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“Brioche tressee” ! January 29, 2009

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arton719 Hello, here I am to post another french recipe, it is brioche, I don’t know how to translate that.

For those who don’t know, it is like a bread, but very light and fluffy. It is so delicious, makes a wonderful breakfast and you can personalize this recipe very easily.

Some example: add raisins, dry cranberries, chocolate chips, vanilla or orange extract, etc…

Here is my recipe:

BRIOCHE TRESSEE

You will need:

- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour

- 1 cup milk

- 1 egg

- 1 stick butter

- 2 1/2 tablespoon dry active yeast

- 1/2 cup sugar

- 1 teaspoon salt

How to:

Well, this is an easy recipe, but you have to respect the steps. So, first you will have to warm the milk a little bit and dissolve the yeast into it stirring well.

In a bowl, mix the sugar and the egg. In another bowl put the flour and the salt. Do like a hole in the flour and pour the egg-sugar, mix well by hand (I tried several times with a mixer but it doesn’t work!).

Now you pour the milk-yeast. It is very important that the yeast is well dissolved in the milk.

Mix everything together, I know, it is very sticky but don’t add much more flour. Mix until you have a nice ball, then you add the butter (softened but not melted). Mix more with your hand but not too much, just til the butter is well incorporated to the dough.

Now you have to put the dough in a warm place (I put it in the oven with the light on), covered with a cloth. You have to let it at least 2 hours. It will double volume.

Then you have to “work” the dough a little bit, cut into 3 pieces and roll them. Then you will have to form a plait (tresse in french). If you don’t feel like doing that, you can just let it as one loaf, it is just esthetically nicer.

Put the dough in a baking plate like the one in the picture: 31bth9mutl_sl500_aa280_

You have now to let it covered in a warm place about 2 hours, or until it double volume again.

When it is done, you can put an egg with a pencil on top of it and a little sugar, and then bake it at 340 F for about 30 minutes, or until it has a nice gold color.

That’s it! You can also prepare it on the evening and let the dough overnight on your counter top.

Then you just have to bake it on the morning to have a wonderful breakfast!

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Creamy salmon bellies with shrimps recipe!! January 28, 2009

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p8060344 Yesterday we went to an amazing oriental store nearby and we bought some fresh well looking (and cheap ;) ) salmon bellies.

I decided to cook them with a delicious mustard-cream sauce and it was really a must!

So, as I am a good person, I will share my recipe with you! ;)

CREAMY SALMON BELLIES WITH SHRIMPS

You will need: (for 4-5 persons)

- 1 pound fresh salmon bellies

- 1/4 pound shrimps (I used frozen)

- 2 carrots

- 1 onion

- 2 tablespoon mustard (dijon)

- 1 cup whipping cream

- 1 cup white wine

How to:

First you need to peel and clean the salmon, and the shrimps.

Cut the onion and carrots in very thin slices. Cook them in a big pan (in olive oil) til they are brown and soft, then add the salmon and shrimps.

In a bowl mix a little bit the cream, the mustard with a pinch salt and pepper. Add this to the salmon. Stir well and bring it to a boil, then add the wine and let it cook low for about 15 minutes.

It is a very easy, quick and healthy recipe. Simply delicious with some rice, pasta, or with vegetables. Yum! :)

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home made play dough! January 26, 2009

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Hello readers!

Today I will post a recipe to make play dough! I posted recently about how my daughter loves play dough. In the picture, she is playing with a well known brand of play dough, because she had it as a gift for Christmas, but usually I always do the play dough myself.

So here is a recipe very easy, for frugal children entertainment, the children can actually participate in the elaboration, and choose the colors!

HOME MADE PLAY DOUGH

You will need:

- 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour

- 1 cup salt

- 1 cup water

- 4 tablespoon vegetal oil

- color (alimentary), a few drops

How to:

You just have to mix all the ingredients together and that’s it!

If you want to keep your child’s artwork, you can bake it at 350F for 5-10 minutes.

Enjoy!

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Teaching french to your child January 25, 2009

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Hey, this post is for those who teach their children french as a second/foreign language.

I want to share a valuable resource for you guys!

This is one of my favorite websites for my daughter, it is in french so maybe it is a bit difficult to go through if you are not fluent but if you click the link, you can find a hole page with hundreds of songs, poems etc. very typical and traditional.

That is MOMES.NET, a great website with a lot of stuff for children.

Then I also found a shop which is specialized in school/homeschool supplies for french and spanish language teachers.

They have really great educational stuff, well is worth have a look! CARLEX.

Well, I hope you found this post useful, if you have other links for foreign language, post a comment! :)

 

A child dream come true! January 24, 2009

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Hey, today I want to write about one of my favorite hobbies, it is felting!

I love doing some characters, decorations, etc. for my daughter. I use the needle technique.

It is very easy and nice to do, and the possibilities are never ending!

Here is a wonderful website I found where you can have carded wool, books, kits, and much more: A child dream come true.

I just want to buy everything they have!! which is not really in my frugal way! ;)

Well, I still have a lot of supplies from France but when I run out, I will certainly buy stuff from them!

What is your hobby? Do you like crafts? Share your favorite suppliers with me! :)

 

Laminin, a “godly” protein?! January 22, 2009

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Hi there,

Today I received this video from my friend Ely, she is the pastor’s wife in my church.Thank you Ely!

I have to share it with you guys!

It is amazing! I had to know more about this, so I looked around and found this.

The definition for laminin is that is a protein molecule which is found in every living being, to hold together all the multiple millions of molecules which compose this being.

It is like the glue of a body.

It definitely has the shape of a cross.

Colosians 1:16 “…by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

I am not really comfortable using science to try to “prove” that God exists. I mean faith is something personal, you believe or not just because you chose it, not because you saw a video on Youtube!

But, I liked this video, it is interesting, and tells us that we just don’t know anything about us, our universe, etc…

Most of unbelievers tell that God doesn’t exist as Himself, but that He is in each of us. I thing He can’t be in each of us and not be in each part of the universe, and not be our Creator!

The more I try to study the Word, and know more about God, the more I thing how small and tiny we are compared with Him. It is so arrogant to thing we can understand everything. Our universe is so overwhelming, and our God so Great!


What do you thing about that? Did you know about laminin?


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She wants to be a photograph! January 21, 2009

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Yes, my Cecilia had a nice little camera for xmas and she loves it!

Here are some of the pics she took:

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That’s me!

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Jose driving

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the artist herself! ;)

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She seriously wants to be a photograph! :)

 

Free pro-life hand book! January 21, 2009

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Hi there!

I wanted to share with you a post I saw on Bethany’s blog: HERE.

You can order a pro-life hand book for FREE, in this website: PRO LIFE.

Share the message around you, speak about it and give information to everybody you know about this cause.

:)

 

Playdough January 20, 2009

Filed under: To live — momelo @ 23:37
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Hey, just wanted to share with you some pics of my darling playing with her playdough.

She really loves it!dscf1263

She can play for hours with it!

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She especially loves doing “food” for me and my hubby!

Thanks Santa for this great gift! :)

 

Living the dream! January 20, 2009

Hey, Happy holiday to you guys!

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It is quiet special for me to spend my first Martin Luther King’s day here in the United States of America!

I don’t have the right words to tell you how much I admire this person and how many things he represents for me and for millions of people around the world.

I prefer to use his words. Here we go for his famous speech:

I HAVE A DREAM!

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”ยน

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day – this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!


I took the text from this website: AMERICAN RHETORIC.

Hope you are having a great holiday, God bless you and your families! :)