For my personal life, I really pay attention to diets. A healthy diet can give people energy and reduce the risk of many diseases, such as obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. The Canada’s food guide helps people to make a healthy diet. For example, we should eat dark green vegetables or organic vegetables everyday to get enough vitamin A and vitamin folate. Broccoli, arugula and chard are all dark green vegetables. Carrots, sweet potatoes and pumpkins are organic vegetables. If you don’t have time or feel tired after working, just buy a package of pre-bagged vegetable such as baby parrots or green beans. You can simply put them in a salad. And one thing to remember is that read the food labels. It helps you to compare two foods and determine the nutritional values of food. Checking the % daily value if you have two similar foods. Its purpose is to see a food has less or more nutrients. And for meat, we should eat at least two fishes every week. Herring, char, trout and salmon are good. Removing the skin on poultry can reduce the fat or salt. Beans, tofu and lentils are good to eat everyday. Drinking 500 mL of skim milk or soy beverage everyday can help us get enough vitamin D to have healthy bones. You can have your milk or soy beverage with oats or cranberry. Grain bread, brown rice, whole-wheat pasta or barley is necessary. It is really important to learn how to make a healthy diet because health is the basic for everything in life.
Now let’s talk about the Canadian cuisine and desserts. I think all Canadians would mention the butter tarts. A butter tart is a small pastry tart, made with butter, brown sugar, syrup and eggs. It is delicious and also easy to make. Have you ever thought about to make this traditional pastry by yourself? Here is the chance. We already had the recipes for you. So let’s make it! First, put 175 grams of all-purpose flour, ½ teaspoon salt and 15 grams of brown sugar in the food processor to process until they are completely combined. Add 113 grams of cold unsalted butter into it and process about 15 seconds until it resembles coarse meal. And then add 30mL to 60mL of ice water slowly. You can check to see if the dough can hold together by pinching it. Cover it with plastic wrap and put it into the freezer for one hour before using it. After an hour, take it out from the refrigerator and put it on the table to roll out. Cut it into 10 centimeters round. Put them into the muffin tin and put into freezer for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, you can put 70 grams of unsalted butter and 210 grams of light brown sugar into the mixer to make them smooth and creamy. Beat two eggs and mix them with 2 teaspoon of vanilla powder. Stir it with 60 mL of light cream. Now, it’s ready to bake. Put it in the baker for 15 to 20 minutes at 190 degrees until the pastry changes color to brown. Well done! You make the butter tarts by yourself. Now it’s time to eat the delicious pastry! Enjoy it. |