup Name:

      Arrowroot and Water Chestnuts in Chicken Soup

      Traditional Chinese Name:

      馬蹄粉葛雞湯 (mǎtí fěn gé jī tāng)

      Nature:  Slightly cooling

      Taste: Sweet and savory

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      A great soup for nourishing the lungs, helping with coughs and reducing phlegm.  

      The key ingredient here is the water chestnut.  This is a common herb in the Chinese cuisine that is sweet, crunchy, and cooling.  It’s the root of a water plant that has a brown outer skin and crunchy internal flesh.

      The water chestnut is a cooling herb and can be used to treat conditions with heat (such as fevers or infections).  It’s ideal for treating hot phlegm in the lungs and sinuses.

      Be sure to buy water chestnuts that are firm in texture.  This means they are still fresh.  As they dry out, they soften and the interior becomes powdery.  The shelf live of water chestnuts is around 1 week in the fridge.

       

       

      What’s involved?

      Prep time: 30 mins

      Cook time: 2 hours and 30 mins

      Total time: 3 hours

      Serves: 4-6 bowls

      Ingredients
      Cooking Instructions
      1. Cut smilax root & arrowroot into edible cubes
      2. Boil a pot of water to blanch smilax root, chicken & chicken feet (don’t cut nails as it will release oils into the soup)
      3. Boil soup water
      4. Wash and peel water chestnuts
      5. When water boils, add all the ingredients together
      6. Boil on high for 30 minutes and reduce to continually boiling for another 2 hour
      7. Serve and enjoy!  You can also serve the arrowroot and chicken feet as part of the meal!  That’s why I put in extra chicken feet! LOL.

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      How to meal prep Chinese soups in batch (for rice cooker or stove top)

      How to meal prep Chinese soups in batch (for rice cooker or stove top)

      How to meal prep Chinese soups in batch (for rice cooker or stove top)

      I have no time!

      I still want delicious Chinese soup!

      I want something easy!

      You got it!  When I did my initial “experiment” on testing the rice cooker to make Chinese soup, I honestly didn’t know what to expect – BUT… it turned out amazing!  

      And then, it got me thinking, let’s do this in batch and frozen.  Would it still work?  And the answer – YES!  Equally as amazing!

      For this round of experimentation, I went with 4 servings of soup ingredients.  This was as much as I could fit into my freezer!

       The Test Case

      4:30 pm:  1 hour gap between meetings

      4:35 pm:  Took out rice cooker (and air fryer for trout)

      4:37 pm:  Dropped in frozen soup into rice cooker + added fresh cut tomatoes, dried red dates, dried wolfberries, salt

      4:40 pm:  Add in maximum water to the water line

      4:41 pm:  Hit start button on my soup with 1:06 hour on the timer!  Can’t wait, can’t wait!

      5:30 pm:  I can smell the fragrant soup from the kitchen!

      6:00 pm:  Dinner time with white rice! YUM!

      What’s involved?

      Prep time: 60 mins to prep 4 portions of soups (for 1 rice cooker setting)

      Serves: 2-3 bowls each portion

      Ingredients

      For the frozen soup packs:

      • 4 fresh potatoes
      • 1 large fresh white onion
      • 2 fresh corn
      • 40 small pieces of pork ribs (cut individually)
      • 4 small fresh carrots 

      Dried Chinese Herbal Ingredients to add:

        • Dried red dates are perfect for this soup!  They add a slight sweetness and warmth.
        • Or dried longans.  You can add this on top with the red dates or by itself.  It also adds sweetness and warmth to the soup.
        • Dried wolfberries are great additions to this soup!  They are neutral and also add a beautiful sweetness to the soup.
        • Dried Chinese Yam is a definite great addition to any ABC soup base.  They are also an edible root, soft and starchy as part of the meal.

      Add 1 fresh ingredient!  Take your pick!

        • Fresh tomatoes are amazing!  This is another addition to the ABC soup and gives the soup a sweet and tart taste which is appetizing!
        • Fresh straw mushrooms – so yummy!  One of my favourites in soup and they taste so amazing soft!
        • Fresh chayotes are also a great addition to this type of soup base!  They also make part of the meal.
        • Any roots such as arrowroots or lotus roots are also amazing adds!  They will soften and create a more earthy flavour to the soup. 

      Tips for meal prepping Chinese soup:

      • Use small cuts of meat or vegetables because they store easier and cook faster
      • Stack your packs flat so that they store easier
      • Chinese herbs don’t need to be packed and can be dropped in dry into your soup
      • Salt and seasoning can also be added afterwards as well
      • I like cooking with meats on the bottom and vegetables on top, so I will pack my soup packs upside down so that I just drop it in upside down

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