Marie Edgerly
@marie42 active 8 years, 3 months ago-
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that looks really delicious. I must give it a try
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Whenever my gran brought a tray of these delicious pumpkin fritters out after lunch, I jumped up and down like only a little girl in love with her gran’s cooking can. I was obsessed with the light and fluffy fritters covered in sticky, gooey sauce. And now, years later, I feel no different.
My gran’s pumpkin fritters | Pampoen koekies
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Light and fluffy pumpkin fritters (pampoen koekies) with caramel sauce. This recipe handed down to me by my gran is nostalgia on a plate.
Author: Alida Ryder
Recipe type: Dessert, South African, Pumpkin
Serves: approx 20
Ingredients
For the fritters
1 cup pumpkin, cooked and pureed
1 cup flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoon caster sugar
1 egg
¼ cup milk
pinch of salt
oil, for deep frying
For the Caramel Sauce
¾ cup sugar
1 cup cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tbsp butter
½ cup golden syrup
1 teaspoon sea salt flakes
Instructions
For the fritters
Combine all the ingredients and mix until you have a smooth batter.
Heat the oil in a medium saucepan and fry spoonfuls of the batter until golden brown and cooked throughout, approximately 2-3 minutes.
Remove from the oil and allow to drain on kitchen paper.
Continue until all the fritters are cooked.
For the Caramel Sauce
Combine all the ingredients in a medium saucepan and allow to cook over a medium heat for 10-15 minutes until the sauce is thick and glossy.
Pour the syrup over the fritters and serve.
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Did you steam the corns with its leaves? My son loves to eat corn too!
I normally cook it in the hot water for time saving,fast!
I found the corn is more expensive nowadays if compared to those old days. It costs RM1.50 or even more per piece. I don’t really understand what is the reason behind.
Thus, I not buy very often, just wait when there is some offer, like 5 for RM5. The cheapest I have ever gotten was RM0.50 per piece at the wholesale wet market.
However, it could make me scared on if it contains too much chemical residuals or not. Thus, I did not purchase too many.
The corns from Cameron Highland are very nice to eat, very sweet and have two colours, white and yellow, it could be DNA modified type.
After steaming, apply some butter and salt on the top would make the corn taste even better and sweet, I think. However, I not do in this way very often as I am the lazy type mummy, again. Haha!
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I love to sleep. That’s a fact. But I always choose the place where I sleep. Like Shavkat up there, I am also really comfortable when alone. But that doesn’t mean that I’m a loner. I just love the quiet. This is why me and my friends are always together; we look for quiet places to hang out to because we would rather stay in those places to relax, sleep or talk about things that interests us. Or we could go to a bar and listen to the music while dancing. Haha
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The best place of comfort on earth if the lap of other or the beloved’s heart and eyes and putting your head on the beloved’s coral breast and sleep for a long long time I am talking as a poet.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. Earl Nightingale
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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There are many places which each individual can find peace and calm. You have covered many such places and methods by which one can do so. I find peace when alone and doing some work or being in some silent company. Not in a noisy group or a crowded area. There are several places where you can remove you stress and clutter in the mind.
Some of the places I find calm and peace are staying nearby a lake or water body and looking at the placid water, being at a place where you hear sounds of nature with greenery around. A place where there is a scenic view of mountains or plains or any other place which provides such picture postcard view. Looking at colors or paintings can also calm and remove stress. Hope this information is useful.
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Overcoming negativity is tough, at times very much tougher if we have lots of such negative people around us, but we can overcome negativity if we are persistent and stick to our paths.
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Always away from negative people who have negative thoughts in the brain such people are avoid of faith in God and his laws. The best took of keeping negativity away from yous is pray to God with sincere heart.
Just as toxic radiation is poison to our health, negative energy is also disastrous to human beings. Don’t be misled into thinking that because bad vibes are invisible or hard to identify at their source that they’re any less deadly to your creative genius than poisonous gas—they aren’t. And don’t be conned into believing that denying or ignoring negativity will protect you from its deadly effects either—it won’t.
how to Avoid Negativity Eight Important Steps to Follow
Run a “vibe check”. Recognize the quality of the energetic atmosphere at work every day. Simply testing the psychic temperature of the workplace will allow you to make the necessary adjustments to keep your own energy intact.
If you sense dissonance, take a deep breath. Get grounded, surround yourself with positive vibes, and resolve that you won’t let anything you encounter throw you off center.
Resolve to let the negativity bounce off you. Don’t take any negativity you run into personally. Commit to focusing only on your goals and intentions for the day.
Acknowledge the bad vibes. Recognize them in some way, if only to yourself—but be discreet and subtle. You don’t need to announce them to the entire office. This will only spread the negativity you want to clear even more.
Be kind, loving, and patient with those around you because they need it. Focus on work, and if negative conversation arises, listen neutrally and compassionately if you can’t gracefully get away.
Observe, don’t absorb what’s going on around you. If you can unobtrusively escape, do so. Your feet are two of your most powerful defenses against negativity. Turn them in the opposite direction of the problem and leave.If you can’t make a run for it, surrender and accept the situation. Give the bad-vibe dispenser (BVD) your complete attention for a full five minutes. Encourage this person to complain, gossip, attack, and whine to their heart’s content.
Just listen, breathe, and stay neutral—don’t engage, resonate, or rescue. When the five minutes have passed, ask with complete sincerity if there’s anything you can personally do to help right now. If you hear, “Yes, there is,” and you can help, then do so. If you hear, “No, not really,” then say, “I’m sorry. I really hope it works out.” Then go back to work.
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Racism is a curse on earth we all must uproot it with joints hands all over the world otherwise new war will break out on earth of Racism and its results will be very bad all over the world. I think politicians and priest of all the countries priests racism underhand among which Juws are predominant.
Racism, xenophobia and intolerance are problems prevalent in
all societies. Each and every one of us plays a role in either contributing to or breaking down racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes.As an individual in society and as a member of your community, you have likely encountered racists and racism. Whether you notice a friend posting a racist comment online or you experience a racist moment with a stranger, you may wonder how you can counteract racism and actively address racism. Though everyone may have different experiences of racism, depending on their own race and background, it is important that we all work together to put a stop to racism online and in daily life.
To get a better sense of how structural racism, institutional racism, and individual racism came to be, you should study up on the history of racism in your country. Doing this will give you a better understanding of why racism is a systematic and ongoing problem.
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I’ve said it before; America is a racist nation. There has never been a real attempt to get rid of the hate. If you go to America, you have to be conscious of the colour of your skin at all times.
Although American TV tries to portray the ‘mixed’ group, that is not true. If you are white you are to stay over there, if you are black you are to stay here, and only associate with people who look like you.
You ‘cross the line’ people respond to you unpleasantly.
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Procrastination is a bad habit because it loses the chances of success in life because chances ever come in human life. The brave avail of chances bravely and the coward wait for the chances until happens mishap in life.
I think that Procrastination means to postpone doing something, especially as a regular practice. It is also to delay something that one should do and it is not done because one does not want to do it. There are habits that do not do any good to people but harm, procrastination is one among them.
Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but 20 percent of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions—which, unfortunately, are increasingly available. Procrastination in large part reflects our perennial struggle with self-control as well as our inability to accurately predict how we’ll feel tomorrow, or the next day.
Procrastinators may say they perform better under pressure, but more often than not that’s their way of justifying putting things off. The bright side? It’s possible to overcome procrastination
If you’re honest with yourself, you probably know when you’re procrastinating. But to be sure, take our Are You a Procrastinator? Add to My Personal Learning Plan self test.
Here are some useful indicators that will help you know when you’re procrastinating:
Filling your day with low priority tasks from your To Do List.
Reading e-mails several times without starting work on them or deciding what you’re going to do with them.Sitting down to start a high-priority task, and almost immediately going off to make a cup of coffee.
Leaving an item on your To Do list for a long time, even though you know it’s important.
Regularly saying “Yes” to unimportant tasks that others ask you to do, and filling your time with these instead of getting on with the important tasks already on your list.
Waiting for the “right mood” or the “right time” to tackle the important task at hand
I think if ant procrastinator will act upon these steps he will overcome this bad habit.
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One can’t imagine a world without music because one can hear the sound of music in everything. Once when I was a child, our house was very quiet. The only sound I could hear was a dripping water faucet in a sink that had a clogged drain. I could hear a melody ~ a pattern of notes ~ in the sound of the water dripping. If there were no instruments or voices, people would still make music out of their surroundings somehow. 🙂
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Yes so true, I once made a song out of a buzzing sound from a fluorescent light
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The fried rice looks nice! My son loves to have fried rice too. I love to fry the overnight rice in order to kill it. Hehe!
My son looked at your picture in front of the laptop just now, he mentioned he doesn’t like the green peas, as usual.
Thus, I not really buy those chopped veges, like carrots, corns and green peas from the supermarket.
I chop the fresh one for instead, and just put anything I can find from the freeze. That’s all.
And, off course, eggs are always the most convenient ingredient can be found at home.
I remembered that my brother and me loves to fry rice by own after school if found the dishes not in our favour, and egg is the only ingredient. However, the fry rice still very delicious. What a sweet memory!
I have fried rice and take some pictures as well, but still have no time to convert it into a blog in the order way like yours.Salute!
This is indeed a great recipe! I think many would like this recipe.
This sounds very yummy – except for the mushrooms. I think I would leave those out! I’m just not a mushroom fan though. I love all types of fried rice. Shrimp fried rice happens to be my favorite because I am a seafood lover. There is a Chinese food place in a very bad part of town which has the most delicious fried rice in the entire city. It’s dangerous to go there but from time to time I can’t resist because the food is so good.
I envy you being able to make your own fried rice! I’m horrible at cooking and always have to buy it out somewhere.
This looks so good! I love fried rice! I have only made a few time, now I have your help! Thanks!
This is a very long post worth to cherish for like me, I can add my knowledge about a kind of cooking like this. This is a great recipe .It is very nutritious.the ingredients alone can attest its nutrition value. I truly believe that if we only try , we can achieve our gal.The try to cook from we can become a perfect cook from our constant practice.Very yummy food, love it.
Several times I have consumed Vegetable friend but I have not tasted this Black pepper rice, now a days black pepper is costly. 50 Grams of Black pepper is more than Rs100,00
It is a delicious dish for the new comer sometime my mom prepares it at home but I do not like it most because I like sweet dish every time that is why salty dish I do not like it.
My mom makes it add Chinese sausage and long beans; stir-fry well. Add bird’s eye chillies, the cooked rice, and seasoning. Toss and fry over high heat until thoroughly mixed. Turn off the heat and sprinkle in coarse ground black pepper to mix.
3 tbsp oil
1 tbsp dried shrimps, rinsed and finely chopped
½ tsp chopped garlic
2 egg whites
1 tbsp diced Chinese sausage (lap cheong) or other sausages
2 long beans, finely sliced
2 bird’s eye chillies, finely sliced
3 bowls cooked rice, cooled
1-2 dashes coarse ground black pepper
Heat two tablespoons oil in a wok over medium heat and fry dried shrimps and garlic until fragrant. Push aside the fried ingredients.
Add remaining oil and scramble the egg whites until just cooked.
Add Chinese sausage and long beans; stir-fry well.
Add bird’s eye chillies, the cooked rice, and seasoning. Toss and fry over high heat until thoroughly mixed.
Turn off the heat and sprinkle in coarse ground black pepper to mix.
Make it and enjoy it at home.