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Healthy Chocolate Frosting:

 Ingredients:

·         1 ripe avocado

·         1/4 cup raw local honey

·         1/3 cup raw cacao powder

·         4 Medjool dates

Directions:

Place dates in the blender first with the raw, local honey. Pulse until smooth. Then add avocado. Process until smooth. Finish with the raw cacao and blend until well incorporated and has a frosting-like consistency. Frost as normal! Firms up great in the refrigerator and can last up to one week.

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1. “Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott

1. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet

1. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler

1. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne

1. “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ―Martha Graham

1. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried

1. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin
2. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis

1. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson

1. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm

Portuguese Custard Tarts Recipe - Pasteis de Belem

 

Ingredients

Filling:1/2 cup of water1 and 1/2 cups of sugar2 tablespoons of flour2 cups of milk7 egg yolks2 eggs1 lemon peelPastry:3 and 1/2 cups of flour (400gr)1 and 1/4 cups of water1 and 1/2 cups of butter1 pinch of salt

Directions

Pastry:

1. Mix all the ingredients (except for the butter) the butter is added later. 
2. Make a ball of dough, cut it in the shape of a cross on top, cover and let it stand 10 minutes.
3. In the meantime, place the butter on parchment paper and beat it with a rolling pin so that it has the same touch consistency as the dough.
4. After 10 minutes, stretch the dough as much as you can with a rolling pin. Place the butter in the center and fold the dough over the butter.
5. Stretch the dough again and fold it in 3.
6. Turn it over and repeat the stretching process.
7. At the end, brush the dough with water and form a roll where you will cut pieces of the dough about 1cm each and put them in the tart forms, spreading it through the center until they cover each cup.

 

Filling:

1. Preheat the oven to 215ºC or 425ºF.
2. Boil the milk with the lemon peel.
3. Remove a little of the milk and dissolve the flour. 
4. Beat the yolks and the whole eggs without foaming it.
5. Then add the boiled milk and the flour dissolved in milk (make sure to remove the lemon peel). 
6. In a pan put the sugar and water, bring to a boil and then add to the previous preparation and stir. 
7. Fill the cups up 3/4 of the way (if you fill them too much, it will spill over and not cook properly). 
8. Bake for 30 minutes at 215ºC or 425ºF.
9. Unmold the tarts when you remove them from the oven.

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Motivational quotes for life

 

1. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein

1. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi

1. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain

1. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

1. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale

1. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter

1. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

1. “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.”—Diane McLaren