Monthly Archives: September 2014

A Tribute to Grandma! Make Eggnog Quite Easily Yourself

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Make eggnog

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Grandma was always the best! For hours to sit with her at the kitchen table – to a glass of eggnog – hach, which was always nice. Speaking of eggnog: Then could still make it by yourself! But how? Is not a problem because you need for this fresh eggs?

The truth: If you want to make eggnog itself,  you can not avoid the use of fresh eggs. Tip: take only very fresh eggs, then nothing can go wrong too. And then it says invite friends and ran to the mixer, because make eggnog itself is easy and tastes in a girls lap simply the best.

To do eggnog itself, you need the following ingredients (for 4 glasses):

  • 2 very fresh egg yolk
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cold cream
  • 2-3 tablespoons brandy or rum

And here’s how:

  1. Bright and thick foamy open 1st egg yolks and sugar with an electric mixer.
  2. Then the cream and stir in the cognac.
  3. Fill and Serve the eggnog in four liqueur cups or shot glasses.

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Colorful Donuts with Eggnog Filling

Ingredients (for 15 pieces):

For the dough:

  • 375 g flour (Type 405)
  • ½ cube of yeast (about 21 g)
  • 35 g butter, softened
  • 60 g sugar
  • 175 ml lukewarm milk
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • A little grated peel of one lemon

For the topping:

  • 150 g icing sugar
  • 6-8 tablespoons eggnog

Also:

  • Flour for the work surface
  • Round cookie cutter (diameter about 6 cm and 2 cm)
  • Baking paper
  • Fat for frying
  • 2 tablespoons colorful sugar confetti

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Eggnog Punch

Ingredients (for 1 serving):

  • 2 cl white rum
  • 4 cl eggnog
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • Hot milk to fill

Hot on ice! A Frozen Yogurt Recipe For The Home

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If it’s out really nice and warm, there is nothing better than ice. Or rather than frozen yogurt! Here comes the recipe …

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The great thing about Frozen yogurt ice cream is not just that there are so nice and light and fresh taste, but of course, that you can top it with lots of delicious toppings. Colorful chocolate beans, crispy nuts, sweet caramel sauce … and of course fruity like strawberry puree or fresh fruit cut into small pieces taste great with our Frozen Yogurt recipe.

Topping Ideas for our Frozen Yogurt Recipe:

Also great: To make Frozen yogurt yourself, you need not many ingredients. For the recipe, which you can add to taste flavors that these are here:

Ingredients for our Frozen Yogurt Recipe (4 servings)

  • 1 kg yogurt (3.5% fat)
  • 100 g icing sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod

And so the Frozen Yogurt recipe turns out perfectly:

  1. Put the yogurt in a large bowl and with a large whisk (or use a food processor) by beating vigorously until it has a smooth creamy consistency.
  2. Then let trickle the icing sugar through a sieve into the yogurt, while continuing to stir vigorously and until this has completely blended with the yogurt.
  3. The vanilla bean with a very sharp knife, cut lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with a knife.
  4. Add the marrow to the yogurt icing sugar mixture and beat well through everything again, until the vanilla is evenly distributed.

The fifth bowl with the yogurt then ground with a piece of plastic wrap covered for at least an hour in the freezer (this depends on the performance of the freezer and your own taste).

Important: The mixture must be stirred every 10 minutes, otherwise the frozen yoghurt ice cream and crystallized just not creamy!

Work Makes You Sick! So The Office is Really Dangerous

Work Makes You Sick

Caution in the office! These diseases lurk every day

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Bungee Jumping? Dive with sharks? compared to a day at the office. If you look even more closely, the notes that as a desk job can be damned dangerous.

Since threaten rather innocuous ailments such as the fiery red phone ear or the mouse hand. But even serious diseases such as heart attack and burnout can be caused in the office! Of the threat posed every day by the dear colleagues, not to mention. Someone is always cold, has gastrointestinal and mutated so that the bacilli-spin.

Find out on the next pages of the dangers of exposure to the office everyday. Do not panic, much of it is completely harmless and provided with a wink. Nevertheless, too much stress and too little exercise can also drag severe disease after an entire series. Relax and do not let stress should be your motto from now on!

Back problems

The neck is tense, back aches and at worst threaten disc problems. Who crooked sits all day in front of his PC, which is ideal for back problems of all kinds.

Bend your front office with a little gymnastics. Stretch and stretch regularly, get up and walk a few steps. Make sure that your workplace is individually created for you. The chair must have the correct height, just like the screen.

Obesity by unhealthy lunch

Canteen, snack, bakery: Who works in the office, has mostly not really much choice when it comes to lunch. Ready meals and fast food are fast because of everyday life. Who then does not drive enough sports and even in between nibbles, has fix a couple pounds too much on the scale.

Better: Cook yourself and warm the food in the office on. Alternatively, there is only one self-noon sandwich and a salad and you cook dinner fresh.

Mouse hand

A slight tingling sensation, pain in the wrist or a short numbness are the first signs of a mouse or a hand Mausarms. Those who sit all day on the PC and back the mouse on the pad and pushes that spans unusual muscles, tense the ligaments and can lead to inflammation. The disappear with a bit of rest and care mostly by itself again.

So that it does not come that far, you should definitely have a not so cramped posture habit and hands regularly shake out and relax. Also helpful: Special Mouse, who built a small collection, so that the hand rests relaxed.

Phone ear

Flame red with a slight throb: Who phoned constantly risked a red ear! Although this is better again after a few minutes of non-telephony, but need not be. Who phone a lot, you should get a headset. This is much more enjoyable and you also have your hands free.

 

The 5 to 2 Diet – miracle weapon against excess pounds?

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New month, new diet: At some point it has to work, after all! Maybe with the new diet trend from England, 5 to 2 diet (also 5: written 2 diet). Here are fasting days alternate with days when those eaten normal.

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So, the five works to 2 diet

The 5 to 2 diet is based on the new trend interval fasting. The numbers represent the day: Five days a week normally eaten, fasted for two days. Women are allowed to eat only 500 calories on fasting, men 100 kcal more, for a total of 600 kcal.

For maximum impact, the inventor of 5 to 2 diet, the British physician Michael Mosley recommends in his book – The Fast Diet – that you can not directly make the fasting days in a row. This is unhealthy for the body because too much protein is broken down and muscles disappear. His tip: Monday and Thursday fasting. The way you start to the weekend. Another tip: On the other five days of feasting not unrestrained, but would rather stick to a 2000 kcal-limit. On the way to a week to lose a pound of good women. Easier it is also, if one fasts every week on the same days. On the way you get used to it quickly.

You can do during the fasting days of 5 to 2 diet eat

500 kcal a day: This is damn little. Fortunately, you can even choose whether you eat 500 calories in one go or spread throughout the day. Make you feel so tired as possible, you should choose high-fiber, low-calorie foods. Vegetables, for example, contains a lot of water and therefore fills the stomach – but at the same time has hardly calories. 100 g tomatoes are only 17 kcal, 100 g cucumber 12 kcal and 100 g carrots 25 kcal. Additionally, you should eat protein-rich foods. Oatmeal, for example, lean natural yoghurt, steamed fish or turkey breast.

  • 2 tablespoons oatmeal (50 g): 191 kcal
  • 150 g cod: 114 kcal
  • 125 g turkey breast: 131 kcal
  • 150 g natural yoghurt (1.5% fat): 75 kcal
  • 1 apple (125 g): 68 kcal

In addition, you should drink plenty. Ideal are water and unsweetened herbal and fruit teas.

Losing Weight Overnight – Great ideas for a low carb diner

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Recipes for low carb dinner

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Carbohydrates are in disrepute, to make thick. This is especially true in the evening, so more and more people try to avoid using potatoes, bread and pasta at dinner. But if you opt for a low carb dinner: Anything at all then on the plate?

At the top of the menu for low carb dinners are meat and fish. Do not contain carbohydrates, protein and fat only. This’s a little healthier, and we will eat as many vitamins and minerals as possible, meat and fish should be combined with vegetables. It tastes great, wonderfully fresh and has no calories.

Those looking for a low carb vegetarian dinner, also is not too short. The selection is a bit limited, but there are enough ideas without meat and fish. Vegetables and salad galore, which are combined with cheese and tofu. Legumes and eggs, cottage cheese and yogurt … From this we can conjure up a bunch of great dishes.

By the way: No one has yet night forever stand in the kitchen and the stove which sizzle. There are fast low carb dinner like salad, which are finished in no time. For those who do not want to give up their beloved bread and butter, the food industry has done the egg white bread. That looks like normal bread, is a bit softer, but we can just as well with cheese and sausage as evidenced by the classic peasant bread.

Quick and easy ideas for low carb dinner there on the following pages as inspiration and to cook.

  • Salad

Salad in all its variations is the perfect low carb dinner – if we resist the slice of bread that! Carbohydrate-rich vegetables such as corn or peas should not necessarily in the salad. Otherwise, we can take everything your heart desires, is rich in protein and rich makes: fried chicken, steamed fish, seafood, canned tuna, boiled eggs, cheese, nuts and seeds …

  • Omelette

Eggs are suitable for the perfect low carb breakfast, they make themselves but also excellent in low-carb dinner. Tastes delicious omelets, which are flavored with herbs or vegetables. Omelets can also fill in as wraps with vegetables or meat. Fried or scrambled eggs are great supplements to a salad. These dishes we can upgrade with vegetables and herbs.

  • Fried chicken

Chicken or turkey are extremely low fat meats, unless the skin is removed and they are fried in low fat. A piece of chicken breast can be pur eaten as dinner or cut into pieces with a salad. You can also make great skewers with vegetables and enjoy the leftovers the next lunch.

  • Steamed Fish

Also steamed or fried in low fat fish is a good low carb dinner as he. No carbs, but contains plenty of protein Go quite fast recipes such as fish curry or fish cubes sprinkled over a salad. Seafood also taste very good, as fried garlic prawns to the salad.