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Daily Tips: How to tell your EGGs are bad or fresh ??

Fresh?? or Bad???
Have you ever wondered how long have your eggs been sitting in your refrigerator? Already one month? Two months?? Without the egg box, surely there is no way of knowing when you puchase them.

Recently, I did some online searching and found out that actually there is a simple and quick test which can let us know if the egg is still fresh or bad. All you need is just a bowl of water and your eggs.

Please find below for the steps :

1. Fill a bowl of water and slowly place the eggs into the water.
2. Monitor the eggs. If the egg is fresh, it will sink to the bottom and lay flat. Semi-fresh egg will tend to float and stand in an upright position. Lastly, the bad egg will just float at the top without sinking at all. Do not eat this kind of eggs.

By the way, I found an "eggs testing" video clip from youtube, and would like to share with you guys......The video is straight to the point...

Daily Tips : Practise warm water drinking habit....

Feeling warm??!! Drinking icy cold water??Maybe is the time to pull off this habit. Experts claimed that drinking cold water while having meal is harmful to our body and health. Cold drink with meal will solidify the fat from our food, and slow down the digestion. Moreover, this solidified fat will even block absorption of nutrients to our body....


Ps: It is difficult to change the habit.... :)

Daily Tips : About coffee.....

Recently, there has a research found that, drinking more coffee reduced the likelihood that patients would be hospitalised for irregular heart-beats. They had conducted a study of 130,054 adults and found that people who drank four cups or more of coffee daily had an 18% lower risk of suffering irregular heartbeats and other heart-rhythm conditions than non-coffee drinkers. On the other hands, it also showed that the risk of hospitalisation was 7% lower for people who drank 1-3 cups of coffee daily. However, the researcher warned that the finding does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between reduced risk and coffee drinking or that coffee protects the heart against such irregularities.......

Healthy Steamboat buffet

Last Saturday, we had a huge feast of home made steamboat buffet. We had also invited a few of our friends to join us. Normally, steamboat meal will take a lot of time, hence it is great to spend time with family or friends while having this meal. Moreover, we do not need to have any cooking skill for steamboat. Just 3 simple steps as Dump..... Wait......and EAT.....!! Awesome ya.!!!

However, before the steamboat feast, we will need to prepare a big pot of tasty soup base first.

Below is my ultimate Steamboat's Soup base recipe:

Ingredients:

1. 2 large carrots (skin and cut into pieces)
2. 8-10 leaves of white cabbage (wash and cut into pieces)
3. 10-15 mushrooms (soaked and cut into half)
4. 1 whole chicken bones (best to remove fat and thoroughly clean it out)
5. 4-5 pieces of ginger
6. big pot of water
7. salt to taste
8. a bit of sugar

** note: carrot & white cabbage are secret weapons of the soup. They play important roles to sweeten the soup.

Steps:

1. Parboil the chicken bones inorder to remove the unpleasant smell of meat. Discard the water.
2. Fill your soup pot with water and bring it to boil.
3. Upon boiling, add in chicken bones and other ingredients excepts salt and sugar.
4. Let it boil for 8-10 minutes. Lower the heat and simmer for about 30-40 minutes. Add in salt and a bit of sugar to taste.

The soup now is ready for the simplest, delicious, yet healthy steamboat meal..!!!

On the other hands, we have also prepared our raw food as shown below:

As you can see, we have vegetables, various type of mushrooms, tofu, tofu skin, red snapper fish fillets, fresh tiger prawns, home made meat balls, noodles, chicken, cuttlefish and etc.....etc...

Now the output is.........

Processes of steamboat meal :

You will just need to pour your home made soup base into an electrical cooker. Turn on the power and increase the heat and then dump in some of the raw materials such as fish fillets, chicken, prawns, mushrooms, meat balls or fish balls. Cover it and let it come to boil. In a few minutes time,everything will be cooked and ready to eat...!!!! You can now start to scoop out the ingredients together with the soup and enjoy the meal.... Just remember not to over cook the food..... and it is best to have the garlic chili sauce .

Too much of fluoride can actually cause stains!!!

Nowadays, we brush our teeth at least twice a day. We know that fluoride is good for our teeth, but did you know that too much of it can actually cause stains? Recently, I read an article from a local newspaper, it stated that, excessive amounts of fluoride during tooth formation (in childhood) can lead to areas of chalky white spots on your enamel.

So do take note ya... :)