Tips on choosing fresh fish

These simple tips will make you help in choosing fresh fish while buying it from store. If you are a fish lover this is for you. This is also for fresher who have a little knowledge related to cooking and choosing the right ingredient with the right Quantity.

Have a look at the simple tips...

1. Eyes

The first and the most important thing about the fish you should notice first is the eyes. Look for bright and clear eyes. The eyes are the window to a truly fresh fish, for they fade quickly into gray dullness. Dull Eyed fish can also be considered and may be safe to eat but they are past their prime.

2. Look at Fish

Look for the fish and check Does It Shine?? Does It look Metallic and Clean?? A good and fresh fish looks clean and shiney.

3. Smell It

The another most important thing is to smell it. A good and fresh fish smells like clean water, or even like cucumbers. It is important for you to smell fish or either cooking won't be good.

4. Gills

A fresh fish have clear rich red colored gills. If color is dull red like a faded brick then the fish may be too old to select.

Another points to be kept in mind.

A. Buy the freshest fish you can find if you are making sushi.

B. Cooking a not-so-fresh fish will not improve it's flavor and/or texture.

C. In land-locked states head to your local Asian or Latin market. Both types of cuisine are known to use lots of seafood, so they will likely have the freshest on hand due to turn over.

D. Flesh should be firm to the touch, not soft or mushy.

F. Select shellfish with shells tightly closed and without any gaps or cracks.

E. Fish should have no brown spots, which are an indication of the beginning of decay.

G. With frozen seafood is must be solid with no signs of partial thawing, in undamaged packaging and with no sign of freezer burn.

Air-tight packing at home

So, here is what we found for you, so that you can preserve your food, grains, pulses and other edible food items for a long time and the interesting thing is you can also pack water and store in a polythene bag. 

It's not at all a tough process to make your own air tight packing at home. It's pretty easy to make. Follow the simple steps to make your own air tight packing at home. 

Things your will need :-

• plastic bottle or soda bottle
• scissors
• polythene bags

How to make it :-

1) Take a plastic bottle and cut it from above by leaving approx. 1/2 inch gap after the bottle cap.

2) After cutting take you polythene bag which contains your food and pass the bag from the bottom of the bottle.

3) Open the polythene bag from above after passing from the bottle.

4) Close the bottle with the cap so the the polythene comes in between.

5) After closing the bottle with cap, you have your own air tight packing at home.

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Lose weight by Drinking Green Juices.

Green Juices

Take some Green fruits and vegetables and make some fresh fruit or green vegetable juice and drink everytime just before 20 minutes of each meal. It will ease your hunger, and provide you with necessary vitamins and minerals at the same time.

Using dark greens vegetables to make juices such as spinach, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, celery, asparagus, and cucumber, will help you create good combinations to increase your vitamin intake further. They are great for any weight loss regimen and to detoxify (internal cleansing).

Tips to remember :-

Avoid bottled fruit juices (ex: Tropicana, Minute Maid, etc.); they are high in sugar content.

Try acai berry juice. It is very good for weight loss.

Keep away from coriander and basil, which are herbs that can stimulate your appetite.

Don't drink more than 2 oz. of undiluted green vegetable juice at a time or you will have unpleasant digestive symptoms.
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I hope you make this a regular part of life and make it a daily routine and drink these juices to stay fit and healthy alongwith loosing your weight.

Success Story of Jaclyn Beach who looses her weight by 106 pounds just with juicing says Fitlife.

Green juice recipes for weight loss:-

All the juices contains approximately 1 quart (32oz) of juice, give or take based on produce.


1.Pineapple, Cucumber, Mint Juice

• 1/2 ripe pineapple
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 bunch of mint

Run all ingredients through juicer and enjoy!


2. The Greenbay

• 5 oranges (remember to peel oranges before juicing, otherwise juice will be bitter)
• juice of 1/2 bunch parsley

Run oranges through juicer and set aside. Separately juice parsley. Slowly pour parsley juice over OJ forming two layers.

Note: you will probably want to mix this juice before drinking, unless you enjoy the taste of straight parsley juice!!


3. Sweet Ruby

• small bunch grapes
• 1 cucumber
• 1 apple
• 1 lemon
• 1 bunch rainbow chard
• 1/2 bunch parsley
• 4 stalks celery
• 1 medium size beet
• 1/2 habanero or jalapeno pepper (optional)

Run all ingredients through juicer and enjoy!

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How super fruits helps us to stay young??

Super fruits. hmm!!

what are they? why do we call them so?

look at the list below and you will find out.

 

1. Kiwi
Tiny but Mighty! It is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its Vitamin C content is twice that of as orange.

2. Apple
An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Altough an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhance the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the ricks of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke.

3. Orange
THe sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent and dissolve kidney stones, as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.

4. Strawberry
A protective fruit, strawberry has the highest total antioxidants power among major fruits and they protect the body from cancer.

5. Watermelon
The coolest thirst Quencher. 92 % of it is water, but it boosts our immune system, and fights cancer. It also contains Vitamin C and potassium.

6. Guvava & Papaya
Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guvava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotetne, which is good for our eyes.

These all super fruits helps us to keep young and eating them regularly keeps us healthy.

Some other Tips on how to stay young!!

• Laugh and have fun. Don't be gloomy.
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• Lets bygones be bygones.
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• Early to bed, earlt to rise, is healthy and wise.
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• Stay lean. Being just 30% overweight is bad.
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• Keep working, doing something you like.
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• Be the boss of your own life.
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• Too much medicine ruins your body.
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• Exercise and eat less fatty foods.
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• Do not worry about health and death, just get on with your life and enjoy it!!!
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How To Eat A Cupcake??

 

Were you ever knowing how to eat a cupcake??

 

This is the original way to eat a cupcake.

You will get Surprised!!!
but its a fact...

 

 

 

How to eat??

 

Open the wrapper covering the cupcake. After opening the wrapper cut the cupcake from between as shown in image into two equal half. Then put the creamy part of the cupcake upside down on the other half of cupcake. The creamy part of the cupcake will come into the center. Your cupcake is ready to eat.

 

 Eat it. enjoy it. share it. 

5 simple and easy tips while writing and decorating cake

Writing on cake is not that easy as you think after, but it will be easy after you get the secret of writing on it. Many people feels uncomfortable regarding writing on a cake and also when it comes to decorate their cakes. Well, you do such an hard work and keep patience for the nice and tasty cake. So you must also learn some quick and easy simple tricks that will make you perfect in writing as well as decorating the cake well.



Follow these 5 simple and easy tips and tricks for piping...

 1.Fill a pastry bag fitted with a fine tip

2.Mark each word with a toothpick

3.Trace the letters

4.Practice piping on a plate first

5.Pipe over the lines

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 Some simple type of decorating styles:-

Polka Dot Cake

For this polka dotted cake design, hold the pastry bag in both hands and keep the tip just a little above the surface and gently squeeze the icing and then as soon as the icing releases pull it back. Frosting dots will also help to hide smudged edges or spotty icing; start with the large ones. You can make different types of dots and also decorate it with different colors.

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You can also make your own designs by kmife, spoon and fork, etc. This will be easy and less time consuming and also give your cake a good look to make your mouth watery...
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Prepare your own decorative design and try to apply a new design every time you make cake at home this will help you to make new and creative design.