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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Tigers, Things & Wings

Weight lifters, body builders, gym fanatics and everyone else in the free world. Who loves chicken? I do. I also love the protein out of chicken. I'll eat chicken till I grow wings and can't fly. Since I write a fitness blog, today I want to speak about chicken. I'm hungry.

So I just want to speak about what it is and how much I want to eat it. I want to eat it with rice and some spicy sauce however I can't remember the ingredients so I'm just typing until I can. It's now 10:42 p.m. and I'm up the river if you know what I mean, with no chicken and protein.  I looked up what a protein is but I have no idea how to explain it to you. As well as an amino acid.???

I like chicken breasts, chicken legs and the rest of the chicken. But seriously since I'm unable to be scientific right now, I will go ahead give you a really good gourmet chicken recipe. Enjoy.
By the way, the modern chicken is a descendant to the Red Junglefowl Hybrid(???). I saw a picture of one on a tiger reservation. Who would take a picture of chicken on a tiger reservation? Not me.

The dish I would like to share with you comes from a great far away place called Hong Kong. This dish is called "Swiss Wing" however the legend of the ancient name is that it was said to have been called "Sweet Wing" but the person listening misunderstood the pronunciation and called it "Swiss Wing". The name stuck ever since.

Apparently, according to Wikipedia it's also a common practice in Hong Kong restaurants to name a new dish after a place, which may or may not have any connection with the dish itself at all. That's fun!

    Ingredients:

2 tablespoons corn oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
3 pounds chicken wings, rinsed and patted dry with paper towels
2 tablespoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated

    Directions:

First you want to heat oven to a temperature of 375 degrees F. Next
you want to combine your soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and ginger and then you are going to set it aside.

Now place the chicken wings in a roasting pan and drizzle with corn oil and then sprinkle it with salt and pepper then toss.

Now roast for 15 to 20 minutes, or until wings are beginning to brown. Remove from oven and baste wings with the drippings and then drain the excess fat.

Now put the soy-ginger mixture over the wings and toss them. Finally you return them to the oven for another 25 to 30 minutes and then you ready and can serve them immediately.

It might help to watch a video as well so I found one, however it's in Chinese so have fun:



I'd like to thank wikipedia for their knowledge of chickens and I'd also like tomorrow to come so I can complete this dish. LoL! If you are interested in more healthy and fun ways to live a happy and fitness filled life visit me over at my blog and before going to the homepage and looking around check out these ab exercises since we're talking about filling our stomachs up. http://myweave.blogspot.com/2012/10/workout-5-full-on-solarplex-workouts.html Thanks again. Enjoy!

Muscle Structure: 4 Day Swell (Day 1) The Run


Video 2  :: The Run




Muscle Structure: 4 Day Swell (Day 3) - Curls

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Here is video 3. Curls.  Enjoy!

Video 3 ::  Curls



Hey you guys!  This video is to help you with some direction with Curls. 

Please Comment on these videos...They're for you.  I enjoy reading your thoughts and opinions plus there have been over 5000 visitors to my site already in fact just yesterday I had over 1100 visitors and that was in just one day.   So others will be reading your thoughts as well.  

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Muscle Structure: The 4 Day Swell (Day 1)

Day  #1
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It's been awhile since I've posted because I've haven't been working out.  I've been slacking off drinking and I've even smoked a few cigarettes however with all the energy and motivation I've lost I've come to a point where I felt it was time to make a decision on what was better for me.  So I took in account how I felt and what I look like now compared to what I looked like a few months ago.  I decided that I need to make a noticeable change so I quickly put a plan up and threw up a goal in my head.  4 days of extreme exercising and with it will come extreme change both visibly and in the way we feel.

Now since I havn't been exercising in the last few weeks or so my motivation has fallen quite a bit and my energy was extremely down so please bear with me through these videos.  By the end, we will see noticeable change.

Video 1. ::  Stretching

Muscle Structure: 4 Day Swell (Day 1) - Jump Rope

Video 3  ::  Jump Rope


Muscle Structure: 4 Day Swell (Day 3) - The Stairs

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Video 2 ::  The Stairs 

 

Hey you guys!  This video is to stepshow and also to show you an easier way to build leg muscle while doing cardio.   

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Vegetables: Is Cooking Them the Answer?

Vegetables. Now though there are exceptions it seems the older we get the more we want to eat them. So how do we prepare them? What is the best way to season them and cook them so we can enjoy them and still receive the benefits from them.
Let's pick a vegetable and we'll discuss a different way to prepare a delectable dish for it.
Asparagus is going to be the subject in this topic. It's delicious and can be eaten with almost any food in the world. Chicken, fish, rice, seafood, potatoes, etc. Anything. According to pkdiet.com answering the question, What are the nutritional benefits of asparagus? They wrote:
A 5.3 ounce serving (approximately 5 spears) has only 20 calories, 0 fat or cholesterol, 5 milligrams of sodium, 400 milligrams of potassium, 3 grams of fiber, 60% of the USRDA of folacin, and are excellent sources of thiamin and vitamin B6. Also, nutrition-and-you.com writes that its shoots are also good source of vitamin K. Adequate vitamin-K levels in the diet help limiting neuronal damage in the brain; thus, has established role in the treatment of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
So how do we cook it. Some people cook the mush out of it until it holds no density and with that thought here comes another one. How much nutritional value are we losing when we cook our vegetables or over cook them. Well, according to livestrong.com we lose minerals and vitamins when cooking our vegetables however we increase the antioxidants when steaming or boiling them. They also noted that if you boil your vegetables and want to maintain that mineral or vitamin value then you can save the water after boiling your vegetables and make a soup. The minerals and vitamins in your vegetables boil out into the water so be creative while staying healthy.

So below is a gourmet recipe to cook your asparagus. The referenced website is listed next to the ingredients you will need for the recipe. Please enjoy this recipe from

Manjula's Kitchen:
ifood.tv - Asparagus w/ Ginger

1 lb. Asparagus
2 tbsp. of Olive Oil
1 teaspoon of Cumin Seed
1 tbsp. of minced Ginger
2 teaspoon of Lemon Juice
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper
1/4 cup (4tbs) parmesan cheese

Instructions:

The first thing you are going to do is prepare the asparagus. Holding the stalk at both ends, bend the asparagus gently until the stalk break's on its own. When finished throw away the base of the broken stalks. Now take a knife and
slice the remaining asparagus spears diagonally into 2 inch pieces.

After you've cut the stalks, using a large frying pan bring your olive oil to medium heat.
Put the cumin seeds to the frying pan and wait till they crack; then add your sliced asparagus, ginger, lemon juice, salt and black pepper.

Now, stir-fry it for about 4 to 5 minutes or until the asparagus are tender but still crunchy. You don't want to over cook the asparagus. You want to make sure you keep it crisp.
When finished cooking:
Now you just sprinkle some shredded Parmesan cheese on your dish, just prior to serving.




TIPS from Manjula's Kitchen:

Add 1 tablespoon sliced almonds halfway through cooking the asparagus. This will make a beautiful presentation and taste great.
I want to thank Manjula's Kitchen, ifood.tv, pkdiet.com and wikipedia for their help and if you are interested in more motivational ways to live a healthy lifestyle then keep glancing around the site there is tons of information that is fun to learn and great to enjoy!