2 . How to roast pumpkin seeds (籽)

Roasting pumpkin seeds is easy and produces crispy (脆的) results. Learn how to roast pumpkin seeds with this step-by-step guide.

Using a spoon, take the pulp (果肉) seeds out of your pumpkin and into a bowl.     1    . Use kitchen scissors or a paring knife to carefully cut fibers loose. Pick out the seeds from the pulp and place them in the container.

Wash the seeds under cold water.     2    . Shake the seeds dry. Pumpkin seeds have two parts: a crispy white covering and green seeds. Both are eatable.

Preheat the oven (烤箱) to 150℃. Spread the seeds in a single layer on an oiled baking sheet and roast 30 minutes.

    3    . Return them to the oven and bake until they are crispy and golden, about 20 more minutes. Or get creative with your favorite flavors. Mix them in one of the spice (香料) combinations.

Cool roasted pumpkin seeds completely. Store them in an airtight container. They’ll last up to two weeks at room temperature or up to two months in the refrigerator.

Roasted pumpkin seeds are a satisfying snack. They have a series of nutritional benefits. 30 grams of whole roasted pumpkin seeds (about 90 pieces) have 126 calories, 5 grams of fat and 5 grams of protein. They are also a good source of magnesium and zinc, providing 19%of your daily quantity of both these minerals.     5    .

4 . 阅读表达

Growing up in San Francisco, Grace Young used to watch her father shop daily in Chinatown for whatever he needed to make traditional Chinese meals at home. As an award-winning cookbook author, Ms. Young, now 66, has spent decades shopping the same way in New York’s Chinatown.

Ms. Young developed a passion for cooking at an early age. At 13, she started to sit in on cooking classes. After college, Ms. Young moved to New York and worked in a book-packaging company. In her 30s, she realized that while she had helped create more than 40 cookbooks, she didn’t know how to make the dishes that tasted of home. “I knew if I recorded all of my parents’ recipes, it would be a great gift that I could give my family and the next generation.” she says.

Yet what began as a recipe book became a kind of memoir. Talking about food encouraged her parents to finally open up about their past, like the fact that her father had owned a Chinatown restaurant in the 1940s. “It was really an amazing way to learn not only my family’s recipes, but also my family’s story. “she says. The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen (1999) launched Ms. Young’s work in preserving and sustaining Chinese culinary (烹饪的)traditions.

Ms. Young has also devoted herself to supporting the restaurants in Chinatown. Since early 2020, Ms. Young has raised money to buy meals from Chinatown restaurants and deliver them to those in need. This year, instead of cooking at home for her husband and friends, she celebrated the Chinese New Year with various dishes from local restaurants in Chinatown. “If these restaurants don’t survive, Chinese culinary traditions in our city won’t survive.” she says.

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9 . The time invested in kids learning how to cook is time well spent! From mixing and baking cookies to making and cooking fresh pasta, kids will be led by a professional chef throughout the entire class. With safety at the forefront, your chef will turn the kitchen into the classroom as kids learn valuable life skills, such as critical thinking, creativity and cooperation.

In this interactive cooking class designed for kids, Chef Jordan will teach fundamental kitchen skills, including the art of pasta making, while creating a classic spaghetti dinner. This class is recommended for ages 5-15.

Explore the art of pasta-making in this hands-on cooking class for kids. Chef ShaSha will guide you by using fresh ingredients and authentic techniques to make a handful of kids’ favorite dishes. This class is recommended for ages 8-18.

In this hands-on cooking class intended for kids, Chef Christmas will guide you in making non-traditional sushi. The rolls you make will have the authentic taste and texture of traditional sushi, but with a unique shape! This class is recommended for ages 5-15.

In this hands-on baking class with Chef Adolf, your kids will be on their way to feeling like the finest of chefs. Chef Adolf will show them how to mix, beat and fold ingredients into eats that everyone will love at a kid’s birthday party. This class is recommended for ages 8-15.

10 . For those who always want to try out new things and to experience exciting flavors that come directly from Mother Earth, foraging subscription boxes (觅食订阅箱) can provide wild ingredients (材料) that no traditional supermarket has on its shelves.

Oak leaf tea, acom coffee, and pine pollen syrup are just a few of the seasonal ingredients people can now get thanks to projects such as the Forage Box. This delivery service collects wild food very few people know about, and sends it to the subscribers monthly. In this way, everyone can surprise their loved ones with delicious meals.

“The flavors are big and bold that’s the point. The idea is to show there’s a lot more going on when nature gets to farm it,” said Jim Parum, creator of the Forage Box. Since he started the project, he spends his days foraging for ingredients in environments such as the countryside, forests and the coast. The idea of the Forage Box is not to send out meal boxes but new ingredients, so information about cooking these wild items is also offered in the boxes. Delicious and inspiring recipes can also be found on the company’s website.

Underlying this project is the belief that nature has a lot to offer and can provide us with much   tastier and healthier ingredients than those in the supermarket. The project works well as people   are looking for ways to deal with the challenge of climate change while living healthier lives.

In the past, organic food was only available in specialty health food stores, but now it has a much more mainstream (主流) following worldwide. In the United States alone, it reached 50 billion   dollars in value in 2019, up from 13.26 billion in 2005. This shows growth of nearly 300 percent over this period.

Miles Irving, an international wild food expert, said, “For us, foraged food is a very powerful way to reconnect people with the land, and this provides all sorts of benefits to physical, mental, emotional and community health.”