A Chinese cookbook for happiness and success
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Nadine Koerner. A Chinese cookbook for happiness and success
1. Introduction. 1.1 Why a Chinese cookbook for happiness and success and why you need it
1.2 The definition of happiness and success around the world
1.3 Following the trend towards sustainability: Sustainable happiness and success
1.4 The relationship between happiness and success
1.5 History of happiness and success definitions and research
1.6 Measuring happiness and success on a global scale
Measuring success
2. Success and happiness in China. 2.1 Chinese views on happiness and success and their relationship to food
2.2 History of Chinese happiness and success research
2.3 Chinese research results on happiness and China’s global rankings. 2.3.1 Chinese definitions of happiness
2.3.2 Happiness research results in China
2.3.3 Chinese definition of success
2.3.4 Success research results in China
2.4 Chinese policies to achieve national happiness
3 Introduction into the Chinese cuisine. 3.1 History of Chinese cooking and cuisine and latest trends
3.2 Main cooking tools and ingredients in the Chinese cuisine. 3.2.1 Main cooking tools in a Chinese kitchen
3.2.2 Ingredients in the Chinese cuisine
Chinese sauces and condiments
Chinese vegetables
Other staples in a Chinese household
3.3 Principles of Chinese cooking and cooking methods
1. Steaming
2.Stir-frying
3.Deep-frying
4. Braising
5. Boiling
6. Roasting
3.4 Chinese regional cuisines
Cantonese cuisine
Sichuan cuisine
Hunan cuisine
Fujian
Anhui cuisine
Shandong
Jiangsu
Zhejiang
Beijing
Shanghai
3.5 Chinese meal times and eating habits
3.6 Food symbolism in China
3.7 Influences of Daoism and Feng Shui on Chinese cooking, happiness and success
4. Chinese recipes for happiness and success
4.1 Preparation before you start cooking
Determine your own definition of success
YOUR definition of success:
4.2 Chinese recipes for happiness and success regarding health. SOUPS. Eight Happiness Soup for a strong immune system and happiness. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: De-clutter your kitchen for good health and happiness
Peace in mind soup. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Get peace in mind: Never regret
SALADS. Good memory salad. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Improve your memory
RICE/NOODLES. Long life Chaozhou noodles
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Ten tips for a long life
Chinese rice congee for healthy stomach and brain. Ingredients:
Directions:
FISH/SEAFOOD. Salmon steaks for a happy mood and young skin. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Eat the right foods for good skin
MEAT
Ingredients:
Directions:
Sleep-well chicken with cashew nuts. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Learn Chinese sleeping habits
VEGETABLES. Bitter melon and beef in black bean sauce for good eyesight and healthy liver. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Increase attention and improve memory
Tomatoes with scrambled eggs for a fit brain, memory and body. Ingredients:
Directions:
DESSERT. Chinese happy, healthy fruit world. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Eat every day two foods that Chinese eat against stress
BEVERAGES
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Think good, feel good. Detox yourself
For good digestion: Rice and fennel drink. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Walk and breathe
4.3 Chinese recipes for happy and successful relationships
SOUPS. Wonton Soup – Happy Marriage Soup
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Read Chinese tips for a lasting (forever after…) marriage
Detoxifying soup for happy relationships. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Dig out and throw out toxic, negative thoughts to have positive relationships
SALAD. Chinese ‘love’ salad. Ingredients (for 2):
Directions:
Exercise: Use Chinese aphrodisiacs to enhance your love life
Fast Chinese Chicken Salad for (unexpected) guests and beloved ones. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Show appreciation for your beloved ones
RICE/NOODLES
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Increase harmony
Pork noodles for happy relationships. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Follow a Chinese’ marriage counselor’s advice for fulfillment and happiness in relationships
FISH/SEAFOOD ‘Togetherness shrimps’ Ingredients:
Directions:
Sweet and sour spareribs. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Add sugar and honey - praise yourself and others!
VEGETABLES. Braised eggplant. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Read about the Chinese way to make friends
DESSERT. Chinese Love Fruit salad. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Don’t judge others too easily
BEVERAGES
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Share this story with your best friend to keep your friendship alive forever
‘Kill the germs & warm-up’ tea. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Use Feng Shui to enhance your relationships
Chinese finger food for friendships: spring rolls. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Chinese movie night for friendships
4.4 Chinese recipes for happiness and success in work and career. SOUPS. Successful clam soup. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Mix yourself a life success cocktail
Cleverness soup for work/business success. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Create a video library of your successes
SALAD. Pineapple-pork success salad. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Set your goals and make them a ‘MUST’ to succeed
Pickling cucumber salad for working speed. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Success in decision-making for living a purposeful and fulfilled life
RICE/NOODLES
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Use the recipe of successful Chinese entrepreneurs
FISH/SEAFOOD. Clear mind tea shrimps. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Know the traits and attitudes needed for work success
Steamed fish for work success. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Improve your communication skills
MEAT. Lucky piggy pork. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Improve your concentration for work and business success
Chinese Orange Chicken for a lucky hand in work and business. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Increase your motivation for career success and happiness
VEGETABLES. Green brain power. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Learn from Chinese and their school and career success recipe
Rich broccoli pot. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Cultivate your networking skills
DESSERTS. Eight treasures pudding. Ingredients:
Directions:
Golden success balls. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Reduce stress
BEVERAGES. Chinese Dragon Power Cocktail. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Drive hard, work hard, play hard, finish
Brain power milk tea. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Eat and drink to improve your memory and concentration for work success
4.5 Chinese recipes to happiness and financial success. SOUP. Bring money soup. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Increase your income by raising your level of acceptance
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Believe in abundance and count all your assets
SALAD. Seafood salad for deep sea riches. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Overcome fear of failure
Prosperous noodle salad. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Overcome fear of success
RICE/NOODLES. Pineapple fried rice. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Increase your wealth with help of Feng Shui in your kitchen
Abundant fried rice. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: The way you go is important – follow the Chinese way to riches
FISH/SEAFOOD. Steamed abundance fish. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Save money like Chinese
MEAT. Pepper beef fillet. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Use Feng Shui to attract more wealth and prosperity
Wealthy Chinese Orange Beef. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Learn from others. And keep in mind what is important for you
VEGETABLES. Lucky lettuce. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Take the Chinese way to gain experience and wisdom for work success
Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Feng Shui tips for increasing your wealth
DESSERT. Steamed prosperity cake. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Increase your wealth at work with help of Feng Shui
BEVERAGE. Money flow drink. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Use Feng Shui at home to increase wealth
4.6 Chinese recipes for happiness and spiritual success
General Happiness Recipe for all meals at all times. Ingredients:
Directions:
SOUPS. Chinese Cabbage Happiness soup. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Quiet your negative self-talk
Be happy soup. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Dream yourself back to your passions and ideal life
SALADS. Global happiness salad. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Get rid of some misconceptions about happiness to be happy
Misconception one: There are shortcuts to happiness
Misconception two: happiness depends on higher income and material possessions
Misconception three: Happiness depends on body shape or appearance
Asparagus salad with turkey. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Choose happiness and forget if
RICE/NOODLES. Happy scallop noodles. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Have faith and be thankful
Happy rice meal. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Try a Taoist recipe for happiness:
FISH/SEAFOOD. Sweet and sour happy hour fish. Ingredients:
Directions:
Spicy-sweet smiling prawns. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Follow a Chinese merchant’s son on his quest for finding happiness
MEAT. Hunan happy lamb. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Live consciously to be happy
The happiness pork recipe. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Focus on your and your parents’ happiness
VEGETABLES. Happiness rolls. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Use Chinese Feng Shui to increase your happiness
Pot luck happiness. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Calm down and be happy with Chinese Feng Shui
DESSERT. Happy mountain cloud. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Donate money, time and love for your happiness
‘Let the sunshine in my heart’ Ingredients:
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Exercise: Don’t sweat the small stuff, pray and see your blessings!
BEVERAGES. Happy fruits in a glass. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: One strange week to increase happiness
Laughing panda. Ingredients:
Directions:
Exercise: Laugh with Chinese jokes
Отрывок из книги
How happy were you on March 20th this year?
You were very happy? Great, thank God, you don’t need to continue reading this book.
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—His name is Wealth. Then pointing to the other one: —His name is Success and I am called Love. Now go in and decide with your husband which one of the three you wish to invite to your home.
The woman entered her home and told her husband what they said. The man became happy:
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