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To the ends
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My heart I share ExperienceI have a passion to write & a love for cooking and entertaining. My cooking experience ranges from being a prep & short order cook to cooking nightly meals at home for my family. I cook without the aid of recipes, and often combine three recipes into my own. I cook and experiment by smell. It is my preference to enhance and enrich pre-made meals by adding fresh ingredients and spices to create a more flavorful meal. The result is meals that are simple, homemade and delicious. I graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University in Boston and currently work for a large software company near Seattle. The time has come to make a career change in support of my passion: the fusion of jornalism and the online experience - excites me! Area of FocusI want to teach my readers to be excited about being in the kitchen. I’ll start with the fundamentals; essentials of the kitchen and fridge and preparing easy meals, then move on to more advanced topics with organizing and storing tips and more creative ways to prepare food. Readers will learn ways to cook for only one person cheaply and easily, or for many people if they want to. Through my column the reader will gain confidence in the kitchen, enough to host a dinner party. I will provide the reader a taste of Seattle through restaurant inspired meals and mention of cooking events in the area. All meals will be healthy and full of taste with the secret that it was super easy to make, and not to mention inexpensive. Hot, fresh and tasty pizza for under $2, made by you!The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. In this version of a Journal Jar, how would you answer this question: Give one of your husband’s favorite recipes? Now men, you can answer this for yourself…pizza and beer.
For many, the first introduction to pizza came in the form of Lunchables. This is the absolute quickest way to make a pizza - no need to heat-it-up like needed for a frozen pizza. Make yourself an alternative that is fresher and uses only 3 easy-to-find ingredients: English muffin, pizza or pasta sauce, and shredded mozzarella. Start by spreading a large spoonful of pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce and spread it all over each half of the English muffin, then top it with mozzarella cheese. Place English muffin onto baking sheet or oven rack (note: avoid the mess of runny cheese in the oven by putting tinfoil or parchment paper under the pizza). The pizza will heat in 350 degree oven until the cheese melts, about 8-10 minutes depending on the oven. If forgotten they are not going to burn quickly, but the sauce and mozzarella will be drier. In less than fifteen minutes, a hot, fresh and tasty pizza for under $2, made by you! New England Wild Jumbo Scallops in olive oil and wine sauce with sunflower seedsNew England Wild Jumbo Scallops in olive oil and wine sauce with sunflower seeds
Serves 2
Ingredients:
12 New England Wild Jumbo Scallops
1/8 cup of Chardonnay
2 leaves of basil, sliced finely
2 cloves of garlic, sliced coarse
2 tbs of butter
2 tb of olive oil
1 tbs of shelled roasted sunflower seeds
Steps:
Preparing the ingredients - Finely slice the basil. Slice coarsely the garlic. Get out the butter and olive oil. If you have a flavored olive oil that you really like, use this. Don't be afraid to add a flavored olive oil that goes with a basil, an oil that has a hot spice or an Italian spice will compliment the basil. Get out the Chardonnay. Rule of thumb, add a white that you would savor alone. You can go with a wine that has notes of fruit and citrus. This will bring the fish flavor down an notch and compliment the scallops. To remove the taste of fish (the stinky fish smell that you taste) even more, take your thawed scallops and run them under water to remove the naturally milky juice they were sitting in.
Preparing the kitchen:
A sauce pan and spatula are absolute. Other things handy are a splatter screen and an apron. Use a soft material or wooden spatula to turn scallops since they are delicate.
You are now ready to prepare the dish!
Cooking:
Add olive oil into sauce pan. Turn stovetop to High heat. When the oil is warm, not yet boiling, add the basil and garlic. Adding these in the beginning will add a sutle flavor to the sauce since the garlic and basil have a longer time to breakdown and blend with the other parts to come. Next add the wine, and then the butter. Adding the butter after the wine allows for the butter to blend with the wine giving the sauce a buttery wine taste with less butter needed. To eat more good oils, olive oil was used as the base, which also allows for less butter. Wait for sauce to boil, then add the scallops. Slightly brown each side before flipping. The scallops are ready when they have shallow splits down their side.
Plating:
Sprinkle roasted and salted sunflower seeds on the bottom of a plate. Place the scallops on top of the sunflower seeds. This will give a natural salt to the scallops without needing to add more salt. Scallops by nature of the sea are salted so they do not need any more added.
Fork and enjoy!
Really I knowWords of advice for a friend roll off the tongue freely and with exuberant confidence. Determination to influence through encouragement fuels the hope; fulfilling the need to share serves your passion. To help others before you is noble. It is when the tables are turned, that those feelings elude you as soon as the “I know” slides off the tongue.
I love my...Fill-in the blank: I love my __________. How to write Notes(Topic is in relation to my previous blog, Art of Writing)
The beginning to any story is the summary. This only has to be 5 to 8 sentences. Say what you want to say in a sequence of start to finish. Treat it as your elevator pitch and grab your audience. Describe the story in the summary as if it is your desire, your intention. Once you have this, stick to it. And a tip, the key to doing is, do; don't refine the story before you know what it is. I'm good...When, how are you? is answered with "I'm good." What does that mean?
Good means happy, content, peaceful, adequately challenged, positively focused, cautiously optimistic, by Lisa Blessinger of the Examiner. Personal Freedom from Finances, seminarI left Memorial weekend to Vancouver for a three day intensive seminar that I was describing as a seminar about finding personal freedom from finances. When all said and done the course was called Millionaire Mind Intensive a Peak Potentials seminar by T. Harv Eker, it was intensive and did exactly what I expected it to do - set me free.
At the start, the trainer asks attendees to give their during the next three days because, "How you do anything is how you do everything." If you are always picked last, or miss out on opportunities, or blame things on circumstances, this will carry into every facet of life. It is the mind's job to protect, anticipate pain, and to warn of danger. It creates a sense of comfort thereby crippling action in the possibilities or what if's. At the earliest of ages, beliefs or the truth are engrained. With growth the beliefs either still agree with the mind or unease the mind. It takes awareness, understanding and reconditioning to change.
At the begining of the seminar you are asked to rate your top three non-supportive beliefs or fears, as a benchmark. You are immersed in a room full of energy, all directed to the same purpose by the trainers - fostering a safe place for change. You are walked through confronting your fears and your dreams. Nurturing your mind to believe that there is only a choice between the fear and the dream; confront the what if and the not knowing, to understand and tame the fear. They arm you with reconditioning tips and tools, it takes 90 days of doing to re-do a lifetime of conditioning.
My Key Learnings:
Grow your passive income: Make your money work for you by investing and minding your business. Never work again by making enough money to cover expenses.
Manage money better: Make it a habit, no matter the amount of money you are managing to pay money to 1. investments and/or passive income 2. Long Term Savings 3. Education 4. Necessities 5. Short term play money 6. Give back to others.
There are 4 money personalities: saver, spender, avoider, monk. Take Olivia Mellan's money personality quiz: http://www.moneyharmony.com/MHQuiz.html
Then, find balance and set structure to form a new habit.
Two things that follow me through any step I take, "Everyone always does the best they can at the time" and "How you do anything is how you do everything." I have a millionaire mind!
You too can have a millionaire mind by attending in-person (ask me about one of my complimentary tuition vouchers) or a tele-seminar offered during the month of June. There is no better time than now to act! Today is nowRelease the past and the future
Stand still in thought
Awaken all the senses
Be in the moment
The feeling illuminates
The energy flows
Life begins and occurs now
The ultimate truth
Love Karma“Everyone wants to be taken care of.” - Everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants to take care of another person in a parent-like-manner. A relationship that is mutually nurturing makes each other stronger together. “He believes the key to marriage is a happy wife” - Shoot for the stars and you will get them, no questions asked. Your-self worth shines when he smiles at the real you. He lives for the purest reason to make you happy; you deserve to be happy. “When I am too independent I fall apart” - The thought of sharing the load with another person seems scary. The dream of happily ever after follows us from childhood, but scares us as an adult. Trust originates with the self and passes onto the other person. You run to from the fears clinging to the picture of great love. “It’s All in Your Head” - Your existence is a pure state of self doubt. The face that once stared in the mirror, glimpses at what used to be. The cause is anyone, but your own. It lingers until it become too heavy. “The better me attracts him.” - Accept love when you see it. Ask for it and demand it. If you don’t want things to change do not let them, but know when a change needs to be made before it is too late. He will love you more, the more you let him. Embrace love and the karma will continue to flow into happily ever after. Beer as a CarbWhen talking about a healthy diet: what every parent wants to hear,"Wait, I have carbs, I drink a lot of beer!" The child could only respond telling the parent how beer is really enjoyable. It was evident that the conversation would not last long, as the child stopped listening as the parent's eyes rolled through the telephone. The mother misses the fact that drinking beer is an enjoyment. Being categorized only as an "alcoholic" beverage, beer gets a bad name. That label is imprinted since birth and only removed by the child to pledge that the past will never repeat itself - for the love of beer! Art of Writing"Art of Writing," by Jennifer Vaughan Sketch the outline
Fill-in with color
Blend the colors to inspire
Notes
Refine
Story Moving OnTo set expectations, this exercise is about you and you only. There is no blaming others or yourself. This is a reflective look at how you feel about a given situation, to discover why and how to move on from it.
As I said before and will reinforce, the only one that can change yourself, is yourself. That means that only you are accountable for your actions and your feelings. You cannot change the situation, it is the past. You cannot change the other person; it is hard enough to change your patterns of behaviors and beliefs so please do not rely on the statement, "if only they would change, it would be better." If you find yourself saying that last statement, STOP and take a look at yourself.
The key to your self-discovery is wanting to change and taking action. It is easy to say I have to change, but often times it never moves out of being a thought. The "I" is your biggest critic - I should have done this, I should have done that, I this or that. STOP blaming yourself and move on from being the victim of the past. By breaking down the barrier of self, you are ready to explore yourself.
Ask Yourself,
1. what happened?
2. how did it make you feel then?
3. why did it make you feel that way?
4. do you feel the same way now?
5. do you want to feel this way?
6. If not, what will make you feel better?
7. Go do #6!
The process of Asking Yourself:
1. Please fill in the blank with your personal situation to describe what happened.
2. There are two buckets, happy or sad (mad is included here). Which one are you feeling and to what degree (on a scale of 1 to 10)? Break down #1 in this manner until you cover all the whole situation.
3. This is where you will spend most of your time. There are concrete facts that x happened so y happened, the more obvious. Then, there is your subconscious. This can feel very deep inside you almost too deep to find, but it is there staring you in the face in the mirror; this is you, your actions and feelings that have been confirmed through past experiences that reinforce your beliefs. We learn from our parents and our surroundings at a very early age and hold onto these for years to follow. There are some things that are our of our control, mainly other people's actions, that have a deep effect on us. It is not the person or event that affects us, rather the feeling created that we associate with it.
4. People change, our beliefs change. Does what happened agree with your current beliefs? If you are struggling to accept the situation, you are fighting with the inner sense of yourself. Remove the anguish by moving on to #5.
5. It is a simple yes or no answer. But, remember to honestly break free from being the victim so you can say your answer confidently.
6. Avoid reactive statements such as "I don't want to feel x way" to an action statement such as "I won't feel x way by..." Move to an action oriented state in a constructive manner (ie. do not inflict self harm that will make you feel good momentarily but hurt much more later; you will be back at #1).
7. This is the step where you put words into action, by doing. You remember the answers to 1 thru 5, but this time they guide you to a different place, with the goal a better place.
Life is full of patterns. You wake up, you go to work, you come home to play, and you go to sleep. All of the in between is similar, but different in so many ways. We are creatures of nature. The next time you are in a similar situation, hold tight to the past instance, but only tight enough to evaluate the current situation with more clarity to ask, is it really similar? You cannot relive the past, therefore no one situation will ever be the same. Put faith in the present. Hold onto the intentions and trust yourself that you will take action. We are all human and make mistakes. Create the inner critic in a more positive way; it is not that you failed, but how you pick yourself up. The past is the past, but today shapes the future. Finding the Beautiful YouMy favorite musical artist is Natasha Bedingfield. Her lyrics helped me through a time when I needed the words to explain myself, my road of self discovery, and my hope to finding me.
I have extracted lyrics from Natasha's song "Wild Horses" from the album UnWritten as my inspiration - to finding me, the beautiful me that was hidden inside.
Move on to the girl you want to see.
Break free of the fear.
Don't be scared.
Envision yourself, run free.
Abandon your old self.
Tell the world how you want to feel, show your personality.
Attract the envy to all that.
FoodtellingFoodtelling - like storytelling but the story is told with food.
Food is an important part of all our lives. It is at the at the center of birthday parties, holidays and special events. For travelers, it's a destination. Each ingredient is interpreted differently by all. A pleasure to all. And, a mystery to some.
Best Italian: Tavolata
Best Cuban sandwich: Paseo
Best grinder: Hopvine
Best pizza: Stellar
Best Mexican: Tacos Guaymas in Fremont
Best Cask beer: Maritime Pacific Brewing Company
Best Nitro beer: Hale's Ales
Best Bottled beer: Deschutes Brewery
Best Wine Label: Bitch
I'll share a story about one of my favorites, if you share one with me! Success DefinedMy Definition of Success: 1. The ability to network. To fuel an idea into action, you need momentum and this is where who you know, is just as important as what you know. 2. Advance yourself and others. Karma is real, whatever comes around goes around. I live by the idea of treating others, as I would want to be treated. 3. Passion. Have an interest to learn to advance your knowledge and skills. To focus your time, effort, and money on what really matters. My PassionPassion: I want to make a difference in other people's lives. To spark thought into others, so they can decide how to react to enable them.
My medium: writing
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