Winter is the season when all life lurks and hides. It's freezing and everything is dormant. The yang of the human body tends to be inward, so water and dampness can't leak from the body surface, and most of them differentiate into water and urine, which increases the burden on the kidneys. So in winter, nephritis, edema and other diseases are easy to relapse or aggravate. Moreover, in winter, the human body's resistance drops, the respiratory tract and joints are also very fragile, and diseases such as tracheitis, stomachache, joint pain, cough and rheumatoid arthritis are also easy to take advantage of. Especially in the period of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases such as colds, we should eat more foods that warm and disperse the wind and cold to prevent the invasion of wind and cold pathogens. Food tonic is better than medicine tonic, and the eating habits are not as clear as the medicinal properties. Generally, it is only divided into two categories: warm and cold. Everything between warm and cold belongs to flatness. The warmth and cold of food are mainly determined by their effects on the body. For example, watermelon, pear or water chestnut are cold, while mutton and ginger are warm. In the winter season, remember to choose some warm food to make up for it. Four flavors and five flavors are important in harmony. In winter, because of the dry climate and scarce precipitation, there are often cold waves and strong winds, and people's physiological functions are at a low ebb, and their hands and feet are often cold. Therefore, it is most important to calm down and nourish the qi, and also pay attention to promoting blood circulation at the extremities. In ancient times, there was a saying that "drink ginseng and astragalus wine early and take Qiju Dihuang pills late", which was well said. In winter, it is more necessary to remove the fire and chill, and the physiological activities of the human body need more heat energy to maintain. Under the condition of low temperature, the basal metabolism is increased, and the heat consumption of human body is obviously increased. It is best to eat some cold-proof foods, such as mutton. However, the phenomenon of getting angry in winter seems to be more. Although the climate is cold, you wear thick clothes and live warm and move less, and the accumulated heat in the body cannot be distributed in time. Coupled with the high calorie content in the winter diet, it is easy to cause the stomach and lungs to win. Therefore, you can also eat some cold foods, such as radish and lotus seeds. It is not only hot geniuses who need to remove fire. Eating corn in winter is beneficial to prevent cardiovascular diseases, eating sweet potato can prevent the elasticity of arterial wall from weakening and connective tissue in liver and kidney from shrinking, eating soft-shelled turtle can improve the body's immunity, eating crucian carp can treat edema, eating duck eggs can treat cough and dry throat, and other foods suitable for winter health preservation include sesame, beef, rape, chestnut, jujube and longan. Take care of your mood. The amount of tonic in winter and March should be gradually reduced to adapt to the changes of the season, and it needs to be strong first and then weak. The colder it is, the closer it is to spring, so we should reduce the amount of tonic and let the body slowly digest the food energy accumulated in a winter. Nourishing is not just nourishing the stomach, but the whole body and mind should be carefully cared for. Although there is ice and snow, there are bloom, narcissus, kumquat, Chimonanthus praecox and freesia in season. The more everything withers, the more beautiful it is. Putting them in bottles or potted plants, drinking tea with wine, enjoying flowers and reciting poems, washing hands and cooking soup, and talking about heroes with wine all make people chill out. Soup is the most suitable dish for winter tonic among all foods. The care and comfort of the soup maker is hard to be ignored by the soup drinker. After drinking a bowl of good soup, you will often leave a deep impression and satisfaction, and your teeth and cheeks will stay sweet, far exceeding a plate of exquisite stir-fry and even delicacies. Soup has its own rhythm and composition, which is refreshing and moist in spring and summer, warm and caring in autumn and winter, dispelling fire in summer and dispelling cold in winter. The taste of soup is mellow and simple, and it doesn't need any extra ingredients. Whether it is sweet or fresh, it is incisive. Apart from cooking soup, you rarely have the opportunity to faithfully reflect the original flavor of ingredients. The taste of many foods has been blurred by using various cooking techniques. Through a bowl of thick soup that is thoroughly cooked, people can remember how they touched us at the beginning and even imagine how they just grew. Moreover, compared with those salads made directly from fresh raw materials, a bowl neutralizes the essence flavor released by several matching materials, which seems to impress your taste cells more. The most important thing to drink in Chinese food is the old fire soup, which is to use at least one main ingredient, matched vegetables, auxiliary materials and even medicinal materials, simmer for a few hours, cook out the original soup, drink it warmly, and all the nutrients in the soup will be dissolved in the soup, which is very nourishing and healthy. The old fire soup of Chinese food doesn't excessively pursue seasoning and image. Usually, the meat is cooked to a pulp, but the soup doesn't have too much seasoning flavor and the color is nothing special. The main purpose of drinking soup is for nutrition, and it doesn't need to be specially matched with other foods. Perhaps it is precisely because the old fire soup pursues the original taste of food that it feels very relaxed and comfortable to drink, and the taste can be refreshed again. If you drink too much, you will definitely become addicted. China people have a natural affinity for warm food, not to mention in cold winter. The most famous ingredient in Laohuo soup is chicken, duck, fish, delicacies and seafood, supplemented by seasonal fruits and vegetables. The soup with meat is more fragrant. The most common lean pork ribs and the most nutritious turtle and turtle have their own functions, so long as they are used correctly, they don't need to be so expensive. Yam and Lycium Mutton Soup This is a winter tonic soup for all ages. If you don't know what to drink, you can't go wrong in choosing this soup. Soup ingredients: mutton, yam, carrot, medlar and ginger. The effect of mutton: nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting the lungs and kidneys. Chicken soup with old fire is particularly fragrant, and some people will feel slightly greasy. Chicken soup has always given people a very nourishing feeling, especially when they are weak and sick, they think that drinking a bowl of thick chicken soup is more useful than taking any medicine. Soup ingredients: chicken, five-finger peach, codonopsis pilosula, medlar, red dates and Polygonatum odoratum. The efficacy of native chicken: warm and sweet in nature, warming the middle energizer, invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, which has remarkable conditioning function for fatigue and weakness after illness. This soup with papaya and ribs tastes sweet, and it will be sweet if you drink it. Pork ribs soup is the most common soup in the old fire, and there are many ingredients that can be matched. Soup materials: ribs, papaya, soybeans, medlar. Efficacy of ribs: ribs refer to pork ribs, and sometimes they are made of meat spine, barrel bone and stick bone. Their efficacy is similar, and they are nutritious and supplement calcium. Peanut octopus pot pig's feet This is the ladies' favorite soup. Many people directly call it beauty pig's feet soup. It tastes quite thick and feels like drinking collagen. Soup materials: pig's feet, octopus, peanuts, medlar and jujube. The effect of pig's feet: flat in nature, sweet in taste, nourishing qi and blood, dredging blood vessels, yin beauty. In addition to the happy soup and water, there is also a dish that is most suitable for winter tonic: steamed vegetables. The seemingly unpretentious steamed vegetables, without the fancy changes of frying and frying, retain the true taste and nutrition of the ingredients, especially in the winter when the north wind is whistling, and the steaming dishes make people feel the happiness of being carefully cared for. Healthy and nutritious steamed vegetables are the cooking method with the lowest nutritional damage to the ingredients, avoiding high-temperature hot oil and excessive seasonings, and retaining the original protein and cellulose of the food to the greatest extent, which can be used as soup, easy to digest, nourishing the stomach and not getting angry. Quick: Many steamed vegetables don't take a long time. Some cooked vegetables can be steamed in 10 to 15 minutes. For example, fish, eggs and root vegetables are difficult to steam thoroughly, which may take longer. If you are in a hurry in the morning, you can also cut the vegetables into smaller pieces or slices and steam them for 15 minutes. Convenience: Another advantage of steaming vegetables is that it can steam out staple food and vegetables at the same time, which is very important for office workers who have more precious time. Kitchen utensils are simple: only a steamer with good sealing performance is needed to steam vegetables. If there is no natural gas, you can put the steamer directly on the induction cooker. If there is no steamer, you can also add water to a large wok with a bamboo steamer inside. Steamed meat pie with squid: Jiangxi people like steamed meat pie soup best. Meat patties are chopped into minced meat with good pork, and the ratio of fat to thin is preferably 1: 3. The finer the minced meat, the better. After the minced meat is chopped, the minced meat balls are beaten a few times to increase the elasticity, and then the meat patties are made into thin meat patties, which can be put into a steamer. When steaming, the meat ball will slowly ooze gravy to form a meat pie soup. If some auxiliary materials are added to the meat pie, such as dried shredded squid, or chopped horseshoes, or dried vegetables, the meat pie will be more delicious. Steamed pork with shrimp sauce: Steamed pork with shrimp sauce is a representative of steamed vegetables in Cantonese cuisine. It is fragrant and delicious, very common and not difficult to cook. Slice three layers of pork belly, marinate it with Guangdong shrimp sauce, put it directly on a plate and put it in a steamer, steam it for 15 minutes with a bowl of white rice, which is a great lunch. Pork must be skinned, and you can also put a little honey or a little soy sauce when curing, which is also very delicious. This dish has a strong taste, so it's best to eat it with a bowl of clear soup. Steaming with preserved meat: Steaming with preserved meat is the representative of Hunan steamed vegetables. In fact, it is a good dish to steam the dried bacon, sausage and preserved fish together in a pot. When steaming, you can also spread a layer of Lipu taro chips or potato chips at the bottom of the bowl, and the bacon gravy is just as delicious. Yam: Yam is a very good ingredient, which is nourishing and has no side effects. Some people's skin will be allergic to the sticky juice of yam, and their hands will be red or itchy. Wear rubber gloves when peeling. Pumpkin: It is the best way to steam the ripe pumpkin. After steaming, the sweet taste of pumpkin is very pleasing, which is both good for eating and easy to digest. Eating more pumpkins can lubricate the stomach well, make the digestive system very smooth, and will not be constipated. Taro: Because the time in the morning is short, it is not easy to steam the taro quickly, so when preparing ingredients, cut the taro into small pieces or slices as much as possible, so that the taro can be fully steamed and steamed in a short time to achieve the best taste of sweet potato: Eating sweet potato in the morning can help you lose weight. The main reason is that sweet potato is rich in nutrients and cellulose. Eating it on an empty stomach in the morning can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase the amount of defecation, which is equivalent to doing a small cleaning of the large intestine and making it easier for people to eat. Sweet potatoes only need to be washed, sliced and steamed, without peeling. Corn: the best time to eat more coarse grains in a day is in the morning. Corn is the best choice of coarse grains, which requires neither time-consuming processing nor seasoning. Just steam it.