THINK IT, WANT IT, GET IT.

IMAGINATION IS EVERYTHING.

IT IS THE PREVIEW OF LIFE'S COMING ATTRACTIONS.

CONFIDENCE IS NOT THINKING YOU ARE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE,

IT IS REALIIZING THAT YOU HAVE NO REASON TO COMPARE YOURSELF TO ANYONE ELSE.

THE MORE YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU WANT, THE LESS YOU LET THINGS OR ANYONE UPSET YOU.

MAGICAL OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPENING UP .

 JUST KEEP BELIEVING.

WE DON'T GROW WHEN THINGS ARE EASY.

WE GROW WHEN WE FACE CHALLENGES.

DO NOT BE PUSHED AROUND BY THE FEARS IN YOUR MIND. BE LED BY THE DREAMS IN YOUR HEART.

TRUST THE WAIT. EMBRACE THE UNCERTAINTY. ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF BECOMING.

WHEN NOTHING IS CERTAIN, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

YOU CAN, YOU SHOULD, AND IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO START, YOU WILL

Dance Me To The End Of Love - Leonard Cohen

Chocolate chip cookies

 

125ml butter
170g chocolate chips
250ml flour
125ml brown sugar
2,5ml bicarbonate of soda
1ml salt
125ml sugar
125g grated cadbury chocolate
314ml blended oatmeal
1 egg
2.5ml baking powder
2.5ml vanilla
125ml chopped nuts

Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream the butter and both sugars.
Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate os soda- Add chocolate chips, grated chocolate and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 180ºC.  Makes about 32 cookies.

YES, YOU CAN. AND THAT IS WHERE THE WHOLE STORY BEGINS.

OVERTHINKING WILL DESTROY YOUR MOOD.

BREATHE AND LET IT GO.

SEE THE INVISIBLE,

BELIEVE IN THE INCREDIBLE,

ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE.

YOUR SELFWORTH SHOULD NOT BE MEASURED BY SOMEONE

ELSE'S INABILITY TO SEE IT.

YOU ARE CAPABLE OF MORE THAN YOU KNOW.

EDIT YOUR LIFE FREQUENTLY AND RUTHLESSLY.

TI'S YOUR MASTER PIECE AFTER ALL.

LEARN TO WAIT.

THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR EVERYTHING.

INNER PEACE BEGINS THE MOMENT YOU CHOOSE NOT TO ALLOW ANOTHER PERSON OR EVENT TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS.

WILL POWER IS LIKE A MUSCLE, THE MORE YOU TRAIN IT, THE STRONGER IT GETS.

CHICKEN AND ASPARAGAS QUICHE

3 SLICES OF BREAD

500ML MILK

30G BUTTER

TIN ASPARAGAS

200G OF REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE

ONION CHOPPED

 SALT/PEPPERB TO TASTE

4 EGGS BEATEN

IN A POT BOIL THE MILK, BREAD CUT INTO PIECES AND THE BUTTER UNTIL BOILING POINT. LET IT COOL.
 ADD THE REST OF THE INGREDIENTS, MIX WELL. POUR MIXTURE INTO BAKING DISH. DECORATE WITH REMAINING ASPARAGAS.
 BAKE IN PREHEATED OVEN AT 180ºC FOR 35 MINUTES OR UNTIL GOLDEN BROWN ON THE TOP.

7 WAYS TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

 

If you stay consistent in your efforts to achieve your life goals, you will be successful. When you are successful, you feel great inside and you transmit that positive energy to others.

Apply these strategies for success and pursue the sweet life you want:

1. Find a mentor.

To help you in your quest to get ahead in your career, refine specific skills, or get in the best shape of your life, seek out someone who has done it before. Ask for their counsel.

·         Learn from someone who has been there and continues to excel. Take them out for coffee and pick their brain. Have your specific questions. Listen to what they say.

2. Care less about what others think of you.

Care less about what others think of you and more about how you feel about yourself. When you react to what others think of you, it hampers your own sense of self. Instead, listen to your heart. Recognize that what you want for yourself is more important than what someone else wants for you. Go after your own dreams.

3. Be clear about your life goals.

Nothing can derail your efforts for success like being unsure about what you want. To get clarity on your goals, journal about where you want to be physically and spiritually in the next year, three years, five years, and ten years.

·         Looking ahead will lead you to see what steps to take to reach the success you are seeking.

4. Surround yourself with positive people.

If you have friends who rarely work, complain frequently about their career, or make unhealthy life choices, they are likely bringing negativity into your life.

·         When you hang out with those who are upbeat, interested in making a difference, and committed to personal achievement, you will find yourself modelling their feelings and behaviour’s. Practicing their way of living will put you on the road to success.

5. Embrace your failures.

Rather than fearing and loathing the mistakes, you have made, take them in, study them, and find the lessons in them.

6. Each day, take a step closer to your goals.

One of the best ways to keep your goals in mind is to infuse aspects of them into your daily life. If you want to save $10,000 for a trip to Europe, at the end of each day, place all your change in your money jar. You can literally watch your goal come to fruition. Add a $10 or a $20 dollar bill at the end of each week.

·         When you do something daily to work towards a goal, it becomes an important aspect of your routine existence. You will feel happier, more in control, and increasingly confident.

·         7. Use a pros and cons list to make quick decisions.

If you have ever been unsure about a decision, you will appreciate learning to jot down a quick pros and cons list. Weighing out the positives and negatives of your issue can lead you in a positive direction.

o    Rather than staying in a state of confusion and uncertainty, use this method to attain better control over what vexes you.

Regardless of where you are in life, you can get closer to achieving your goals by applying these useful tips. Use your inner strength to create dramatic personal growth within yourself. Start today.

Understanding and accepting your errors will provide you with the information you require to succeed the next time.

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Portuguese Tuna Puffs Recipe

Ingredients

1 can of tuna ( 200g )1 onion2 tablespoons margarine2 tablespoons flour120 ml milk1 tbsp. finely chopped parsley3 eggsBreadcrumbsSalt (to taste)Pepper (to taste)

Directions

1. Sauté the chopped onion in the margarine. Add the well drained tuna and stir well  Add the flour, mix well and add the milk.
2. Season to taste with salt and pepper and finally add the finely chopped parsley.
3. Make small balls with this dough, go through flour, then egg and finally the breadcrumbs and fry them.
4. You can fry or freeze them to fry at another time.

Recipe & Photo Credit: Guida, asminhasreceitas-guida.blogspot.pt

 

Let us all encourage our wives, friends and daughters to dress well and decent!

Two young women arrived a Meeting wearing clothes that were quite revealing their body parts. Here is what the Chairman told them: He took a good look at them and made them sit. Then he said something that, they might never forget in their life. He looked at them straight in the eyes and said; "ladies, everything that God made valuable in this world is well covered and hardly to see, find or get.

1. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected.

2. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell.

3. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers of rock and to get them, you have to work hard & dig deep down to get them.

He looked at them with serious eyes and said;
"Your body is sacred & unique" You are far more precious than gold, diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too ."So he added that, if you keep your treasured mineral just like gold, diamond and pearls, deeply covered up, a reputable mining organization with the requisite machinery will fly down and conduct years of extensive exploration.
First, they will contact your government (family), sign professional contracts (wedding) and mine you professionally( legal marriage).But if you leave your precious minerals uncovered on the surface of the earth, you always attract a lot of illegal miners to come and mine you illegally. Everybody will just pick up their crude instruments and just have a dig on you just freely like that. Keep your bodies deeply covered so that it invite professional miners to chase you.
Let us all encourage our wives, friends and daughters to dress well and decent!

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RE - USE YOUR OLD PATINA

 

DON'T FOLLOW THE CROWD, FOLLOW YOUR HEART.

IF IT EXCITES YOU AND SCARES YOU AT THE SAME TIME, IT PROBABLY MEANS YOU SHOULD DO IT.

THINK ONE POSITIVE THOUGHT EVERY MORNING AND YOU WILL TRICK YOUR BRAIN PSYCHOLOGICALLY INTO BEING A HAPPIER PERSON.

EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY, SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHAPTERS IN OUR LIVES WON'T HAVE A TITLE UNTIL MUCH LATER.

DON'T THINK TOO MUCH.

JUST DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

KEEP WALKING THROUGH THE STORM.

YOUR RAINBOW IS WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE.

DON'T LET ANYONE BREAK YOU.

THERE MAY ALWAYS BE PEOPLE WHO SECRETLY WANT TO SEE YOU FAIL.

THAT'S OKAY.

JUST STAY STRONG AND STAND TALL.

 

BE AUTHENTIC.

DIFFERENT IS BEAUTIFUL.

DON'T GIVE UP

persevere

IF THERE IS A WILL THERE IS AWAY.

Portuguese Shrimp (Rissois) Patties Recipe

Ingredients

White sauce:6 tbsp of flour3/4 stick of butter or margarine2 cups of milk1/2 tsp of salt1/4 tsp of pepper1/2 Knorr chicken bouillon cube1 egg yolk for a thicker fillingShrimp:1/4 cup of finely minced onion2 tsp of finely minced parsley1/2 chicken bouillon cube2 to 3 tbsp of olive oil1 and 1/2 pounds of peeled finely chopped raw shrimp1/4 tsp of paprika1/4 tsp of salt (if desired)1 tsp of lemon juiceDough:6 cups of water6 cups of flour1 tbsp of salt1 stick of margarine1 piece of lemon peel                                                                                                       

Directions

White sauce:

1. In heavy sauce pan on medium heat melt butter. Add the flour and stir until it dissolves into the butter. Add milk, salt pepper & bouillion cube. Stir well and cook while constantly stirring on med heat until it thickens like a pudding.
2. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Add 1 tbsp of white sauce to beaten yolk to temper, then add the egg mixture into sauce. *This is optional to create a thicker, yellowish sauce but not necessary fi your sauce is thick.
3. Taste the white sauce & add more salt or pepper if needed. Set aside to cool completely. (The filling should be very thick not runny)

Shrimp:

1. Cook the onions w/ olive oil on med heat until translucent. Add chick bouillon cube & shrimp.
2. Cook for about 2-3 minutes until shrimp is pink. Add lemon juice, paprika, and parsley and let let cool.
3. Chop shrimp into small pieces and stir into the white sauce. Season the filling with more salt & pepper to taste if needed.
4. Let the shrimp filling mixture cool completely, or overnight in refrigerator.

Dough:

1. In heavy non stick pan, place water, lemon peel, salt & butter on med heat until butter melts and the water starts to boil. Add the flour & continually stir with a sturdy spoon until a ball of dough forms. (This takes muscle power)
2. You’ll notice the bottom of the pan starts to form a crust. Keep stirring until all of flour is absorbed into the ball of dough.
3. (The batter should feel and look like bread dough). Let it cool.
4. Once both the dough and filling have completely cooled or overnight in the refrigerator, you are ready to roll out dough on floured surface.

Preparing the Turnovers:

1. This dough is called “massa tenra” because it is a very tender dough which must be handed gently.
2. Gently roll the dough to 1/8 inch thick with floured rolling pin.
3. Cut the dough into round 4-5 inch circles using a cookie cutter or a floured glass.
4. Spoon 1 teaspoon of the filing into center of dough rounds. Fold the dough over forming a moon shape.
5. Carefully pinch edges together and don’t let filling escape out of the sides.
6. Place them apart from each other on a large parchment lined cookie sheet.

Prepare for frying:

1. Beat 3 eggs with a couple tablespoons of water in large bowl. Spread a large amount (2-3 cups) of fine plain bread crumbs on a cookie sheet.
2. Use one hand dry, one hand wet method by dipping each shrimp cake into egg wash and then into the bread crumbs. Shake off excess crumbs.
3. Place them back onto parchment lined cookie sheets for storing in refrigerator until ready to fry.

Frying Turnovers:

1. Fry 6 rissois at a time in good deep fryer at med – high heat about 375 degrees until they turn very golden brown. I recommend using a stainless steel fryer rather than a plastic one since it retains heat better.
2. You’ll need to keep turning them over and saturate them with the hot oil to cook evenly.
3. Cut one open to make sure the filling and the dough is cooked through.
4. Place them on paper towels to drain any grease.

Recipe & Photo Credit: Tia Maria's Blog, portuguesediner.com/tiamaria/

Observations on Growing Older

 

 
  ~ Your kids are becoming you... and you don't like them... but your grandchildren are perfect! 

~ Going out is good... Coming home is better! 

~ When people say you look "Great"... they add "for your age!" 

~ When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything... movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them. 

~ You forget names …. but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! 

~ The 5 kilos you wanted to lose  is now 10 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 10 kilos 

~ You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... especially golf. 

~ Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. 

~ The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore. 

~ Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair  with the TV blaring than he does in bed.  It's called his "pre-sleep". 

~ Remember when your mother said... 
"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"? 
Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident! 

~ You used to say, 
"I hope my kids GET married... 
Now, "I hope they STAY married!" 

~ You miss the days when everything worked  with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch. 

~ When GOOGLE, iPod, email, modem - were unheard of, and a mouse was something  that made you climb on a table. 

~ You used to use more 4 letter words … 
"what?"..."when?"... ??? 

~ Now that you can afford  expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere. 

~ Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 p.m. Next week it will be 8:30 p.m. 

~ You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it. 

~ Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!! 

~ What used to be freckles are now age spots. 

~ Everybody whispers.

~ Now that your husband has retired … you'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~ You have 3 sizes of clothes in your wardrobe … 2 of which you will never wear. 

~ But old is good in some things: 
old songs, 
old movies, 
And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!

 

D I V I N A L esta D. Beatriz vale a pena ler

A D. Beatriz, senhora alentejana, 80 anos, solteira, organista numa igreja da Diocese de Beja.
É admirada por todos pela sua simpatia e doçura.

Uma tarde, convidou o novo padre da igreja para ir lanchar a sua casa e ele ficou sentado no sofá, enquanto ela foi preparar um chá.

Olhando para cima do órgão, o jovem padre reparou numa jarra de vidro com água e, lá dentro, boiava um preservativo.

Quando a D. Beatriz voltou com o chá e as torradas, o padre não resistiu e perguntou-lhe o porquê de tal decoração em cima do órgão.

E responde ela apontando para a jarra: "Ah! refere-se a isto?

Maravilhoso, não é? Há uns meses atrás, ia eu a passear pelo parque, quando encontrei um pacotinho no chão. As indicações diziam para colocar no órgão, manter húmido e que, assim, ficava prevenida contra todas as doenças. E sabe uma coisa senhor Padre?
Este Inverno ainda não me constipei".

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