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Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Raspberry Sauce

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Another favorite breakfast at our house is  Cottage Cheese Pancakes . These are delicious, high protein,  and will remind you of a delicious  cheese blintz, only these are so much easier to prepare. I top them with raspberry sauce, a dusting of powdered sugar and a dollop of sour cream. Like I would a blintz. Yum! Here are the ingredients.  Whisk the eggs in a medium bowl, then add the cottage cheese and whisk until well blended.  Whisk in the sugar and lemon juice. Stir in the flour starting with ¾ C  until it's the right pancake batter  consistency. You may need to add a bit  more. Don't make it too stiff. Stir just  until the flour is blended.    Use about ¼ C for each pancake and flatten then with the back of the scoop or spoon. Fry in hot butter/oil until on MH  heat until the edges are nice and crispy  and the bottoms are browned. Flip to cook the other sides.   For the raspberry sauce I use a bag of frozen...

Chicken Scaloppini in Sherry & Red Wine Mushroom Sauce

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Tired of the same old chicken dinners? This one will change all that. I know you'll love it. I use sherry in several other chicken recipes.  It gives it just the right smooth finish that's quite different from using red or white wine. I use dry, cocktail, or golden sherry. Never use cooking sherry. You'll want to be able to drink it as well.  Pound the chicken breasts until an even thin thickness; dredge in seasoned flour and saute' in olive oil or butter until golden. Remove to a platter and keep warm in the oven. Add the mushrooms to the skillet. Season with salt, pepper and thyme. Brown on MH for about 4 minutes then  add the garlic and cook another minute.  Add the red wine and sherry; let simmer until reduced by a third.   Remove from heay and add butter, 1 T at a time, while whisking in to blend.  Pour the mushroom sauce over the chicken on the platter and serve. Chicken Scaloppini in Red Wine Mushroom Sauce 1½ to 2 lbs boneless chicken breasts, ...

Recipe: Pumpkin Oat Pancakes

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These pancakes are light and fluffy, healthy, and gluten-free. I topped mine with cashew cream, maple syrup, nuts and strawberries :) Pumpkin Oat Pancakes with Cashew Cream Ingredients: 1/2 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup cooked pumpkin 1/4 cup applesauce* 1/4 cup milk 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 eggs Method: Put the oats in a blender and whizz until you get a powdery consistency Add the rest of your ingredients and blend until combined In a non-stick pan, cook your pancakes over medium heat Once little bubbles start to form, flip and cook the other side *You can buy pre-made applesauce but I think it's easy and cleaner to make your own. You simply peel an apple, cut into pieces and boil with a little water. Once the apple is soft, blitz in a blender.  How to make Cashew Cream: Soak 1 cup raw cashews in water for 3 - 8 hours (I just soaked mine overnight) Drain the cashews and put in a blender Add 1/3 cup to 3/4 cup water (depending on how thick you want your cream) Blend unti...

Nikita Nagornyy Throws Triple Back on FLOOR!

Russia's Nikita Nagornyy is already right back in the gym and ready for Tokyo. Only weeks after the conclusion of the Rio Olympics, Russian Olympic team member and silver medalist, Nikita Nargornyy who is known for his world-class tumbling is already upgrading his tumbling passes. In fact, just recently he threw a triple back and made it look effortless. The video link is below: https://www.instagram.com/nikushkarus/                                                         you can also find it here: http://www.flogymnastics.com/article/46519-nikita-nagornyy-lands-triple-back-on-floor Thanks for reading! Also, I'd like to briefly apologize for shorter articles lately, school has been busy and I'll try to get back into the swing of things in the upcoming months (not much is going on in the gymnastics world either).

The Threat Of Arctic Albedo Change

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Arctic sea ice extent in 2016 was the lowest since satellite measurements started, when extent is averaged over the period from March 20 to September 22, as illustrated by the image below. As the added trend also illustrates, this decline in Arctic sea ice extent looks set to further accelerate and result in a dramatic fall in albedo. The trend points at zero sea ice over this entire period in less than two decades from now. Zero sea ice on a single day looks set to occur much earlier; a similar trend points at minimum sea ice extent reaching zero in about a decade from now, as illustrated by the image below. Above image also shows average sea ice extent data for the period January 1 to September 22, i.e. the year to date (blue line). The added trend points at zero being reached in 2037. The data show that Arctic sea ice extent also was the lowest since satellite measurements started, when extent is averaged over the period from January 1 to September 22. Finally, the image also shows ...

Red Spinach Efo Riro for Lunch

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Okay, so I made some Red Spinach Efo Riro , a really delicious, exotic and extremely nutritious vegetable dish....seriously, this is one of those dishes I have eaten that I literally feel myself getting "younger" hehehe...., that's how much overloaded the dish is with antioxidants. I now regularly eat this wonderful vegetable dish and have decided to share some pictures of how I enjoy eating it....... Serving suggestions: serve generous amounts with pounded yam, gari. plantain. boiled yam, semovita, fufu, amala, boiled rice etc Red Spinach Efo Riro with Plantain Shards Red Spinach Efo Riro with Gari Green & Red Spinach Efo Riro Red Spinach Efo Riro with Pounded Yam

Red Spinach Efo Riro

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Efo riro is one of the most popular vegetable dishes favoured by Nigerians particularly the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria. Its essentially made with green leafy vegetables with a combination of dried fish meat and other preferred sources of protein. The  most often used green leafy vegetable for efo riro include all varieties of amaranth greens (including tete and soko ), spinach and I have also successfully made  efo riro using kale, collard greens and other leafy vegetables available really. But I have to stress that the Yorubas prefer amaranth greens to make the most sumptuous efo riro dish, and this is because the leaves are just well suited. Red & Green Spinach (Amaranth) So having discovered Red Spinach recently through my exciting culinary adventure, it was only a matter of time that I would be cooking a different, exotic and scintillating version of the much loved efo riro ..... and I tell you its just divine. Method : so the same exact method and ingredient...