"I love you".... when this and the words are manipulative❤
How many times have we all heard the phrase, "I love you! It's magical, kind, light-bringing. Is it even possible to think that something other than joy and happiness could be hidden under that phrase?
It can. Yes, it can. It is the most important and terrible manipulation imaginable.
"I love you!" - and one is ashamed to say no to the person who said it. There may be no reciprocal feelings, but the fulfillment of any request, seemingly insignificant, is quite.
"I love you!" - and a nasty feeling of pity crawls out from somewhere inside. There are no feelings in return, but it is necessary to cheer them up somehow.
"I love you!" - and if the feelings are mutual, the last is given, nothing is spared, everything is for the object of love.
"I love you!" - and from joy and overwhelming emotions are ready for anything, because the eyes are covered with fog and the brain shuts down completely.
"I love you!" - and to the edge of the world even without a suitcase, leaving everything and everyone, especially adequacy. And not a thought about how to go back and whether there will be a place to go back to.
All this is not about you? You don't fall for that and you will never fall into such a trap? You can easily prove otherwise.
Parents often tell their children that they love them. When a child is very young - they just say that, because there is nothing to demand from the baby yet. Then the conditions begin, in an abbreviated version of the fiery tirade, boiling down to: "you have to study well (behave well, clean up toys, wash dishes, and so on) because I love you."
The short version seems nonsensical, but in fact it is. There is no connection, but a nasty "must" is added from somewhere. The child does not understand why, but the authority of the parent presses. And it becomes a must.
Then the child grows up. He's used to owing something for love. Guess what happens next?
That's right! Someone else says the magic words to him, and he already feels that he owes again!
Those who understand the magical effect this phrase has on those around them begin to use it in their lives. And so suddenly friends, girlfriends confess their feelings (friendly) to each other, and then do for this friend, girlfriend homework, write term papers and so on.
A colleague at work says the phrase to you (or in its less aggressive version: "I like you"), and then what? Will you say nothing? Oh! And who do we have after the end of the day working for themselves and the guy? Who has this tired red eyes? And why is he sitting here? Did he take pity on someone? Or did he fall for the manipulator's trick?
The magic of the phrase "I love you" in personal life does not even want to take apart. It opens not only the door of the house, but also gives the exclusive right to come in, sit with shoes on the couch and demand to be served to the highest standard. And this applies to both sexes.
The phrase "I love you" is beautiful if it sounds sincere and comes from the heart. This phrase, sounding only in order to get your own and improve your mortal existence, is awful. It destroys the one to whom it is addressed. It deprives him of his own will, of his right to choose.
Common and, unfortunately, the most common manipulation of people who themselves once became a victim of such influence.
Recognize the truth you say or manipulated - it's hard. You want to believe in good things, and the brain begins to actively seek confirmation: half looks, half sighs, random gestures, fleeting touches. All this is interpreted as confirmation.
But no smirks or taunts come to mind. And even if they glimpsed somewhere in the mind, they immediately turn in their favor. In such situations, we always know how to do it.
Vigilance will not help here, because it simply does not exist. Loving yourself in the first place will help. When a person loves himself, then he takes care and pity himself, not allowing anyone to destroy his happiness.
*Love yourself!!!*
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How do you make a puffy omelet like in kindergarten?
27.01.2022.
Hello, friends, welcome to my cooking blog! Here I will try to collect only the best tried-and-true recipes that I have made at home in my kitchen. Hopefully the information that I will share with you will be useful for you and you will enjoy share it with your friends.
A very fluffy and super tender omelet, which in the good old days was always cooked in kindergarten.
And everyone ate every last crumb of this delicious omelet, many of them even asked for more:)
It turns out that such an omelette can be easily made at home, without spending a lot of effort and time.
There are some dishes to which everyone can add something to his taste. These include omelettes. The omelet is a great base for breakfast, it is nourishing, moderately light, and most importantly with this dish you can dream up: add fish, vegetables, herbs, meat, cheese or combine some products together - everything is limited only by the presence of ingredients in your fridge. So, today we are making a "fluffy" (i.e. puffy) omelet. The fluffy omelet is an improved form of an ancient food. It's a simple recipe that almost everyone (except those with allergies) will enjoy.
Try making an omelet with this recipe, and from now on you will always make this simple but tasty dish only this way.
Ingredients needed:
3 chicken eggs
120 ml milk
2 tomatoes
40 ml olive oil
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp dry curry
Recipe:
-Whisk eggs with a whisk, mix with room temperature milk.
-Salt, stir in curry.
-Pour olive oil into the bowl of the multicooker. Turn on "fry" for 15 minutes. Add the butter. As soon as it begins to melt, put the tomatoes on the bottom.
- Fry the tomatoes for two minutes on one side and flip them over.
- Pour the egg mixture into the multicooker, close the lid and wait for the signal until everything is cooked.
-Gently slice the omelet into four pieces with a spatula, take it out and put it in a plate.
When I made an omelet for breakfast, they ate it in half a minute. And when I asked them what to make for lunch and dinner, they looked wide-eyed and modestly said, "Can I have another omelet?
I'm starting to be spoiled, because while the omelet was being made, I was just cleaning around the house, knowing that there was nothing to control in the kitchen.
The omelet turned out unexpectedly puffy. I don't always get that in the oven. It turns out that if you cover the lid of the multicooker when frying, the omelet will only benefit from it.
It's a shame that it's not convenient to take the omelet out in one piece, and I count that as a minus. I used to be able to take a whole pancake out of the frying pan or out of the oven mold. Now, due to the fact that the container is deep, it was not possible to do this.
***Why does the omelet fall off? A mistake most housewives make?***
Making a delicious and fluffy omelet is not that easy. The result should be a safe and tasty, non-sticky, and most importantly, puffy dish.
I want to tell you what mistake most hostesses make when they make an omelet. And how to do it, so that the breakfast turned out to be perfect.
Puffy omelet - cheap, hearty, simple and very tasty!!!!
Mistake one.
If you overheat the frying pan and then pour the omelet mass into it, the result will be a burnt dish with an unpalatable crust on the bottom.
Therefore, you should heat the frying pan over medium-high heat. If you notice that a faint smoke starts to emanate from the frying pan, it is already overheating.
In this case, take the frying pan off the heat for a couple of minutes so that it cools down and only then pour the omelet mass
Mistake two.
Housewives know that while the omelet is in the pan, it rises well and stays puffy.
However, as soon as you put it on a plate, the omelet immediately falls down and turns into a thin, unappetizing rag.
And the reason is that the omelet is not baked enough.
In order for this dish to retain its puffiness even after cooking, it should be finished in the oven or, at least, keep on minimum heat under a lid in a pan.
That is, cook it a little longer than usual. After the top of the omelet has risen and visibly thickened, you need to hold the omelet for another 2 - 3 - 4 minutes on low heat.
The last, third rule.
The plate on which you put the omelet should be warm. On a cold dish, the omelet will also fall off.
**Bon appetit!**
But today you can find so many variations that every time you make an omelet you can make a new dish every time.
You can put almost anything in an omelet even chocolate. And in order to make your omelet is really...
Tasty, fluffy, and beautiful, "I gave you this recipe. I hope you will find it useful.
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How do I find common ground with my mom and dad?
Many adults are in constant conflict with their aging parents. Or resentfully cut off communication. This is because we are not used to seeing our parents as independent individuals and expect clear-cut behavior from them (respect, recognition, praise). And they, in turn, do not want to accept the fact that we have grown up and are able to build their own lives. There is a vicious circle. Hence the many mutual complaints.
Where is the solution? And is there one in general? Parents at their age can not change. So what's left? Something to tweak in your head.
Someone's Facebook post:
I have a kid in second grade myself, and my mom tells me off like a schoolgirl 17 times a day. Yesterday she watched another parenting show and started lecturing me in front of my daughter. I do not bring up, I do not require and, in general, what do I know about life. How do I keep it together? How not to send her away for a long time?
A young, well-established woman, who has long since overcome her teenage "battles" with her parents, reacts to her mother's outbursts as if she were still 15 years old. Mom, in turn, complains to her neighbor: "Can you imagine, I do not sleep at night because of her, and she, ungrateful, can not talk to me on the phone!
Why is this so? Why do relationships with parents in adult children are the same? Let's find out.
Mom and dad for 30-40 years used to that you are in their lives. And in general - they gave birth to you, raised you, and finally "molded" out of you something good :). Do you notice? Parents treat an adult child as an object.
That is why the fact that you have a different opinion or decided to dispose of his life in a different way, causes rejection and resistance. It's like a houseplant suddenly saying, "I don't like the view out the window here, I'm going to the other window sill next door.
And vice versa - you, too, find it difficult to perceive your parents as separate entities. They've been around since birth. They fed you, clothed you, groomed you, wiped your nose, put up with teenage tantrums, etc.
After such an intense life together, the child (even if he is 34) perceives his mother as an object, that is, as an entourage to his own life. And he behaves in the same way. He tries to incorporate his parents into his understanding of the world and make them comfortable.
By the way, this is the sign of an infantile person who psychologically has hardly overcome the level of a teenager. It is inherent in his attitude toward the world, his attitude toward the people around him as objects of manipulation: "I'm going to press you now (with pity, hysteria, claims), somehow manipulate you, tell you something like this - and you will do as I want." Try to look at your parents as... communal flatmates :).
Neighbors don't have to be the way you want them to be, they have a right to have their own views on life. They are adults with the right to privacy and personal (different from you) opinions!
Do you want your parents to see you as an independent adult and not pry into your life with advice? Become an adult and start treating them as equals, and most importantly, get the phrase "Parents should" out of your vocabulary.
***They have already given you the opportunity to become the person you are today. Don't demand anything more.***
And you'll get the right to be you in return. Not to conform to their expectations, not to follow their advice and live the life YOU think is right.
Of course, this change in your mindset is not easy, and nothing will change in one day. But in six weeks, it will. Do you think it doesn't happen?
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Refusal to give alms.
Do you give alms? To everyone who asks or selectively? What are your "criteria" for deciding whether or not to give alms? What motivates you to give or not to give a few kopecks (or hryvnias, since the unfortunate already have "dachshunds")?
I used to give money to everyone who asked for it, except drunkards. And that was if I knew they were drunks. If I didn't know it, I would give it to them. I used to go to church a lot when I was a kid, and I had a lot of charity instilled in me. I knew that it was necessary to help the disadvantaged, that "you cannot escape from prison and jail", that "it" could happen to anyone. Perfectly aware of this, with a sense of duty and compassion, I always took out my wallet and smilingly offered money to those who asked me for it. But now I give almost no alms. I don't understand why I should give money to Romka, the cygan, because she is pregnant. Can you explain to me why I should help her? First of all, the state does pay money for the birth of children! Second of all, it's clearly a business for them: begging for money, shoving pillows under the floorboards and barking, "be happy and be well," looking at you with a contemptuous expression on your face that just screams, "Fuck you, white trash!!!". There's nothing to give birth to if you don't have money for "baby milk." If they weren't doing it on purpose, I would never allow myself to say that. But they do it for purely mercenary reasons!
I also don't understand why I should give money to a man. A healthy man, with arms and legs and some brains. I'm often approached by such men. They always have a polite, polite conversation, like, "Sorry to bother you, do you have a hryvnia?", burning the tips of my eyelashes with the fumes. No fucking way! No fucking way!!! You with your eloquence could work for ORT, why are you so drunk in the morning, begging? By the way, I earn this money by working, they don't draw it to me or give it to me for nothing. Is society to blame for this?
There are desperate situations. When people are in real trouble. When they can see that asking for alms is a torment and they would love to get rid of it, but they're having such a hard time. I've seen people like that. That's the kind of people you should help.
I don't give alms to cripples. It's not because I'm a stale scrap. I don't give them money because I know it will be taken from these poor people. They will be taken away by the "roof." I buy them groceries: bread, buns, candy, fruit. They won't take that away from them. Because such "roofs" hate their "slaves", they are disgusted with them, and they will not take food that their "worker" has touched.
But I always gave alms to children. Always and never spared. Until yesterday.... I was walking home, as usual, passing near one of the Roma settlements. There was a girl, about 10 or 11 years old, sitting on the railing beside the road. Clean-cut, didn't seem very well-groomed, but not dirty, not of Roma nationality. Eyes blue, big, blond hair, pretty. Dialogue:
- Auntie, do you have one hryvnia?
- I do. Why do you need one hryvnia?
- No reason.
- And what will you buy with it?
Candy.
We stood ten meters from the store.
-Come on, I'll buy you some candy.
-No.
- Why not? The store's right there. It's right next door.
- No, I don't want to.
- Well, if you're afraid to come with me, I'll go and buy you some candy. Will you wait for me here?
- No, that's okay.
- Why not? You wanted to buy candy with that money. I'll get you some cookies, too! Or do you want something else? You tell me, I'll buy you anything. But I won't give you any money. Either I buy it or you get nothing.
- No, I don't want it.
- All right, I don't want it, so don't want it.
I walked about fifteen feet away from her, and I heard a man approaching her. I didn't turn around, because for some reason I got scared and just heard the conversation:
- Well?
-She didn't. She said she'd buy me candy herself.
-Such a bitch.
I'm not jumping to conclusions. You draw your own conclusions. But I'm not giving alms to the kids anymore either. I'm just gonna buy them candy...
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A successful manis the work of a woman.
22.01.2022.
Behind the back of a successful man is always a woman who accepts him, understands him and loves him.
A wise woman chooses a worthy man. And since she chooses, her primary task is to respect her own choice. By being behind her husband in every way, she strengthens his rear, covers his back with her pure feeling, gives him spiritual energy. He goes, and everything in life works out for him, everything that is needed attracts itself to him. A man, letting this energy pass through him, gives it to the world and receives material things in return.
There is no such thing as a lone wolf, successful in business. Behind a wealthy man there is always a woman who believes in him. This can be a wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother - it doesn't matter. She doesn't necessarily sleep with him, but she certainly invests in him, inspires him, "encourages" him, cares for him, believes in him. Everything that is stable financially - through the man always creates a woman, her faith in him.
There is another category of outwardly successful men. These are those representatives of the strong sex who often change wives or mistresses. The woman senses how the man treats her and what role he takes her into his life, so the tap of the energy he needs is cut off, he stops giving love. He changes the woman, and the situation repeats itself. When a man is completely full of sex, he begins to feel a huge emptiness inside - "if you howl like a wolf". Sex without love strongly depletes energy, so a man feels the internal dissatisfaction, although outwardly it can go great.
There are also alphonse. These are men who are afraid to "go for the feat" and take responsibility for the woman and the family. They choose, as a rule, successful representatives of the weaker sex and flit from one woman to another all their lives.
In a prosperous couple, a man and a woman complement each other energetically, there is a mutual exchange. She gives him the most valuable thing she has - love, blessing and chastity, and he gives her security, emotional closeness, gratitude and material security.
A man at the beginning of a relationship always presents himself, so an important task for a woman is to hear him, see his hidden potential and understand if he is her man. And if she chooses, then believe in her choice, to trust the man the measure of responsibility for himself.
When a woman hears a man's position and decided that she can change, change or re-educate him - it is obviously a failure. She meets with strong resistance, and he either leaves (another woman, work, alcohol, drugs, the virtual world) or breaks down.
If a woman takes the male position in a relationship and the man accepts it, over time he "breaks down" and becomes a jackass, and she is bound to be an evil fury in such a couple. The other extreme is when a woman dissolves in a man, she "deflects" and becomes a gray mouse, and he takes the role of a tyrant.
Entering the relationship with deception of herself and her partner, unwillingness to hear and understand each other leads to the collapse of the relationship.
The choice is ours.
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Chocolate muffins
20.01.2022.
*Lazy Sunday...*
What are your weekends like?
Mine are usually pointlessly lazy))) First you get out of bed, make up breakfast, drink a bucket of coffee for a long, long time, then cook something, feed the animals, and then you're staring at the Internet. If it's not out there, if it's not outrageous, you can go somewhere, like go to a distant and and unnecessary store, which ends up being closed... Something like that)
I went home with a strong desire to bake a cake. But, as usual it turned out that half of the products I needed and I didn't really want to go to the store in the freezing cold. So I decided to bake chocolate muffins.
This one is chocolate, no, not just chocolate, but very chocolatey muffins. They really have an incredibly rich chocolate flavor, incomparable aroma, and they are cooked and baked, like any muffins, very quickly, it will take you only ten minutes for preparation and a little more for baking, to please your family with this chocolate delicacy.
How do you feel about muffins? I hope so, because that is what we are going to make today!
I would like to say right away, although muffin is similar to a muffin, it is more delicate, airy, not as dense and tastes better to me.
*Write it down:*
250g flour
100 g cocoa.
1 tsp of baking powder
0.5 tsp. baking soda
0.5 tsp salt
Found the cake with 50g of vanilla sugar, I put 20g of vanilla sugar in it, it was the same amount as regular sugar, but I ran out of vanilla.
100g of melted and slightly cooled butter
3 eggs
200g kefir or yogurt
2 tsp vanilla extract (I used almond essence)
*Here we go:*
Grate the chocolate on the finest grater. You can, of course, use a blender, but try to do everything with your hands at least at these easy stages. As I said before-any dish needs a little bit of our warmth. It's kind of touching, but what can you do))
Heat a bowl a little in which we are going to prepare the dough and put the butter in it. Knead it with a fork and stir until it becomes homogeneous and without lumps. A lightly heated bowl will help you in this very much. But you don't have to melt the butter all the way, you just need an environment in which it will be easy to give the butter a creamy consistency. Add the sugar and mix well again.
Add the eggs to the bowl. Once again mix well. The mass should become homogeneous. Here, too, do everything with a fork (you still have time to work with a blender)
Now pour in the grated chocolate and stir again. (we have a recipe today that does not shine with the originality of the steps)
Now you need a blender. Add flour and baking powder to the bowl and beat everything with the blender. It is very important that there are no lumps in the dough. The dough won't be very thick, but it will be thicker than pancakes or pancakes. Let's say the batter is a little thicker than the condensed milk. We add the yogurt, mix it up.
Grease the baking dish with oil. And spoon the batter into each cell. About 1/3 of the volume. You can put more. In the end each cell will be filled to 2/3 of its volume. Why not completely? The answer is as simple as two times two - the dough will rise a lot as it cooks (that's why we add the leavening agent).
Put the fora in a preheated 180 degree oven for 25 minutes. After that time, check if the muffins are ready simply by poking a couple with a wooden toothpick. If the toothpick doesn't leave any lumps, dough, or anything else on the toothpick, the muffins are ready. Take them out of the oven. Let cool slightly (5 minutes tops), so it will be easier to get the muffins out of the mold.
Flip the mold, help the muffins fall out, and place them on a plate.
*That's it, the chocolate muffins are done!*
The almond extract gave an unparalleled flavor, some even thought that I added alcohol to the batter - no, I didn't, although the idea is quite good.
These are probably my favorite chocolate muffins - delicious, delicate, and moderately crumbly. Perfect for a morning cup of coffee or cocoa! I recommend pampering your loved ones and making this easy pastry.
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Happy Water Holidays, friends!
January 19, 2022
***🕊Christ the Baptist🕊***
I congratulate Orthodox and Greek Catholics, readers and guests of this article on the holy day of ***Vodokhrescheniya!!!!***
To all of you good health, the Cossacks' ardor and Ukrainian nasnagrazhy!
It is believed that water consecrated on December 18 and 19 is called Epiphany or Yordan water and has the same power and use: it is used to consecrate temples and houses, given to drink to the seriously ill, stored at home during the year until the next Water Day.
One of the traditions of this holy day is the procession to the water tower, which is called Yordan, and mass bathing in it.
The Ukrainians were also afraid for that day. Ukrainian women witnessed that the moment the priest put the cross in the water, all demons disappeared from the river and remained on the ground until someone would come to the river to redeem the lily. Also women tried not to do it at least for a week, so that the devils would freeze to death.😈
The girls poured water in a bowl, threw some rosemary or a quet of cranberry in it, and they were washing - it was not enough to make them feel better about it. They also gave it to the skinny woman so that she would not be afraid of diseases.
***Guys, it's -25° frost outside, and people are swimming!!!!*** Such people are called "walruses" jokingly - they are hardened people!
The people had a lot of omens associated with the Day of Resurrection. If this day is clear and cold weather - for a dry summer, gloomy and snowy - for a good harvest. During the consecration of water if it snows - it is good for bjoli and grain growing. If the night is wintry, crops and berries will grow. On the last day of the year, carols are sung.
...
The Water Day completes the great cycle of winter holidays. On this day we not only drank in the polonca and stocked up on holy water, but also visited our relatives and friends. And, of course, they celebrated holy day! On this day we also traditionally say "Christ is Baptized!!!!" and the response is "In the River Jordan.
The river on Jordan
Mother Sina is bathing,
Our sorrow and grief washed away.
The Jordan sanctified the water for good luck
For your health, for your kind.
The whole world rejoiced,
Christ is Baptized!!!!
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https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/choice-or-a-reaction
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/gravlax-or-they-are-not-rolls-fb460b64
Love for money or concubine
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I didn't want to touch on this slippery subject in every way. topic, but nevertheless, we couldn't discuss it with you. we can't not discuss it with you. Yes, today we're going to talk about concubines, the current generation of young girls who are waiting for "their darlings (literally) at home in warm in their warm beds.
All women are looking for their happiness, but some prefer to go ahead and immediately declare the terms on which they are ready to make a man happy with their love. The search for "fathers" and "sponsors" is carried out actively, assertively and sometimes too openly. And what are these madams guided by?
Even the family is not an obstacle for these girls, they are only interested in material support", so they call it!!!!
I feel sorry for the girls, girls, women who are building relationships. When they see a man, they evaluate him. How promising he is, what he can give.
It seems to me that their logic is understandable - to get a warm place, not to deny themselves anything, getting help.
Here's one girl's story:
At 17, Alyona grew up to be a tall, slender girl with big breasts-a combination that men especially like. Alyona knew her trumps, and she did not wear a bra on purpose, allowing her wealth to sway as she walked, attracting glances. Men were craning their necks...
This story of conniving women who take advantage of men is exactly the case today. At least, it is clear that the prerequisites for someone to use Alena were.
The girl picked a guy seven years older than her, not particularly rich, mumbling, but capable of pleasing her with gifts for the sake of great love. Although, of course, she wanted more.
One day at a birthday party she met a man in his forties. The minus of it was his age, a noticeable potbelly and the beginning of baldness, and the plus side - a tight purse. Alyona appreciated the pros and moved in with him. The man had his own business, an apartment, a car, and extensive connections, so the girl did not bother. In an outburst of gratitude after another night, the "daddy" offered her to go to school, but she refused. At the same time, her mother's one-bedroom apartment was renovated quite nicely for those days.
The girl lived with her "daddy" for about a year. When people asked her what it was like to live with a man so much older than she was, she only said that her beloved treated her like a daughter - he took care of her and pampered her. Apparently, for the time being, Alena was fine with everything.
But one day her mother received a visit from the gas company, a handsome guy. Mom found out that he was single in his early thirties, and offered to introduce her daughter (who lives with her lover). By the way, the case was framed in such a way as if the girl lived at her dad's place. A juicy detail was that the sponsor of the former hostess let her go without any problems, and even gave her a wedding fridge - "from daddy.
Nothing foreboded discord in the newly baked family. But after three years her husband and relatives started to hint unequivocally - why don't you go to work, Alyona...
On what Alyona, without thinking twice, at another birthday party in a cafe gets acquainted with another daddy - again, many years older and with a stiff purse. And he left her husband, leaving her son to his mother. Now her son is about sixteen years old. Alyona continues her march through life in high heels, easily finding another sponsor.
How do you react to it? Condemn? Jealous? But the fact remains - while her life - a colorful feast, a constant kaleidoscope of events, in which there is no place for routine and fatigue.
Will this holiday is eternal - still not clear. After all, age sooner or later will move Alena into the category of mature ladies without labor skills.
Naive. They think it's happiness.
I need a gym membership. Not to a regular gym, but to an elite club. I want to get my boobs done, have a car, live in a big apartment with a view of the whole city.
Isn't that happiness?
Mom and dad did not lack looks, but there is no limit to the beautiful! We need to go to the salon, to make the lips, correct bite, to reduce the nose. Save youth and increase that was released by nature.
And the girl imagines how she will bite an already established old man or a promising son of rich parents. She marries him and immediately sends him to a spa - rest, honey, relax, while I run out and buy you a karat in your ears.
I get a car for the New Year and an apartment for my birthday. And the girl is still lying on the massage table, preserving and enhancing her beauty.
If she's not stupid, she won't cheat. And that's another thing, to risk your money for the sake of questionable pleasure.
And, let's be honest, a concubine is frigid, because she's the only one who gets turned on.
Not a life, but a paradise behind someone else's back and at someone else's expense.
All the women at first are quite young and beautiful. They take care of themselves; thanks to their husbands, they have had or have the means to do so. Work is not a forced measure for them, but a pastime. They do what they want to do.
But what's wrong with them, why do they look so un-aged?
Don't they get enough sleep? Are they standing the night shift in the factory? Are some of the latest advances in beauty inaccessible to them?
Everything is available, everything is there, but not the beauty of the past.
It's not a car or a spa that makes you happy, it's love.
Without it we stunt, but with it we flourish, without it there is no life, let alone beauty.
Be afraid of your desires, bunnies. Believe me, you don't need a man with a ***wallet to be happy, but love!!!!***
By the way, how do you feel about concubines? If you condemn them, why?
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Champignons marinated in ginger sauce
16.01.2022.
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Sometimes, on the way to the store, a thought occurs to me.
The thought of some new (old) recipe comes into my head. And in the store, the thought still helps to choose the right amount of ingredients. But on the On the way home from the store, the thought goes out of my head "to do "their business," and in the refrigerator. in the fridge, for some reason. bought, incomprehensible groceries. This time it was like that with Small mushrooms...But it's delicious😋
Champignons are very popular, especially during the winter, when only the most avid housewives can boast of preserves of wild mushrooms. White and perfectly uniform in size mushrooms, carefully packed in containers and displayed in the supermarket window, attract with their earthy flavor. They make delicious toppings for pies and pizzas, soups, pasta sauces, they are a part of pates, rolls, salads and express appetizers. I will offer one of the options for cooking mushrooms, which in our family have caught on the most, so to say the disposal of my errors.
*Take:*
Champignons.
Sugar.
Salt.
Pink pepper (black pepper is fine).
Vinegar.
Ginger.
Water.
Vegetable oil.
*Preparation:*
It is better to take small mushrooms, then you can not cut them at all. Wash, cut into convenient size.
Mix water, sugar, salt, vinegar, a little oil in a saucepan, bring to a boil.
Send the mushrooms in a jar, peel the ginger, cut into small pieces.
Add pink pepper and ginger to the brine.
Pour the hot brine over the mushrooms so that the brine covers them completely. I poured more oil on top, so that it creates a film that protects the mushrooms from oxygen.
I do not write the proportions, because, as usual, I do by taste, tasting the brine, it should be a little sour and a little too salty. If you like the taste of brine, you will like the taste of mushrooms. If you don't like it, adjust with salt, sugar, vinegar.
The next day you can already eat. *Enjoy!*
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Sometimes you want to be alone so that your soul has time to To fold its wings and rest
On the edge of bright thoughts... И It's okay to take a break, pause... Fill your day with simple joys that make you that makes you want to live!
Only as you get older do you realize that the best years are not your youth, but the years when you are calm and happy...
Take care of yourself my family, I love you all very much!
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Why you should learn to say No
Hi Guys! Today I want to talk about "no," or why sometimes you have to say no instead of yes. No to others and no to myself.
I used to have a huge problem - I was categorically unable to say no to people. I always wanted to help, to help out, to give advice... At a certain point in my life I began to think that I was no longer living for myself: I was helping to solve other people's problems, or doing something that I did not even like, or reading completely uninteresting books. In general, trying to please everyone, completely forgetting about his own interests. It came to the point of ridiculousness - I had no time to do my business, trying to help others. At some point I was smart enough to realize my own stupidity, and start correcting myself. Yes, not right away, but gradually I learned to say a confident "no" to people-parasites, whose personal affairs and requests I, in fact, should not care about at all.
But more and more often I become convinced that there are many people I know who find it very, very difficult to learn to say no. I'll try to share the practical advice that I used to follow. So, if you are asked to help, bravely ***say "no" if***:
The person asking you is not doing it for the first time. And every time you need his help, he ignominiously leaks, hiding behind non-existent affairs. He is just using you, because he saw that you do not know how to refuse.
You really have higher priority and even important things to do, related to your direct responsibilities, family. Remember, even if helping out is a mere trifle, finish all your personal business first. If it's at work, always remember what you're paid for, and what you're evaluated by your supervisor. Always prioritize only these things. If you have free time and desire, help, but not to the detriment of your direct duties.
Fulfilling a request will not benefit you in the future (at least in terms of moral satisfaction). When you are blatantly used - you need to send the person to the woods. So answer yourself honestly the question - you can not refuse the person because you have an internal barrier and you can not say "no" or because you really want to help him?
If the second option is true, then do not hesitate. Such an action will not be senseless. And in the first case, however, squeeze out "no".
You just do not want to do what you are asked. And you have no objective reasons for doing it. You're surprised, but the refusal with this wording works fine. There is simply nothing to respond to it.
When someone comes to me with a request, I do not want to refuse completely, but I am also not willing to do what they want me to do, I give them a so-called delayed "no". So it looks something like this:
Could you come up to me and talk to me about my project? I need to do it right now, because in twenty minutes I have to go on a very, very important case.
Of course, I agree. But I need your help in return, too. Tell me later about your situation and when I am free and we will discuss your question.
That's how I get the information I need in the here and now. I finish my business without saying no to the person ;-).
But at the same time, I do it without detriment to myself. Believe me, saying "no" is difficult only the first time. In most cases, people won't be offended by you - they'll just go find themselves a friend who is a victimless victim. So be confident in yourself and learn to say no.
When we are young, flexible, and just ...we're just beginning to learn how the world works ...the world, out of curiosity (...and a growing sense... of freedom), we're always we say yes to everything all the time! Because we want to try everything... all at once, and find out for ourselves what it taste, feel, and to hear, and in the end, just because you finally can.
It's the beautiful adolescent maximalism that... that allows you to get the right bumps in time the right bumps in time.
Then we get older, and the inner scales come into play of experience, desires and principles. And if we gradually learn to say "no" to the world around us. To the world, then saying no to ourselves becomes more difficult. People in general are very prone to pity for themselves and go along with their emotions and desires. In my opinion, it's not always about with discipline or willpower.
If you've decided to stop smoking, but you still secretly smoke a few cigarettes cigarettes when no one's looking, or if you sneak off at 1:00 in the morning at 1:00 in the morning and order a pizza, cursing the damn pepperoni damn pepperoni, it's certainly a lack of motivation and a vague awareness of the path to your of your goal. And while these are typical cases where we can't to say no to ourselves, I'd like to talk about more sensual situations.
A friend of mine likes to answer all questions with a joking reply:
"I've become a hostage to the situation. Well, we often become hostage to a situation for one simple reason is because we can't say "no, stop, stop." It's a classic story: we get caught up in relationships that make us feel small, unnecessary, not good enough good enough,ushurt and generally make us unhappy, but who we still support all the same. Because we love them, we can't leave, "he'll die without me," "where are we "and where are we gonna put the dog?" and a bunch of other reasons. We are very hardy creatures in this respect: a person can live in a relationship that destroys them for months and years!
How many times have we heard from our friends, our girlfriends, and even from ourselves: "I can't take it anymore, it's not going anywhere, I'm I feel bad, I can't stand it, I'm I can't stand it, I can't stand it, it hurts," and when asked, "Why don't" Why don't you leave?" they didn't wait an adequate answer. I can't, and that's it. I can't say to myself: **No.**
I love, I want to, but no. People often break themselves into pieces, to make others feel good, to keep them whole. This is fundamentally wrong, because a relationship is a dialogue. A relationship is not should not hurt, should not humiliate one or the other. ***You're either going in one direction or you don't go anywhere at all!!!***
And very often, realizing that we're unhappy in this relationship, we don't go anywhere in the hope of to change things. Clearly hope dies last, but for one thing, a relationship with the to change the other person is already is wrong, and secondly, with a hope that's been dying for years, you can suffer for years, and you can spend years torturing yourself for nothing. And so, in essence, to say to yourself once "no" once and suffer a little bit is so much better than wasting time in a relationship that's... that hurts and generally hurts morally.
So there you go, don't let yourself be raped, tell yourself "no" and walk away. You can't, never- ever!
leave people in your life who are destroying you. It's just not allowed. No matter how they may seem good, and smart and funny. Life, it seems to me, is made for goodness, for love and for happiness.
To do good, to share love and to be and to be happy. And one such one small and complicated "no" can make all the difference everything from a minus field to a plus field. Maybe not right away, but very quickly.
And then there's about love. We often can't say no because.., because we love. Like, why should we walk away from our own when we can tolerate our own love.
A dog who is beaten by his master doesn't run away from him, either. *But you are not a dog*!!!! And while many of us tend to believe that if
love is one and for life, we must not forget that at the end of the day one life for all love!!!
I once saw a program on TV where the host of a TV show was talking about how he was invited to be to be a judge on some show, I think it was "Decide for Me". It was and people would come in and they would talk about their problems, pouring out their souls.
The members of the jury were always giving advice, and they were always offering solutions, and he would always say, "Go away. Because if you feel bad, if you have doubts, if you have if you have a pull under your heart, that's it, that's the end, so just pack up and go, run away, rush off and don't...never come back."
If you have other effective ways to learn to say "no," please share them in the comments, it would be very helpful!
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Chicken and cheese pie
15.01.2022.
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Sometimes there is a desire in the evening, or rather before going to bed, to cook something for breakfast. But usually what is prepared in the oven, like a pie, is eaten almost instantly 😀
Chicken pot pie, friday night's like a little holiday because it's a short because it's a day the weekend, in fact, this time it's three. It's a good time to discuss, over a cup of tea.
About our plans for the weekend. With tea, of course, something tasty. Not sweet this time, because someone wanted to be thoroughly refreshed. It's the end of the work week, it's the end of the week... ♪
***Ingredients:***
*For the dough:*
100gr grated cheddar.
80-100gr butter (melt)
250gr 15% sour cream
180 gr flour
2 tsp of baking powder
*For the stuffing:*
1 chicken breast/thigh loin (you can use smoked chicken, it makes the cake taste more interesting)
1 carrot
1 onion
6 mushrooms
4 half boiled potatoes
1 fresh red pepper
salt, black pepper to taste
Some fresh greens
Icancook Veggies (not bad, even better than the tomato sauce)
For the filling:
2 eggs
100g 15% sour cream
grated cheese
Greens if you want
***Ingredients:***
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Oil the pie dish and line it with baking paper.
The chicken cut into small pieces, onion and carrots in half rings, mushrooms in slices, diced peppers + salt, pepper + add vegetable sauce and slightly stew. After, combine together in one bowl.
Mix all the ingredients for the dough and distribute to the bottom of the form. P/S: the dough turned out great, it was soft and didn't need to be rolled out beforehand, you could easily distribute it all over the mold.
Honestly made the sides. They just as honestly slid down while baking.
So I had to put it in the oven for about ten minutes, until it slightly browns. Take it out and after a couple of minutes, use a spoon to shape it into the desired shape with a rim. The dough is still soft, and the cheese has already successfully melted:). The dough itself turned out very tasty) I would roll it out and bake it this way without the filling)
Place potatoes in circles on the dough, top with chicken stuffing + chopped fresh herbs.
Using a whisk, whip the ingredients for the filling and then pour into the pie. You can garnish with red pepper.
We put our deliciousness in the oven until brown:) I got about 30 minutes.
Is it good? Of course it is! Such a cheese dough turned out. I recommend that you make something based on it, too))
Chicken and cheese pie is delicious and hearty. Soft and fluffy dough and a mouthwatering filling. What could be better than a meat pie, especially when it it doesn't take not to take long to prepare. The beauty of all of all pies is that they're they are very simple to make, there's no You don't have to fuss with the dough!
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When the lights went out...
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Perhaps you will argue with me (I hope not), but I will say: the main thing in our lives is health and electricity. And if everything is clear with health, the value of electricity can be fully appreciated only when it is turned off.
Believe me, I know what I am talking about - we had a power outage the other day!
And it was a real emergency against the background of the measured and serene life that I have started to lead in recent days.
The quiet evening at home was slowly creeping toward midnight... Half-sitting in a chair, I read a book, drank hot cocoa and out of the corner of my eye looked at the movie "The Irony of Fate.
Life was shaping up in the best possible way.
And suddenly, just as poor Hippolyte (the hero of the movie) headed for the bathroom to perform his famous wash, everything went out: the floor lamp, the bedside lamp, the Christmas lights, and the TV.
I was left with cocoa and nothing else.
I became alarmed that our house had blown a fuse. I don't know if they exist and if something could "knock them out," but my first theory, inspired by memories from the Soviet past, was this.
Looking out the window and opening the front door, I was convinced that it was dark everywhere.
It seemed that life had ceased on planet Earth: there were no streetlights.
Only the windows of the houses were black squares, with the occasional flicker of candles and smartphone screens that hinted at its timid continuation.
The time was a quarter past twelve, but as it turned out, many people were still awake.
Since it is much easier to survive a mass disaster than an individual one, I calmed down and thought: how nice!
But "how good" was only the beginning of the thought, followed by the continuation of "that I'm not in an elevator." As I imagined myself trapped in the darkness of the immobilized elevator cabin, I was greatly relieved that no one was there.
My second thought, which continued the first, was "how good it is that I'm not in the shower," as the water disappeared along with the light. Yes, friends.
Electricity is not only the TV, charger and light, but also the water supply and, pardon the detail, the sewer system. It, too, has stopped working.
If before, when the light went out, it was enough to get candles and enjoy the romance that suddenly fell down, but now all communications are closed on electricity, and when it goes out, not a single drop will flow out of the faucet.
No electricity means no hot baths and warm showers.
Even the chair I was sitting in is plugged in for the sake of being able to change its position.
By the way, I was in a "half-lying" position at the time of the electrical disaster, and after the chair was de-energized, I had to crawl rather un-elegantly to the floor.
The gas boiler, which had been providing uninterrupted heating, froze...
The refrigerator, which I opened to ascertain the extent of the disaster, hit me with a wave of cold and darkness...
It became dark, cold and lonely.
I called my husband (he always finds some way out), but my husband advised me not to worry and to go to bed.
As I fell asleep, I was happy to remember that we had a gas (not electric) stove, which meant that, whatever the situation, I would have a gory breakfast in the morning.
When I woke up in the middle of the night, I saw that the streetlights were burning outside the window and that our facades had been partially restored. I decided that we had been returned to the nineteenth century, and to be sure of this, I flicked the switch on the bedside lamp.
Alas, there was still no electricity in the houses...
I pulled the blanket over my head (the radiators were still cold at midnight) and continued to sleep.
In the morning the situation was the same.
Since I had no opportunity to wash, shower, and warm up, I decided to have breakfast. The thought of a gas stove, if you recall, had been warming me since the evening.
However, the dreams were shattered by a de-energized reality: I couldn't have any hot breakfast because the gas stove is an electric stove! That was probably the last argument that pushed me to the conclusion that electricity is the most important thing in our lives.
After eating my breakfast of cold eggs from yesterday, ham, and iced cocoa, I quickly packed up my things.
Fortunately, while I was taking the baby to kindergarten, the problems had been fixed, and the electricity was flooding into the house (this was reported to me by my mother, who had stoically survived all the hardships of the previous night and morning).
When I got home, the picture of the night's collapse unfolded before my eyes: the floor lamp was on, the chair remained in the unfolded position, and the TV had managed to both turn on and reboot.
The radiators were pleasantly warm, the gas boiler was heating water properly, water was flowing from the taps, and life once again played with the bright colors of domestic comfort.
Friends, appreciate the electricity. Rejoice in the opportunities it gives us. We are used to many things and do not notice their presence, but, believe me, as soon as they are gone, one becomes cold and sad.
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Fish curry
Good day to all and good mood my dear readers read.cash.
I would like to say that I write about cooking and cuisine, as well as everything related to it.
I continue to publish recipes, menus, and other stuff, that solve one problem: "how to make sure that at home there is always a healthy, delicious homemade food, and you spend a minimum of time, effort and money.
My good friend @Lucifer01 asked me to make this dish. So I'll do it😊 And I also want to thank @Lucifer01 for extending my sponsorship. Thank you for supporting me and what I write about!!!!🤝
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This recipe isn't festive at all, but it's delicious! It's spicy and very rich.
I have a lot of friends here from Asian countries, and as far as I know that cuisine is famous for its spices and spiciness. This will be my own version of making this dish. Spinach can be removed from the recipe (it's added for beauty and it's vitamins. Spinach has no special taste, probably even tasteless, but of all the greens we eat, it is the most useful.
Curry is for those who like spicy. I certainly do not make it so that the smoke goes out of my ears, but still. I don't give my kid any spices, of course, but I just put some aside for when I'm about to add spices. As a result my son, who is so happy, without any persuasions eats the same spices as mom and dad have on their plate. So far it's working 👌
***We should:***
Dory, or other white fish.
Ginger.
Hot pepper.
Garlic.
A few stalks of green celery.
Kohlrabi.
Sweet peppers.
Sugar.
Sesame oil.
Light balsamic vinegar.
Soy sauce.
Salt.
Spinach.
Pepper.
Flour.
Fish broth, or water.
***Preparation:***
Peel ginger, cut into strips, peppers in circles.
Finely chop the garlic.
Celery like this.
Quickly fry the ginger, pepper, and garlic in a couple of tablespoons of sesame oil and in a well-heated skillet. Just about a minute.
Add the celery. Also stir-fry quickly.
Add the kohlrabi chopped into julienne strips. Fry everything quickly.
Add spices to taste.
And add the peppers. Fry quickly again. Just a minute or two.
And then spinach.
Add water, stir, taste if there is enough spices. Immediately turn off.
Rinse and dry the fish. Cut into slices like this.
Roll in flour. And also quickly fry in well heated oil.
Dip the cooked fish into the sauce. Stir gently and serve at once.
*Yummy. Spicy! Pleasant!*
Well of course this is just a pathetic attempt to make something resembling of curry, because I can't eat real curry.
A variety of curries, thick stews, are very popular in Thailand. There are ready-made curry pastes for making them: red, yellow and green, varying in shades of spice flavor and spiciness.
Curries are made with fish and seafood, with meat or poultry and vegetarian, with vegetables. Curries are necessarily served with unleavened jasmine rice to neutralize the spiciness of the dish.
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Scary Predators
On the Internet there are more and more descriptions of predators, as well as their methods by which they lure their victims into their traps and break their lives.
I would like to describe the main predator and open everyone's eyes to his inhuman and cynical methods.
Cake ("Napoleon", "Tiramisu", "Bird's Milk", this villain has many masks, but the essence is the same - fat and carbs)
At first glance, it's just a confection, innocent and passive, but it's not that simple.
It has a hidden activity, the ability to get into the minds of women and drive them crazy and then devour them. While women think they are eating cakes, cakes are eating them!
At first glance the cake does nothing, in fact its manipulations are complex and sophisticated.
*The scheme goes something like this:*
-The cake catches the woman's eye. As if by "accident."
- The woman says to the cake, of course, a strict "no," because she still owns herself!
- She thinks she's won, but the war has just begun...
-Wherever she goes, whatever she does, she thinks of Him, of her refusal to him, of how he begged into her mouth. It is as if he is staring into her soul with a hypnotic gaze. When she tries not to think, she thinks even more. He follows her like a stalker everywhere. He weakens her will gradually.
-She eventually thinks-eating one bite isn't so scary. She eats it. At first it feels like she's satisfied an excruciating hunger, but no, not enough. She begins to think that once she has eaten a piece, it is better to eat two, the difference is small, and the hunger will be satisfied. Eating.
-Her hunger is a little less, but now the anguish of conscience is great. How could she afford it? Now she will forever be a weak-willed fat cow! The cake defeated her...
-Out of sheer disappointment in herself, the woman gives up and finishes the cake. She devours it and shoves it into her mouth in a fit of autoaggression. I'll eat it to the point of disgust, she thinks!
-Tort has fucked her again and is silently laughing his cynical laughter at her. He is in her belly, but even there -The King.
- This cycle repeats itself over and over again, the cake driving the woman to slavery or suicide.
This is the ability of cakes to enter the minds of women, especially thin women, that many people know, but are not yet fully aware of. We need to realize and declare total war on cakes. It is important not only to destroy not only cakes, but all confectionery, and those who bake them, to recognize the enemies of the people. An outreach effort can be made to begin with, but we must not be afraid and tough measures. The end justifies the means. Otherwise, the enemy cannot be defeated.
In a world without cakes, life will become easier, these insidious predators will stop parasitizing on you. You will be free. You will begin to live instead of fighting the cakes as you do now.
Notice, the cakes lie to you, pretending to be innocent, "doing nothing!" and piece by piece they sneak into you. You don't want them, but you eat them, isn't that proof of their violence against you? They seem to be safe, but you can't stop at one bite. By no means do you think it's your fault, that's exactly what cakes play on. While you are looking for blame in yourself, they will take over and enslave you, blame them better, direct your aggression at them and destroy them.
And while you can't destroy all the cakes, defend yourself with fierce hatred. When you see a cake or hear about it, start scolding it loudly and spitting, remembering how dangerous, harmful and poisonous it is, and most importantly how insidious it is. Don't have an ounce of sympathy for the enemy. Don't let the attraction creep into you. If someone somewhere is praising or just defending cakes, start a war against him, he is an accomplice of the enemy.
Don't believe that you are the weak one, that many other women consume cakes in moderation because they get enough other pleasures out of life, don't have as much stress and don't need the excess sugars and fats. Don't believe that it is you who is so distorted, that you have food addiction, and it is your inner enemy, not cake. Don't believe that you need to establish a proper eating regimen and find interests in life and then your eating habits will become healthy. No! You are already strong, beautiful, perfect, you are stable enough, you have plenty of resources from nature, you are the ideal, do not doubt your superiority, do not let you be crushed and put down. The enemy is the cake. You have to destroy it. And then the world will be cleaner, and you can live happily, you can feel strong and free.
And those who look for problems in you, who blame the victim, they are criminals! You are the victim, so there is a taboo on blaming you. You are perfect, you are perfect, because you are a victim, hands off your faults, you simply don't have them, and even if you do, no one has the right to mention them because you are a victim. You are the victim of cake. And the cake is your rapist and your enemy. Destroy it, and for starters, hate it fiercely.
Cakes are full of aggression, lemons nite, coffee's insidiousness knows no bounds boundaries! 😂 ))
You can't take the blame off the veggies either. They could have gotten a little more interested in themselves😉
And the salt? Our harmful and insidious salt! Without salt, a person's nervous system would fly very quickly. So that's why I'm taranka (dried salted fish) predatory karavlivaet on the shelves. stores.! In the nervous system wants to sneak. They already have a symbiosis with the nervous system (traitor), predatory aliens in the body, karoul!!!!
And the couch?! How insidious the couch is!
It pretends to be so cute, soft and comfortable, useful in the and harmless rug, and then...it's got you and won't let go, literally, commits violence! Almost article of the criminal code!
By the way, the Internet is also a predatory informational medium, catching on the twenty-fifth frame and the twenty-eighth mark ))). And in general the world is full of temptations and dangers.
Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what I have the Internet instead of a cake - the worst predator!
And how do iPhones eat people? And all those horrible apple products in general. Devourers and predators, maddeners.
And the beauty industry? Manipulates, makes you strive for imaginary ideals. Does not allow us to love ourselves and turns us into victims of jars of creams.
Because of it, men do not like real women, all they want only a soulless doll!
But remember, the agony of conscience - is also the result of her manipulations. Do not blame yourself, then it will be easier to confront the enemy.
This is true, if anything. The more guilt you feel, the more stress you feel, you want to close the stress, and so it goes round and round again.
The line is thin, so you can stop at the "definitely very dangerous" and leave the "conditionally dangerous" alone. Even defending against very dangerous, it is necessary to understand that ideally, a man himself should resist temptations of all, any, from within, that is, the ideal is just that, and not his protection from the outside. From the outside is an advance.
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Shortbread cookies with chocolate and nuts
Good day to all and good mood my dear readers read.cash.
I would like to say that I write about cooking and cuisine, as well as everything related to it.
I continue to publish recipes, menus, and other stuff, that solve one problem: "how to make sure that at home there is always a healthy, delicious homemade food, and you spend a minimum of time, effort and money.
Yay! Today I'm writing my next recipe. I love this project read.cash you can write about whatever you want and share your thoughts and even recipes😋 .
I, as always, have no idea what to tell you. Stories from my childhood came to mind, all for some reason related to movies or cartoons. I really liked to watch "12 months" and "Morozko". Who remembers: "Is it warm for you, maiden, is it warm for you, beauty"? It was a good movie. What's my point? Read on. :))
And so still until about 8 p.m. tonight there was no story. I baked cookies, but I have no idea what the story is about. But I think, okay, I'll start writing and I'll think of something. My son went to his grandmother, my husband and I had a romantic dinner, lit some candles, and then I remembered about the fireplace. I had to think of him. My husband refused, saying that we had not touched it for a year, let it be, but I was adamant: I want, say, a fire and warmth and comfort. My husband reluctantly lit the fireplace, I calmed down. Candles burning, wood in the fire crackling, lights dancing, warm, good. My husband nestled nearby, warming his bones. For 20 minutes the idyll was complete. Then my husband began to smell. Smoke was not going up the chimney but down the house. Not good, you can also poison yourself, we opened the windows. But the fire is burning, and the smoke is smoky....Any more fun: my husband is running around the house with a stepladder, I open the windows... We put out the fireplace, ventilate the house. January, everything is wide open! It could be -17° at night... And we keep watching the movie. We're sitting on the sofa with my husband, all wrapped up in plaid, me in a hooded sweater and gloves... I have to share a recipe and write a story. Are you warm, maiden?
Anyway, again without a story the cookies will be:)) Delicious and easy to make. And with our favorite and traditional ingredients - chocolate and nuts.
*And so the recipe itself:*
375g general purpose flour
100g fine cooking sugar
1/4 tsp salt
200g soft butter
30g soft cream cheese
2 tsp vanilla extract
200g unsweetened chocolate chips (or chocolate), at least 60% cocoa
1 cup chopped roasted hazelnuts
1/4 cup currants (frozen, defrost)
1 tablespoon currant syrup
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 190°. For baking prepare either a baking tray or a 30x40 cm dish, cover with baking paper.
- Mix the flour, sugar and salt in the mixer bowl. Change the mixer bowl to the flat nozzle and add the butter piece by piece, beating it on low speed. Add the cream cheese and vanilla extract and whisk lightly on low speed until the ingredients are blended. Continue by hand to bring the mixture together into a clump.
- Transfer the dough to a baking tray and spread by hand around the circumference. I rolled out with a rolling pin on the paper and then transferred it to the baking tray.
Bake for twenty minutes, flip in the middle.
-While the cookies are baking, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Grate the currants, mix with the syrup and add to the melted chocolate.
-Take the cookies out of the oven, cool slightly (about 5 minutes) and spread the chocolate mixture on them. Sprinkle with nuts or marmalade slices or whatever you like.
Let stand for about fifteen minutes and slice with a sharp knife or round cutter. Transfer them to a rack and allow to cool completely.
This portion will yield approximately 48 pieces.
***My notes:***
-The original had a little more butter and more sugar, I reduced it.
-The original suggested spreading the chocolate chips over the dough as soon as we took it out of the oven. I was afraid that they would not melt, and I wanted to add currants to the chocolate. You could substitute raspberries.
-I rolled out thicker dough (my baking dish is a little smaller), you can make the rhombuses thinner. I baked for 20 minutes.
-It is very important to cut the cookies into loaves while they are still soft and cool. Then it will crumble.
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Cappuccino without a coffee machine. Discovering cooking secrets
Good day to all and good mood my dear readers read.cash.
I would like to say that I write about cooking and cuisine, as well as everything related to it.
I continue to publish recipes, menus, and other stuff, that solve one problem: "how to make sure that at home there is always a healthy, delicious homemade food, and you spend a minimum of time, effort and money.
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All people are divided into tea drinkers or coffee drinkers. And among the latter, the controversy is even stronger. Do I put milk in my coffee? - is almost a religious question. But if you make it with milk, it's cappuccino. But is it possible to make it at home, without a coffee machine?
As it turns out, it's very possible. Milk foam is made without any special device. Cappuccino is a drink made on the basis of coffee with the addition of milk, and its origin is not clear. It is said that it received this name because of its color, which was very reminiscent of the color of the monks' cassock.
But the first people to call this way of making coffee this way were the Germans: I found notes of the recipe. It explains that you have to boil the coffee, add sugar and spices to it, bring it to a boil again, mix the coffee with egg white and egg yolk, and whip it up.
Cappuccino, as we drink it now, came to us from Italy. The modern recipe came about only when coffee makers were invented, which heat coffee and make the crema necessary for this popular drink.
The easiest and most convenient way to enjoy a cup of delicious cappuccino in a cafe. But there is nothing difficult about finding the right ingredients and making it at home. Now I will tell you how to do it.
*The perfect cappuccino*☕
Cappuccino is a mixture of coffee and milk, but the amount of each of these ingredients, as well as the very form of serving, is not accidental. Usually you take 120-125 milliliters of milk (half is needed for foam) and 25-30 milliliters of coffee. In contrast to coffee with milk, cappuccino must have a fairly thick foam layer.
Thus, you need to mix coffee with 60 milliliters of milk, and the rest will be used for froth, which we carefully lay on top and decorate with cocoa or cinnamon. If you don't have a crema maker, you can use a very quick and easy trick:
♡Cool the right amount of milk in the refrigerator, pouring it into a glass jar beforehand and closing it well.
Shake the jar vigorously for 30-40 seconds, then heat the opened jar in the microwave for 20 seconds. You will see foam appear.
♡ Add the milk left at the bottom of the jar to the coffee, then pipe the foam on top. You can use a teaspoon to make it look neat. Sprinkle with cocoa and cinnamon. Done!
Professional baristas use the foam as a canvas and draw florets, hearts and more on it. If you want to decorate your cappuccino, you can use stencils and sprinkle cocoa on top.
*That's it! Bon appetit.*
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Happiness for sale
Good day to all and good mood my dear readers read.cash. Today is my next article on a free theme. This is a reflection on life, different situations and the like.
In comments to my articles you can ask questions, as well as give your opinion on the subject of this article. Today I want, of course, to touch the subject of Happiness as a marketing gimmick. I will tell you in detail what it is in this article. And to be happy or not - it is up to you to decide!
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Happiness-it's bought and sold. A woman's happiness can be found by buying something or learning something. A conditional fur coat is a woman's happiness. IPhone or Lexus is a woman's happiness. A fashionable cozy interior is a woman's happiness. A trip abroad and vacation by the sea is happiness.
*And happiness can be learned. In quite literally !!!* To go to courses and find women's happiness. It's varied there too. It's oriental practices that will open up "unexplored depths" in you and you "get to know the woman in you". This is a psychological training, which will bring out all that is hidden and get rid of everything wrong. It's also the fitness industry that will make your body desirable and sexy. And you can also go on a fancy diet and become happy and healthy. Go to business training and gain confidence. And there will be happiness, too. Women's happiness is now everywhere.
And if you do not like something fashionable and modern, you can always turn to traditional female values. Family, love, children. The proverbial: a woman's purpose. With this you will always find happiness. A woman clutched her son to her breast and is happy. Cooked her husband dinner, look in his grateful loving eyes and happy.
In general, our women are not lost. They always have happiness somewhere nearby. She's got her hand out and she's happy. If also a pen with money, then for sure.
With money it's easier all at once. This is where marketing works at full throttle. The money will teach you how to be happy in five steps. Some celebrity will give a master class, or better yet, a series of master classes, and right away you're hooked. Was an unhappy woman, and will become happy and successful. Just to her even more money will stretch, and the men are only necessary, and notice the best side of her. And her career will take off. And a teenage child will love her and become a grateful son. Twenty-thirty thousand for the course and no problems.
And a lot of people buy it. It's very popular now. Finding your feminine happiness - five steps. Discover the woman in you - three master classes. I've even seen gurus who instruct women on the path to happiness. They sit in coffee shops and drip on the brain how a woman should behave. Which chakras to open, which ones to close.
Happiness has become a bargaining chip. They learned how to program it for certain purposes. It's like going to the supermarket, no joke. Get the happiness you want off the shelf. If you're young, you need this kind of happiness, a little older - another. Divorced - in the next department.
And so our women wander through the supermarket. From one department to another. They wander between the shelves. They try one thing and then another. While they're trying the second, something else becomes relevant. They go to him in droves, and there's a fourth one they're advertising. And they can go on like that for a long time. Until they get tired.
But this almost always happens in the end. The woman seems unhappy, and so she spends years searching for the right happiness, and then comes back to exactly the same point of fatigue from life that she was in in the first place. She closes her eyes and just lies there.
Bored. Men, love, fur coats, the sea.... How to raise a child properly... How to build a career properly... What do you need to smear yourself with so you don't get old... Tired of!!!!
Let me be ordinary, not knowing how to present myself properly, not knowing how to watch my skin, my weight, my inner energy (what is that anyway???). Let me stay that way! That's it, stop. I'm going to lie down and not go anywhere.
Have you ever done that? Congratulations, you've taken a major step towards women's happiness. You've stopped looking for it. Living with the hope that some kind of happiness programmed by others that you can learn and buy is what you need. You came down to earth and started just living. Well, still lying around for now, but that's okay. Soon you'll get hungry, get up and go get a snack, have a glass of wine, watch a show, and you'll be fine.
You're a 21 st century person who isn't waiting for energy from outer space to transform everything around you. You don't expect love that will last a lifetime and nourish you every minute. You realize that happiness is just a trick. A brief release of dopamine or oxytocin or maybe endorphin and serotonin. Or get lucky and all at once. Positive reinforcement when you do something good for your body. Eating a good meal, taking a walk in the sun or just outdoors, drinking a good drink, having sex, or just hugging another person. Having children or a dog. Taking care of them. And it's all the same - disposable injections. A little more today, a little less tomorrow. It's easier in the summer than in the fall. The first two weeks of the cycle are better than the second. You have a special happiness when you've arrived at some meaningful goal. Completed an important task. Finished university or, when a child went to first grade, especially. And when he or she has made it through adolescence, that's a huge happiness altogether. You're happy when you feel safe. When you feel that you can maintain a certain standard of living and be confident in the future.
Happiness is being a simple person. That's the foundation of happiness, and the rest are optional extras. And not as a woman with some special purpose, but as a human being. A biological species, if you will. It's an important understanding that we are just a biological species, albeit with a complex organization, both physiological and social. But we are part of nature and we are driven by its laws and orders.
To discard the superfluous and turn down the noise is the main step to happiness. To realize that you are already doing a lot to feel happy. Just waking up in the morning and eating breakfast. Just going outside and meeting a friend or two. Petting a cat while watching a show.
Joke😂.
Happiness-can't be bought or given as a gift, but you can share it with someone who would really enjoy it.
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"Shchedrik" or Ukrainian contribution to Christmas
I congratulate all Orthodox Christians today on the biggest and most joyful holiday of the year:
*Merry Christmas!!!* *Christ is born, we praise Him!!!🌟*
Good day dear readers of read.cash as you probably already realized today the whole Ukraine celebrates the Birthday of the Son of God Jesus Christ. http://read.cash
Today is my next article on a free theme. This is a reflection on life, different situations and the like.
In comments to my articles you can ask questions, as well as give your opinion on the subject of this article. Today I want, of course, to talk about Christmas.
A little bit of information for you about one of the most popular Christmas songs, its roots and variations.
After all, Christmas is a special holiday here, much more festive, sincere and family than even our New Year. We want to congratulate everyone and wish everyone what they need. And at the same time to share a Christmas melody, which this holiday isn't without.
https://youtu.be/FsjoLhbD5m4
I think you've all heard it. It's one of the soundtracks for movie "Home Alone" and I think the whole world has seen this movie!
This Christmas song is played at Christmas time in every Ukrainian home! People create Vets and go from house to house and sing this song.
Carol of the Bells
- one of the most popular Christmas tunes, existing in dozens of variations and arrangements.
Many will be surprised, but this wonderful music is directly related to us, to my homeland, to my people. The author of the music is Nikolai D. Leontovich, a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, teacher, and public figure of the early twentieth century. The talented musician, who was born in the Podolsk province (in what is now the Vinnitsa region), studied at the seminary, where he studied the theory of music, choral singing, and learned to play the piano, violin, and other instruments. Developing his musical education independently, Leontovich became interested in arrangements of folk songs, melodies, arrangements of folklore texts to music. The first edition of his "Shchedrik" carol, which Leontovich composed at the age of 24 (talent!!!👏) and many times revised later, brought him great fame and recognition. The first time the public heard this composition was the year when it was performed by the choir of the Kiev University. It was already the fourth version of Leontovich's Shchedrik, which became extremely popular and spread not only in musical circles, but also among the general public.
A non-Ukrainian reader might ask what schedryk is. *Schedryk* is a Ukrainian folk song szchedrivka (I do not know if there is a foreign version of this word), i.e. it is a holiday traditional song with wishes of a good harvest and all the best for the new year. It's called that because it's traditionally sung on a generous evening - the evening before Epiphany. (Forgive me for my complete religious stupidity and ignorance, but I'm not really knowledgeable in Christian holidays, if I'm somewhere wrong). But I, like you, love this holiday!!!
*"Shchedrik"* was performed at a concert at Carnegie Hall in the glorious city of New York during the tour of the Alexander Koschitz Choir (who emigrated to the US and later to Canada a couple of years later). So much the American audience liked the song, that after a while it was released by an American (also Ukrainian by birth👏) Peter Vilhovsky's version of *Carol of the Bells.* The popularity of this song is hard to overestimate: you hear it everywhere - in Christmas advertisings, commercials, greetings, at every Christmas fair, every holiday show is equipped with this music. Various pop, rock performers have repeatedly tried to give it a new sound, and make it in their own way.
The original lyrics of the song tells of a swallow that came to the head of the family to tell him that everything is fine, the lambs have given birth, the harvest is enough not to die of hunger, it is even possible to earn some money at the market, but money is not important, the main thing is that he has a black-browed and beautiful wife! In the English version it is not about a swallow, nor about a black-browed, lush-breasted hostess. There it is sung about the bells, heralding the feast of Christmas, the ringing of which brings joy, smiles, and good humor to both old and young.
The cause of the composer Leontovich's death, or rather the cause of his murder, is still a mystery.
According to the official Soviet version he was killed and robbed by a common bandit-Petlyurovitch, who asked him to spend the night in the house of Leontovitch (that's how you let strange people spend the night... 🙄).
Leontovich's legacy is not limited to one "Schedrick," but there is no doubt that this tune, his most famous work, spread around the world, will live on for decades to come.
And I want to cheer up all readers of read.cash today with this wonderful chudrik that I told you about (the words are the ***original "chudrik"):***
*Cheek, cheek, cheek,*
*The little flipper flew in,*
*She began to chirp,*
*The master's voice:*
*- Come out, come out, sir,*
*Look at the sheep pen,*
*The sheep rested there,*
*And the lambs are born.*
*You have all the good stuff in you,*
*You'll have a lot of money.*
*If not money, it's sex,*
*You've got a black-haired woman in you.*
*Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio,*
*The little flapper flew in.*
I know this song by heart, all our small children know it, it's our history! And not knowing our history (any country) - is not respect for the future!!!
***How long is Christmas in Ukraine?***
The holiday in Ukrainian families begins in the evening of January 6 and lasts until January 14!!!! *Can you endure so much, dear readers of read.cash? 😂*
During these days there are so called: caroling, sowing, chipping.
"Caroling, caroling, caroler...".
But after supper's over the streets are filled with crowds of young people dressed in costume. At the porch of every house there's a performance,...where the central figure...is the goat. The jockeys wish happiness to the owners.
Probably no other nation in the world celebrates it so long😉 on the night from 13th to 14 Ukrainians have a chance to to see off the old year for the second time and celebrate the New Year. The holiday is called is called 👇
The Old New Year.
There's no other Vertep in the world like there is in Ukraine! This is another Ukrainian contribution to the history of Christmas...but that's a whole other story of mine.
***Merry Christmas! 👼***
May this magical holiday fill your life with light, warmth, joy and prosperity. I wish you peace, kindness, love and family comfort. May your guardian angel protect you from all troubles and hardships!
***Peace to your home! Christ is born! Praise him!***
I thank my sponsoring friends! My sponsor friends, thank you! As strong as we are, support increases our strength! It's like a breath of fresh air when difficulties pile up and don't let us breathe! Thank you for your support! I will always remember and thank you.
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I thank God for his help in writing this article, and you, dear readers, praise him if your reading has been helpful to you.
I want to know your opinion.
If you are interested in my content,then I invite you to read my other articles:
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/onion-and-garlic-jam-f71c50ef
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/forest-glade-themed-cake-b6adf80b
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/we-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-5fc88f83
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/choice-or-a-reaction
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/gravlax-or-they-are-not-rolls-fb460b64
Hot Chocolate
Good day to all and good mood my dear readers read.cash.
I would like to say that I write about cooking and cuisine, as well as everything related to it.
I continue to publish recipes, menus, and other stuff, that solve one problem: "how to make sure that at home there is always a healthy, delicious homemade food, and you spend a minimum of time, effort and money.
I am a mother of three - "sons", Kirill, my husband, and ... this blog :) Exactly 2 months ago it had its first entry. Yes, this blog of mine on read.cash is another of my emotional investments. Just like with kids, sometimes it upsets me, makes me anxious and nervous, but the rest of the time I love it with a tender love :)
Two months ago, I was so trying on which entry would come out first, imagining what would come next; what recipe to make; would there be comments, and if so, what kind? But what came next was a little different - a lot of crying and shouting. I thought: who's going to see this entry?! And who cares, anyway! These words were repeated for days on end, interrupted by tears. Thanks to my family, who put up with all of this.
But then it came - the first comment!!! Lots of words of encouragement from family, faith in me did not let me quit before I even started. Much thanks to them for that. Funny ... such a fiery speech, as if my stay here for ten years, not two months :) But that's the mood I'm in today. To remember how it all began and say thank you very much to you, my readers! For the presence, smiles, funny jokes and banter, for the dose of energy that you share with me. For the motivation to develop further, for all the thoughts voiced aloud, for the warmth and positive emotions. For saying, "I doubt I will dare to cook, but I will always read! This is amazing! :) Thank you also to those who haven't behaved well, exposing their "toxicity" - you are needed too...for balance. And to appreciate even more those who come here with kindness.
It matters to me that I see the same faces in read.cesh. You come back and it feels damn good!!!! You come back even though you see a complicated dessert or some dishes. Yes, juicy cuts of meat are showing up less and less often, but they will ! I swear by good dark chocolate :) Well, that seems to be it. We have to stop ourselves or it might not end. I certainly want to offer a recipe today, a recipe for delicious hot chocolate.
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Well, it's finally here. Winter has finally begun! On Saturday, even the sun looked out - For the first time in months... Me I love these moments in winter those moments when you don't have to in a hurry, and it's snowing and freezing cold, and you're sitting at home in the warm at the big window, and it's so it's so cozy and good... And you really want to cook...something just as cozy...and warming... Like, uh.., hot chocolate. No, not just cocoa.
Once in a cafe at the table next to mine, a grandmother and her granddaughter, about six years old, were sitting. The grandmother ordered hot chocolate for the girl and sat there watching and admiring how she was savoring it. And the girl ate with a little spoon, little by little, and told her grandmother how much she loved that chocolate! I still regret that I didn't tell them this simple recipe, I'll tell you.
Some like it thicker, some like it thicker, sweeter or not. It's up to you! The technology is the same, but the proportions are a little different, just pick them to your taste!
My husband likes his hot chocolate not too chocolatey, that's what I'm going to tell you about.
I guess that's what New Year's celebrations are for, to give us a chance to catch our breath and slow down a bit.
A cup of hot chocolate in hand will only help. It's funny to even talk about the recipe. Well, what can be the recipe? Little tricks, little additions, enhancers, and so beautiful! Well, maybe just a little :)) Let's talk about them.
Hot chocolate is what? It's chocolate.
"Oh, bingo! "Oh, discovery! Who was that news to? " you say.
But take your time. Many people don't realize that what it turns out depends on the quality of the chocolate, its bouquet, its flavor, or the lack of all of the above.
Yes, you don't necessarily need to buy Kraft chocolate for the price of space, but what you have in your cup should be at least chocolate, not frosting or cocoa product.
Next, the taste . If you're me, then listen carefully to what you need to do. You take a bar of chocolate, open the shiny, pungent wrapper. Hold it up to your face. You inhale. Close your eyes. You break off a piece. You take the freshly brewed coffee out of the machine and go under a warm blanket to watch a movie. You suck up a piece of chocolate, which melts, spreads, and saturates all your receptors as it touches the warmth of your lips. You close your eyes, savor the moment. Believe me, even that can make you happy :))). But if this option does not work for you, follow the instructions below :)
Add some aromatic spices, and maybe a little hot chili. We get a scalding, sweet, sticky and a little bit sticky drink. The drink of the gods, or if not of the gods, then of happy people, for sure :))
P/S : Fans of the foam - without a handful of marshmallows do not even start!
*Ingredients:*
Cream 20% - 50 g
Milk - 300 gr
Black chocolate 50% and higher - 100 gr
Spices as desired - badjan, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, chili powder.
*Preparation:*
Pour milk and cream into a saucepan. Put it on the fire and bring it to the boil. Add the chocolate, chopped into pieces. (I have it in the form of a callette). Allow it to dissolve and stir with a whisk.
Grind the spices in a coffee grinder or grind in a mortar. Send in the hot milk and cream.
Let it stand for about twenty minutes and strain through a fine sieve. Pour into cups, add marshmallows and sprinkle with cinnamon if desired.
Most hot chocolate mixes are nothing more than a mixture of cocoa, sugar and starch. Once you buy, even in comparison to a very expensive hot chocolate mix, and you've been taken in by the British quality, I will never do I will never do such a foolish thing again. The liquid I prepared I poured it out after just one drink. I threw away the rest of the mixture. Nothing can replace real chocolate!!! 🍫
Hot chocolate is pleasure is quite caloric. And it should be! It's chocolate, after all! If you want something real, you have to you have to consider the consequences!
Sometimes you can afford that's a luxury. Hot Chocolate is not a drink that can be consumed on a daily basis. And you don't have to!
It would lose all the magic and atmosphere of consuming this of this miracle drink will be lost! Well, friends, I wish you a good winter evening, the most wonderful, filled with the aroma of tenderness, feelings of happiness and freedom, notes of inspiration and fun. Let nothing spoil your mood, let no one be able to disturb your evening idyll.
Image sources: facebook.com zen.yandex.ru neobychno.com and edited by me.
I thank God for his help in writing this article, and you, dear readers, praise him if your reading has been helpful to you.
I want to know your opinion.
If you are interested in my content,then I invite you to read my other articles:
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/onion-and-garlic-jam-f71c50ef
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/forest-glade-themed-cake-b6adf80b
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/we-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-5fc88f83
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/choice-or-a-reaction
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/gravlax-or-they-are-not-rolls-fb460b64
Santa Claus...is that you? 🙀
Hello dear readers! I wish you a great mood! Today I want to tell you to read a little bit scary article! Weakly nervous - be careful! This will shock you, just like me lol
Today is my next article on a free theme. This is a reflection on life, different situations and the like.
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The New Year holidays are still going on. And once again I want to touch upon a New Year's theme: New Year's mythology. I think you will be interested to know😉 something about the New Year, or rather about Santa Claus and his different companions. And before I begin this article, I want to thank my sponsors.
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Everyone loves New Year's Eve, but we don't like Halloween. Even though the two holidays are closely related!
Halloween comes from Samhain, a Celtic fertility festival. Where does New Year's Eve come from?
Different peoples at different times celebrated the coming of the new year at different times of the year. Most often in the spring or fall. In the fall, nature seems to "fall asleep" - the year ends. In the spring it "wakes up" and the year begins.
In the autumn, people thanked the nature and the gods, which worshipped them, for the harvest, and in the spring they asked for a new harvest... This was the holiday of the Irish Samhain, which later became Halloween.
In warm countries, agricultural work lasts a very long time, nature here "falls asleep" rather late. Therefore, in Italy, in ancient Rome, the Harvest Festival - Saturnalia was celebrated as late as the end of December! Very close to our current New Year.
*Why is it scary?*
Ancient fertility festivals were often accompanied by sacrifices. Also, unbridled behavior. The Romans harvested grapes, pressed the young wine and the village went for a party... What a horror it was!
But most importantly, these holidays were a meeting of life and death. After all, "falling asleep" nature - "dies". And what if the next spring will not come? And what if it's the last time we eat enough?
That is why we had to either encourage or, on the contrary, to scare away evil spirits, which are just waiting to do harm to a man ...
That's why the New Year was "enriched" with all kinds of sinister characters like Krampus and Joelupukka... What about Krampus! Our beloved Santa Claus was also considered an evil spirit. Not without reason his name contains the root "pestilence" - "death".
Our Santa Claus is one of the incarnations of the East Slavic pagan deity Veles - a werewolf, a man-wolf, who had to be asked for kutya (festive sweet porridge), gifts and carols. I have already told you about kutya porridge in my New Year's articles.
Therefore, it was not Santa Claus who gave New Year's gifts to children, but Saint Nicholas (whose day is celebrated on Christmas Eve).
But Nicholas is a Christian saint. And who will give New Year's greetings to Tatar children (they are Muslims) or to Kalmyk and Buryat children (they are Buddhists)? Not to mention the atheists who don't believe in any saints at all...
So they came up with the idea of letting Santa Claus give presents to all the children, but not an evil one, but a kind one.
Our Father Frost is accompanied everywhere by his cheerful and kind granddaughter, the Snow Maiden. And in other countries? I will try to tell you briefly about the most unusual companions of Santa Claus, and you decide who you like best...
*Snow Maiden in Dutch. The scoundrel*
For starters, welcome to Holland! By the way, the local children do not say "Santa Claus" but "Sinterklaas". However, in this case we are more interested in Sinterklaas' faithful helper, Zwarte Pete, aka Black Peter.
Sinterklaas, together with Zwarte Pete, live all year long far south, in Spain, in a deep cave! They only come to Holland for New Year's and Christmas.
Throughout the year, Zwarte Piet is engaged in a very important task - he magically learns about the deeds of all Dutch children and writes those deeds down in a special journal. And when it comes to the party itself, Zwarte Pete pulls out this thick book and starts tattling to Sinterklaas, I mean, reporting on who has behaved, who has studied, and so on.
In the end, only those children who behaved very well all year get presents. Those children who did not behave very well receive a lump of coal or a birch birch rod. And those who have behaved very badly, Zwarte Pete puts them in a sack and takes them with him to Spain. There, he locks them in his cave, teaches them to behave properly for a year, and only returns them to their parents after a year.
*The Snow Maiden in Austrian. The Scarecrow.*
And now let's go to Austria. The local Snow Maidens are called "Perchts": and they are not one, but many at once, as many as twenty-four pieces!!! Half of them are beautiful young girls in white clothes, and the other half are ugly monsters with iron teeth and goat or sheep horns.
The procession of Perkhts down the street - first come the beautiful Perkhts, who are supposed to bring wealth and prosperity to the locals in the new year. They are followed by ugly perkhts, who use their flags and ponytails to frighten away evil spirits - otherwise the village or town will remain at the mercy of the forces of evil for the whole year.
According to an ancient legend, on the night before Epiphany the pearl maiden comes to every home, and to those children who have worked hard all year round and haven't been naughty she puts a silver coin in their slipper, and to those who have been lazy and behaved badly, she cuts open their belly and stuffs it with straw and stones! Look at the pictures - how the ugly Perhts walk down the street. They're just so cute, don't you think? As you see - you feel a New Year mood at once...😂
*The Snow Maiden in Italian. Witch*
This is a very, very real, one might even say "classic" witch. An elderly but not quite old good-natured woman, she wears a pointy hat and flies on a broomstick. Throughout the year, she does the usual witchy things, and on New Year's Eve, she grabs a bag of toys on her back, sits on a broom and climbs into houses through stovepipes. For Befana, Italian children hang stockings on the fireplace in which she places presents.
However, Befana only puts presents for obedient children! If the child was not very good and lazy, Befana puts a lump of coal into his stocking.
*The Snow Maiden in German. The devil with horns. Krampus.*
Krampus holds a sack and a whip (or a bundle of lashes). In this case, the good and obedient children are given presents by Santa Claus from his sack, while the bad and naughty children are put into the sack and punished by Krampus with the whip.
It's quite a New Year's Eve, isn't it? You go to the Christmas tree and they remember that you got a 'F' in math without telling your parents, and they don't just give you a present, they put you in a sack and whip you for it!
Have you already understood how happy the boys are when a cheerful and cheerful Snow Maiden comes to visit them?
*Snow Maiden in Finnish. Goat.*
In Finland, children call Santa Claus by the funny word "Joelupukki. Joelupukki looks like the most ordinary Santa - a kindly grandfather in a red coat, with a white beard and gifts in a bag. Only for some reason he is accompanied by a goat. Why?
Because the word "yooolu" in Finnish means "yol", meaning "Christmas," and "pukki" means "goat. Yes, believe it or not - but in Finland one of the traditional ancient symbols of Christmas and New Year is a goat, and not just any goat, but a goat-turned-goat!!!!
You may see a tall man with the head of a goat or with goat horns. In one hand he had a bag with presents for those who behaved well; in the other hand he had a birch to punish naughty Finnish children. And the worst sloths and disobedient children, the old Joelupukki would put them in a sack and take them to Lapland, where he boiled them in a cauldron and ate them, so-so !!!!!🙀
In the modern tradition, of course, this character has become more likeable and divided. Separately there is the good Santa Claus, and separately - just a goat. Santa's indispensable companion...
In fact, in every joke there is some truth. All of the traditional New Year's and Christmas characters described above are folkloric characters that are an integral part of their country's culture. What seems bizarre, ugly, or sinister to us, to some, on the other hand, is simply fun play and celebration. You should see German children laughing and running away from the tailed Krampus with the whip (not the real one, but the actor's, of course)... Anyway, tradition is tradition.
*Our Snow Maiden, Snezhevinochka. Slavic folklore.*
On holidays acts as an intermediary between children and Santa Claus. Sometimes portrayed as a little girl, sometimes as a beautiful winter girl. But still.
As you like, but our Snow Maiden (ice beauty, kind) I like the best for some reason!!!♥️ And you?
She does not punish anyone for a bad behavior, is a relative of Santa Claus, namely the granddaughter. She is the cousin of Santa Claus, the only one of her kindred spells, she makes friends with the forest animals and also gives presents like Santa Claus!
*Happy New Year! My dear readers read.cаsh.❄*
***Whoever is still single, let him find a partner in life! And may he be kind!***
I hope you enjoyed these fabulous helpers of Santa Claus? Just kidding. Tell me about it in the comments to this article. I'd also like to know what Santa Claus' companion is in your country? Would you like to celebrate the New Year with Santa's companions that I told you about in this article?
Image sources: instapik.ru crosti.ru aminoapps.com facebook.com zen.yandex.ru neobychno.com tkaner.com. *And edited by me.*
I thank God for his help in writing this article, and you, dear readers, praise him if your reading has been helpful to you.
I want to know your opinion.
If you are interested in my content,then I invite you to read my other articles:
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/onion-and-garlic-jam-f71c50ef
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/forest-glade-themed-cake-b6adf80b
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/we-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-5fc88f83
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/choice-or-a-reaction
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/gravlax-or-they-are-not-rolls-fb460b64
Backside of Winter
Hello dear readers 👇
Today is my next article on a free theme. This is a reflection on life, different situations and the like.
In comments to my articles you can ask questions, as well as give your opinion on the subject of this article.
Today I want to talk about winter, namely its pros and cons.
But before I begin, I will digress a little, thanking readers for the comments on my last article titled "Snow".
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/snow-7604f2f6 had so many comments. *Thanks!!!!*
***To the question where I live, I answer:***
Ukraine is one of the Slavic states located in Eastern Europe. Ukraine is washed by two seas - the Azov Sea and the Black Sea. The capital of Ukraine is the city of Kiev with a population of almost 45 million people.
And yes, it's a snowy and cold country, the heat we have only three months, and that's summer. And since the climate changes until mid-June we are still heating the house! Last year in winter our thermometer was the lowest point of cold -35 ° C. But it is not every day! Mostly from -12 ° to -25 ° Celsius degrees of frost.
In this picture👆 the **red color** indicates the territory **of Ukraine** - my country.
On this map you can see how far we are from each other. I will write today's news for : That in Kiev (our capital) and the surrounding areas this winter will be very cold, evidenced by the fact of the beginning of mass disconnection of hot water!
The Cabinet has imposed limits on gas consumption for autumn and winter!
So by mid-winter the rest of the territory of Ukraine will have no gas, no coal, and no money to buy them.
And we will have to jump. And non-stop😅.
Sometimes I envy the southern countries because they have heat. We spend a lot of money on heating our homes. Gas is very expensive, and wood is not cheaper. In general, winter has a downside and not very good. For example, my mother spends only for gas heating about 3-4 thousand hryvnia ($ 150) is only for gas! In order that the temperature in the house was +20 ° (she has two-room apartment).
The minimum wage in Ukraine - 6000 hryvnia ($220), so the rest is left at $50, and you also need to pay for water and light and live on something. Yes, really on what? We have to save gas-but then it's cold in the house, we wear warm clothes. Here's winter, it's beautiful but very cold!!!!
In southern countries there are earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes-we have winter! The roads are very slippery, resulting in a number of accidents, emergency rooms are full of people with fractures (especially elderly people), the cold, very expensive heating. So I told you about the other side of winter. So sometimes it is better to look at pictures or photos.
Winter and the cold affect our skin color. The colder it is, the whiter the skin. The warmer, the darker the skin. Yeah, guys, it's our adaptation to the cold and the sun. But my attitude to people doesn't change from this!!!! For me the main thing is not the appearance and not the clothes, or even the material wealth. The main thing is what kind of person he is!!!!
I have white skin and I get sunburned in the summer, my body just boils under the sun's rays and gets covered in watery sores. Here without sunscreen, well, just can not do!
I once went to vacation on our Crimean peninsula (southern side of Ukraine, which is the sun, beach and Black Sea). It would seem I was in paradise, but it was not there! I did not last even a week.
First of all it was the change of climate, it was hard to breathe, I just choked on the high humidity. My body was covered with boils... I was in the hospital with oxygen for three days! And I'm back to my cold side.
*The conclusion from this is (folk wisdom): "It's good where we're not" !!!!*
I congratulate everyone on the winter holidays, who reads me, who is somehow interested in me. I wish everyone strength and luck, my own piece of luck in our lives, which you all certainly deserve! Good luck to you! Don't get sick! Take care of yourself and your loved ones from the cold and various misfortunes 🌨
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https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/onion-and-garlic-jam-f71c50ef
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/forest-glade-themed-cake-b6adf80b
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/we-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-5fc88f83
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/choice-or-a-reaction
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/gravlax-or-they-are-not-rolls-fb460b64
Snow
Well, is everyone alive? It's not over yet))) New Year's holidays are not over yet😅, just kidding of course. Good day my dear readers of read.cash.
Today is my next article on a free theme. This is a reflection on life, different situations and the like.
In comments to my articles you can ask questions, as well as give your opinion on the subject of this article.
My first January passed traditionally - in a horizontal position with occasional forays to the fridge. 😁 The most beautiful day of the year - when you can legally eat everything and do nothing.
About the cake - nothing is more beautiful on the second of January than a cake from Bouchet (oh yes, it's a commercial!). Thin brownie-type chocolate biccies, delicate caramel mousse, not sugary, a layer of flavorful grillage - if there's a sweet, at least one that gives you a gastronomic orgasm. And then in an effort to save my face was an alginate mask with hyaluronic - yes, baby! Pistachio-colored Fantomas. Yes, it's magical, yes, you can see the effect immediately.
It wasn't the best or worst, but definitely the most unusual New Year's Eve encounter in years.
It was the first time in eleven years that Mom didn't celebrate New Year's Eve alone. (My parents divorced eleven years ago after being married for twenty-five years! They celebrated their silver anniversary and then got divorced a month later. That's how it is, but that's not the point.)
And this, the fact that I was able to keep her company, to make her New Year's Eve as a family, now seems very important and valuable.
I am very tired and December 31 morning already felt as if it were evening and it would be good to rest and sleep. With the lapse of time this feeling only increased, so that by 6 pm I could hardly crawl, mobilized all my willpower in order to just continue to function, and dreamed about one thing - that it was all over soon and I could finally go to bed!
In the morning I got up before everyone else and had time to work. Then my husband and I and my girl friends went for a walk and it was just good. Thaw. Yes! It rained on New Year's Eve, it was freezing, our snowballs fell apart (only mine held up, but my husband's - the most beautiful one, in general - his head fell off - a shame), but it wasn't cold, in the woods, urchins peeked out from under the snow (just berries, I mean). We live on the outskirts of our town and the woods are about 400 meters away), and the river is partly touched by ice and it looks very nice. Also, sometimes the sun looked out and so it was more or less light in general (instead of that eternal winter twilight).
Then I had to cook-cook-cook-dishwash-cook. For my mom, New Year's Eve is a holiday table. Well, my husband helped whip cream and rub beets, so I just cut the olivier, made the cake, cut one and baked another fish (My husband and my mom the other day, while I wandered into a nearby store, bought fresh and cold-smoked fish - a lot! It was very unexpected, it was awfully expensive).
Then I took a bath (there's no bath here, and we're not getting a sauna this year, so just utilitarian under the shower). Then my husband called us in to play board games. I really wanted to sleep, but of course I couldn't refuse. We played "Balloon Race" (an interesting variation on the theme of walker) and "Mr. Jack" (a good duel, which we rarely get, my husband played as a detective and won). Then I went to bed after all and laid down for a while while mine started setting the table. Then I made the salads, set everything up, got dressed and combed my own hair...
We exchanged gifts and went for a walk. Fireworks are set off here, but of course few and small. But we still admired them to some extent. Instead of the chimes with the president, my mom had some local TV channel on my laptop, and I did not dare to ask. I don't perceive the new year without the chimes and the president (and it doesn't matter what he broadcasts, it's just a symbol, a point of reference). And now every year they try to take them away from me. And the wish did not make in the end. Still doesn't make sense, though. For many years I have one wish - to close the credit as soon as possible and start repairing the house and the yard. And something already do not believe that someday this happiness will finally come. But it will come someday!!!! I'm going towards this goal-slowly, but I'm going. After returning from a walk we had a quick tea with sweets and finally went to bed. Now I woke up (the first one) and saw a real snowfall outside the window!!!!!
I decided that there was no magic left in the world at all, and suddenly.... it was snowing, hard snowing.
Winter is when you're walking down the street, and snowflakes are coming up to kiss you...You come home... all kissed!!! When it snows, we feel like children again. The bushes are graying down to the twig...on the ground and at home, on white parachutes winter comes down.
You raise your head to the sky, and the clouds sprinkle sweet vanilla sugar on the world. And the snowflakes are kissing each other...
That feeling when you lie in the snow. You lie there, thinking of nothing. It's like the world around you stands still. And it's not even cold, you just lie there, closing and opening your eyes. And you want to sleep. And when it is still snowing, the snowflakes fall on your face and melt instantly. You understand how short their life is, even butterflies live longer. After all, snowflakes are "flies in their nighties." Each snowflake, flying out of its cloud, does not understand what is with it, where it is, and what awaits it, it flies, waiting for a miracle. And people, they are just the same, they are like snowflakes, they are born not knowing what awaits them, and they don't understand it throughout their lives... That's what happens when you lie in the snow.
The snow was falling in large flakes and laying softly on the roofs of houses, trees, and asphalt. It was magical, and it seemed as if the night was playing along and bringing a miracle into our home that we had once stopped believing in. Maybe there are no miracles at all, but a piece of something magical clearly exists in this world.
Since childhood I have experienced a kind of thrill before a fresh blanket of snow... It's as if you are entering some new world, and the joy of discovery, the first contact with something pure, untouched, unspoiled permeates your whole being.
Each snowflake is like a letter from heaven...
Millions of snowflakes whirling, twirling and all together resembling rolling white waves. Is there really no one alike among them?
Snowfall is the only weather I love. I can sit by the window for hours and watch it snow. The silence of snowfall. It's good for all sorts of things. The best part is looking through the thick snow at the light, a street lamp, for example. Or to step out of the house and let the snow fall on you. There it is, the miracle. You can't create that with human hands!!! ❄
Snow... What an accurate word. Soft and bouncy at the same time. You say it out loud and immediately understand what it means. Snowflakes are falling from the sky, as if on invisible parachutes. Soft, fluffy, almost weightless. Under your feet they crunch firmly, hard as the letter "g" at the end of the word "snow"...
You walk with uncovered head, under the falling snow, and tune yourself like an outlandish instrument. Somewhere you tighten something inside, somewhere you let go. The veil of snowflakes gets denser and denser, the world around you becomes more and more unreal. You lose your sense of direction. You move in the rhythm of the flying snow. It is no longer clear whether you are walking or flying without touching the ground. You are whole or scattered into an infinite number of snowflakes of different sizes. At the same time you are standing and moving in all directions at once, following the snowballs. And there is no end to it, and no beginning. You are here and everywhere. One and endless. So it's done, you're in tune. The snow is playing its music on you...
It only seems to us humans that we know everything about snow. We even learned how to make artificial snow, and it is almost the same as the real snow. It's just a little bit different, you can't tell the difference right away...
Each snowflake consists of many tiny water droplets. No one can say exactly where these droplets came from before they froze into a snowflake. And that's part of the main mystery of snow.
Our world is permeated with water. And this water not only fills the oceans, flows through rivers or from water pipes. Water is in the air, filling every living thing.
A tiny drop is everywhere. And every such crumb can contain anything.
The first exhalation or the last exhalation. The scent of a rose or the stench of decomposition. A tear from laughter or grief. From every corner of this planet, anything. Everything is touched by a crumb of a drop. It touches, something dissolves in itself, to evaporate in a moment, to mix with the likes of itself, each of which has something of its own. This mystery happens all the time, and there is no end to it.
The snowflakes touch my face, clinging and melting. The drops are back in their watery state. Together with the drops, an infinity of shapes and ways of expression touches me. In one snowflake are water droplets from all over the world. They touched someone in a distant land where I will never be, but I have already been, for now a part of that, unknown to me, is also in me. Different people, animals, birds, plants, fish, insects - all of them in each of the snowflakes. And how many such snowflakes melted on me as I walked, with my head uncovered, under the magical snowfall?
The world is one. It stirs without tangling. A great order, of forms passing into each other...
Each New Year in human life is fragile and unique, like a snowflake pattern, and just as quickly and imperceptibly melts, leaving a delightful moment of happiness in the memory and unhealing scars on the soul.
Thank you for reading my reflections. I remembered the lessons of Russian literature, or rather how to write an essay...
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How do you eat an elephant?🐘
Good, snowy, and fun day to you my favorite project read.cash. Hello my dear readers))) Today is January 2, the second day of the New Year!!!!❄
It was snowing, and huge white flakes covered the road. Someone had thrown a calendar from the window of a very tall house, and its leaves were flying, like flakes of snow or days gone by, and a man was walking in the snow (of course, in the snow, not in the days). The man walked in the snow... They sprinkled the street, the blackened figures of the days that had flown by, and the wind tried to lift the paper so that, suddenly soaring up, it could toss it through the window of the man who had thrown the year under the feet of passers-by, thrown the days into the snow, the days that had become the snow that would melt.
The boy was walking on the leaves of a scattered rearranged calendar. It was the evening of January 1. Snow was falling.
The days before New Year's Eve, like a magic time machine, can bring even the most hardened skeptics back to childhood. Filled up Christmas trees of incredible beauty, bright lights on the streets, and most importantly - the vibe of wonder and fairy tales floating in the air - they are invisible to the eye, but felt by every fiber of the soul. And even if you do not believe in Santa Claus for a long time, you just want to make the craziest wish and believe with all your heart that it will come true for sure! Happy New Year friends!
No! This is not another article about food.😅 And we are not going to cook it, much less eat it. I think it's sacrilegious to animals. So why did I call my article that? And the fact is that the New Year is a new goal. In this article I will tell you how to really achieve it (at least so I do, and already half of what I wanted and to which aspired I already have). I want to share this with you. And what does this have to do with the elephant? .... all in order and you'll understand that I want to tell you.
One condition - you must already have a specific goal that you want to achieve!
So, I'm not mocking you now, I'm giving you specific patterns!
My goal is to let you know that you can achieve any dream, any goal, and to encourage you to be bolder in taking steps toward it!
How do I achieve my goal...and is it worth it? Is it even real?
There will always be people who are ready to achieve their goals at any cost. Think well, weigh everything and imagine the possible consequences, because often it happens that the goal does not justify the means used to achieve it. It can also turn out to be: "And then I found not what I was looking for, but I was not looking for what I wanted.
And on the other hand, a person who has achieved his goal inspires respect, at least for this very reason. In general, it's up to you and you alone to decide and choose - don't let others do it. Check your motivations, don't run like a donkey for a hanging carrot. Approach the problem consciously and responsibly.
If you decide that the goal is worthy, then how do you achieve it?
Many people just go with the flow of life, without making any effort to change something for the better - they are happy with everything. They don't set goals and objectives for themselves. Moreover, most of those who "drift" have no idea that they can do this and that it leads to great results.
There is another category of people who have a "serious" goal. They think about it, visualize that soon it will be like this: a car, an apartment, their own island... Think about it, how real is this big and serious goal??? You can close your eyes and imagine over and over again how you are driving in a Bentley, but in reality you will still be sitting in a chair!!!
This approach to goal setting doesn't work, and all your great goals are actually a bubble, a beautiful shimmering bubble that bursts as soon as you open your eyes! Sure, sinking into dreams is nice and even sweet, but they won't change your life unless you take real steps to make them happen.
How to take action and in order not to remain for the rest of your life in the categories of "dreamers" and "drifters", you need to start taking action!!!!!The path from the chair -> to the Bentley must be thought through in stages, only then an empty dream will turn into a beautiful reality.
When there is a goal, you can understand how to get there.
Not only do you become aware of the end point you are striving for, but also the in-between.
*To set your direction toward your dream-goal, you have to ask yourself 2 very important questions:*
1) **where do you want to go?**
2*) how do you want to get there?*
The answers to these will be the two whales on which you will build your future.
***The following steps will help you work toward your goals:***
- Write down your dreams on paper so you can go back to them from time to time and revisit them as needed.
- On the way to your main goal, set intermediate goals to help you achieve it.
-Formulate your goals in a positive format. For example, stating "I don't want to be poor" is a prime example of a negative phrasing. The correct way is "I want to be rich" - when you do not use the particle "not".
*Goals should meet the following criteria*:
•*Specificity,* or what speci ic result you want to get.
•*Measurability.*
You should use some kind of metrics to measure your movement toward your goal, for example: number of sales.
*•Achievability*. Set yourself intermediate goals according to your maximum capabilities at this stage, and the bar should be raised.
•*Significance*. Determine how important this or that action is to achieving the main goal. This criterion helps you allocate your efforts properly.
*•Time.* Set precise time limits for accomplishing your tasks. For example: from January 1 to August 1, I have to accomplish this and that.
Developing goals in detail will help you really get closer to your dreams, make them tangible and realizable. Set yourself maximum goals, do not be squandered on small things and communicate with people who know how to act. Be not just motivated, but stubborn, challenge yourself and everything will come true!
Any versions of a goal can be considered, refine, modify, and adapt. Try be creative! Develop the right attitude about what's going on.
Don't torture yourself! Do not play the role of sufferer! Rejoice! Don't grunt, don't moan, don't complain! It's so nice to move towards your own!
Set goals within Within your zone of influence. That's why it doesn't work. Setting goals to "make a million rubles, because it's not only you, but your boss, your clients, the price of oil or the exchange rate of the dollar.
***The most important thing is the first step!***
Some people set their a goal, they don't even try to start realizing it.
Meanwhile the most important (and the hardest!) is to take first step! Probably you may know Woody Allen's famous line about success: "Eighty percent of success is just to show up." !!!!
What keeps us from achieving our goals in the new year is fear and laziness. Fear of failure, of major changes. But only by conquering your fear, set yourself up for a positive outcome and having full confidence in your of your abilities, you can achieve the most incredible heights. The main thing here: consistency and gradualness.
***Can you eat an elephant?***
Obviously not at a time. But one bite at a time over the course of year? Easy!🍴🐘
You have to cut it into hundreds or thousands of little pieces and eat one a day. Don't try to eat it all at once! You don't have to work your way toward your goal - once a week to pile into your activity, putting yourself out so much that you will do it with disgust, and then you will wait for the next time you have to do it. After all, you now associate this activity with hard work. And you naturally try to mentally resist it. And then... you have to use what many people call willpower. That's the best case scenario. And at worst, the exercise will be abandoned in the near future. Because each time you do it, you have to put in more and more effort to force yourself to "work on your goal". You don't have to "work"!!! You have to eat the elephant in pieces!!!!
You don't have to be hustling and inspired! You just have to make a habit of eating one piece of the big elephant once a day. You have to give yourself 10-30 minutes of your time once a day to do this big thing. It should become like brushing your teeth. No one calls it "work," do they? And making our bed, putting our shoes on - all these things we do without much effort.
... You need every day at least a little advance to it (Napoleon Bonaparte), by the way a cake is named after this great man and we are going to bake it😉
P/S:
And the box, very simply opens, it is necessary every day at least something to do to achieve the goal.
The main secret is daily!
Friends, if you read these lines and you have the thought: "I did not have time today! I didn't have time! I'm so tired!" -Remind me, you still have plenty of time. But then, there will be a "tomorrow" when you will be happy with what you finally achieved.
And it depends on you, with what you start the day: with new excuses, or new steps to achieve their goals.)
And most importantly, be calm and less passionate, listen to yourself, your inner voice. If suddenly, in the middle of the road to the goal you feel that it devaluing and becoming more uninteresting to you, have the the courage and the intelligence to admit it.
Quit, rebuild, or else the obligatory and
the main result will be...is disappointment. ***Here's an example***:
Let's say you are in dire need of finances. After reading smart books, websites, and blogs about success, you know what to do: set a financial goal. Let it be: "To make 10 thousand green coons a month by the New Year 3014.
You have made two mistakes at once: first, you want to avoid your poverty, not achieve wealth. Secondly, you have a great need. It's like saying to your friend with a hungry stomach: "I would eat an elephant right now. Hunger is so great that you greatly overestimate both your ability to "eat elephants" and your need for it.
In that case, it's time to go back and set a more reasonable goal according to the same rules of setting. That same one, or have already given up, once the money situation has improved, the need to "eat elephants" has fallen away, and you've become more frugal again.
Know how to abandon your intentions in time, because there are so many things in the world interesting!!!!
Well and in the end I want to ask you, my dear readers of read.cash, to ask you some questions: What do you think -winners do not judge? All means are good to win? And what could you give up in order to achieve a very desirable goal if you had to "forget" for a while what is good and what is bad? Or would you refuse, leaving you without what you wanted, but with moral satisfaction? I look forward to hearing from you in the comments at the bottom of this article.
I believe in you, you will succeed, do not worry! Life is too short not to go to your goal, friends!
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Ant-hill
Good, snowy, and fun day to you my favorite project read.cash. Hello my dear readers))) Today is January 1st, the first day of the new year!!!!❄
I would like to say that I write about cooking and cuisine, as well as as everything related to it.
I continue to publish recipes, menus, and other stuff, that solve one problem: "how to make sure that at home there is always a healthy, delicious homemade food, and you spend a minimum of time, effort and money.
Here we are in the year 2022... a year we haven't been in yet. May it be good and happy for everyone)))
That is the point of the New Year - to get another chance, a chance to forgive. To do better, to do more, to give more, to love more and not worry about what would have been, but to take life as it is.
The good thing is that time is fleeting and a new turn comes: nothing lasts indefinitely, which means that everything that's been hurt over the past year will also heal. Appreciate what you have. Now. Right next to it. And don't ever think, "Maybe..." Maybe not...
When I was a kid, I used to glue a paper snowflake to the window, wear a crown of beads, eat tangerines until I had diathesis... and that was it, hello, New Year! And now you're sitting here wondering what to make, wear, and gobble up so you can feel happiness approaching. Now everyone starts preparing gifts, dreaming... Everyone expects something special for themselves, the fulfillment of a wish on New Year's Eve... I haven't been expecting anything for me for a long time... neither good nor bad... and it's probably the right thing to do at our age. I don't want disappointments, I don't want a sad siege in my soul, I don't want to disturb my hope. Let everything remain at that level which is for today, except it will become a little bit better))))
The new year is new good meetings and pleasant news, new fresh joy and pleasantness. May the new year will certainly become cozy, joyful and sunny for all the people on our planet))))
New Year's Eve is a fabulous holiday, a symbol of goodness and hope. It unites all of us around the main values: this is love for our children, parents, loved ones and our homes. And it doesn't matter if you have a turkey or a pig on the table, pineapples or bell peppers, and on Christmas night Santa Claus or St. Nicholas comes to you, for everyone the coming year will be bright and joyful, will bring warmth and harmony, peace and prosperity to every family. Everyone has their dreams and hopes related to the country whose laws you respect, where you were born and live. We appreciate what has been done and look to the future with hope. May all the good things which pleased us in the passing year be continued in the coming year.
From the bottom of my heart I wish you, your families and your loved ones good health, prosperity, may all your kindest dreams and wishes come true!!!!!
❄ Happy New Year!!!❄
It so happens that in recent years our people know more about the Eastern calendar than about the Slavic calendar. They are well versed in the 12 symbols and four elements of the Chinese calendar and do not know at all about the chronology of their ancestors.
Why have they started to listen to the Chinese calendar, to celebrate the New Year in the eastern traditions? It is difficult to name the reason, most likely due to the fact that the original Slavic calendar has not been preserved, we have lost the traditions, and we want mystery and fun ..... And meanwhile the ancient Slavic calendar (kletoslov) is much older than the Eastern one. It is more than seven and a half thousand years old.
In fact, the Slavic calendar is more ancient than the Chinese and more so the Gregorian. For example, 2022 year on the current chronology corresponds to 7530 year on the Slavic calendar. Counting down of time at Slavs goes from the moment of the Creation of the World in the Star Temple. Before Christian religion our ancestors were pagans and believed in force of the nature. They knew that everyone has a patron from the animal world, which not only protects, but also endows with certain qualities.
It is time to go back to our origins in order to better understand the present time. The year 2022 in the Slavic calendar should pass under the rule of the screaming Rooster.
With the onset of the calendar spring, the patron saint of the Slavs is the golden-crowned Rooster. The year 2022 according to the Slavic calendar will come on March 20, it will be the year of the Golden Horned Vulture, the symbol of the outgoing 2021, the crowing Rooster will rule up to this time.
The names of the animals in the yearbook are metaphorical in nature, fully conveying the characteristics of the beast and defining the general mood of the year, which this totem patronizes.
The prototype of Zlatogory Tur is the bull, an animal whose character intertwines firmness, stubbornness, reliability and patience, irascibility and a tendency to outbursts of rage. The Slavs revered him for his strength and endurance, and identified him with the god Veles.
The year of the Golden Tur promises to be successful and productive, but only for those who are willing to work hard. It will remind us of the power of compromise and the importance of social connections. The Golden-throated Tur is merciful to everyone, but he does not tolerate apathy; in order to attract his patronage in full measure, one should not give in to laziness and show courage and initiative.
Traditionally and most often on Ukrainian New Year's Eve tables we could see two kinds of cake. They are "Ant-Man" and "Napaleon. They are cakes from my childhood. And they are the ones that I associate with the New Year. And today I have one of them at my New Year's Eve party, which is Ant-Man. So let's make it!
"Ant-Man" is, as I said before, a cake from my childhood. It was one of the most accessible. And the condensed milk for it was boiled in a pot, because ready-made boiled condensed milk, like today, was not sold then. Now it's much easier: you can buy ready-made condensed milk in the store I love it. And with store-bought cookies, it's not an option at all, because they have flavorings and additives that I can feel and they ruin my taste buds. So only the simplest homemade shortbread cookies. And condensed milk! The best condensed milk is also homemade. But I did find condensed milk that's condensed milk, not palm oil, and no flavorings, either flavorings.
We have to:
Egg.
About 100 grams of sour cream.
100 grams of butter.
Leavening agent - sachet.
Sugar and half a cup.
Salt to taste.
Flour - two cups.
A couple of jars of condensed milk. And no butter in the cream! Not in any way!
Preparation:
With everything that is not condensed milk, knead the dough. Do not melt the butter, but soften it. This is how it softens pretty quickly. Mix with the rest of the ingredients.
And knead the dough. Knead and knead these crumbs until it's like this. The dough should be pretty hard and not stick to your hands. At first, the dough and then it just came off like this. Hands completely clean, just...oily.
Place the dough in a bag and put it in the fridge. And for quickness, flatten it and put it in the freezer for about 20 minutes. This is necessary in order the dough could be grated. I flattened it so that it would freeze so that it would freeze faster. You know, it'll take longer to freeze as a ball longer than a bun.
Now about the condensed milk. I took the ready-made one at my own risk. First I read the contents carefully. I was satisfied with it, so I took it. The condensed milk was the right one. Now grease the baking tray with butter. And rub the dough on it. On a coarse grater.
Into the oven. The dough cooks quickly. Once it's browned, that's it. I've already partially turned it over.
As the dough cools (don't let it get too cold, because it will become brittle and flying in all directions) we crumble it. I use a little pusher like this...and it crumbles all by itself while it's soft. And then we start mixing all these crumbs with the condensed milk.
In small portions, rubbing with a spoon. And that's about how it works.
We form such a ball and send it to the fridge to overnight. If you want, you can sprinkle it with poppy seeds, then it will look just like an ant hill, like an anthill.
And that was it for the day. Everyone was happy.
Another tasty sweet from our childhood. Really, I bake it very rarely-- once every a few years, and I'd forgotten about it, but I don't have a girlish memory, as my mother:)) Whatever our wishes are, we want everyone to have them come true)))) New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve... farewell to the Old Year... And in each of them we make a wish. Some of them are cherished and pass from year to year, some just come to life, some are established in their conviction and no one is going to change them ... Everyone is different, but they all have the right to exist in the soul of each of us.
It seems to me that our desires are born out of our losses. We have experienced it and remember all the feelings that have warmed our souls. We want it to come back and warm us once again.... Everything that we lose sooner or later comes back to us. True, not always in the way we expect. Let your souls not get soaked in the rain at Destiny's stop... Make your own destiny and then everything you dream about will come true.)
*Happy New Year!*
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Who hasn't had a chance to celebrate yet? Then there's one more chance! Today is the start of Korea's three-day celebration of the Solar-Moon New Year. And that's another reason to stick to a bottle of bubbly to think about the passing and make plans for the New Year.
Here we are dumbfounded come December 31, 2021! A few absolutely crazy days are behind me and you, dear friends, so no one is actively trying to read and write. Well, it seems so to me! ;-)
*So I want to wish you all a Happy New Year 2022!!!!!!!!!!!*
Many traditions of celebrating various holidays, including welcoming the New Year, are laid down for us since our childhood. Many people remember how in the morning mom would already start to rush around in the kitchen and dad would pick up a vacuum cleaner and a dust rag.
Some children stayed behind to help their parents, while others ran outside to pass the time with their friends in snowball fights or skating down the slide. It seems to me that we got our first concussions of the brain just on the ice slides, but we didn't even notice it :)
In the evening the magic show began: "Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession", "Operation Y and other Shurik adventures" and other shows on the central TV, and on the table, which was set in the middle of the living room, there appeared different tasty treats. And if someone tried to steal a piece of sausage from the plate, he got a slap on the wrist. Ah, childhood...
But, unfortunately, we all are rapidly growing up and begin to live their own lives: some people get a family and celebrate the New Year with their families, and some like to celebrate the holiday in a noisy circle of friends and acquaintances. And from that moment on, traditions and customs begin to change.
For example, among my friends no one watches the annual movies anymore, but they continue to cook "olivier" and "herring under the fur coat. I try to move away from tradition even in New Year's treats, but sometimes I really miss those childish and pleasant feelings. As they say now: "Now would be tangerines in a vase, presents under the tree, cartoons in the morning. And not all of this.
And what New Year's traditions are ingrained in you or your family?
A few years ago I got to spend New Year's Eve with a friend and her kids. Well, what child doesn't want to go to the main Christmas tree of the city and you can't refuse them...
A little funny story: we got together as a noisy group and went to the bus. There is a sea of people: someone is wishing everyone a Happy New Year, someone is making noise with his company. The drunken Ded Moroz can hardly stand on his feet, so the woman on duty shouts into a megaphone: "Ded Moroz, hold on to the railing! All in all, a festive bacchanalia.
By the arrival point of our transport we can hardly squeeze into it. The doors close. And from the far corner comes a resounding bass: "Newcomers, sing!" At first there is silence and confusion on the bus. Suddenly... A quiet, shy voice from afar: "A little tree was born in a forest...". We had been driving for 40 minutes, and the whole bus was chanting everything that could fit the Christmas songs. But I'll never forget the faces of those who came in...
I want to wish you in the New Year more situations that make you happy!
The majority of Ukrainians associate winter with the New Year. This is not surprising, because the New Year is one of the most long-awaited and favorite holidays. So, the associations with smells are from here, too.
What smells do you associate with the New Year? Of course, tangerines, pine needles, olivier, sulfur and gunpowder from firecrackers and sparklers. I am no exception. Except that for me, as a lover of Far Eastern cuisine, the smell of kim chi, squid salad, and Korean-style carrots also come to mind. These dishes are sure to be on my New Year's table.
But the "cure" after New Year's Eve celebrations is most often associated with the aroma of some spicy Korean soup, such as kimchi tigye or chemultan. These soups tone the body almost from the first spoonful.
My New Year's Eve is actually in limbo. First of all, I don't want to celebrate it myself. I'm not in the mood for it at all. Secondly, my friends and I are hanging to decide where or with whom to celebrate it. And what will be on the table depends on this.
If we will have New Year's Eve, I think to cook squid in the oven, and if not at our place...
But I'll still stock up on tangerines... They're really good and they remind me of my mom's house.
And I'm already practicing, getting ready for the holiday night.))
Have you guys started yet?
Dear readers and creators of read.cash !!! I want to wish everyone in the first place - health! As the last couple of years showed health is the most important thing we all have!
Of course, I want not just to wish, but also to make a New Year wish of happiness! Happiness not only for yourself, but for all of you! After all, the money will always be lacking, you can't earn it all. You have enough of creative successes as it is, the main thing is diligence. And everyone needs to be happy, just like everyone else.
Happy New Year! And smile, because we overcame the year 2021 and it did not break us, but only made us stronger.
❄ Happy New Year, friends!❄
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Love without a stamp
Good day !!!
Hi everyone, I hope you're all well and in a great mood. In a few hours it will ring 12 times and we will step into the New Year!
I want to touch on a delicate subject today-civil marriage. Couples choose this path so as not to complicate their own lives with commitments.
And, of course, I want to know what you think, and I'm waiting for your comments.
Every other person is sympathetic to civil marriage. I have nothing against it either, because I believe that this format of relationship allows us to test our feelings. But, I am reasoning from a guy's point of view, girls probably perceive such relationships somehow differently. And so...
*From a guy's point of view:*
What's wrong with cohabitation? Here I met a girl, I liked her and she liked me. We started dating... We've been dating for a year, but we don't live together. I propose to her, we get married and start living together. And that's when I realize I'm screwed! My woman can't cook, she can't clean, and she's acting like a total hysteric, it's weird, why didn't I notice that before?!
And I didn't notice it, because I didn't live with her. If you lived together, at least half a year, you would have realized at once whether you needed her or not. Maybe you wouldn't have married her, but now you're caught! Am I right? But I think it's easier to reason from a guy's point of view. A guy doesn't give cohabitation the global meaning that a girl gives it. A man just wants to see if she's a worthy hostess and if she won't be a pain in the ass over nothing. The weaker half of humanity from the first day of cohabitation is already scrolling in his head wedding and children. I may be wrong, though.
*From a girl's (woman's) point of view :*
In the not-too-distant past, civil marriage was looked upon with hostility. First of all, because it defiled the honor of the girl and her family. Living with one man, living with another, living with a third man... it's not serious! If you date a girl and love her, then marry her! Maybe that was an advantage! Nowadays people have a different opinion on the matter.
As for civil marriage, I can only say one thing: "The stamp in the passport means nothing, the main thing is that people love each other and do not exchange. All in all, things are not so bad here. And it is obvious that extinction is not a threat to us, more than half of the population wants to have 2 - 3 children, it's good.
"How to Marry Profitably"-discussed in millions of kitchens and washed in a waterfall of maiden tears. It has been, is, and will continue to be. All girls want a husband, and a rich one at that! (And don't say it isn't so - I won't believe it🙄) - laughs one of them. That's love in the future tense, dream love....
I remember when young me my relatives asked me who I wanted to marry (appreciate the depth of common sense in that question!!!), I answered that I wanted to marry an old admiral.
- Why an old Admiral? - The ladies were horrified.
- Why an admiral? - showed interest the male part of the family.
- For the old one, so he didn't interfere with my life, - I said lightly.
And for the admiral for the reason that my friend told me about the admiral she knew - a friend of her parents. And it turns out that admirals in retirement have their own personal piece of the sea. Oh how! A sort of summer cottage. This information made an indelible impression on me.😁
That's why I was glad to tell everybody about how I was going to wipe my admiral's bald head with soft rags after returning from my private beach and swimming in my private sea.
But I myself dreamed of something else. What was it? About what all young fools on earth dream about - about extraordinary love. However, I imagined this love is very vague.
But my mother always knew very clearly what love was.
For example, we were sitting in the kitchen at night, talking: "Well," I said, "one boy in our group has fallen in love with a girl...".
- Ah!" my mother immediately exclaimed, "they are going to get married!
- Why get married at once?! - I'm indignant.
- You said it yourself: "In love!" - My mother was frightfully indignant.
When I recounted our dialogue with Mammy's friends, we all laughed together at her old-fashioned notions of love.
And now I suddenly remembered it and realized with surprise that I fully support her position and believe that if they love, then let them get married!
Exactly get married, not hide behind some fig leaf that has "common-law marriage" scratched on it.
What keeps people from formalizing their relationship? Probably the same fear of responsibility.
And this fear can dress up in a variety of clothes: we do not want formalities, the paper does not guarantee anything, no need to interfere in the relationship of two people by the state!
And yet, for the most part, it is fear and selfishness that are not the most solid foundations for creating a long-term relationship.
However, maybe you have a different opinion.
What keeps people from formalizing their relationship? Probably the same fear of responsibility.
And this fear can dress up in a variety of clothes: we do not want formalities, the paper does not guarantee anything, no need to interfere in the relationship of two people by the state!
And yet, for the most part, it is fear and selfishness that are not the most solid foundations for creating a long-term relationship.
But then again, maybe you have a different opinion.
What is "common-law marriage," people? It used to be a registered marriage without a church wedding. Now it's called cohabitation.
*And yet if you decide to have an unofficial relationship while living together:*
Girls, emphasize that it's bad to be free, and that it's bad to imagine yourself as a wife with the status of a woman for sex while in an unofficial relationship.
For years, living with a man who is not going to get married means no respect for herself for a woman.
After (approximately) three years, directly ask the "common-law husband" if he is going to get married, and if not, leave him!!!!
Actually a year is enough!!!
Asking a man you've been living with for a year if marriage is in his plans is a normal question. Normal!!!! The main thing is that this question doesn't turn into the beginning of discussions and battles. And there's nothing to debate about! More often than not, modern people see the beginning of a life together as a step toward marriage, and if time goes by and there is no marriage proposal, the woman needs to understand that the man doesn't want it. This is understandable without her asking, but asking won't change her position in the field.
The position is bad as it is, and her question hangs in the air.
You're going to pretend it's not a problem?
But it is a problem!
A woman finds herself in a dependent position when she waits years for a proposal, then hints at it, then demands it, then braids herself with green grapes and decides that she is better off without a stamp.
Usually she is afraid in such a "marriage" of pregnancy, even if she would like a child. But she realizes that she will find herself in a stupid position if the man does not propose to her when he finds out about the baby, but says something like, "Good news," and that's it. Will she have to pretend that the stamp still doesn't mean anything to her? Or will she have to believe that having a child with someone other than her husband is very convenient? Or have to drag the man to the registry office, threatening an abortion? Or wait for his decision again and hope? Whichever way you look at it, a woman is at a disadvantage...
A woman is better off living alone if she's not married. Living together with a man is a transitional stage to marriage, and if that stage is too long, then the man has no desire to tie his life to this woman. After a year, it should already be clear whether the couple can become a married couple. Cohabitation before marriage is not necessary, but now it has become the norm. During such cohabitation, it is better to protect yourself carefully. It is desirable for a woman to invest in life together as she would invest in marriage, to show her best side so that she does not think later that she did not take a chance. A woman should not be a burden to a man in the domestic, financial or emotional sense. This is very important, without it it is foolish to expect a good dynamic from a man. But if you're not a burden, and after a year the man has no desire to get married and he avoids talking about marriage, you don't need to pressure him, ply him with sour food and poison him with bitter tears, you need to free him of himself.
Women's expectations are tongs that kill spontaneity. And resentments, even silent ones, are rolling pins. It is better to end the relationship before you hate each other. It is preferable to break up kindly, but not expecting the other party to agree. It is normal for the other party to hold back and resent you in such a case, in order to absolve yourself of responsibility for the breakup. Take responsibility for yourself.
***There is a third position in a civil marriage*** -circumstances ( forced). We are talking about an average and less than rare status of the family. This is rare, but it happens. For example: a woman lives with a man and already has a child from her first marriage. From her common-law husband she gives birth to twins. In this case, the woman receives the status of a "single mother" (she raises a large number of children alone) and the state helps her financially (with money). You should know by now that many children are much more expensive. And as they say in this case "a penny too much". That's why parents continue to live in a civil marriage, because in the case of both receiving the status of "married" - means that the father can provide for all himself, and in this case the material assistance from the state, they will not receive.
P/S: It is human nature, that where there are two, there must there must be a third.
Most often in civil there are no children in a common-law marriage. It is an empty vessel. Beautiful, but...empty. And if there are, then... one of the cohabitants runs away... or he has to adopt his own child.
***Date, live together, fall in love, get married, have children and be happy. The choice is yours😉***
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"Bird Tongues."
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I remember when I was a kid we used to eat pikelets, aka werguns, aka crunchies, whatever you want to call it, but it's very tasty and easy to make
(It's easy especially if you have help)))A week ago I had a burning desire to make crusts. As they arise these desires, is unclear. But until I do, I will want and want! :) I made ponytails in the middle of the week, but they ran out so quickly, in the same evening
and overnight (thanks to the family😁) Khvorost is a favorite pastry from my childhood. Over time, my mom and my aunts started baking it less often, and then stopped baking it altogether. I decided to remember the taste of my childhood and baked khvorost, kneading the dough with 4 eggs...) Oh my goodness.... It turned out so much ... I wanted to yell, like in a fairy tale, "pot, don't boil!")) I made two huge bowls, had to give it away to neighbors, girlfriends I mean). I'm giving you half the quantity, but it's still enough for a family and guests. Reduce further the number of ingredients, I do not advise, as there is no point in making dough for one egg, only to get your hands dirty.
Khvorost is a crispy pastry, which is sprinkled with powdered sugar. In Tatar, this pastry is called "kosh tele" - "bird tongues", probably because it was mostly baked in the form of oblong rhombuses.
Simple and delicious.
*What you need:*
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Sour cream - 1 tablespoon.
Cream (or milk) - 3 tbsp.
Powdered sugar or sugar (for dough) - 1 tablespoon.
Vodka (brandy) - 2 tablespoons - to make crispy 😉.
Sunflower oil for dough - 1 tablespoon
Sunflower oil for frying - about 150 ml
Flour - about 1.5 cups. Here we go!!!
Mix eggs, sour cream, milk, sugar, vodka in a bowl and add flour to knead a soft dough. Place in a bag and let the dough rest for 30-60 minutes.
Cut off some of the dough and roll it out rather thinly, about as thin as noodles. Hide the rest of the dough in a bag to keep it from drying out.
Use a shaped knife (like a pizza cutter) to cut the dough into rhombuses or strips. If you don't have a shaped knife, use an ordinary one - it doesn't affect the taste :-)
In the middle of the diamond or strip cut a slit and roll up the product to be beautiful:)
Heat the oil in a saucepan and put 3-4 pieces of loaves in it. The fire under the oil should be low, because you may miss the moment and the croutons will overcook.
As soon as the bottom part is browned, turn the croutons over and cook them for about one minute until they turn that color.
Place on a paper towel or paper towel to absorb any excess fat. Do the same with the rest of the dough.
Arrange on a platter, sprinkling generously with powdered sugar.
Do you know what the main secret to making cakes is? Roll out the dough very thinly! And warmly roll it in powdered sugar.... I'm not going to write that it's quick and easy to make puff pastry... Yes, it takes a little bit of work, but the result is worth it! *Very tasty!*
Sometimes I want to go back to my childhood, but it's it can't be done. But you can to remember your childhood familiar things like The kind of firewood your grandmother used to make. The whole household will be delighted ...with fresh cookies for breakfast, the baby won't have to eat sweet tooth, and the husband will be able to with the help of the toast, for a little while longer before dinner is served, or, well, dinner.
The mood for New Year's Eve is gathering momentum. At least for me it is. This is promoted not only by the approach of a wonderful holiday, but also by the wonderful frosty weather, which has brought fresh, invigorating air and clean sidewalks.
In fact it is very difficult for me to write this post now, because I need to find a lot of good things this year, and I have mostly been dying this year, then from bad health, then from the experiences of a personal nature, then from some other unknown crap. The rest of the time I had only work. But still, I'll look for something good. It could not not be at all, it was of course:
1♡ I found this wonderful platform read.cash .Here I made friends, though virtual but it does not change my attitude to you one bit. I don't even care in general who looks like, I already know what kind of people they are, because I read their articles and already have a portrait of a person in my head - what he thinks, what he worries or just carry in the masses positive and I will even say that read.cash has changed me a little bit. I have become calmer, to assess different situations, not to rush to conclusions and so on. I think this project is very useful! 😙 Thanks from the bottom of my heart to its creators!!!
2◇This year I deleted one of my social media accounts. My main Instagram page. Well not really deleted it, but blocked it. But only so that after a while I could go back and look at it, think about everything that was on it... and delete it permanently. I don't regret that decision at all. I don't like either Facebook or Instagram, I consider them limited in functionality social networks, and also resources where there is no... soul. That's like a bunch of people there, but other than a sense of loneliness there is nothing else. So minus one uncomfortable social network and somehow it even became a little easier.
3☆I have had guests this year several times. Not for work, not for business. But the very real guests, with whom I drank tea, ate delicious things, gave me flowers, we played games and chatted, just because. I haven't had that in years.
4♡This year with my own personal life so far everything is rosy, and that's good. But there is a trend that next year we will probably increase our family, just tshhhhh🤫 And hopefully I will have marital happiness for years to come. After all, I deserve it.
~There are a couple of other positives I've found in this year of 2021, but I won't write about them.
And... the year isn't over yet, and there may be more good things to come. At any rate, I really wish there were.
I thank God for his help in writing this article, and you, dear readers, praise him if your reading has been helpful to you.
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Who will win?
Good, snowy, and fun day to you my favorite project read.cash. Hello my dear readers))) Today is December 29 and there is very little time left before the New Year! ❄☃️
I congratulate everyone with the upcoming winter holidays, who reads me, who is somehow interested in me. I wish everyone strength and luck, my own piece of luck in our lives, which you all certainly deserve!
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Filled out the form at the tax office. It turned out to be quite a challenge: by hand, but in block letters, and hit the right rectangles: somewhere on the right, and somewhere at the bottom. I, by the way, missed in a couple of places: something had to be put in on the right, and I wrote at the bottom, for which I was promised that I would be wrapped, because at the bottom, where the space for registration, you can not write the date of birth. I snarled that the form is not machine-readable and no one in their right mind would confuse the date of birth with the registration. And in general, I do not care, do not like it - let them fill it out themselves, if they do not make a normal electronic form. It was explained to me that 1) the cardboard card and a long time is stored (so what???) and that this is a sample of my handwriting (really? if I fill it out in my real handwriting, you can not read a word or number).
Anyway, this simple questionnaire cost me some unreal effort.😁 And was a reason to think back: when was the last time I wrote by hand, anyway?
It seems like until 2006, when they finally put enough computers in different organizations. After that, is anyone surprised that doctors have bad handwriting?
But since then, all documents have been typewritten only. You type, sign, and that's it. Only forms are filled out by hand, but there are only a couple of words, the rest is underlined. In general, now I do not write by hand anywhere, at all. I even take notes on my smartphone, not on paper.
My husband, on the other hand, didn't seem to write a single document by hand at all after school. All ten years school and family fought with his inability to write in my opinion, he can't even remember how to hold a pen in his hands lol
Well okay, our teachers in the nineties never thought writing by hand would ever become unnecessary. And this: solved the problem correctly, but did not step back 2 boxes, then the grade will be lowered - will not teach anything, except the notions of world injustice.
By the way, I remember very well how difficult it was to master the mouse at the university, at the age of 18. Those little movements seemed like hell. And no "fine motor skills", which supposedly are trained during four years of merciless penmanship in junior high school, helped me at all. Mastering the keyboard was not an easy quest either!
And here's an attention-getting question: what are the chances that today's kids will actually write with a pen on paper in adulthood? *Absolutely none....*Then what is this ruthless non-stop writing as a core subject in junior high school for? Why the stupid "two boxes to the right, two boxes to the left?" To do what? No need to talk about motor skills and discipline - typing with ten fingers is much more complicated in terms of all these motor skills and in a good way, it should be taught. And not in extra lessons, but in the very Russian language. Because right now the Russian language looks like this. And all the boxes right and left are to the ability to adjust the editor. Not in math, in math you should be solving problems, not backing off the squares. For the mouse, by the way, and other touchscreens, I am calm - the children own it since infancy, which, incidentally, also indicates excellent fine motor skills.
In general, the school as always lags behind the real needs, and it is not even a generation. At the tender age when a child really wants to learn, and this desire would be good not to interrupt a complicated and no one needs a skill. Well taught half-printed letters and go ahead, and not something really important and interesting.
I don't mean to say that we should give up pens and pencils completely. Writing involves different areas of the brain related to thinking, language, and working memory. If we have to write by hand from time to time, the brain gets an extra workout. But you have to keep up with the times.
Writing with gadgets is more convenient and faster than writing by hand. Writing on the keyboard is also fine motor skills, there is a connection of fingers, writing letters and pronunciation of sounds. In the publications of supporters of this position I have also met the statement that typing on the keyboard contributes to the development of literacy. I could not find any supporting arguments. Most likely, there are no such researches.
But on the Internet there are already smart pens...yes, yes, and such already is (and not yours and not ours😉 )
To begin with I will tell you what is a smart pen in two words. SmartPen is a writing pen with the ability to digitize text written by hand into electronic format. It works in tandem with an application on your smartphone. Inside the smart pen there is a Bluetooth module, which allows you to synchronize. If there is no smartphone nearby, the pen writes data to the internal drive. This is what it looks like👇
Do you think a keyboard can completely replace writing on a piece of paper?
***P/S This article is not a statement, just my thoughts.***
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Riddle: What's the head of everything?
Focaccia, Pandesal, Prodja, Jewish Hala, Naan, Parotta, Pandebono, Turkish Simit, Lavash, Khachapuri, French baguette, Injera...the endless can go on! We call it "Karovai". Whatever you call it, it has the same meaning. There is no country in which it is not prepared. Have you already guessed what this article is about? Yes, my dear readers, the answer to this riddle is Bread.🍞
Bread is one of the most popular foods in the world. The flour for it is made from a variety of plants. But its importance in our lives doesn't change from that.
This short video just melted my heart...(famous soccer player Mesut Ozil, threw a piece of bread like a dog!!!! Look what he did to him next. I just can't help but admire and respect this man!!!!!!!)
https://youtu.be/U82stq1LsKM
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"Bread is the head of everything. " Perhaps this is the most popular proverb about bread, however, its interpretation is not familiar to everyone. The importance of bread in people's lives is difficult to assess. Without it no meal, no feast, because bread - it is nourishing and useful. No matter how difficult or simple dishes were served, but bread was a must. Even if there was hunger, as long as there is something to bake bread with, you can live until the next harvest. Besides, it is worth remembering that many battles and wars began because of the fertile land on which wheat and rye were grown. If the enemy set fire to a field where rye was growing, he doomed the settlement to starvation. And so, in many political and military conflicts the reason was the desire to improve welfare, and therefore bread as a symbol of that welfare.
We have a tradition in our country: to welcome dear guests with bread and salt. This is what it looks like:
The guest should break (take a bite) of the bread presented, dip it in salt, and sit down. This means that the guest accepts our hospitality.
Since ancient times, only the head of the house, the "Bolshak," could distribute food among his relatives. This concerned, first of all, bread. Hence the custom: the eldest man in the house, cutting a loaf of bread, gave each member of the family his share. Only he had the right to interact with the bread and salt at the table. Also - he was the very first to start the meal!
***Why was bread served with salt?***
Bread was usually baked without salt because it was not only meant for the living, but also for the dead. Such bread had a higher status. Bread that had already been baked could be salted. This was done because salted bread was the food of humans. Such bread could not be offered to the ancestors.
On memorial and festive days and until now!!!! Reception of dear guests, weddings, days and on the day of the funeral, bread must necessarily be unleavened! Generally, in all bread baking, the first bread was meant for the ancestors. This is what our festive bread looks like, it can be insanely beautiful.And it is the festive bread in our country Ukraine, called "Korovay" and so it looks👇 approximately
Every real and hospitable hostess should know how to bake bread. I confess, I've been baking bread for many years - and I still don't really understand why we need precise bread recipes. It's not about what and how much to put in (unless you bake in a bread machine - mechanical devices and rigid programs are no joke), but to catch the signal coming from the dough: "I need more time", "it blows here", "where do you get this fig yeast?"😂 and "take me out soon, auntie, I'll burn!"
I experimented with both live yeast and sourdough yeast, but finally settled on Saf Moment dry yeast. Unlike live yeast that manages to stink even in the freezer, from the sourdough, which should always follow, otherwise it will over-ferment and turn into sourness, and its taste is felt in the bread (up to the beer, sorry, belching, which sounds like a retarded truck) - so, unlike them all dry yeast "Saf-moment" raise almost any dough.
Including non-pure wheat, i.e. mixed dough, and very muffinous dough - you just have to give "Saf-moment" a little more time.
When you bake bread from mixed flour - wheat and whole wheat, rye, buckwheat, corn, you should take into account: the more in the dough is not wheat but some other flour, the less gluten in it, aka gluten. But it is gluten that provides the rise of the dough. Only dry breads are made without it - the same ones eaten by people with celiac disease, a gluten intolerance.
If for some reason you don't put in half as you should, but less than a quarter of the wheat flour, you can add a little (a little! that is, no more than a teaspoon per half kilo of dry mix) artificial gluten in supplements. There is artificial gluten in powder, called panifarin. Without it, three-quarter non-wheat bread may not rise.
If you are baking very muffins (and muffins are known to prevent the yeast from working), then the easiest way is to use the opaque method: let the yeast rise in the liquid dough with a little muffin (a few spoons of sugar - they activate the yeast), and when the yeast rises the sourdough, add both muffins and the rest of the flour. Then the dough will also rise with more melange (eggs, butter, milk) and spices.
Bread is best kneaded by adding flour as needed. For a shaped loaf or a small loaf you need 300 grams of flour and 200 ml of water. I always take the liquid components in half the quantity of the dry ingredients, salt - a teaspoon without a hill per half kilo of dough, sugar - a teaspoon and a half, butter in the bread I put vegetable, a tablespoon per half kilo of dough.
If the dough as it is kneaded "pulls the tail" on the walls of the bowl, sticky to the hands - then the bread will be very porous. If the dough is kneaded into a firm ball, it will be a dense bread. This is the way you like it. You can add a few spoonfuls of water or flour as you knead. I have kneaded the bread on a kneading program with a bread maker and a planetary mixer - the mixer is easier. You can see for yourself when the loaf becomes elastic and homogeneous.
The easiest way to proof the bread is in the oven at 30-40 degrees. The yeast works best at this temperature, after an hour or two the dough doubles in size. Here you have to take it out, knead it, form a loaf or a loaf of bread. Spread the top with vegetable oil, but if you want to sprinkle the top of the bread or loaf with seeds, sesame, cumin or dried herbs - better grease with beaten egg, otherwise all this charm will crumble.
The bread should rise again before baking. Now you just have to walk around and watch when it doubles in size. And when it does, I just turn the oven from 30 degrees to 230. It's a young, good oven, heats up very quickly.
I bake bread in silicone rectangular forms - even very soft bread comes out of them without difficulty. Baking time is always different - 5 minutes more, then the same 5 minutes less. Ready bread browns and smells strong, it's hard not to understand that it signals: I'm baked! I'm baked!
After baking, grease the bread with vegetable or melted butter again to keep the crust from drying out - and wait for the loaf or loaf to cool. Hot bread, firstly, is bad for the stomach, and secondly, it is not cut, but crumpled into a sticky mass, it should be broken, not cut. But warm bread can be sliced when it has cooled. It can be smeared with butter and sprinkled with the same seeds and eaten.
Yes! And do not put bread that has not cooled down to a cold state in a bag, even in a paper bag. It can get damp and mildewy on the second day.
This is, in fact, all the "baker's secrets.
... "Give us this day our daily bread".
***Do I throw away spoiled bread?***
Definitely NO!!!!! I don't know what it is about religious people, but purely humanly it's a sin, of course.
Even if not just stale, but spoiled is for us spoiled children of affluence. And a stray dog or even a homeless person will be saved from starvation by this stale food and nothing will happen to them. Their stomachs are used to more than that.
If someone is so picky and considers it unacceptable to feed an animal or a poor person with stale food, let them bury and destroy it. But if they don't go afterwards and buy unexpired food and feed the hungry who have not been given stale food - not much good will come from such noble impulses.
In everyone's culture there is still the memory of the war years, when there was a lack of food. Every crumb was worth its weight in gold and it was hard to imagine that anyone could throw away bread. This attitude towards food is still present today.
Image sources: shutterstock.com ; depositphotos.com, freepng.ru, and also photographed by me.
I thank God for his help in writing this article, and you, dear readers, praise him if your reading has been helpful to you.
I want to know your opinion.
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https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/we-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-5fc88f83
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How to kill time on the Internet ?
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Today is my next article on a free theme. This is a reflection on life, different situations and the like. In comments to my articles you can ask questions, as well as give your opinion on the subject of this article.
If you believe archaeologists, the urge to write down information in humans began about forty thousand years ago. The most first medium was a rock. This stationary repository had a lot of advantages (reliability, resistance to damage, high capacity, high read reading speed) and one disadvantage (labor-intensive and slowwriting). 😂 That's why over time, more and more and more advanced media.
I will not list them in detail. Well it's books of course, and today all information has become electronic and even money has become electronic. Yes, I'm talking about cryptovolume. But my article today is not about this.
It's about: how to kill time on the Internet? I'll teach you. We go online. We open the mail. Yes, before we open the page with the e-mails, we will surely find some headline from the news, like "shocking news" or "you did not even know" or "so-and-so tried to kill". Of course, there will be some nonsense, but after thinking for a while, we click the link anyway. The news opens. Really garbage. In fact, as the bulk of the information on the Internet. We close it. So, inbox. There's a bunch of notifications, some newsletters, and spam, of course. "Read the email before it gets deleted." I don't wait for someone to read it, I delete it myself. Then I delete the mailing lists and other nonsense. Not a single letter of business. No big deal. After sorting out the newsletters and unsubscribing from some of them, you can kill time, too. With benefit, by the way!
Open our favorite read.cash project. We run through the headlines. We find something interesting, or not. Thoughtfully read, write a comment, thank you for the valuable information🤩 And move on to the next procedure, which is called "Facebook". No emails, just 45 funny videos. A couple of new announcements. We leave this Facebook all until next time. See who's online. Looked. Shut it down. And then begins the most important, so to speak basic condition to kill time.
We open the mail again. We delete another notification that came in while we were exploring other tabs. Then we open read.cash, where again we read a couple of new articles, then "youtube." And we start going through these tabs every 4 minutes. For greater success, you can additionally open Facebook, perhaps in contact.(I hate to turn off the VPN every time).The more you have open tabs, the better.
Well, now you know how to kill time on the Internet! Let's go! :)
*That's a joke of course;-) But there's truth in every joke. Of course I think that free time is better to spend with friends or family.*
From what I said above begs the question: how do we plan our free time? What part of the day we wonder about free time (we all should have free time, no. Even have to be!!!)? How can we make a daily schedule that would leave time for ourselves?
From childhood we are told: "Plan the time", "if you don't plan time - you'll have no time", "without a proper daily routine will be difficult," and so on and so forth in the same vein. Some were taught to make a schedule on a piece of paper, some in their heads. The result is the same - it sits in the subconscious and constantly causes psychosis.😬
**Why does it happen?**
For example, you had planned to go to lunch today at 2 p.m., and by that time you were going to finish some things. But for a variety of reasons, you were unable to finish everything by 2:00. What to do? Stick to your plan or change it?
Choose the first will be easier and more relaxed. You, as planned, go to lunch, and then continue working. The second is more correct, but many people will be irritated and cause anxiety: "How come, I did plan to spend this time otherwise! And depression sets in, because it will seem that you have lost control over time. And that's not the case at all!!!! Because it is impossible to plan time as well as to control it!!!! You can and should adjust to time!!! Everything else is an ant's fuss....
So, instead of wondering "how to plan your time," it's better to think about how not to get attached to it.
I congratulate everyone on the upcoming winter holidays, who reads me, who is somehow interested in me. I wish everyone strength and luck, my own piece of luck in our lives, which you all certainly deserve! Good luck to you all!
*Image sources: shutterstock.com ; depositphotos.com*
I thank God for his help in writing this article, and you, dear readers, praise him if your reading has been helpful to you.
I want to know your opinion.
If you are interested in my content,then I invite you to read my other articles:
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/onion-and-garlic-jam-f71c50ef
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/forest-glade-themed-cake-b6adf80b
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/we-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-5fc88f83
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/choice-or-a-reaction
https://read.cash/@Belozoriana/gravlax-or-they-are-not-rolls-fb460b64
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