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| 2003年05月19日(月) | something about cooking pasta--back to basics |
I went to a museum yesterday.My husband told me to buy some beads accesories.
I cooked pasta with some salad of smoked salmon in the evening.I would like to read something about cooking pasta in English.
I do not think that the Tanwanese doctor who might be SARS has to apologize to Japan. I hope he will take care of himself and will be better soon.
I fried some hearts of chicken,bean sprouts,mashrooms with korean
sauce.
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Back-to-basics pasta
by Julia Watson
A refresher course on how to get it perfect every time
Pasta may appear to be the easiest thing in the world to cook, the answer to a ‘what-on-earth-can-we-eat-tonight’ panic. But if you don’t follow a few basic rules, it won’t live up to your expectations. Here are some suggestions:
Use plenty of water (about 1 litre per 100g) to boil the pasta.
Once the water has come to the boil and not before, add salt. In traditional Italian cooking 1 ½ tbsp is added for every 450g pasta. You may want to use less, especially if you don’t own a very big pan and have to use less than the recommended amount of water.
You do not need to add oil to the water. Just give the pasta a brisk stir to separate it once it has softened.
Add the pasta all at once when the water has come to a rolling boil. If you add it little by little, it won’t cook evenly. Do not break dried pasta in two to make it fit into the pot. Prod it down into the water with a wooden spoon as it softens. Cover the pot to speed up the return to the boil, removing the lid once it does, and cook until al dente – ‘to the tooth’, meaning it still retains some chewiness. Fresh pasta should be ready by the time it returns to the boil.
Cooking times given on the box are generally too long. Draw a strand out with a fork 2 minutes before the printed recommendation and test it between your teeth to see if it is firm to the bite. It will continue to cook a little when you have drained it and again when you add it to a serving dish or sauce in the pan, so it’s better to have it a little underdone. By the time you serve it, it will be perfect.
Before you drain the pasta, reserve a mug of its cooking water. Sometimes a sauce will need a little loosening.
Drain immediately to stop the cooking process, giving the colander a good sideways nudge or two. Pour it at once into the serving bowl or into the sauce, according to the recipe.
Excerpts from iVillege UK
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There is no one who is not usuful.
I know basics of how to cook pasta already.
I fried some doughnuts with no baking powder today,which were not
so beautiful in shape and yet my son said that they tasted not so bad.
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live up to 〜に恥じない生活をする、〜に応じた生活をする、（主義など）に
従って行動する
prod v.突く、つつく、呼び起こす、促す
retain vt.保持する、実行し続ける、〜を心にとめておく、〜を雇っておく
strand n.ふさ、 a strand of pearls 真珠一連
drain
colander
mug 手つきコップ、その一杯の量、人相書き、顔写真、悪漢、騙されやすい人、
がり勉屋
a mug's game 得にならないこと
nudge 肘で軽くつつくこと
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Advancing your Career with Emotional Intelligence
Advanced Certificate in Employment Skills
In each of the eight units you will learn about a key area of emotional intelligence, undertake self-assessment, prepare a personal action plan and undertake practical exercises to improve your skills.
Unit one: Improve personal innovation
Understanding your creative preferences and the ability to generate creative responses to business and personal problems. This unit gives you practical techniques to break old habits and develop new ways to generate ideas.
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Make sure you really understand your personal strengths and weaknesses. This unit looks at the self-assessment of strengths, weaknesses, personal beliefs and feelings and how this links to the level of focus upon self-improvement.
Unit three: Develop personal intuition
This unit focuses upon the degree to which you use instincts, hunches and feelings (combined with facts) when making decisions. You'll explore instinctive feeling skills and how to develop the confidence to believe in gut reactions.
Unit four: Improve emotional management
Your ability to understand and differentiate your emotions is central here. So too is the ability to manage the impact your emotions have on others. In this unit you will learn to identify the triggers to negative emotions and how to develop positive alternative responses.
Unit five: Enhance individual goal orientation
In this unit the emphasis is on the desire to achieve, the ability to persist and the energy to see things through. You'll undertake exercises to help identify what truly motivates you to have drive and energy.
Unit six: Develop empathy skills
This is a measure of your ability to take an interest in others, to listen to them and to 'feel their feelings'. In this unit you will find out how to tune in to non-verbal cues to 'read' people better.
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There are many things that can be categorised as social skills. In this unit the main ones are focused upon building relationships and communicating. Learn how to build relationships based on deeper values in order to develop real trust.
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The ability to learn far more quickly and flexibly is valuable and closely linked to emotions and feelings. This unit will help you to harness the power of left and right brain thinking and includes speed-reading techniques for fast results.
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