Text/Liang Shuang

My colleague heard that I often cooked when I got home from work and thought I was magical. She said she only had half a life left when she got home.

And I just feel that cooking can make up for half of my exhausted life.

I love cooking and am deeply influenced by my dad. When I was in preschool, my parents couldn't come back from lunch break. In the morning, my dad warmed the cooked meals in a thermos box and waited for me to eat them when I got back from school at noon.

I got tired of it after just two days of eating. Being too short to reach the countertop, I carried a chair into the kitchen and stood on it to scramble eggs. My parents were shocked when they got home. They were afraid that I would hurt myself, and they were even more afraid of hurting the kitchen.

When I was a kid, I used to help my dad in the kitchen. He was a romantic man who loved cooking. In the past, when the TV teacher taught how to make shredded bananas, he immediately prepared the ingredients. After pulling the bananas, there was still sugar left, so he pulled all the fruits he could at home.

Another time, "Everyday Kitchen" taught me how to make stir-fried cactus, and he coveted the potted cactus at home. Fortunately, I pointed out tactfully that it was not the same variety.

I enjoy the happy moment when my dad asks me to taste it after messing around in the kitchen. He wants to know if I like it, but is also worried that my greedy cat will burn my mouth.

With such an atmosphere as the foundation, I also liked tinkering in the kitchen after I left home when I grew up. I always felt a sense of nostalgia, family affection, and care for my body.

The young friends around me who are single or married seldom cook and either make do or take out food.

Let me tell you what is the reason that tempts me to cook more often.

1. The current food safety situation is not optimistic. I believe everyone must have read the "Weekly Quality Survey".

I feel that the texture, hygienic conditions and processing methods of ingredients in most restaurants outside are not as reassuring as those made by myself.

2. After long-term research, I found a convenient dinner plan for office workers, which can be a one-stop solution to the problems of being too tired to cook after work, chopping vegetables and cooking, and what time it is after eating and washing. , accidentally smoked into a yellow-faced woman and other problems.

As long as I don’t get home too late and my body isn’t too tired, I can go straight to the market after taking the bus to the station, go home, cook, and have a good meal.

1. The ingredients should be as fresh and abundant as possible

I will take turns buying small bottles of oil, peanut oil, olive oil, corn germ oil, hemp oil, and sunflower oil, at the same time I have two or three types of oil at home and use them interchangeably when cooking different dishes.

In addition to rice, oatmeal, brown rice, millet and other side rice are always available at home. Rice is the basic rice. The type and quantity of rice should be determined according to your physical condition and mood.

I don’t buy vegetables. “Don’t let my vegetables stay with me overnight” is my principle. I buy them at several nearby vegetable markets and supermarkets, and I buy a small amount of vegetables in a wide variety of varieties. I am worried that I will always identify a vegetable farmer. The pesticides he uses or the heavy metals in his vegetable fields will be excessively enriched in my body.

When I die I want to be a balanced periodic table of chemical elements.

2. The cleaner and more refined the kitchen, the better

My kitchen is very clean. I cook, and my spouse washes the dishes. He has mysophobia, and every time he washes the dishes, he will put the range hood, The walls and sink were polished to a shiny finish, and I felt no visual burden when cooking.

Regarding kitchen appliances and tableware aprons, I will try to choose styles with pleasing colors and comfortable feel, which can increase the fun of cooking.

After I enter the kitchen, I will either play a lively song melody on my phone or order a relaxing radio program to warm up the place first.

My knife skills are not very good, so I just pick out the vegetables that are good to cut and cut them while humming a song or laughing along with the jokes.

Only in a kitchen that is both delicious and delicious can you make delicious meals.

3. The cooking time should be limited to half an hour.

I usually only cook two simple and rich home-cooked dishes on weekdays.

After I entered the kitchen, I cooked the rice first and then started garnishing it. Take the dishes I often cook as an example. The sequence is usually to boil a pot of water and scald the black fungus, select the vegetables, wash them, and brew them in running water for a while. If there are vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, lotus root, etc., boil the hot water in the pot first. Blanch it once and then fry it.

Even though we only cook two dishes, each dish is full of connotations. I don’t like to stick to the rules of the recipe, I just like to DIY according to my mood.

For example, the red three-chop for rice, chop tomatoes, red meat and green pepper into small pieces; for example, the refreshing green four-chop, chop celery, Cut black fungus, hot pepper, and red meat into small pieces, such as pink diced for clearing the lungs. Cut lotus root, yam, green pepper, and red meat into small dices.

Every time when it comes to cooking, the aroma of rice in the rice cooker spreads out, and colorful vegetables are tumbling in the wok. Add a little salt and soy sauce, and put them on your favorite dishes after taking them out of the pot. Arrange them into nice shapes and I'll even give my creations a name.

After the rice is cooked and the dishes are brought out, it will be ready in about half an hour. It may save you more time than waiting in line to park your car at a restaurant during rush hours, waiting for your order to be served.

4. The kitchen is not the end of beauty.

Although it is much fresher and healthier to buy food and cook by yourself, many girls are afraid that oily smoke and grease will damage their appearance.

I have seen a beautiful roommate sister. Every time she cooks, she puts her hair up and puts on a shower cap. She wears special gloves when cutting meat or yams. She wears gloves like He wears an iron mask-like hat to cover his entire face, applies hand cream before washing dishes, and regularly hires part-time workers to clean the kitchen.

Later on when I was cooking, I also learned from her to take advantage of the advantages and avoid disadvantages. First of all, I did not pursue frying, deep-frying or burning oil. I only put the oil in when the pot is very hot. I don’t do things like cooking, so as not to let the oil splash out and burn me;

Secondly, in addition to turning on the range hood, I will continue to wear a haze or windproof mask during the winter, and on other days I will try my best to stay away from the fumes. When I taste the food, I will first put it into a small bowl and stand far away to taste it instead of going directly to the pot.

If you want to do it, do it. If you don’t want to do it, don’t worry about it. I cook about three or four meals a week. Over the past few years, it has become quite white and not yellowed.

Cooking is a fun process, but many office workers find it too tiring, troublesome, and too lazy to cook and choose to eat out.

For me, cooking time is a transitional stage for me to switch from work mode to home mode. I can calm down my anxiety when cutting vegetables, and I can naturally close my eyes when tasting. Intoxicated expression, and the most important thing is that the safe dishes made by oneself are better for health.

If you eat out and don’t know what you want to eat, if you have a careless attitude towards three meals a day, if you are already sub-healthy but let it go, you might as well find a chance to try cooking at home, I wish you Realize the fun.

The food you ate six months ago shaped your current body

Your current habits reveal your future status

When you go to work, you already treat your work performance as a KPI. Complete

After get off work, health reinforcement should be regarded as a KPI implementation