In your free time, roll up your sleeves, fry, steam, and cook some home-cooked dishes to quench your gluttony.

Food and sex, you and I are both men and women who eat and drink. Eating and drinking is one of the great blessings in life.

Some people say that "dentistry is the thing with the highest return on investment in the world", and they are also talking about "eating".

Whenever I have heavy work tasks, feel stressed, and feel depressed, I will go on a treasure hunt, discover a new world of food, reward myself with a satisfying meal, and regain my sense of satisfaction. .

I once had a period of leisure without work for more than half a year. What I have been doing during that time is to study online recipes and try to cook hundreds of dishes. Fortunately, most of them are successful, maybe Just experience life with your heart. But after returning to work, time became busy, and it was rare to find time to cook one or two home-cooked dishes.

Going out to restaurants at work and ordering takeout after get off work is probably the normal diet of urban white-collar workers.

If you eat too much takeout, the only thing that suddenly increases is the fat around your waist. You spend money on food, and then only the meat is left.

One of the reasons why I haven’t persisted in cooking is probably that it takes too long to make the dishes.

I have a shortcoming. I spend my time doing things as soon as I put my heart into them. To put it mildly, I call it slow work and meticulous work.

If I can focus on one thing and multitask, most of the things will fall into my hands.

I also invited a few friends to my home for dinner, bought groceries, washed and cooked food, and was as tired as a chef from doing all the work.

Working alone in the kitchen for most of the day, this is a good time to chat and bond over meals. Once we get home for dinner, it becomes a one-man show where the host does all the hard work and performs alone. It’s a bit like going to a restaurant and having customers waiting for the chef. Put the food on the table and start eating.

In the end, it was difficult for everyone to enjoy themselves, so they gradually resorted to going out to restaurants and ordering takeout.

Eating itself is a happy thing. If cooking becomes something similar to running a restaurant, we are not housewives/husbands. I am afraid it will be difficult to like it.

Cooking is all about putting your heart into it. Measuring tools are rarely used in the preparation of Chinese food, and it is all controlled by the chef's experience and techniques, so the dishes made by different people have different tastes and flavors. Compared with foreign fast food culture, which has unified processes and standard production methods, it is wrapped in a layer of human touch.

It can be seen in the food whether the cooking is done with care or not. This is why many years later, when we grow up, we still miss the taste of our mother’s cooking, because it contains the overflowing love of mothers, and take-out , I only eat as much as I want.

Chinese food is no different than Western food. There are many processes and many condiments. After finishing a dish, there is a lot of work on your hands. Therefore, my cooking philosophy is biased toward the West. I feel that Western food is less troublesome and puts more emphasis on ingredients and less on preparation. In addition, there are many home appliances that can quickly help us cook a dish easily. Such as soy milk machine, air fryer, electric baking pan, oven, etc. Even if you are a novice, you can easily follow the instructions and make snacks and delicacies that you have eaten in restaurants outside. Such as vegetable salad, fruit pie, grilled chicken wings, French fries, mostly Western food.

Looking back at Chinese food, we rely more on the traditional one-pot-one-spoon approach. Pan-fry, stir-fry, deep-fry, roast, steam, braise, simmer, stew, roast, boil, mix, stir-fry, stew. The dishes are diverse and the methods are different. One ingredient can be changed and paired with different ingredients to make different dishes. Chinese cuisine is great, and the cooking methods are very different in the north and the south. The famous cuisines include: Shandong cuisine (Shandong), Sichuan cuisine (Sichuan), Cantonese cuisine (Guangdong), Jiangsu cuisine (Jiangsu), Fujian cuisine (Fujian), Zhejiang cuisine (Zhejiang) ), Hunan cuisine (Hunan), and Anhui cuisine (Huizhou), representing the traditional cooking techniques with excellent color, aroma, taste and shape.

When eating at a food stall at night, I like to watch the cooking chef holding a spoon in one hand and the handle of the pot with the other hand, stir-frying, turning on the fire, and turning the pot, all in one go, which is a great visual enjoyment.

The comparison between Chinese and Western food reflects the differences in kitchen design. Chinese-style kitchens are often partitioned. Because there is a lot of oil smoke, there needs to be an isolation area to separate it from the living room. Western-style kitchens have less fumes and are mostly open. I like the concept of Western food. It is precisely because of the kitchen design that cooks no longer have to be isolated and work alone. They can have space to communicate with everyone. Because it is open, everyone can easily collaborate with each other. By the way, they can show off their skills and perform like chefs. method.

There is less sense of isolation, more like home than a hotel.

The working hours in the city are tight, and most office workers are like me.

While envious of the high-quality homemade nutritious breakfasts in my circle of friends,

I can only cope with it by making steamed buns, fried dough sticks, and soy milk pancakes.

The most difficult question to answer is: "What are you going to eat for lunch today?"

So I decided to set aside one day a week to learn how to cook some dishes to practice my cooking skills. If you know art, you have to know how to work and live. When learning to try something new, the learning method I recommend is to set only the simplest goals and the simplest practice methods at the beginning.

Doing things always needs to be driven by a sense of accomplishment. If the goal is too big at the beginning, it is often difficult to achieve it. Over time, faced with accumulated frustration, it becomes more and more difficult to move forward. If there are too many pitfalls, the road will collapse.

Do you still remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? Going slowly at the beginning does not affect the goal of reaching the finish line.

The competition in life is long-lasting endurance, not short-term explosive power.

Starting next week, articles will be updated every Saturday and Sunday with the theme of food, sharing simple and delicious dishes with everyone.

I am happy, and my mantra: "There is nothing in life that cannot be solved with one meal of skewers. If there is, then two meals!"

Life only depends on intention. , taste the food with your heart and feel the life with your heart.