Monday, February 13, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Love Notes and Candies
"Writing love notes," some say "...are for high school students." Way back in time, inside candy wrappers were love and caring notes: "Kiss me, I miss you, I love you... and a lot more." They're chocolates, hard candies, mints, sour balls and mallows everyone loves to eat.
But did you know that even adults are fascinated with these love-note craze? It's the same attending a wedding reception and everyone in the party becomes excited from the notes in the cake flowers, like "You'll soon meet your prince charming," or " Next week prepare for a romantic dinner."
Some teenagers use candy wrappers to make scribbles and give to friend, designed with stickers and with real candies and chocolates.
Loot bags come filled with messages and notes of specialized posters given during parties both for the young kids and the Mommy's. These are packages that culminate a gathering and occasions.
How to write love notes and make candies/chocolates:
1. Love Notes
Be creative.
Write from your heart's desire.
Get inspired with people, books, and life.
You can print from a computer, or write long hand.
Tuck notes with candies/container safely.
Be sure to make surprising effects.
2. Candies
You can roll powdered milk with some amount of condensed milk, then sugar. Mould in a tray, cut and wrap.
You can also make into small balls, then roll into sugar.
Or:
Make "Yema" balls. Boil a can of condensed milk around an hour (estimate till condensed milk turns brown)
Form balls. This is ready to eat. Or if you want, dip into newly cooked caramelized sugar. Wait till candy hardens.
3. Chocolates
Bars can be cooked in low heat or microwave (as directed in the chocolate bar baking time). Quickly pour chocolate into molder. Wait till chocolate hardens.
Or: you can have marshmallows, cornflakes, cookies, strawberries, nuts in your chocolates before putting it to molder.
These are your personalized candies and foodie treats that could go with the love-note you've created.
However, if you are busy and cannot cook and prepare the candies and chocolates; varied sweets are around supermarkets and stores. Just take your pick of M&M's, LifeSavers, sour balls, Hersheys, marshmallows, chocolate pies, cookies, gummies - and attach the note that you've written for your friend on a card or gift tag.
What more? Halloween is coming, Christmas is coming, New Year and Valentine. Sweets never go unwanted they're sought and will make special gifts for friends, families, and everyone special. Please don't forget to share...
Rosalinda Flores Martinez
Ishalleatandcook
EzineArticles.com
But did you know that even adults are fascinated with these love-note craze? It's the same attending a wedding reception and everyone in the party becomes excited from the notes in the cake flowers, like "You'll soon meet your prince charming," or " Next week prepare for a romantic dinner."
Some teenagers use candy wrappers to make scribbles and give to friend, designed with stickers and with real candies and chocolates.
Loot bags come filled with messages and notes of specialized posters given during parties both for the young kids and the Mommy's. These are packages that culminate a gathering and occasions.
How to write love notes and make candies/chocolates:
1. Love Notes
Be creative.
Write from your heart's desire.
Get inspired with people, books, and life.
You can print from a computer, or write long hand.
Tuck notes with candies/container safely.
Be sure to make surprising effects.
2. Candies
You can roll powdered milk with some amount of condensed milk, then sugar. Mould in a tray, cut and wrap.
You can also make into small balls, then roll into sugar.
Or:
Make "Yema" balls. Boil a can of condensed milk around an hour (estimate till condensed milk turns brown)
Form balls. This is ready to eat. Or if you want, dip into newly cooked caramelized sugar. Wait till candy hardens.
3. Chocolates
Bars can be cooked in low heat or microwave (as directed in the chocolate bar baking time). Quickly pour chocolate into molder. Wait till chocolate hardens.
Or: you can have marshmallows, cornflakes, cookies, strawberries, nuts in your chocolates before putting it to molder.
These are your personalized candies and foodie treats that could go with the love-note you've created.
However, if you are busy and cannot cook and prepare the candies and chocolates; varied sweets are around supermarkets and stores. Just take your pick of M&M's, LifeSavers, sour balls, Hersheys, marshmallows, chocolate pies, cookies, gummies - and attach the note that you've written for your friend on a card or gift tag.
What more? Halloween is coming, Christmas is coming, New Year and Valentine. Sweets never go unwanted they're sought and will make special gifts for friends, families, and everyone special. Please don't forget to share...
Rosalinda Flores Martinez
Ishalleatandcook
EzineArticles.com
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Herbal Supplements
Folklore would not be complete without its many traditional, and oftentimes herbal medications, remedies, and healing methods. In fact, different countries have methods and treatments that are unique. The healing power of herbs - whether culled from the people of yore or learned in a 21st century lab - has effects that cannot be denied.
Among the world's earliest civilizations, food and medicine were inextricably linked, and many plants were eaten for their health-giving properties. For example, armies of slave workers who laboured to build the Egyptian pyramids survived on a meal which included a daily ration of garlic in order to ward off pestilence and fever.
Consider too, the dark age of Europe, into the medieval period, when herbs were painstakingly grown in monasteries. Each monastery had its own "Physics" garden, abounding in herbs that were used to treat the ailments of both the monks and the local folks who dwelled in the surrounding areas.
From indigenous local fruits and vegetables that are organically grown come combination of extracts for healing, stamina, and as body supplements. The mode of extraction follows a traditional method, like the fruit fermentation process, among others.
I. For treatment requiring the use of plants, take the following guides
1.Use only one plant medicine at a time.
2. Use only stainless or earthen cooking utensils (Aluminum reacts chemically with medicinal elements in plants.
3.Don't cover cooking utensil when boiling (to release toxins).
4.Take decoction either hot or cold. Strain before taking it.
5. Wash thoroughly leaves, barks, flowers, roots.
6. Individual with allergic reactions to with some plants are not encouraged to use herbal medications.
II. Herbal medication for constipation
Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Have a regular time to sit down on the toilet bowl. Have a regular exercise. Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables and fresh fruits.
Papaya/Carica Papaya (ripe fruit). Eat one big slice every morning for breakfast.
Yellow Bell. Boil 5 leaves in 2 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Drink at least 2 glasses a day.
Malunggay leaves/Horse Radish tree. Eat one cup boiled leaves with meals.
Take this caution: Remember that healing wonders of herbs are not substitutes for the doctor's prescription. Consult a doctor if necessary.
III. Check out samples of healing herbs
Healing Herb/Plant - Scientific Name
1. Sweet Basil - Ocimum basilicum L.
2. Garlic - Allium sativum Linn
3. Guava - Psidium guajava L.
4. Betel-nut Palm - Areca catechu L.
5. Betel Leaf Pepper - Piper beetle L.
6. Cocoa plant - Theobrama cacao L.
7. Black Plum, Java Plum - Syszygium jambulanum
8. China Rose, Hibiscus - Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn.
9. Ginger Lily - Hedychium coronarium
10. Carrots - Daucus carota Linn.
11. Horse Radish tree - Moringa oleifera Lam.
12. Papaya - Carica Papaya
Rose Flores Martinez
Ishalleatandcook
Ezine Articles.com
reposted february 2012
Among the world's earliest civilizations, food and medicine were inextricably linked, and many plants were eaten for their health-giving properties. For example, armies of slave workers who laboured to build the Egyptian pyramids survived on a meal which included a daily ration of garlic in order to ward off pestilence and fever.
Consider too, the dark age of Europe, into the medieval period, when herbs were painstakingly grown in monasteries. Each monastery had its own "Physics" garden, abounding in herbs that were used to treat the ailments of both the monks and the local folks who dwelled in the surrounding areas.
From indigenous local fruits and vegetables that are organically grown come combination of extracts for healing, stamina, and as body supplements. The mode of extraction follows a traditional method, like the fruit fermentation process, among others.
I. For treatment requiring the use of plants, take the following guides
1.Use only one plant medicine at a time.
2. Use only stainless or earthen cooking utensils (Aluminum reacts chemically with medicinal elements in plants.
3.Don't cover cooking utensil when boiling (to release toxins).
4.Take decoction either hot or cold. Strain before taking it.
5. Wash thoroughly leaves, barks, flowers, roots.
6. Individual with allergic reactions to with some plants are not encouraged to use herbal medications.
II. Herbal medication for constipation
Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Have a regular time to sit down on the toilet bowl. Have a regular exercise. Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables and fresh fruits.
Papaya/Carica Papaya (ripe fruit). Eat one big slice every morning for breakfast.
Yellow Bell. Boil 5 leaves in 2 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Drink at least 2 glasses a day.
Malunggay leaves/Horse Radish tree. Eat one cup boiled leaves with meals.
Take this caution: Remember that healing wonders of herbs are not substitutes for the doctor's prescription. Consult a doctor if necessary.
III. Check out samples of healing herbs
Healing Herb/Plant - Scientific Name
1. Sweet Basil - Ocimum basilicum L.
2. Garlic - Allium sativum Linn
3. Guava - Psidium guajava L.
4. Betel-nut Palm - Areca catechu L.
5. Betel Leaf Pepper - Piper beetle L.
6. Cocoa plant - Theobrama cacao L.
7. Black Plum, Java Plum - Syszygium jambulanum
8. China Rose, Hibiscus - Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn.
9. Ginger Lily - Hedychium coronarium
10. Carrots - Daucus carota Linn.
11. Horse Radish tree - Moringa oleifera Lam.
12. Papaya - Carica Papaya
Rose Flores Martinez
Ishalleatandcook
Ezine Articles.com
reposted february 2012
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