Homemade frozen yogurt
May 18, 2010
Frozen yogurt,a super delicious dessert is similar to ice cream, but made with yogurt and other pure dairy products. Sugar-free and fat-free frozen yogurts is the ideal alternative for fat content and calorie count ice cream. Similar to ice cream, frozen yogurt can be made in any flavor that you can think of instead of limiting your taste buds to a few varieties in your grocer’s freezer and finally homemade frozen yogurt is even easier to prepare than ice cream.
Low Fat Frozen Yogurt
2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
2 cups strawberries
1 medium sized banana (peeled and cut into chunks)
4 teaspoons sugar substitute
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
2 tablespoons water
Just combine a small saucepan,gelatin and water then heat slowly and stir constantly till gelatin dissolves completely. Remove it from heat and cool down. Then take your electric blender, add what you want – strawberries, banana chunks and whatever you just want, add gelatin. Blend it all together for 2 – 3 minutes, or until you get a consistently smooth paste. Add yogurt, sugar substitute and vanilla extract, and process for another 2- 3 minutes. Pour it in ice cream maker and freeze according to directions.
French Vanilla Frozen Yogurt
1/2 cup of evaporated milk
2 teaspoons of unflavored gelatin, softened
2/3 cup of raw sugar
pinch of salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
2 cups of plain, whole milk yogurt
2 tablespoons of vanilla
2 egg whites
Heat the milk to just below boiling in the top of a double boiler. Next, add the gelatin, sugar, and salt, and stir these ingredients until they’re dissolved.
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Chocolate’s Chocolate
October 23, 2009
Do you love a chocolate? U guess there are not too many people in the world who do not. Other things are just food, but chocolate’s chocolate. Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate!!!:-) Well, very soon St. Nicholas will come with wonderful presents to every one I hope:-). For instance in the Europe, the feast of St. Nicholas or Santa Claus is celebrated on December 6th and all children put their clogs outside at night so Santa can fill them up with chocolate money.
Do you know that the world’s largest box of chocolates weighed in at 2,002 lbs. It was made in Chicago, USA, and contained Frango mints but the first cacao trees were found growing in the Amazon river basin and the foothills of the Venezuelan and Colombian Andes. Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, made the first eating chocolate in 1848.
In 1991, a model ship was made out of chocolate in Barcelona, Spain. It measured 42.5 feet x 28 feet x 8 feet.
The largest chocolate ever made was a chocolate marzipan. It was made in the Netherlands over a 3-day period and weighed 4,078 lbs!
One chocolate chip provides enough food energy for an adult to walk 150 feet. Therefore, it takes about 35 chocolate chips to walk a mile or 875,000 to get you around the world.
It takes the whole of one year’s crop from one tree to make half a kilo of cocoa.
66,000 Crème Eggs are made every hour.
For all those of you out there dreaming about those chocolate bars, dream away! You can’t blame chocolate for raising your blood cholesterol. Now that’s a fact so eat!
Chocolate has changed the way we eat, romance and live. But don’t go overboard as too much of a good thing can be bad!
The truth is there’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!
I don’t understand why so many “so called” chocolate lovers complain about the calories in chocolate, when all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It comes from the cocoa bean, beans are veggies, ’nuff said:-)
In Vino Veritas
October 12, 2009
Wine and partying go hand in hand. A dinner party that does not have wine as a part of the drinks seems to be incomplete. The drink lightens your head and enlivens your mood, without any great risks of your getting drunk. So popular is wine amongst people that many of the great personalities; like Benjamin Franklin and William Shakespeare, have written or said great quotes about it. These quotes, when shared while drinking wine, add to the whole experience. Keeping this in mind, we have provided some very funny and witty quotations about wine, in the lines below.
Funny Wine Quotes
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
What is the definition of a good wine? It should start and end with a smile. – William Sokolin
Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. – Ovid
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. – Diogenes
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. – Henry Fielding
This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson
Wine is a peep-hole on a man. – Alcaeus
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. – Bible quotes
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. – William Shakespeare
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. – Andre Simon
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. – George Bernard Shaw on wine
Sweetness belongs in the Mosel wine like the bubbles belong in the Champagne. – Nik Weiss
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination. – Andre Tchelistcheff
Blind tastings are to wine what strip poker is to love. – Kermit Lynch
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. – Benjamin Franklin
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends! – James Joyce
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good! – Cardinal Richelieu
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. – Anonymous
Where there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. – Anonymous
I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles. – Bishop of Seville
Compromises are for relationships, not wine. – Sir Robert Scott Caywood
Beer is made by men, wine by God! – Martin Luther
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII
Life is too short to drink bad wine. – Anonymous
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. – Clifton Fadiman
I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age. – Steven Wright
Christmas Recipes
September 29, 2009
There are some of recipes I love and use often:
Christmas Float
1 can coke or Dr Pepper
3 scoops of ice cream – chocalote or vanilla
4 cherries
2 red and green gum drops
red and green M&M’s
whipped cream topping
Put ice cream in cup. pour soda on it. then add the whipped cream, cherries and candy.
Christmas Party Mints
1 (lb) pkg powdered sugar
1/2 C margarine, softened
2 T evaporated milk
4 to 5 drops of peppermint flavoring
Few drops of desired food coloring
1.Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Beat at high speed until well blended; then knead until smooth.
2.Shape mints in rubber candy molds, and place on baking sheets.
3.Cover with a paper towel, and let stand overnight to harden.
Makes: 8 1/2 to 9 dozen mints.
Father Christmas Salad
In traditional Christmas colors of green, white and red, this is full of seasonal good cheer.
1 can (15 oz/ 425 g) lychees in heavy syrup
1 can (15 oz/ 425 g) stoneless red cherries in syrup
4 tablespoons of Cointreau or Kirsch
1/2 oz/ 15 g unsalted pistachio nuts
Boiling water
1. Tip both fruits, with syrup, into a large dish; glass for preference so that the colors can show through.
2. Add liquer and toss gently yo mix.
3. Blanch pistachios by covering with boiling water and leaving for 1 minute. Drain and rinse under cold water.
4. Slide off skins then finely chop. Sprinkle over top of salad. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours before serving.
The End of Every Diet Must Be Celebrated
July 23, 2009
Hi, everybody! Here is the blog dedicated a fooooood:-) The title of the text “The End of Every Diet Must Be Celebrated” is my own quote which I love to put on and simetimes out of the place, but however I”m afraid I could hardly express all my feeling and thought about better than famous people do. So, favorite quotes on a Food (applauses please!) :
At the end of every diet, the path curves back toward the trough.
Mason Cooley
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. —-Adelle Davis
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? —— Georg C. Lichtenberg
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. —-Virginia Woolf
Toots Shore’s restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore. —– Yogi Berra
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? —–Bill Bryson
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners. —-Andre Simon
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. —–Lucretius
I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that? —–Jay Leno
I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure. —–Anthony Bourdain
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. —–Harriet Van Horne
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting. —–Charlie Trotter
•The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. —Julia Child
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ——Samuel Johnson
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. —-M. F. K. Fisher
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter and in wine. —–Polish proverb
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist.
When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
Proverb Don’t dig your grave with your knife and fork.
English proverb When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides (BC 480-BC 406) Greek tragic poet.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.
We seldom report of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic.
