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Idea for Lunch
July 5, 2009 by Helen
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes
A famous Greek dish will make a delicious light lunch on a sunny day.
All you need is a salad and slices of crisp toast or fresh bread.
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Ingredients:
60ml/4tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 or 3 shallots, finely chopped
675g/ 1,5 lb sweet tomatoes, roughly chopped
pinch of dried oregano or 5ml/1 tps chopped fresh thyme
2.5ml/ 0,5 tsp sugar
6 eggs, lightly beaten
salt and ground black pepper fresh thyme, to garnish
- Heat the olive oil in large frying pan and sauté the shallots, stirring occasionally, until they are glistering and translucent.
- Stir in the chopped tomatoes, dried or fresh herbs and sugar, with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Cook over a low heat for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid has evaporated and sauce is thick.
- Add the beaten eggs to the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring continuously with a wooden spatula in the same way as when making scrambled eggs. The eggs should be just set, but not overcooked. Serve immediately, garnished with fresh thyme.
Do you like this post? Subscribe to RSSBreakfast is Important!
July 3, 2009 by Helen
Breakfast is the fuel for your body and the source of energy for your brain. Eating a good breakfast sets the tone for the rest of the day.A lot of people skip breakfast, either for the sake of loosing weight of just because they are lazy. They just don’t know that eating breakfast is good for weight loss and for maintaining a healthy weight.
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To have fuel from breakfast means to have a healthy breakfast. It should contain protein (low fat meat, diary, eggs) and fiber (whole grains, vegetables, fruits. Try to skip syrups, donuts and candies which will just wake you up but will not give you a long-lasting energy.
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If you don’t feel like eating a lot in the morning due to the fact that your body didn’t wake up yet, you can split the meal in two parts: you can easily grab a croissant and later have an apple.
And Remember: Having breakfast means caring about your health and mood. So, don’t skip it and take care!
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June 12, 2009 by Katerina
Light Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
- 1.25 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 0.25 cup cornstarch
- 0.5 cup corn syrup
- 0.5 c. sugar free cocoa
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- 0.5 cup egg whites
- 1 cup water
How to make:
Take a deep dry bowl and mix all of the dry ingredients. Progressively stir in the rest of components. Bake obtained mass in pan (desirable Teflon) at 350 degrees for half an hour.
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Light&Tasty Snow-white Cake
Ingredients:
- 3 egg whites
- 0.75 cup vanilla yoghurt (take fat-free one)
- 0.5 cup fat-free dried milk
- 0.5 cup cool water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring
- 1 teaspoon almond flavouring
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1.5 cup sugar
How to make:
Take a deep bowl and mix up yoghurt with dried milk powder. Beat them until quite firm. Take another bowl and beat up white of eggs until still. Gently combine the beaten up eggs with milk. Add cold water and flavourings. Add self-rising flour and sugar into the obtained mixture. Line with wax paper deep cake pan and pour into the mixture. Bake at 325 degrees for 35 minutes. Top either with jam or fresh berries.
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Light Citrus Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup self-rising flour
- 1 cup light yellow cake mix
- 1 egg white
- 0.33 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground orange rind
- 0.5 teaspoon lemon extract
- 0.25 cup fat-free milk
How to make:
Mix all of the ingredients in the bowl. Form a paste into a ball and leave in a fridge for an hour. Roll out the dough. Keep the width app. 0.6-0.7 mm. Take a simple juice glass or cookie forms and cut out. Powder dough with sugar. Use bake sheets with Teflon covering and bake at 320 degrees for 10 minutes.
Do you like this post? Subscribe to RSSKissing Facts & Kiss Benefits
May 28, 2009 by Katerina
It is a matter of record that Canadian porcupines kiss one another on the lips.- The world’s longest kiss took place on January 28, 2002. Louisa Almodovar and Rich Langly of New Jersey kissed for a record 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds on a segment of “Ricki Lake”.
- Matrimonial pollsters’ studies prove that a man who kisses his wife good-bye when he leaves for work every morning averages a higher income than does the fellow who doesn’t do that thing.
- In medieval Italy kisses weren’t taken, or given, lightly. If a man and a woman were seen embracing in public they could be forced to marry!
- Our brains have special neurons that help us locate each others lips in the dark. (It’s really true too! I’ve tried it!)
- It is estimated that the average person will spend about 20,160 minutes kissing in their lifetime.
- You burn 26 calories in a 1 minute kiss.
- The first kiss ever shown in a movie was in 1896. The movie, was called The Kiss.
Hershey’s Kisses got their name because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt. - 50% of all people kiss before they turn 14.
- Kissing helps reduce tooth decay. Kissing increases the mouth’s production of saliva, and saliva helps clean the mouth thus aides prevention of tooth decay.
Do you like this post? Subscribe to RSSInspirational Quote…
May 27, 2009 by Helen
“Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup;
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it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its
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.magnificence reflected in your own.”
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Valerie Monroe
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May 15, 2009 by Helen
It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic 
failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and
would haves.
(M.H Meng)
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May 7, 2009 by Helen

Obstacles can’t stop you.
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Problems can’t stop you.
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Most of all, other people can’t stop you.
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Only you can stop you.
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(Jeffrey Gitomer)
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April 19, 2009 by Helen
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Happiness is not something ready made.
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It comes from your own actions.
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(Dalai Lama)
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April 14, 2009 by Helen
The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes.
(Disraeli)
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April 5, 2009 by Olgita
“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you–the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.”
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince)
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