【舌尖上的旅行】法國菜頭盤不能少的蝸牛

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⭐紅酒燉牛肉油封鴨可麗露要等我啊
#星期四食材

田螺清熱祛水腫
人生第一次聽到法國菜會吃蝸牛感到很震驚，因為小時候認知的蝸牛就是下雨天在地上緩緩爬行的那種，但如果叫它做田螺呢？辣炒田螺嘛，大家都不感到陌生，其實蝸牛就是螺的一種，受法國人青睞的蝸牛，都是專門養殖來食用的品種，千萬不要隨便在野外捕捉蝸牛烹煮食用。從中醫角度來看，田螺性寒，有清熱解暑、明目、利水止渴的功效，中式食法多配以薑、蔥、蒜、辣椒等屬性溫熱的配料同煮，以平衡螺肉的寒性。而法式煮法配上簡單的香草牛油，經高溫一焗，牛油香滲入田螺之中，閉上眼睛品嚐，暫時幻想自己正在法國旅行吧！

田螺 — 性寒，有清熱解暑、明目、利水止渴的作用，適合水腫、小便不通、痔瘡便血、風熱目赤腫痛者食用。由於性寒，脾虛便溏、胃寒疼痛、風寒感冒、月經期間、寒性痛經者不宜食用。

法式焗田螺
材料：新鮮田螺或罐頭田螺肉、無鹽牛油60克、巴馬臣芝士碎60克、蒜頭（磨蓉）4瓣、番茜葉（Parsley）（切碎）一把
做法：
1. 將無鹽牛油、巴馬臣芝士碎、蒜蓉、番茜碎搓勻成香草牛油。
2. 將適量香草牛油釀入田螺殼內，如沒有田螺殼，香草牛油鋪在田螺肉上。
3. 放入已預熱至攝氏180度的焗爐，焗約15分鐘即可。

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River snail can clear heat and relieve water retention

When we first learned snails (escargot) are served in French cuisine, we must have been a bit shocked. Since we were young, the snails we knew are the ones crawling on the ground on rainy days. So why are they called river snails?

We should be quite familiar with river snail stir-fried with chili. Actually, the typical snail is a type of shelled gastropod, whereas the escargot is specifically cultivated for French cuisine. Please note that it is unsafe to consume snails from the wild. From the perspective of Chinese Medicine, river snail is cold in nature, can clear heat, brighten one’s vision, quench one’s thirst and has diuretic properties.

In Chinese cooking, river snails are often cooked with ingredients that are warm in nature, such as ginger, onion, garlic and chili, to balance out its coldness. As for French cuisine, chefs would normally prepare escargot with simple vanilla butter. Once baked at a high temperature, the fragrance of the butter would seep into the flesh. Try to close your eyes and enjoy the taste, imagine yourself travelling in France!

River snail – cold in nature, can clear heart, brighten one’s vision, quench one’s thirst and has diuretic properties, is suitable for individuals with symptoms such as water retention, urination, bleeding hemorrhoids, and swelling and pain of the eyes. Since it is cold in nature, it is not suitable for individuals with a weak spleen and loose stools, a cold stomach and those experiencing frequent stomachache; also not suitable for those who with a cold flu, going through period as well as cold-related menstrual pain.

Escargot Bourguignonne
Ingredients: 200g fresh escargots or 1 canned escargot, 60g butter, 60 parmesan cheese, 4 cloves of pounded garlic, parsley
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 180 Celsius degree
2. Mix butter, parmesan cheese, garlic and parsley into herb butter.
3. Put the herb butter in the escargot shells, or just directly on escagots.
4. Bake for 15 minutes.

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#講反話
“Cherry 🍒 on top” = 「錦上添花」
“We can’t be too careful” - 點解
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講反話
明報 | 英文 | 毛孟靜

看過一部荷李活電影，男主角給人喝罵：You killed him! 你殺了他！ 他一臉不屑答：Yeah right. 哦，對的。之後控方就真的提出，說證人已認罪。

這個證明當然不能成立，因為不論中、英文或其他許多語文都一樣，日常生活中的對答，一定包括說反話。

就像有人憑空指你考試出貓，你只覺沒好氣，答：對呀！我還買試卷呢！按常理，就知道這回答只是句反話。

英文中一些用詞，聽上去好像十分正面，但意思恰恰相反，這就是不折不扣的反話。譬如說，He has a thin chance of winning，他勝出的機會很微。Thin chance 解作機會小，那麼fat chance 就等於機會大了？

不，不管 fat 或 thin，說的都是機會小；fat chance 的語氣更重一些，可以指完全沒有機會，更包含一點嘲諷味道。
• Do you think he's going to win this? 你認為他會贏嗎？Fat chance. 完全不。

一些英文習語，就像我們的成語，本身一般用作表達正面信息，但視乎上文下理，一樣可以用作反話。像要批評政府抗疫措施，中文措詞可用上「雷厲風行」一語，來增添尖酸刻薄之意。英文也一樣。Cherry on top 是指雪糕上的一粒車厘子，跟中文的「錦上添花」有異曲同工之妙，但實際運用起來，意思卻正反皆可。

• He was acquitted of the fraud charge. And for the cherry on top, the company is giving him his old job back. 他脫了欺詐罪。錦上添花的是，公司讓他復職。

· I kept re-running my cringeworthy meeting with him, and thecherry on top was that I was weak and headachy, a little bitqueasy. 我不斷回想跟他那個尷尬突兀的會面，而「錦上添花」的是，事發時我虛弱、頭痛及有一點暈眩。

類似的用法另有 to a fault，通常解作一個人的某些特質過了頭：He is generous to a fault. 他太慷慨了。

但用作反話，可以說 He's zealous to a fault，他熱心得過了頭，亦即等於說這個人 overzealous，瞎熱心。而 overzealous staff 往往是服務行業道歉聲明中的一個常用語：都是我們過分熱心的（因而幫了倒忙）職員不對。

另外有一句話，不正也不反，卻有許多人會誤會了意思：
• We can't be too careful. 根據字面，說的彷彿是「我們不可以太小心」？錯了，意思其實是「我們不可能太小心」，也即是說，沒有太小心這回事，我們必須絕對小心就是了。還有以下用語，它們又是不是反話呢？

1. I can't sing to save my life.
2. I can't do small talk to save my life.
這兩句話同樣不正也不反。自稱 can't do something to save one’s own life，是自謙甚至自貶的說法，是說自己完全做不到正在說的事，故答案是：

1. 我（五音不全）唱不了歌。
2. 我完全不擅長寒暄。

【排毒就是好】根據症狀治療更重要

#排清毒素身體好
#對症下藥才是排毒之道
#星期一踢走BlueMonday

中醫治療有八法
很多人看到「排毒」的字眼就立即感覺人人適合，其實還是要配合體質。身體症狀有分虛與實。虛則要補，實則要瀉。中醫有「治病八法」，分別是汗、吐、下、和、溫、清、消、補，以緩解不同的症狀和調整身體狀態，因此要排毒袪病，並非單純地一味排便就可以，更應該諮詢註冊中醫師，辨證論治，對症下藥。

汗 – 以出汗將病邪由體內帶出體外，多用於感冒或水腫症狀，菊花、芫茜、薄荷等皆是有發汗解表功效的食物。

吐 – 以催吐的方法，將病邪吐出，多為急救處理，因此在沒有醫師辨證下絕不要自己胡亂嘗試。較常見用於為進食過急，而令食物滯留胃中未能消化。

下 – 即為促瀉，也是很多人所理解的「排毒」方法，以苦寒又或是溫性藥療增加瀉下，此法峻猛，由於病人本身體質的強弱的不同，用法不當會對身體帶來傷害。身體虛弱、老人、孕婦、月經期間都切勿胡亂嘗試這種方式。

和 – 即為「調和」，主要是和解虛實、寒熱症狀，以達以身體狀態的協調。

溫 – 以溫性食療或中藥驅除體內的寒冷，即為大家常聽到的補益陽氣及溫中散寒，尤其適合虛寒體質人士，平日也可適量進食溫熱食材如肉桂、栗子、羊肉等以補陽氣，有虛火及偏熱體質人士不宜。

清 – 簡單來說即為清熱，選擇涼性食療及中藥以清除身體的偏熱症狀，如喉嚨痛、口瘡、心情煩躁等，也是大家一般覺得自己上火時喝涼茶下火的道理，正因要清熱，食療及中藥需為涼性，多進食則會傷陽氣，當偏熱症狀緩解後就不要再繼續服用了。

消 – 即為化瘀散結，主要針對氣滯、血瘀體質等因氣血不通而引致的症狀，如胃脹、腫傷等，消食化氣，在療程中多配以下法同用，還是諮詢中醫師更穩妥。

補 – 也是一般人認知的「進補」，補益陰陽氣血及身體虛損，主要針對體弱人士，分為補氣、血、陰及陽四大類。補氣針對氣虛人士，平日說話無力、多汗；補血針對血虛或貧血人士，此類人多有頭暈目眩，女性月經量少色淺；補陰亦即滋陰，為身體補充水分，乾燥天氣時也適合；而補陽適合畏冷體質及陽虛人士，易有腰痠、手腳冰冷及小便頻繁等症狀。

Eight treatment methodology within Chinese medicine
When people see the word "detoxification", they assume it is suitable for everyone. In fact, it should be done based on your body condition. Symptoms are divided into asthenic and excessive. Those with asthenic symptoms should nourish their body, and those with excessive symptoms should focus on clearing. Chinese medicine has "eight treatment methods", which is sweating, vomiting, purging, regulating, warming, clearing, eliminating and nourishing. In short, you should relieve different symptoms and adjust physical state based on your body condition. Therefore, to detoxify and dispel illness, it is not just a matter of defecation. You should consult a registered Chinese medicine practitioner to find out the correct treatment for your problem.

Sweating- To expel illness out of body by sweating. It is often used for cold/flu or edema. Chrysanthemum, cilantro and mint are foods that promote sweating.

Vomiting- To let illness out by inducing vomiting, it is a first-aid treatment. So do not try it yourself without consulting a professional. It is commonly used for eating too fast, and the food is retained in the stomach which cannot be digested.

Purging- It means to inducing diarrhea, a “detoxification” method that many people know. You can have bitter and cold or warm medicine treatment to increase diarrhea effect. This method is too strong. You should use this method according your strength of body condition or it can be harmful. Those with asthenic and weak body condition, elderly, pregnant women, and those menstruating should not try this.

Regulating- It is mainly to regulate the asthenic and excessive symptoms, cold and heat, in order to achieve a balanced physical state.

Warming- To dispel cold in the body by having warm nature diet or medicine. It is the method people talk about regarding nourishing yang and dispelling cold, especially suitable for those with asthenic and cold body condition. You can also appropriately consume warm and hot ingredients such as cinnamon, chestnuts, lamb to increase yang qi. It is not appropriate for those with asthenic fire and heat-related symptoms.

Clearing- It means clearing heat in a simple way. To choose cool diet and Chinese medicine to clear the heat-related symptoms, such as sore throat, canker sores, irritability, etc. It is also the reason that everyone drink the herbal tea to clear heat when they feel like there is fire in the body. To clear the heat, the diet and Chinese medicine are cool in nature. Eating too much will hurt the yang qi, and when the heat-related symptoms are relieved, do not continue to take it.

Eliminating- this is to eliminate stasis and usually focuses on qi stagnation and blood stasis related issues such as abdominal bloating and swelling pains. To aid digestion, treatments may involve purging so it is better to consult a Chinese medicine practitioner.

Nourishing- This means eating tonic food in common way. It can nourish yin, yang, qi, blood and body damage, mainly for those with weak body condition. It is divided into four categories: qi, blood, yin and yang. Nourishing qi is suitable for people with qi deficiency, weakness in voice and excessive sweating. Nourishing blood is for blood deficiency or anemia, people with this situation are often experience dizziness, and women may have less menstrual volume and light blood colour. Nourishing yin means replenishing water for the body, suitable for dry weather. Nourishing yang is suitable for those are aversion to cold and with yang deficiency, and have symptoms such as sore back, cold limbs and frequent urination.

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