Eating Healthy.

    Eating healthy starts with learning how to build a personal relationship with food. It is not by affording a plate of salad in the best restaurants. If you want to eat healthy, you must first and foremost understand food from the natural point of view. And for you to understand food, u must come to food with a clean heart. Learn to treat food like living thingz,accommodate them in your environment, learn to share with them.   Buy your food in a food flask not in a poli bag. Pay for your food, don,t let your food feel that  you are cheating on the food seller. Be truthful about your hunger,don,t eat food by obtaining. Buy them fresh, don,t wait for the reminant...you are not a trash can.

If you do all this, your relationship with food will become so healthy that you don,t need a doctor to place you on a by force diet. And when you build a healthy relationship with food,you will not be needing any doctor to deprive you of you favorite food in the name of dieting. You will know what to eat and drink...your food will become a solid link between you mind and body.

There are two types of food relationship, healthy and unhealthy food relationship. The type of relationship you have with food...plays a big role in eating healthy.
If u are one of those that eat at first site without knowing the make up of the food..."na youknow oooo". If u are using food as a companion when u are lonely...."na your body go tell you". If you are not interested in balancing you food,find out why....you must be lacking some information. If you are a miracle seeker through fasting....go see your doctor oo..Ulcer no be man friend ooo. Una do well..make I face my Kitchen Jare...#itagokwaife?

          

Pineaple Rice.

Recipes like this can only come from Chef valicci's  Kitchen Thingz.  A Kitchen without wall. The only kitchen that represents healthy lifestyle in its fullness. The fresh pineapple that took part in this simple recipe was actually meant for my personal consumption. As a personal chef, I know my kitchen and my kitchen knows me. The same thing goes with my client and my cooking utensils.

My mood was a bit shaky on the day i made this food....but i did not let it get to my cooking  skills ...it only affected my turning stick.
The caterer that ate this food did not leave a comment after eating but her countenance said a lot though.
Rice,pineapple,cabbage,cucumber,pepper,garlic, egg and spring onions were the particulars of this recipe.

Rice and garlic with half cup of fresh pineapple juice,  matched up with them selves in a bowl before entering the wok on fire. The fried scattered eggs were on standby....waiting for their turn to go in and show the stuffs they were made of.

In less than seven minutes, both the rice,pineapple, pepper,fried eggs,cucumber,spring onions, salt and other follow follow ingredients, plus including my God's given skills went into the wok as a team and came out victorious as a Pine Rice..

Basic Fried Rice

This is a basic recipe that you can add to as u like depending on the quantity of rice you want to serve...u are also free to add some vegetables if you get fresh one for your kitchen.  If you relate well with food, you will be so close that nothing will be hidden from you in your kitchen, all your fresh and available ingredients will be willing to join hands and come up with something rich and mouthwatering.

In this healthy recipe, It was so easy for me to put together the likes of shrimp and chicken fillets together with celery. The basic spice at work was the combination of garlic, ginger and spring onions. Cabbage had to come in from the bench because of its calm nature...knowing that it does not last in my wok.
The rice i used in this recipe has already been cooked like 6 hours  before this time. It's  actually our local rice. For those of you who believe that foreign rice is better ...please Learn how to cook our local rice and stop spoiling our rice.

Another important part of this recipe was that i consulted my client before adding all this ingredients that made this fried rice a basic one. She did well on her own part too. I always say it here and there that we need healthy communication to be able to fix healthy meal. If I did not relate with her, I will never know that she skipped her breakfast mistakenly due to road traffic. And all her hope was to come and finish all I have in the kitchen.

Shrimps and chicken fillets were the first to feel the heat of my wok cause I needed to stir fry them and set aside to relate with each other on how to work with our local rice for a healthy and fresh fried rice.

After the first stir fry that lasted for about 5 minutes, I brought in a fresh wok to fry the two eggs I used for the fried rice. U need to see the way this eggs just skata like sat war dey..but I prefer it scattered for fried rice. Trust my cutting board. All the veges needed were layed in state for proper cutting,plus including garlic and ginger.

It's almost twenty minutes and my client face don de change from hunger to hungry...no be person tell me to put a fresh wok on fire and allow it to heat up to a level ,i poured in the garlic and ginger ,then follow them up with rice on a high heat...shrimps and chicken follows immediately,before adding pepper and salt to taste . As soon a the vegetables came into the scene ...I stir-fried for another 2 minutes and serve hot.

Thanks for being here with chef valicci and his kitchen thingz..

Note: U need fire Extinguisher in your kitchen..buy one today.

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Living Simple Healthy Lifestyle

The phrase ''healthy lifestyle"describe the life you need to live if you really want to feel, look and do good, it actually helps you get over those stress of the day that sometimes pushes you to do things that you wouldn't have done if you were fit.Well, there are clear facts that describe a healthy living person and so it is with an unhealthy person. Living simple and healthy lifestyle is different from having a family doctor....its just funny how hard people find it to understand this simple phrase.

I  did not plan to take you on a long journey today because i will be leaving for an important meeting in the next 5 minutes.All the vegetables are meeting with  me to discuss the current attack of vegetables in the north Eastern Nigeria, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.... but we need to act fast because lives are involved. Before i leave,lets share the grace of  the chief driver of healthy lifestyle...this is no other act than the one and only EXERCISE..... give it a hand of applause if you are not holding anything serious.

Exercise is the senior driver of healthy lifestyle...including food,it  is also the captain of the entire healthy living team and very humble. I met exercise one on one in Asia,China to be precise, we met at the English corner.... where foreign students meet every Saturday. There i met exercise taking care of some 80 to 90 years old women and men. It moved me to see elderly people of that age working out to keep fit.One of them told me that the best way to maintain a loving home and marriage is to build a fitness team in your home.The other old man said that, if he becomes the president ....that he will sign healthy lifestyle into law.

Exercise told me all i need to know about it and how people have neglected it in this part of the world .It made it clear to me that fake medical practitioners are working very hard to see that people leave exercise for pills.It also gave me some of the fact to share with you.It confirmed that other healthy lifestyles depend on exercise for proper assessment of your body organs before they can act and distribute nutrients to your body.Don,t be surprised that most of the healthy food you have been eating  has been taken to the the wrong organ because you lack co-operation with exercise.It continued to say that you don,t have to change every thing at the same time to start living healthy lifestyle.In fact the trick to healthy living is in making small changes,taking it one step after the other each day. It will be unfair to ask "oga" Emma  to quit "nkwobi"  for water melon..."na die be that".

Open your eyes, ears and senses to read, hear and think, i know you will say things like "am too busy, i don,t know where to start, am not motivated or you are afraid of getting injured".A lady told me that her body cannot handle vigorous act...but looking at her face,she looks like someone that has a vigorous boyfriend .

Just adding exercise to your current lifestyle will do you plenty good.

These are few of the things you stand to gain if you make up you mind today:

• It will help you reduce the risk of heart diseases, stroke and diabetes.
• It will improve your joint stability.
• It will helps maintain flexibility as you age.
• It will reduce your daily stress.
• It will maintain your bone mass
• It enhances self esteem
• It will improve your memory as you age..and also keep you at alert as a young person.

Make i drink something jare ...i go see una later after the meeting. #itagokwaife.

NOTE: EXERCISE IS NOT MOVING FROM ONE SHOP TO ANOTHER LOOKING FOR WHAT TO EAT.

                                                               

 

Reluctant Beef On Noddles.

Noddles need no introduction,it's as  popular as boko haram.It is one food that saves lazy and hungry people from untimely death. If i have my way, i will extend the cooking time to 1 hour. It is a staple food made from some type of unleavened dough,which is rolled flat and cut into shape and very healthy.... if it is well cooked. "hunger no know this one ooh".In this recipe , coconut milk played the role of a mother, while peas,carrot,celery and Chinese lettuce acted more like the home girls.The relationship between garlic and ginger was also shown here with style... "as the two both of them" agreed to step aside during marination..

The beef involved in this recipe was a bit reluctant  until it saw me, thank God am a celebrity chef  that respects the relationship between man and food. I marinated the beef in a bowl with red wine,black pepper,salt and onions for almost an hour after cutting it into slim sizes.

As for the noddles,it was already aware of what was about to happen... i broke it into  pieces, to ease the stress of noddles control..."if you see some people where them dey eat long noddles...you go see say food dey send man message" and most of us are yet to master the skill. At the same time it was pleased to see some foreign food stuffs showing interest in the recipe.After breaking the noddles, i put it to boil in water with a little oil added to keep it separated from each other.."to avoid gumming body" for 5 minutes. Then i washed it until the water became clear, before leaving it in a sieve to drain out the water and become dry.

As for the vegetables, washing  and cutting has already taken place on my most loved cutting board . While cutting this vegetables, i made sure that my knife was well sharpened and clean. It is better to cut fresh vegetables with clean and sharp knife to free them from political  pain. My wok  was ready with a table spoon of veg oil that serves as cream before adding the marinated beef on the high heated wok. After adding the beef, my turning stick steps in as usual... leaving no beef un-turned to avoid unnecessary burning beef... not until it turns brown and set aside.

Having vegetables like: carrot,celery,spring onions, Chinese lettuce,peas and rice vinegar.... encouraged my second wok to ginger up  for the final stir fry.But this time on a medium heat, i allowed  garlic and the ginger to go in first before adding spring onions and noddles.The noddles called for  Continuous  stir fry to be able to relate with the vegetables, trust me...i did not stop until it was time to add the slim reluctant beef. Guess what ! my turning stick was over powered by the health benefits of the this food .That was why i  let in the vegetables and the mixture of coconut milk, black pepper ,sesame oil, half tea cup of water  and served hot.  I Thank you for being here. #itagokwaife


NOTE :   Eat healthy, you are not a hungry man.