Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Never rely on what you think you know.
Remember the Lord in everything you do, and
He will show you the right way.
PROVERBS 3:5-6
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Excellent choice of dessert if you don't want to feel to guilty!
Delicious chocolate cake which is also low fat. You can also make this cake with frozen raspberries or any other your favourite berries.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup (165g) reduced-fat ricotta cheese
2 cups self-raising flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup caster sugar
100g fat reduced margarine, melted
1 cup hot water
1 cup frozen blueberries
For the blueberry sauce:
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 cup frozen blueberries
Method:
Preheat the oven to 160°C. Line a round cake tin with baking paper or lightly grease it.
Sift flour and cocoa into a bowl. Add sugar, margarine, water and ricotta. Mix well. Gently fold through blueberries. Pour mixture into the tin. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn onto the wire rack to cool.
Make blueberry sauce: Combine sugar and 2 tablespoons cold water in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. Add blueberries. Remove from the heat and set aside for 15 minutes.
Cut cake into wedges, place on plates, pour the blueberry sauce over the cake and serve.
I will sing with joy because of You.
I will sing praise to You,
Almighty God.
PSALMS 9:1-2
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Yes! It"s settled! Now and for ever
I have left my dear old plain.
And the winged leaves of poplars will never
Ring and rustle above me again.
Our house will sag in my absence,
And my dog died a long time ago.
Me, I"m fated to die with compassions
In the crooked streets of Moscow, I know.
I admire this city of elm-trees
With decrepit buildings and homes.
Golden somnolent Asian entities
Are reposing on temple domes.
When the moonlight at night, dissipated,
Shines... like hell in the dark sky of blue!
I walk down the alley, dejected,
To the pub for a drink, maybe, two.
It"s a sinister den, harsh and roaring,
But in spite of it, all through the night
I read poems for girls that go whoring
And carouse with thieves with delight.
Now I speak but my words are quite pointless,
And the beat of my heart is fast:
"Just like you, I am totally worthless,
And I cannot re-enter the past".
Our house will sag in my absence.
And my dog died a long time ago.
Me, I"m fated to die with compassions
In the crooked streets of Moscow, I know.
Sergei Yesenin, transleted from Russian by Alex Vagapov
1922
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Да! Теперь решено. Без возврата
Я покинул родные поля.
Уж не будут листвою крылатой-
Надо мною звенеть тополя.
Низкий дом без меня ссутулится,
Старый пес мой давно исдох.
На московских изогнутых улицах
Умереть, знать, судил мне бог.
Я люблю этот город вязевый,
Пусть обрюзг он и пусть одрях.
Золотая дремотная Азия
Опочила на куполах.
А когда ночью светит месяц,
Когда светит... черт знает как!
Я иду, головою свесясь,
Переулком в знакомый кабак.
Шум и гам в этом логове жутком,
Но всю ночь напролет, до зари,
Я читаю стихи проституткам
И с бандитами жарю спирт.
Сердце бьется все чаще и чаще,
И уж я говорю невпопад:
Я такой же, как вы, пропащий,
Мне теперь не уйти назад.
Низкий дом без меня ссутулится,
Старый пес мой давно издох.
На московских изогнутых улицах
Умереть, знать, судил мне бог.
It has been awhile since I have visited Moscow. It's not easy sometimes to be far away from the place where you were born in.
It's nostalgic...
There are so many things I think about when I remember my Moscow, so many great memories. I love my Moscow, and those years I have spent there in this beautiful city!
Recently, I've been reading poetry of one Russian poet - Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Есенин). He is one of my favourite poets, he lived and wrote his works during the "Silver age" of Russian literature which was the beginning of 1900's.
He was a most talented, popular and loved poet.
Here is one of his poems.
Sergei Yesenin
* * *
I have left my endeared home,
Getting out of my Russia of blue.
Little grove by the pond will warm
My old mother"s sorrow anew.
Like a golden croaker the moon
Lies prostrate on the water tranquil.
Grizzly hair, like apple-tree bloom,
In my father"s beard will spill.
I will not come back readily, and
Singing blizzard will ring on and on.
Maples guard my blue Russian land,
Standing there, one-legged, all alone.
And I know that it"s joyous for those
Who"ve been kissing the rain of the leaves.
For the maple and I, we both
Are alike, in the head, that is.
Perfect for the family lunch or dinner. I have cooked this recipe a few times now and every times it turns out delicious!
Ingredients:
1 (2 kg) shoulder of lamb
Olive oil
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 large bunch fresh rosemary
1 bulb garlic, unpeeled, broken into cloves
For the mint sauce:
1 tablespoon plain flour
2 cups good-quality hot chicken or vegetable stock
1 large bunch fresh mint, leaves picked
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar * the original recipe had 2 heaped tablespoons drained, chopped capers in it, but I don't use them here
Method:
The lamb:
Preheat your oven to full whack, (250C degree).
Slash the fat side of the lamb all over with a sharp knife. Lay half the sprigs of rosemary and half the garlic cloves on the bottom of a high-sided roasting pan, rub the lamb all over with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place it in the pan on top of the rosemary and garlic, and put the rest of the rosemary and garlic on top of the lamb. Tightly cover the tray with aluminum foil and place in the oven. Turn the oven down immediately to 325 degrees F and cook for 4 hours - it's done if you can pull the meat apart easily with 2 forks.
The sauce:
Remove the lamb from the oven and place it on a chopping board. Cover it with foil, then a kitchen towel, and leave it to rest. Pour away most of the fat from the roasting pan. Put the pan on the stove top over medium heat and mix in the flour. Add the stock, stirring and scraping all the sticky goodness off the bottom of the pan. You won't need gallons of gravy, just a couple of flavorsome spoonfuls for each serving. * Here you need to add the capers if you wish.
Reduce the heat after and simmer for a few more minutes.
Finely chop the mint and add it to the sauce with the red wine vinegar at the last minute then pour into a pitcher.
Serve with greens and some boiled, smashed or roasted veggies.
Absolutely delish!
Open the door, get outside and start walking! Nature is so beautiful!
It surrounds us every day, where ever we go. But it is so easy to take it for granted, not to notice what is around us. How often do you lift your eyes up and look at the sky and notice how beautiful it is?
And it is beautiful, always, no matter what, it is always different, and it can be hard to take your eyes off it, once you've noticed it!
It's quite remarkable, or should I say a bit embarrassing, we have lived in our town for nearly a year now, and only last weekend we have discovered a new (for us) amazingly beautiful walk way.
It goes down the local river, and leads towards park land.
The park looks almost wild, filled with astonishing breath taking sounds, birds, animals, which are freely swimming in the water or flying in the sky. Ducks and geese come up to you, in hopes do get a bit of bread, turtles poking their heads from the muddy water of the river. Horses eating the fresh grass further in the field, wild turkeys running by right near you. And all of this is happening so not far away from where we live! Just half an hour walk, and you are in the native wild bush land of Australia!
Amazing!
We don't always notice it, but it is here! God's hand created our Earth, and God is calling for us, no matter where we are and what we are doing. And it is not hard to hear him, you just need to listen.
Get outdoors in the nature, take a deep breath of fresh air and look around.....
