Recipe of The Day "Butter and Jam Thumbprints Cookies"

Butter and Jam Thumbprints Cookies

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar, plus more for rolling
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup cherry or strawberry jam

Directions:

1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

2.Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.

3.In another bowl, whip the butter and the sugar with a hand-held mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla until just combined. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients in 2 additions, mixing well.

4.Scoop the dough into 1-inch balls with a cookie or ice cream scoop and roll in sugar. Place about 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Press a thumbprint into the center of each ball, about 1/2-inch deep. Fill each indentation with about 3/4 teaspoon jam.

5.Bake cookies until the edges are golden, about 15 minutes. (For even color, rotate the pans from top to bottom about halfway through baking.) Cool cookies on the baking sheets. Serve.

6.Store cookies in a tightly sealed container for up to 5 days.

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Do you know how to care for your romance?

t's not just something that happens to you, you have top make a positive effort to nurture romance. So here is a romance check list that can make it easier for you.

Romance is: 
• Feeling that you are best friends
• Taking care of each other
• Being able to be yourself
• Taking care of each other
• Knowing he/she is always on your side
• Saying what you feel
• Knowing he will listen
• Admitting when you are wrong
• Letting him off the hook
• Confiding in each other
• Being his number one priority
• Being interested in each other’s lives
• Being there even when it gets tough
• Remembering to keep the flame alive
• Feeling cherished
• Showing that you love each other everyday
• Valuing your relationship and working on it.

10 reasons for you to SMILE every morning

By: May Rostom

We all get busy and tangle ourselves in our miseries; forgetting everything we should be thankful for and everything God gave us. We look at the dark side of the sun and fail to see the bright light shining in our eyes! When the world turns off the light on you, read this and feel it glow again.

1. Be thankful for having eyes to read this; for some people in this world are not as healthy as you are!
2. Smile because you were one of the few people, who had the chance to learn something; who had the chance to go to school and make a good life for themselves.
3. Be happy for waking up this morning and getting another chance to get things right.
4. Embrace those who love you; there’s someone out there that thinks about you every day.
5. Look up every morning and thank God for giving you a roof over your head. Some people drown in rain every day.
6. Smile for being able to remember all the good and happy moments; smile for having joyous moments that outnumber your sorrows.
7. Thank God for clean water, healthy food, and peace in your country, because no matter how bad it is where you live, there’s someone out there that has it a hundred times worse.
8. Electricity, because we can’t live without that for even 15 minutes.
9. Appreciate the fact that you are FREE to do whatever you want to do, nothing can hold you down, people fought for your freedom, and the world is just a playground. 
10. Smile because after every tear you cry, every pain you experience, and with every heart beat, God is working on a better plan for you anyway!

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Latest Recipe "Caramel Apples"

Caramel Apples

Ingredients:                                         Click here for more recipes
4 medium apples, 4 to 5
wooden stick
65 vanilla caramels
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon water
Directions:
1. Wash and dry apples.
2. Insert a wooden stick into the stem of each apple. Microwave method: Unwrap caramels and place in a microwave-safe bowl.
3. Add water.
4. Microwave on high for three minutes, stirring after two minutes for a smooth sauce. Let mixture stand one minute for coating to thicken slightly.
5. Coat apples with sauce by dipping apples into hot caramel sauce. Remove excess caramel from bottom of apples and place on greased waxed paper.
6. Serve immediately or store in refrigerator for up to 2 days.

 

What to avoid when you are in a relation

Dr. John Gray hit the jackpot when he wrote 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'; it was almost magical how he was able to show us why and howmen and women are different. Many books followed his footsteps trying to make it easier when it comes to relationships; we are here today trying to do the same to men showing them what to avoid when getting into a relationship with a woman.

We all know that there is more to a person than what will everunderstand but we are going to try to give you the for-sure turn offs for women:

As a couple gets closer, they are more bound to act more like themselves, away from all the charms they were trying to pull before. So your partner started acting in a more irritating way?? That’s not it, she is just a little bit more comfortable and you snapping at every thing she does is not going to help yourrelationship.

You feeling comfortable as well will make you act straighter forward and to the point so take care. Before you react to whatever she did, think for a moment, is what she did worth pulling a fight? If not then you’d better calm yourself down.

If you think its worth it then may be its time to let her know calmly what bothers you, she most likely would appreciate you telling her.

For ages women and men thought that acting hard to get is the best way to get someone interested, this is not true. Okay! I will try being more honest, it sometimes works but that happens in the beginning of a relationship only. After you have stayed together for a while, there is no point in playing hard to get now, actually it’s a backfire.

Your woman wants to feel special and appreciated; we are not asking you to shower her with compliments all the time but a phone call in themiddle of the day to tell her that you were thinking of her can do miracles to your relationship.

Jealousy can be flattering sometimes, but too much of anything can suffocate your partner. Believe me! Even though we women are known to be attached to our partners, we still appreciate our independence.

We would love taking your advice when it comes to certain issues but don’t consider pushing your opinion or advice obviously on us because that would lead to a runaway from your current or future bride.

Is your career very important to you?? That is totally fine if it doesn’t interfere with your gal. When you meet your perfect match, fall in love, she is most likely to love your success and becomes proud of it. However, when you start working late, she starts thinking that you have no time for her on your priority list; this can’t be good.

Does the previous sound any familiar? We have more to come next week, so stay tuned for how to turn off your partner if that’s what you want!!

How to fit in exercise every day

By Hugh Wilson

Some of us don’t even walk five minutes in a month. But there’s no excuse not to exercise the easy way...

It seems that many of us are intimidated by the idea of joining a gym or slogging round the park for an hour. Many of us also complain that we don’t have the time to fit an exercise regime into our busy daily schedules.

Happily, there are ways to add exercise to your day that don’t really feel like, well, exercise. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Less is more

The first change to make is a psychological one. Many of us think that if we’re not working ourselves to exhaustion we’re not really exercising. In fact, scientists have discovered that not only is doing something better than doing nothing, quite often doing a bit is better than doing a lot.

For example, researchers from the University of Copenhagen formed three groups of volunteers, all made up of young men who took little exercise. The first group they told to stick to their normal - quite sedentary - routines. The second were given a moderate exercise regime to follow, and the third a more intense regime.

The first group didn’t lose any weight, as you might expect. But what surprised the scientists was that the second group - the moderate exercisers - lost significantly more weight over a three month period than their harder working colleagues.

“Participants exercising 30 minutes per day burned more calories than they should relative to the training programme we set for them,” said researcher Mads Rosenkilde.

“In fact we can see that exercising for a whole hour instead of a half does not provide any additional loss in either body weight or fat.”

So the good news is this. If you can’t fit an hour of exercise into your daily routine, half an hour is fine. If you don’t like the idea of working out, a walk is good enough. Here’s how to fit brief but effective exercise into your day, every day.