Showing posts with label Passionate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passionate. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Log Roll Recipe


LOG ROLL
Ingredients:
  • 1 cake mix
  • 2 condense milk cans
  • 1 bag of chocolate chips
  • Half stick of butter
  • Confectioners’ sugar
Preparation
Mix the ingredients for cake mix  use wax paper and butter spray for a big oven pan the idea is to get a very thin layer of cake  don’t forget the wax paper and butter ids the key in here .
Bake in 350 oven  once is done barely color or no color at all just be sure with a toothpick that is done You take it out and roll it on a wet cloth let it cool.
Grab the 2 cans of condense milk and cook them in microwave 3 to 5 minutes at the time look it doesn’t bubble over until is creamy and takes a light brown color you can add some vanilla essence if you like now very easy on your already cool cake layer spread it all over and roll it very carefully and not too tight, you can either take the paper of before you start rolling it or at the same time you do this I prefer the latter.
Now let it cool in refrigerator for at least 20 minutes while you melt your chocolate chips with 1/3 cup of milk, butter and the sugar to give consistency (let it set).
Now you can use the frosting u made on the roll you can cut a little piece of both ends to make the branches I add some peanuts to make it look like gribble put it back in refrigerator and after 15 minutes or so get it out and with a fork scrape the log to make it look like bark .


Sunday, February 14, 2010

Isabel Allende tells tales of passion | Video on TED.com

As a novelist and memoirist, Isabel Allende writes of passionate lives, including her own. Born into a Chilean family with political ties, she went into exile in the United States in the 1970s -- an event that, she believes, created her as a writer. Her voice blends sweeping narrative with touches of magical realism; her stories are romantic, in the very best sense of the word. Her novels include The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna, and her latest, Ines of My Soul and La Suma de los Dias (The Sum of Our Days). And don't forget her adventure trilogy for young readers -- City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies.
As a memoirist, she has written about her vision of her lost Chile, in My Invented Country, and movingly tells the story of her life to her own daughter, in Paula. Her book Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses memorably linked two sections of the bookstore that don't see much crossover: Erotica and Cookbooks. Just as vital is her community work: The Isabel Allende Foundation works with nonprofits in the SF Bay Area and Chile to empower and protect women and girls -- understanding that empowering women is the only true route to social and economic justice.
"Allende can spin a funny, sensual yarn, but she can also use her narrative skills to remind us that parallel to our placid and comfortable existence is another, invisible universe, one where poverty, misery and torture are all too real."
Patricia Hart, The NationIsabel Allende tells tales of passion | Video on TED.com