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Panna Cotta

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Serves 10 Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients: 1 heaping teaspoon unflavored gelatin 1½ tablespoons water  1 cup 0% Greek yogurt 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1½ cups whole milk, divided 1/3 cup honey 1/8 teaspoon salt Balsamic Strawberries 10 fresh strawberries, sliced 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar   2½ teaspoons honey Directions: For the Panna Cotta: In a small bowl, add the gelatin and water. Stir and set aside.   In a medium bowl, whisk together the Greek yogurt, vanilla, and 1 cup of milk and reserve.   In a small saucepan, heat the other ½ cup of milk with the honey, and simmer over medium heat for several minutes until the honey has completely dissolved into the milk. Turn the heat off and add the softened gelatin to the sauce.  Stir well and then slowly add the milk mixture into the yogurt mixture. Gently stir to combine.   Pour the panna cotta mixture into 10 6-ounce rameki

Appreciate what you have.

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If I had the opportunity to say something very important to every person on the planet, I'd say: "Appreciate what you have." You never know what will be the last kiss, which will no longer be a reproach is voiced, a call will never happen again, with whom never argue and which will never come back. You never know what the outcome of another story in your life, but as long as it lasts, Appreciate every moment, every second, every moment. Author unknown.

Yoga Pose of the Day: Boat Pose

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Boat Pose (Navasana) BOAT POSE Sit up with the soles of your feet flat on the floor. Hook your hands behind your hamstrings and lean back slowly until you are balancing up on your sit bones. Lift your feet off of the ground and, with bent knees, raise your feet up, so they are aligned with your knees. Press your lower back in and extend your chest up to the sky. Release your hands from behind your hamstrings and reach your arms out in front of you, palms facing together. Make sure you keep pressing your shoulders down, pressing your lower back in and extending your heart up. Hold the pose for 5 breaths. Advanced practitioners can extend their legs straight, making a “V” shape. Benefits:   Strengthens your abdominal muscles , and your sense of self and willpower. Builds up your core strength.

Astounding fruit pizza

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Sweet pizzas - a great option delicious dessert that is cooked very quickly and easily. Let us proceed? What do we need to prepare the dough: • Sifted flour - one cup; • Eggs - giving thing; • Sugar - two Art. spoons; • Butter - 150 grams; What do we need to prepare the filling: • Pears, juicy and ripe - 3 pieces; • Raspberry - one cup; • seedless grapes (preferably "Sultana") - 300 grams; • Natural honey - 4 tbsp. spoons; • Sour cream (with a high percentage of fat) - 150 grams; • Chopped walnuts - three art. spoon. Fruit Pizza How to cook: 1. Take a deep bowl and mix all the ingredients for the dough. You should now have a flexible and elastic puff pastry. 2. On a flat surface with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough in our thin and even layer. 3. Put the dough in the form of pizza, pre-greased. 4. Now go to the preparation of the filling. With the fruit should be removed peel and remove seeds, then cut into small slices. 5. All pieces shou

The benefits of indoor plants

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Slightly Greening our house? No, no one talks about the jungle. Difficulties selecting indoor plants will be solved if you follow the classical set. That entails a simple formula - "health" plus "looks tasteful." Your attention the top 5 useful plants of the family: Laurel - dwarf evergreen shrub, look great in the interior. This place not only master in the kitchen.Laurel has an excellent ability to kill viruses and bacteria. It helps in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The bush is to choose those who suffer from intestinal problems and biliary tracts. Aloe - benefits can only enumerate. Retrieve the process of aloe, colds are not you on anything. The aloe also lie the secrets of beauty: face masks, hair and nails. Good heals wounds juice plants. Night pot releases oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide, therefore it is necessary to put it in the bedroom area. Aloe Lemon tree - a plant can be grown from seed lemon. Leaves isolated essential

Cottage cheese and chocolate dessert with banana.

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Chocolate - 110 gr. Cottage cheese - 200 gr. Wafer cakes - 2 pcs. Butter - 60 gr. Banana - 1.5 pc. PREPARATION: 1. In a blender grind wafer cakes. Cottage cheese mash with a fork. Add to cream cheese wafer crumbs. Mix well. 2. Chocolate (90 g.) To break into pieces and place in a container with butter. Melt (I melted in the microwave). Mix well. Add chocolate and oil mixture to the cream cheese. Mix well. Try the resulting mass, sweet tooth can add more powdered sugar to taste. 3. And now the first option feeding dessert. Chocolate cottage cheese spread on a plastic wrap. Cover with a banana. Form a "sausage". Hide in the fridge for 20 minutes to solidify. 4. The second feed option: banana cut into slices. From pinch off a small piece of dough to make a cake. In the center of the cake to put a piece of banana. Roll into balls. Also put into the refrigerator for 20 minutes. 5. After 20 minutes, grate chocolate (20 g.) On a fine grater and roll it our "sausage" and

Beef baked in the oven

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 On 100gramm - 186.19 kcal B / M / Y - 18.68 / 12.19 / 0.51 Ingredients: Lean beef 1 kg Salt and ground black pepper to taste Garlic cloves 4 microwave oven Preparation: Beef wash, wipe dry with a cloth. To rub salt, spices, garlic, wrapped in foil and place in oven. Bake for approximately half to two hours (depending on the hardness of meat) at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.