May 31

Hellow people!! is the last day of the month!! Today we celebrate macaroon day! here is how you can  celebrate it!

Casual: eat a macaroon
Committed: learn how to prepare a macaroon and give some to your friends
Hard-Core: Prepate 1,000 macaroon and eat them all during the day!
-Agent P

May 31

Hi everyone,
Today's Color Challenge presents "Color Yourself Futuristic" by wearing something Castle of Oz (Emerald). Go to the streets wearing a blouse, shirt, sweater, pants color Castle of Oz. Make compliments to anyone you see wearing Castle of Oz and if someone gives you a compliments tell them thank I am rocking my Castle of Oz sweater. 

-Ballet. 

May 30

Hello people! Today May 30 we celebrate water a flower day!! Here is how you can celebrate i!
Casual: Go outside and water a flower.
Committed: Water all the flowers you see during the day
Hard-Core: Go to all the gardens of your street and water all the flowers.
-Agent P

May 30

Fajitas Friday fun present...... Today´s recipe.

Hi guys!

Peach cobbler ( 5 to 7 servings)

Ingredients
3 cups sliced fresh peaches

2 teaspoons lemon juice

1 1/2 cups white sugar

1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 1/2 cups self-rising flour, or as needed

1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup butter, melted

2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces

1 tablespoon raw sugar, or as desired

Method:
Stir peaches with lemon juice in a bowl to prevent fruit from browning. Transfer to a cast iron skillet and stir in 1 1/2 cup white sugar, pecans, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Bring to a soft boil, stirring often.
Whisk self-rising flour, 1/2 cup white sugar, brown sugar, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl. Stir melted butter into the mixture (batter should resemble cooked oatmeal). Spoon batter over hot peach filling in the skillet; dot topping with 2 tablespoons of butter pieces and sprinkle with raw sugar.
Bake cobbler in the preheated oven until topping is golden brown, about 30 minutes.

lots of love....
Queen

May 30

Hi everyone, 
Today's Color Challenge presents "Color Yourself Intellectual" by wearing something Peach Perfect (Amigo).
Go out wearing a dress, pants, shirt or any piece of clothing color Peach Perfect. Make people notice your piece of clothing and if someone gives you a compliment say thank you I love Peach Perfect sweater.

-Ballet.

May 29

Hi everyone,
Today's Color Challenge presents "Color Yourself Juvenile" by wearing something Iris Violet (Medley). Go out there wearing anything color Iris Violet and don't forget to give compliments to anyone you see wearing something Iris Violet. 

-Ballet.

May 29

T-Bone Thursday Take over present..... Today´s story.

Hi guys!!

Spinach comes from a central and southwestern Asian gene center where it may have originated from Spinacia tetranda, which is still gathered as a wild edible green in Anatolia. Spinach was unknown to the ancient Mediterranean world.The diffusion of spinach into the Mediterranean was almost certainly the result of Arab ingenuity. Spinach, which does not grow well in hot weather, was successfully cultivated in the hot and arid Mediterranean climate by Arab agronomists through the use of sophisticated irrigation techniques probably as early as the eighth century A.D. The first references to spinach are from Sasanian Persia (about 226-640 A.D.) and we know that in 647 it was taken from Nepal to China where it was, and still is, known as the "Persian green." The first written evidence of spinach in the Mediterranean are in three tenth-century works, the medical work by al-Razi (known as Rhazes in the West) and in two agricultural treatises, one by Ibn Wahshiya and the other by Qustus al-Rumi. Spinach became a popular vegetable in the Arab Mediterranean and arrived in Spain by the latter part of the twelfth century where the great Arab agronomist Ibn al-'Awwam called it the "captain of leafy greens." Spinach was also the subject of a special treatise in the eleventh century by Ibn Hajjaj. When spinach reached Provence it also became a popular vegetable, behind cabbage. Spinach is mentioned frequently as part of the fifteenth century Provençal ortolagia, the vegetable production of the garden. In the seventeenth century, the famous English philosopher John Locke reports having had a spinach and herb soup during his travels in southwestern France. In Anatolia, spinach was known by the thirteenth century, if not earlier, and served with meat and covered in garlic-yogurt sauce, a dish that was popular with the Seljuk Turks. The Italians were important for promoting the role this new vegetable played in the Mediterranean diet, as they favored spinach along with several other new vegetables both from the Old and New Worlds, in their gardens beginning in the thirteenth century. In Venice, cooks integrated Muslim flavoring techiques in dishes known as saur which were enriched with pine nuts and sultanas. Although fish, meatballs, and rice were so flavored, so were dishes of spinach. The Arab influence in Spain is evident even today. Sometime ago a stylish dish in Cordoba was sajina, also called ásida, a kind of watery soup made with wheat flour cooked with spinach or other leafy vegetables. This soup seemed to be obligatory at family gatherings, holiday feasts, where you would also find stew/soups of lima beans or chickpeas. Sajina is a direct descendent of a popular stew from Islamic Spain. Mediterranean Jews, the Sephardim, were also fond of spinach and prepare dishes such as shpongous, a savory baked dish of sheep's cheese and spinach that was customary as a dairy dish served on Shavuot, the holiday fifty days after Passover celebrating the Palestinian harvest and the anniversary of the giving of the Law. In thirteenth century Damascus, burani was a popular dish of Persian origin, made with spinach or Swiss chard and yogurt, garlic, and spices. In 1614, Castelvetro calls for spinach to be used as the stuffing for tortelli.

Lots of love....
Queen

May 29

Hello people!!! today May 29 we celebrate Put a pillow in your fridge day! here is how you can celebrate it!
Casual: Put your pillow in your fridge
Committed: tell your friends to put a pillow on their fridges
Hard-Core: Put all your friend´s fridge togueteher with a pillow on it and sleep on your fridge.
-Agent P

May 28

Hi everyone, 
Today's Color Challenge presents "Color Yourself Hipster" by wearing something Nutella (Brown). Go out there wearing a skirt, blouse, pants or anything color Nutella. Don't forget to make people notice your piece of clothing  color Nutella and if someone tell you a compliment tell them thank you I'm rocking my Nutella sweater. 

-Ballet.

May 28

Hellow people!! Today is May 28 and we celebrate the HAMBURGER DAY!
here is how you can celebrate it!
Casual: Eat a hambuerger
Committed: Only eat hambuergers all day
Hard-Core: organize a meeting with your friends and prepare 100 hambuergers, the one that eat them firts win 100 dollars.
- Agent P

May 28

Waffle wednesday wonder.... presents Today´s recipe.

Hi guys!!
Creole tomato salad ( 6 to 7 servings)

Ingredients:
3 ripe tomatoes, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices (about 2 pounds)
1 Vidalia or other sweet onion, thinly sliced and separated into rings
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon thinly sliced fresh mint
2 teaspoons chopped fresh chives
Vinaigrette:
4 teaspoons olive oil
4 teaspoons red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon minced fresh garlic

Method:
To prepare salad, alternate tomato and onion slices on a platter. Sprinkle with salt. Top with mint and chives. To prepare vinaigrette, combine oil, vinegar, mustard, and garlic in a jar. Cover tightly; shake vigorously. Drizzle vinaigrette over salad, and serve at room temperature.

Lots of love...
Queen

May 27

Hi everyone,
Today's Color Challenge presents "Color Yourself Crazy" by wearing something Lemonade (Light Green). Search around the closet any piece of clothing or accessory color Lemonade, wear it all day and make sure people notice you while wearing it.

-Ballet. 

May 27

Hello people! hope you are good! Today May 27 we celebrate the sunsceen day!! here is how you can celebrate it!
Casual: Put sunscrean in your face.
Committed: carry a sunscreen all day and use it each hour of the day
Hard-core: Go with your friends to the beach and use all day sunscreen.
-Agent P

May 27

Tamle tuesday twist present..... Todays story.

Hi guys! today I share with you the lemon story hope you enjoy it!

The origin of the lemon has not yet been determined, although science suggests it may be northwestern India, where they have been cultivated for more than 2,500 years. Arab traders brought the lemons to the Middle East and Africa sometime after 100 C.E. It is believed to have been introduced into southern Italy around 200 C.E.; and was being cultivated in Egypt and in Sumer, the southern portion of Mesopotamia a few centuries later. At first, lemons were not widely cultivated as food: It was largely an ornamental plant (as were tomatoes), until about the 10th century. The Arabs introduced the lemon into Spain in the 11th century, and by 1150, the lemon was widely cultivated in the Mediterranean. Crusaders returning from Palestine brought it to the rest of Europe. The lemon came into full culinary use in Europe in the 15th century; the first major cultivation in Europe began in Genoa. Lemons came to the New World in 1493, when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola. Spanish conquest spread the lemon throughout the New World, where it was still used mainly used as an ornamental plant, and for medicine. Lemons were grown in California by 1751; and in the 1800s in Florida, they began to be used in cooking and flavoring. The name “lemon” first appeared around 1350–1400, from the Middle English word limon. Limon is an Old French word, indicating that the lemon entered England via France. The Old French derives from the Italian limone, which dates back to the Arabic laymun or limun, from the Persian word limun.





Lots of love.....
Queen

May 26

Hi everyone,
Today's Color Challenge presents "Color Yourself Exotic" by wearing something Flames(Red). Go out to the streets wearing any piece of clothing color Flames. Compliment any person you see wearing something Flames by saying you are rocking that Flames skirt. 

-Ballet.

May 26

Hello people! Today May 26 we celebrate teh WORLD LINDY HOP DAY!!
here is how you can celebrate it!
Casual: Watch someone dancing in Youtube
Committed:learn how to dance it and try to dance for a complete hour
Hard-Core: Organize a party with all the people you know and only dance all nigth lindy hope dance.
-Agent P

May 26

Meat ball Monday Madness present.... Today´s recipe.

Hi guys!!! today I share with you a strawberry recipe!! These creamy and smooth strawberry parfaits taste as good as they look. Top with whipped cream and sliced almonds for a real treat.

Strawberry Parfaits
(2 to 6 servings)
Ingredients:
4 cups sliced strawberries, divided
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup fat-free ricotta cheese
1/2 cup (4 ounces) 1/3-less-fat cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup amaretti cookie crumbs (about 8 cookies)
1/2 cup frozen reduced-calorie whipped topping, thawed
2 tablespoons slivered almonds, toasted

Method:
Place 2 cups of strawberry slices and granulated sugar in a blender or food processor, and process until smooth. Set strawberry puree aside.
Combine ricotta and next 4 ingredients (ricotta through vanilla) in a medium bowl; stir well with a whisk. Spoon 2 tablespoons cookie crumbs into each of 4 parfait glasses. Top each portion with 2 tablespoons strawberry puree, 1/4 cup strawberry slices, and 3 tablespoons ricotta mixture; repeat the layers. Drizzle the remaining strawberry puree over each serving. Chill for 2 hours. Top each parfait with 2 tablespoons whipped topping and 1 1/2 teaspoons almonds.

lots of love...
Queen

May 25

Hi everyone,
Today's color challenge presents "Color Yourself Fresh" by wearing something Pool Cool (Spangle). Go out wearing any piece of clothing color Pool Cool, give compliments to any one you see wearing something Pool Cool and if any one gives you a compliment tell them, thank you I am rocking my Pool Cool shirt.
  

  

-Ballet.

May 25

Hello people!!! Today we celebrate the Towel day!! here is hoy you can celebrate it!
Casual:use a towel during the day.
Committed: Use a towel in your head all day.
Hard-Core: Only wear a Towel all day!
- Agent P

May 24

Hello people!!! Today May 24 we celebrate the Brother day!!! here is how you can celebrate it!
Casual: say "HAPPY BROTHERS DAY" to your brother.
Committed: Be with your brother all day!
Hard-Core: Organize a meeting with your bets friend brothers so that everyone can celebrate it!
- Agent P

May 24

Hi everyone,
Today's color challenge presents "Color Yourself Handsome" by wearing something Banana Smoothie (Citrus Heights).  Search in your closet  something Banana Smoothie wear it all day and don´t forget to give compliments to everyone you see wearing something Banana Smoothie.

-Ballet.

May 23

Hi everyone,
Today's color challenge presents "Color Yourself Peaceful" by wearing something Boo(novel). Go around the streets wearing any piece of clothing or accessory color Boo. And don't forget to give a compliment if you see someone wearing something Boo.

-Ballet.

May 23

Hello amazing people!! today May 23 we celebrate the Turtle day!! here is how you can celebrate it!
Casual: make a drawing of a turtle.
Committed: Use all day a turtle hat.
Hard-Core: Tell your friends and organize a race, to see which turtle is faster and better.
- Agent P

May 23

Fajitas Friday Fun present...... Today´s recipe.

Hi guys!! today I share with you asian chiken lettuce cups recipe!!
Asian Chicken Lettuce Cups    ( 6 to 8 servings)

Ingredients:
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced peeled ginger
1 tablespoon sambal oelek (Asian chili sauce)
1 tablespoon plum sauce
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon mirin (sweet rice wine)
1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon sesame seeds, toasted
1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil

Method:
Make the sauce: Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Stir again just before using.
Prepare the cups: Heat 2 tablespoons canola oil in a skillet over high heat. Add the chicken and stir-fry until cooked through, about 3 minutes. Add the carrot, celery, bell pepper, peas and red onion and stir-fry about 3 minutes. Add the ginger, garlic, sprouts and shiitakes. Add 1/4 cup of the prepared sauce and cook until thickened, about 30 seconds, scraping up any browned bits. Transfer the stir-fry to a bowl; top with the scallions and peanuts.
Wipe out the skillet. Heat the remaining 4 tablespoons canola oil over high heat. Fry the wontons until golden and crisp, about 15 seconds per side. Transfer to paper towels and season with salt.
Fill the lettuce leaves with the stir-fry. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Crumble the wontons on top or serve alongside. Serve with the remaining sauce.

lots of love....
Queen

May 22

Hi everyone,
Today´s color challenge presents ¨Color Yourself Hot¨ by wearing Peach Perfect (Amigo). Go around wearing a blouse or a shirt color Peach Perfect and if you see someone wearing something Peach Perfet give him/her a compliment.

-Ballet.

May 22

Hellow people!! Today May 22 is the Goth day and here i show you can celebrate it!

Casual: wear something dark

Committed: use dark clothes and paint your hir dark also.

Hard- core: Organize a Big party with your friends where everyone is dress as gothic a you can.

-Agent p 

May 22

T-bone Thursday Take over present...... Today´s Story.

Hi guys!!! today´s story is green beans story!! hope you enjoy it!

The green bean originates in Central and South America. The green bean was domesticated in ancient times, but researchers can’t say exactly where, although seeds of cultivated forms were found in deposits from Callejon de Huaylas, Peru with a radiocarbon dating of 7680 B.P. and from 7000 B.P. in Tehuacán, Mexico, although atomic mass spectrometry dating contests this dates by measuring the age as only 2, 285 ± 60 B.P.The green bean was introduced to the Mediterranean upon the return of Columbus from his second voyage to the New World in 1493. In Columbus's diary from November 4, 1492 he describes lands in Cuba planted with faxones and fabas "different than ours." Later he encounterd fexoes and habas that were different than the ones he knew from Spain. Faxones was probably the cowpea and fabas and habas was the fava bean. The beans Columbus found were undoubtedly what is now designated Phaseolus vulgaris .The earliest depiction of a New World bean in Europe is thought to be the woodcut in the herbal published by Leonhart Fuchs in 1543. The bean spread into the eastern Mediterranean and by the seventeenth century was cultivated everywhere in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. In a 1988 study of the phaseolin structure of the common bean researchers traced the beans now grown in the western Mediterranean as ones originating in the Andes. The phaselus and phaseolus beans mentioned in the Roman authors Virgil and Columella are now believed to be another leguminous plant in the genus Dolichus , that is, the hyacinth bean. Phaseolus is a New World plant and all the so-called phaseolus from the Old World have been re-classified as vigna.There are four major cultivated species: P. vulgaris , P. coccineus (scarlet runner bean), P. lunatus (lima or sieva bean), P. acutifolius var. latifolius (tepary bean). A fifth species, P. polyanthus , is cultivated in the New World, but it is not found in Mediterranean cultivation. There are today many cultivars of green beans, more than 500, with variations in pod, texture, or seed color, for example the yellow wax beans.

lots of love....
Queen

May 21

Hi everyone,
Today´s color challenge presents ¨Color Yourself Splashy¨ by wearing something King of the Oceans (Monaco Blue). Search around your closet something King of the Oceans, wear it all day and don´t forget to give compliments to people wearing something King of the Oceans.

 

      - Ballet.

May 21 Challenge

·         Hello My fantastic people today is

·         MAY 21^st and we celebrate RAPTURE PARTY DAY and here are some ways we recommend to celebrate this day

·         Casual: Wear a T-shirt which says I survive may 21^st 2011

·         Committed: Gather a group of people and start yelling in public places WE SURVIVED WE SURVIDED THE WORLD DIDN’T END! Or something like that

·         Hard Core: Make a gigantic party like it would be the last one celebrating you survived the Apocalypse and make history. 
                                                                                                                                             -Agent P

May 21

  Waffle Wednesday Wonder present...... Today´s recipe.

Hi guys!!! today I share with you a low-fat mango recipe!!  

Low-fat mango fool
(1 to 2 serves)
Ingredients:
150g low-fat ricotta cheese (see note)
1/2 cup low-fat vanilla custard
2 large ripe mangoes, peeled, roughly chopped

8 pieces almond bread

Method:
Place ricotta in a food processor. Process until creamy. Pour in custard and pulse until just combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Wash and dry food processor bowl.
Process mango until smooth. Reserve 1/3 cup mango puree. Fold remaining mango puree into ricotta mixture.

Half-fill four 1-cup capacity glasses with mango-ricotta mixture. Spoon over reserved puree. Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes or longer, if time permits. Serve with almond bread.

lots of love...
Queen.

May 20

Hi everyone,
Today's color challenge presents "Color Yourself Sublime" by wearing something Nutella.
Go out there wearing an accessory, a pair of shoes, or any piece of clothing color Nutella. Make compliments to people wearing something Nutella.

                                                 

-Ballet.

May 20

Tamale Tuesday Twist present...... Today´s story.

Hi guys!!! Today I will share with you the banana story!
The origins of the banana are as complex and convoluted as the nature of the banana’s taxonomic origins themselves.  Archeologists have focused on the Kuk valley of New Guinea around 8,000 BCE (Before Common Era) as the area where humans first domesticated the banana.  Additionally, though this is the first known location of banana domestication, other spontaneous domestication projects may have occurred throughout the Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.  Therefore, Kuk is the first known instance of banana domestication, but it is probably not the cradle from which all other domesticated species sprang. From New Guinea, the Kuk domesticated variety appears to have spread to the Philippines, and then radiated widely across the tropics.  Researchers find it difficult to trace the diffusion of the banana after its arrival in the Philippine islands, and in many cases, it appears the banana was introduced into areas only to be reintroduced, and in a sense, rediscovered, hundreds or thousands of years later.  Adding to the confusing tangle of banana proliferation is the parallel development of hybrid fruits.  Human ingenuity manipulated the seedless, and thus asexual, forms of domesticated bananas into hybrids by careful techniques of culling and planting that fused and refined different domesticated varieties.  Thus, the origins of the banana have been difficult at best to pinpoint.  In general, however, it can be said that bananas originated in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific around 8,000 to 5,000 BCE. From New Guinea and the Philippines, bananas dispersed far and wide across the tropics, in all directions.  It is probable that bananas arrived in India, Indonesia, Australia, and Malaysia, within the first two millennia after domestication.  Plantains may have been grown in eastern Africa as early as 3000 BCE, and in Madagascar by 1000 BCE.  The plantain had certainly reached the African continent between 500 BCE and 500 CE.  Buddhist literature notes the existence of the banana in 600 BCE, and when Alexander the Great’s expeditions led him to India in 327 BCE, he stumbled across the fruit.  Perhaps most surprising, the banana may have arrived in South America well ahead of Europeans, as early as 200 BCE, carried by sailors of Southeast Asian origin.  By the 3rd century CE, plantains were being cultivated on plantations in China. 
lots of love...
Queen

May 20

Hellow people!!!
Today  May 20 th we celebrate Pick a straw berry.
Here is how you can celebrate it.
Casual: Eat a straw berry
Committed: Chose only 3 strawberries and eat them with out using your hands.
Hard Core: Organize a competition with youtrt friends putting straw berries in a plate and the one who picks more win.
-Agent P

May 19

Hi everyone,
Today's color challenge presents "Color Yourself Catchy" by wearing Flames (Red).
Search around your closet an accessory, a pair of shoes or any piece of clothing that is color Flames put it on and wear it around the day. Make sure people look at you and make compliments to the persons wearing something Flames.

-Ballet.