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Cat's Thursday Smoothie

At the end of the process, you will have consumed so many nutrients. The benefits are so great that I choose to just add some info links of each ingredient's nutrients here: Bananas Spinach Mango Apples Pears Kiwi Flax Seed Yogurt Strawberries By Catherine Ratliff 2015

Baking 101

Hi. Inspired by Semi-cooking expert,Sandra Lee, and after many YouTube videos, my son and I have made an attempt to make a cake like professionals make. I am not an expert in baking but I can surely say that I am very pleased with the results. We used. Betty Crocker's Supermoist yellow cake mix, which called for 3 eggs, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and one cup of water. Once done, we used Hershey's milk chocolate icing.      The purpose of making this cake was for a friend's birthday. So, working from scratch was not ideal since I wanted her to actually eat the cake. Besides, the fancy mixers and creams professionals use on tv was absent. The other reason was that it was a learning experience my son and myself. I was curious on how bakers made their cakes completely round. My cakes tend to come out bevel or lopsided. The mystery behind it was that they used a turning cake pedestal and I didn't. I did not have one and was well into the cake making process to stop then r...

My 3 passions

     I have many passions I enjoy as part of my everyday life: appreciating and photographing life's simple elements, enjoying the indulgence of fruit, and partaking in poetry. These three choices together enrich my psychie.      I learn to cherish life's natural elements and its simplicities in every form. I possess an overwhelming surge of pleasure when I watch the sun's job of rising and setting. I find joy in watching the rippling tides, filigreed by the sun's rays, crash against the lining of the beach. I share with you that it's just stomething as simple as waking up in the morning, having the sun spray me with ribbons of golden happiness, and feeling the earth's morning breath sweep upon my soul. Whether it appeases my senses with the smell of coffee in the morning or the samplings of sweet frangrances in a local candle shop, I take it all in with extreme satisfaction. My body becomes relaxed and my spirit has an overwhelming...