I'm a traveller, writer, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of International Studies student, motivational speaker, lover of good food and of commercial aircraft.
This has actually made my day! WOW! I saw this on a blog this morning and it’s just got me really inspired to kick some ass!! Check this out and get inspired!
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Rugelach
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup raisins
Directions
1. Cut cold butter or margarine and cream cheese into bits. In food processor pulse flour, salt, butter or margarine, cream cheese and sour cream until crumbly.
2. Shape crumbly mixture into four equal disks. Wrap each disk and chill 2 hours or up to 2 days.
3. Roll each disk into a 9-inch round, keeping other disks chilled until ready to roll them.
4. Combine sugar, cinnamon, chopped walnuts, and finely chopped raisins (may substitute miniature chocolate chips for raisins).
5. Roll each disk into a 9 inch round keeping other disks chilled until ready to roll them. Sprinkle round with sugar/nut mixture. Press lightly into dough. With chefs knife or pizza cutter, cut each round into 12 wedges. Roll wedges from wide to narrow, you will end up with point on outside of cookie. Place on ungreased baking sheets and chill rugelach 20 minutes before baking.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
7. After rugelach are chilled, bake them in the center rack of your oven 22 minutes until lightly golden. Cool on wire racks. Store in airtight containers…they freeze very well.
8. Variations: Before putting the filling on the dough, use a pastry brush to layer apricot jam as well as brown sugar. Then add the recommended filling. You may also make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and roll the rugelach in this prior to putting them on the cookie sheets.Serves 48
What a really beautiful song!
שלמה ארצי - תתארו לכם
תתארו לכם עולם יפה
פחות עצוב ממה שהוא ככה
ואנחנו שם הולכים עם שמש בכיסים
ומעל גגות, הכוכבים
והזמן עובר בלי פחד
ואני הולך לפגוש אותה בגן העדן
תתארו לכם קצת אושר
כי הוא כל כך כל כך נדיר כאן
עיר מגניבה בתוך החושך ושנינו בשמיכה
והיא מלטפת אותי ואומרת לי
מחר יקרה מה שרצית
והיא מלאה השתקפויות של עצב ושמחה
תתארו לכם באמצע יום יפה
שמיים מעליכם, האהבה איתכם
כן, ככה זה קרה, לפתע היא אמרה
אני עוד זוכר אותה, כמו בסערה
תתארו לכם אותי נופל לתוך זרועותיה
תתארו לכם עולם פשוט, חדר ללילה, בית בגשם
ריחות עצים מלאים בתות, ושנינו שיכורים
“אם נפרד אני אמות”, היא לוחשת וגועשת
תתארו לכם עוד הזדמנות לחזור פתאום לנעורים
תתארו לכם את החיים, זזים אחורה וקדימה
מה שחסר שוב מיתמלא, מה שהיה פתאום ישנו
ואני מביט לתוך עיניה ונגנב בכוח פנימה
תתארו לכם אותנו מגשימים את כל החלומות
תתארו לכם באמצע יום יפה…
תתארו לכם עולם יפה, פחות עצוב ממה שהוא ככה
ואנחנו שם הולכים, עם שמש בכיסים
(תתארו לכם עולם יפה, עיר בתוך החושך)
עולם פשוט, תתארו לכם קצת אושר
Guess who got officially certified yesterday???
Congrats to Boeing and Lufthansa!! The first 747-8i will be delivered in 2012. Can’t wait to see this gorgeous plane in service soon!!
(photo credit: Lufthansa)
He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire. She is pregnant.
The firefighter was afraid of her at first, because he had never been around a Doberman before. When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.
A photographer from the Charlotte, North …Carolina newspaper, “The Observer,” noticed this red Doberman in the distance looking at the fireman. He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do. As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies, and kissed him, just as the photographer snapped this photograph….
Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply focusing on the mobile web (they’ve had a pretty good mobile web version of Gmail for a while). Then it was the strained (to put it mildly) relationship between Google and Apple. Still, other Google iPhone apps came. But never a Gmail one.
Until now.
I came across this tonight while watching Two and a Half Men.
Really worth a read from such an unusual setting.
Check it out!
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #327
I’m writing this vanity card in Israel. I like it here. Not for the geography, or architecture, or even the history. No, I like it because for the first time in my life I’m surrounded with DNA much like my own. Until I got here, until I wandered around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, I didn’t realize how much my double helix yearned to be around similar strands. Now that’s not to say that I don’t occasionally have that very same genetic experience in Beverly Hills (particularly in Chinese restaurants on Sunday night). But the sheer homogeneity of Israel overwhelms any over-priced kung pao gathering at Mr. Chow’s. The cop, the cab driver, the hotel concierge, the pilot, the waiter, the shoe salesman, the beautiful girl looking right through me as if I didn’t exist — all Jewish! If I had to sum it up, I’d say the sensation is like being at a B’nai B’rith summer camp that is surrounded by millions of crazy bastards who hate the sound of kids playing tetherball, and all the poor little camp has going for it is pluckiness and nukes. Anyway, I have to believe my visceral and very pleasant reaction is some sort of evolutionary, tribal thing. Some sort of survival gene that makes human beings want to stay with their birth group. Which raises the question, why have I spent a lifetime moving away from that group? How did Chaim become Chuck? How did Levine become Lorre? The only answer I come up with is this: When I was a little boy in Hebrew school the rabbis regularly told us that we were the chosen people. That we were God’s favorites. Which is all well and good except that I went home, observed my family and, despite my tender age, thought to myself, “bull$#*!.”
Such a shame this is STILL HAPPENING TODAY!
Good to hearing him blasting that witch Lee Rihannon
If we were a British newspaper, we would be urging readers to patronise the Albert Hall at every opportunity. Instead, we suggest you frequent the Max Brenner chocolate shop chain and take a stand against the appalling campaign being waged against Israel. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is misguided and counterproductive. The protesters have a right to express their views on Israel, but they lose respect and influence when they engage in such crude and uncivilised action.
Philistines for Palestine | The Australian
Brilliant article
Negotiations are the only way.
Cut the crap and start working together to create a lasting peace.
Ever wanted to travel to Israel??
THIS is what to expect!
Colin Rubenstein: “such discriminatory practices have no place in Australian society and, moreover, will only serve to intensify the Palestinian- Israeli conflict by promoting division and hatred.”
Hear Hear!
A tiny second moon may once have orbited Earth before catastrophically slamming into the other one, a titanic clash that could explain why the two sides of the surviving lunar satellite are so different from each other