Egg Puff is one of the all time favorites for the college students and kids. Normally when you take your kids to the bakery they would surely ask for the Egg puff. When eaten hot it’s got a nice crispy flaky texture, the outer casing of the puff pastry and the softness of the boiled egg stuffed inside.

Before we learn the making of Egg Puff, lets know some health and nutritional benefits of Egg. Egg is one of the most natural nutritious foods containing many essential nutrients for a balanced diet for adults and children. Eggs are economical too and they are excellent source of protein and rich in vitamins A, D, E, B12 and niacin, minerals like calcium, zinc and iron. If you just eat the white of egg than it is low in calories and fat. The most recent studies show that cholesterol content of one large egg is 213 milligrams. All of the cholesterol is in the yolk. Eggs are best served during breakfast or snack time.

Normally doctor’s advise growing kids to eat eggs and also sports people are advised to eat egg and it gives them strength and energy. We also include raw eggs in health food dishes like milk shakes, Caesar salad, homemade mayonnaise, ice cream and many others. The nutritional value of an egg is divided between the egg white and egg yolk. The egg yolks are one such natural food that contains vitamin D. Muscles, organs, skin, hair as well as antibodies, enzymes, transport molecules and hormones are all made from protein. Each protein has a certain number and sequence of amino acids. Nine amino acids cannot be made by the body. These nine are known as essential amino acids and you must get them from the foods you eat. You can make a variety of dishes with eggs like the Egg Toast, Cheese Omelette, Egg curry, Egg Biryani, Egg pakora and many more.

For preparing the Egg puff, firstly hard boil the eggs and remove the outer shell of the eggs and cut into two halves and keep aside. Sprinkle some fresh black pepper powder, chilli powder, chaat masala. Place them on a puff pastry. Fold the two ends and join them in the center. Bake the egg puffs and after done serve them hot. Egg puffs can be either eaten with tomato or chilli sauce according to your taste. The puff pastry can be made at home or else you can also buy the readymade puff pastry. Click the link and prepare healthy egg puff for your kids. Watch and enjoy making of Egg puffs:

Recipe: Egg puffs

Summary: great snack with puff pastry and eggs

Ingredients chaat masala – 0 – as needed eggs – 3 – number pepper – 0 – as needed puff pastry sheets – 0 – salt – 0 – as needed Instructions take boild eggs cut into half sprinkle pepper powder, chat masala, if needed salt.Take puff pastry sheet put the sprinkled egg on top and close with edges applying little water as show in the video and bake for 10min at 450dgronce it is done serve with sauce

Cooking time (duration): 25

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: snack

My rating: 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

Recipe by Vahchef.



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Sometimes it’s hard coming up with great tasting paleo diet snack ideas. You know, for the past few weeks I had the same paleo snack meals!

One day I would be eating sliced carrot dip in salsa sauce, the next day carrot with cumin dip…I always rotate between those two snacks and after awhile, I just felt like puking each time I see a bowl of salsa or cumin dip!

Listen, this doesn’t have to happen to you!

No way am I going to let my fellow “modern caveman” suffer as I have suffered! We modern caveman diet followers must stick together – help each other out for the greater good of the planet….

It’s us against them darn it!

Alright, sorry! Sorry! I got carried away a bit because I’ve been watching quite a lot of “us against them” type of movies lately…

Anyway, you don’t have to worry about coming up with some palatable paleo diet snack ideas. See, not only am I going to show you how to make 2 astonishingly good paleo snack meals, I’m also going to provide you a link to a site where you can obtain a collection of paleo diet cookbooks.

The cookbooks are great because they contain all kinds of paleo meal recipes with photos and step-by-step directions included. You can check out the cookbooks (downloadable) after these 2 recipes.

Alright let’s go…

Paleo Diet Snack Recipe #1

Tasty Sunflower Seed Dip with Sliced Carrots

You’ll need: 1 cup of sunflower seeds, juice from half a lemon, a bit of garlic powder, ½ cup of fresh dill, about 8 tbs of water, a bit of organic kelp granules (salt alternative) and ground black pepper to spruce up the taste.

Directions: Dump all ingredients in a food mixer. Now blend away until the mixture becomes smooth and creamy.

Dip some sliced carrots into the mix. Yummy stuff! You can dip with other type of veggies of course. I dipped some broccolis in it and they tasted great too!

Paleo Diet Snack Recipe #2

Coco Walnuts Milk

You’ll need: 1 ½ cup of cacao powder, 1 cup of walnuts, a dash of organic kelp granules, ¼ cup of agave nectar, seeds from a vanilla bean, and 4 cups of fresh young Thai coconut water.

Directions:

•    Put walnuts and coconut water in a blender and blend until mixture becomes smooth. Next, grab a nut-milk bag and strain the mix through it. Throw away the pulp. Pour milk back into blender.

•    Put the remaining ingredients in the blender and blend together with the strained milk until smooth.

There! 2 absolutely delicious paleo diet snack ideas inspired from a set of digital cookbooks that I downloaded weeks ago.

As promised, here’s the link where you can get those cookbooks. You’ll be able to come up with all sorts of paleo diet snack ideas after looking at the snack recipes section in the cookbooks. Paleo chocolate, noodles, sandwich, cake, chicken, seafood etc are included but I haven’t tried them all yet…

Follow this link: http://www.paleorecipecookbooks.info/ for download details.



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Make something special for dinner tonight, treat the kids to the famous foods they know and love. Save cash making them yourself instead of paying the inflating restaurant prices.

 

How would you like the ability to create all of those delicious “Secret Restaurant Recipes” at home?

Be the first to have the secret recipes that everyone

loves but nobody knows how to make including:

101st Airborne Beer Cheese Soup

A&W Papa Burger

A&W Chili Dogs

A&W Onion Rings

A1 Sauce

Almond Bark

Almond Joy Bars

Andouille Sausage

Applebee’s Blonde Brownies

Applebee’s Lemonade

Applebee’s Classic Patty Melt

Applebee’s Baby Back Ribs

Applebee’s Bourbon Street Steak

Ben & Jerry’s Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ben & Jerry’s NY Super Fudge Chunk

Benihana’s Fried Rice

Benihana Magic Mustard Sauce

Benihana Shrimp Sauce

Bennigan’s Onion Soup

Bennigan’s Broccoli Bites

Bennigan’s Hot Bacon Dressing

Big Boy’s Blue Cheese Dressing

Big Boy’s Strawberry Pie

Big-John’s Beans ‘n Fixin’s

Secret Copycat Recipes

Bisquick

Black Angus Garlic Cheese Bread

Black-Eyed Pea’s Baked Squash

Black Eyed Pea’s Broccoli-Cheese Soup

Black Eyed Pea’s Cornbread

Blueberry Lemonade

Bob Evan’s Colonial Dressing

Bob Evans Peanut Butter Pie

Bob Evan’s Sausage Gravy

Boboli Pizza Crust

Bob’s Big Boy

Bojangles Biscuits

Borden’s Sweetened Condensed Milk

Boston Market Cranberry Sauce

Boston Market Chicken

Boston Market Dill Potato Wedges

Boston Market’s Sweet Potato Casserole

Bran Flakes

Bread and Butter Pickles

Bread Bowls

Brown Derby’s Original Cobb Salad

Buffalo Chicken Wings

Bullseye BBQ Sauce

Burger King’s Hershey Sundae Pie

Butterfingers

Cajun Cafe’s Bourbon Chicken

Cake Donuts

California Pizza Kitchen Chicken Tequila Fettucine

California Pizza Kitchen Thai Chicken Pizza

CPK Brocolli and Sun-Dried Tomato Fusilli

California Pizza Kitchen BBQ Chicken Salad

Restaurant Copycat Recipes Below:

Candy Corn

Carmel Apples

Carrabba’s Mussels In White Wine Sauce

Casa Ole Green Sauce

Cheesecake Factory Cajun Jambalaya Pasta

Cheese Crackers

Cheese Danish

Cheez-Whiz

Chi-Chi’s Baked Chicken Chimichangas

Chi Chi’s Margarita Marinade

Chi Chi’s Mexican Chicken Salad

Chi Chi’s Seafood Enchiladas

Chi Chi’s Chili Con Queso

Chili Powder

Chili’s Chicken Enchilada Soup

Chili’s Monterey Chicken

Chili’s Steak Fajitas

Chinese Sesame Chicken

Chorizo

Church’s Fried Chicken

Cinnabon French Toast

Cinnabon Rolls

Cinnamon Glazed Almonds

Clausen Kosher Dill Pickles

Coney Island Dogs

Corn Dogs

Corn Syrup

County Line BBQ’s Chuck Wagon Beans

Crab Ragoon

Cracker Barrel Cherry Chocolate Cobbler

Cracker Barrel’s Bread Pudding

Cracker Barrel’s Hashbrown Casserole

Cream Cheese

Creme De Menthe

Denny’s Cheese Soup

Der Weinerschnitzel’s Chili Sauce

Disney Mickey’s Meatloaf

Disney Tonga Toast

Domino’s Pizza Sauce

Double Tree Hotel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Duck Sauce

Dunkin Doughnuts

Eatmore Bars

El Chico Mexican Restaurant Relish

El Pollo Loco Mexican Beans

El Pollo Loco Chicken

El Torito’s Deep-Fried Ice Cream

El Torito’s Black Bean Soup

El Torito’s Enchilada Sauce

El Torito’s Mexican Caesar Salad

Emeril’s Creole Seasoning

Emeril’s Southwest Seasoning

Emeril’s Mole Sauce

Energy Bars

Entenmann’s Fat Free Chocolate Cupcakes

Famous Amos Cookies

Fannie Mae Caramels

Fig Newtons

Famous Copycat Recipes Below:

Four Seasons Crab Cakes

Four Seasons Minestrone alla Milanese

Frango Chocolate Mints

Fried Dough

Fried Pickles

Fruit Roll-ups

Funnel Cakes

Galiano

Gatorade

General Tsao’s Chicken

Girl Scout Mint Cookies

Girl Scout Samoa Cookies

Golden Corral Rolls

Golden Corral’s Seafood Salad

Goo Goo Clusters

Good Season’s Italian Dressing

Graham Crackers

Grand Marnier

Grape Nuts Cereal

Green Goddess Dressing

Gum Drops

Gummi Bears

Half Moons

Hamburger Buns

Hamburger Helper

Hardee’s Buttermilk BiscuitsHouston’s Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Houston’s Tortilla Soup

Howard Johnson’s Boston Brown Bread

Ice Cream Sandwiches

International House Of Coffee Flavored Coffees

Italian Sausage

Jack Daniel’s Honey Mustard

Jack Daniel’s Marinade

Jack-In-The-Box Jumbo Jack

Jalapeno Poppers

Jerk Seasonings

Kenny Rogers BBQ Sauce

Kenny Rogers Fire-And-Ice Chili

Kentucky Derby Museum Pie

Ketchup

Kettle Corn

KFC BBQ Baked Beans

KFC Cole Slaw

KFC Honey Barbecued Wings

KFC Macaroni Salad

KFC Original Fried Chicken

King’s Hawaiian Bread

Kraft Catalina Salad Dressing

Krystal’s Hamburgers

Lawry’s Seasoned Salt

Legal Seafood Clam Chowder

Licorice Drops

Lipton’s Onion Soup

Little Caesar’s Pizza Sauce

Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies

Luchow’s German Potato Salad

Lum’s Ollieburger

Lynchburg Lemonade

Macaroni Grill’s Baked Creamy Seafood

Macaroni Grill Foccacia Bread

Macaroni Grill Fonduta Gamberi

Macaroni Grill Gemberetti Noci E De Pino

Macaroni Grill Pasta Di Pollo Al Sugo Bianco

Macaroni Grill Penne Rustica

Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping

Maid Rite Sandwiches

Manwich Sloppy Joes

Marie Callender’s Corn Bread

Marie Callender’s Pie Crust

Marie Callender’s Potato Cheese Soup

Restaurant Copycat Recipes Below:

Marshmallows

McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish

McDonald’s Honey Mustard Sauce

McDonald’s Hot Mustard Sauce

McDonald’s Shakes

McDonald’s Big Mac Sauce

McDonald’s Big Mac

McDonald’s Hot Apple & Cherry Pies

McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets

McDonald’s Egg McMuffin

McDonalds Hamburgers

McDonald’s Hotcakes

Miniture Chocolates

Miracle Whip

Mrs. Fields Carrot Cake

Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mrs. Fields Peanut Butter Cookies

Mrs. Fields Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

Nutri-Grain Bars

O’Charley’s Baked Potato Soup

Old Bay Seasoning

Old El Paso Enchilada Sauce

Old Fashioned Hard Candy

Old Fashioned Jelly Doughnuts

Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle

Old Spaghetti Factory Creamy Pesto Dressing

Olive Garden Apple Carmelina

Olive Garden Fried Mozzarella

Olive Garden’s San Remo Seafood Dip

Olive Garden Chicken Spiedies

Olive Garden Toscana Soup

Olive Garden Eggplant Parmigiana

Orange Julius

Outback Steakhouse Aussie Fries

Outback Steakhouse Bloomin Onion

Outback Steakhouse Coconut Shrimp

Outback Steakhouse Marinade

Outback Steakhouse Queenland Chicken & Shrimp

Outback Steakhouse Ranch Dressing

Outback Steakhouse Steak Seasoning

Outback Steakhouse Walkabout Soup

Oyster Sauce

P.F. Chang’s Lettuce Wraps

P.F. Chang’s Stir-Fried Spicy Eggplant

Pace Picante Sauce

Panda Express Orange Chicken

Peanut Butter Tastykakes

Pepperidge Farm Sausalito Cookies

Pepperidge Farms Milano Cookies

Peppermint Schnapps

Philadelphia Cheesesteaks

Philadelphia Sticky Buns

Piccadilly Carrot Souffle

Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

Pimento Cheese Spread

Pita Bread

Pizza Hut Cavatini

Pizza Hut Creamy Italian Dressing

Pizza Hut Dessert Pizza

Pizza Hut Original Pan Pizza

Pizzeria Uno’s Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

Pizzeria Uno’s Rattlesnake Pasta

Planet Hollywood Cap’n Crunch Chicken

Planet Hollywood Thai Shrimp Pasta

Planters Heat

Ponderosa’s Steak Sauce

Famous Copycat Recipes Below:

Pop Tarts

Popeye’s Fried Chicken

Popeye’s Red Beans and Rice

Popeye’s Biscuits

Popeye’s Dirty Rice

Popcorn Balls

Potato Rolls

Prudhomme’s Cajun Seasoning Mix

Red Lobster Batter-Fried Shrimp

Red Lobster’s Cheesecake

Red Lobster’s Crab Au Gratin

Red Lobster Tartar Sauce

Red Lobster’s Clam Chowder

Red Lobster’s Crab Stuffed Mushrooms

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Reuben Sandwich

Rib Shack Bar-B-Q Sauce

Ruby Tuesday Apple Pie

Ruby Tuesday’s Pasta Salad

Ruby Tuesday’s Spicy Sesame-Peanut Noodles

Ruby Tuesday’s Chicken Quesadillas

Sanders Hot Fudge Topping

Sbarro Baked Ziti

Sbarro Spinach and Cheese Rolls Florentina

Sbarro Tomato Sauce

Sbarro Chicken Francese

Sbarro Rigatoni Ala Vodka

Schlotsky’s Deli Rolls

See’s Fudge Candy

Shake and Bake

Shoney’s Beef Cabbage Soup

Shoney’s Broccoli Casserole

Shoney’s Country Fried Steak

Silver Spoon Cafe Spinach Queso Dip

Sizzler Cheese Toast

Snickerdoodles

Snickers Cheesecake

Soup Nazi’s Seafood Bisque

Sour Cream

Steak & Ale Cajun Chicken Pasta

Steak & Ale’s Burgundy Mushrooms

Steak & Ale’s Bourbon Street Steak

Steak & Ale’s Hawaiian Chicken

Steak-n-Shake Chili

Stouffer’s Corn Souffle

Stouffer’s Macaroni and Cheese

Stove Top Stuffing

Stuckey’s Pecan Log Rolls

Sun Dried Tomatoes

Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate

T.G.I. Friday’s Signiture Cocktails

T.G.I. Friday’s French Onion Soup

T.G.I. Friday’s Au Gratin Potatoes

T.G.I. Friday’s Sizzling Vegetable Fajitas

T.G.I. Friday’s Soy Dressing

T.J. Cinnamon’s Cinnamon Rolls

Taco Bell Chalupa Supreme

Taco Bell Crispitos

Taco Bell Sante Fe Gordita’s

Taco Bell Green Sauce

Teriyaki Sauce

Thomas English Muffins

Tiger Sauce

Tony Roma’s Baby Back Ribs

Copycat Recipes

Tony Roma’s Onion Rings

Uncle Ben’s Seasoned Long Grain & Wild Rice

V-8 Juice

Vanilla Extract

Waldorf Astoria Fresh Pea Soup

Waldorf Astoria Olive And Lemon Potatoes

Waldorf Hotel’s Waldorf Salad

Walnettos Caramels

Wheat Thins

Wicker’s BBQ Sauce

Wonder Bread

Worcestershire Sauce

York Peppermint Patties

Zwieback

And the list carries on in volume 2 !

Get inside the hidden cookbooks of America’s favorite restaurants including Red Lobster, Olive Garden, TGI Friday, PF Chang and many others!

The so called “secret recipes” of these billion dollar restaurants have now been uncovered and shared with the world in this instructional cooking guide “America’s Secret Recipes.”

 

Re-create Your Favourite Restaurant Dishes at Home for a Fraction of The Cost by Following Easy Step-by-Step Instructions.



Enjoy !!



By: Craig Hartley

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There are a variety of different types of mollusks that are popular as food in both the east and west. Many of these are served as delicacies or used as flavoring for other meals that could utilize their unique flavor in broths or sauces. Scallops are no different – due to their unique flavor and the fact that they have two different types of meat that can be used for consumption, Scallop recipes are very popular in both the East and the West.

Scallop Recipes in the East

China is said to consume as much as 80% of the total number of scallops eaten in the world. The Chinese love of scallops has resulted in the creation of many delicious Chinese scallop entr

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Usually we are told to avoid getting hungry while dieting. Most people eat at the first sign of hunger pains. I’m going to explain why this is not always the best way to get fast weight loss results. Allowing yourself to occasionally get hungry will speed up your fat loss, and hunger pains are not always bad for you.

Getting Hungry is Good!

When we are really trying to drop those last 3 or 4 pounds (maybe you’re getting ready for a great vacation?), we need some reminders that getting hungry is okay. Sometimes those last couple of pounds make all the difference in the world if you’re hoping for nice sharp cut abs! But, it takes some will power and commitment to do this, and it’s not always easy!

“Old” Ideas About Dieting Are Not All Bad

Back in the 70s, everyone thought that dieting meant only getting hungry, starving ourselves. Sometime during the 80s, we were being told to just keep eating small meals all day. You know, “eat six small meals a day.” In theory, this is supposed to keep your metabolism running high. Good theory, but people don’t really use it right. Sometimes the old ways (getting hungry) will yield much better results.

How Does the “Six Small Meals” Work For You?

I have to tell you, eating six small meals per day has just never worked for me. I just can’t get lean by eating all the time. Although it’s supposed to raise your metabolic rate, you always have “food energy” to burn. Any exercise that you do just burns that food. There’s no way to burn the stored energy (a nice way of saying body fat). Your body just won’t burn that extra fat if you are constantly feeding it food

Kids Are Always Hungry!

Kids can run around like crazy, playing all day, and never get hungry. That is, until they stopped moving, then look out! But, all of these active kids have good muscle tone, no spare tires, and plenty of energy, right? Keeping busy having fun seems to keep their metabolisms running just fine, without storing any extra fat.

“…But Don’t Kids Have Higher Natural Metabolisms?”

This might be true, but, really kids probably just don’t eat as often or as much as adults. And, less often when they are doing outdoor fun activities. Of course, children who just sit around and eat all the time do have weight problems. The video games, the Internet, these things keep kids nearer to food (often junk food). This happens to adults who sit at a desk all day, too.

“Getting Hungry” Will Get You Lean

If you really want to get nice and lean, then don’t feed yourself at the first sign of hunger. This does not mean that you should starve yourself at all. But, letting yourself feel hungry is not all bad. When you are feeling hungry, your body will begin to burn some of it’s stored energy (again, a nice way to say body fat). Doing cardio workouts when you are a little hungry will force your body to burn some of it’s reserves, making you leaner. This is how you can lose a little more weight more quickly and see those visible results.



By: Rusty Moore

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Soul food recipes is going into the new year with a new attitude and the attitude is leaner and meaner. With more consumers demanding a healthier diet, this popular southern cuisine continues to clean up its act. Long criticized for it’s high calorie, fat, salt and sugar content, but love for it’s taste soul food continues to reinvent itself to adapt to a changing public demand.

Now you can find more health friendly ingredients in the recipes.  With the elimination of artery clogging ingredients such as fat back and ham hocks, often used to add flavor to vegetables and beans, more cooks use smoked turkey, turkey bacon, turkey ham or turkey sausage instead. These items contain up to 85-90% less fat than it’s predecessors. In addition, more dishes are prepared by steaming, roasting, sautéing and stir frying as opposed to the less healthy deep frying.  This helps to preserve the flavor but more importantly the valuable vitamins and minerals contained in vegetables.

One of the biggest challenges faced by soul food recipe cooks is to increase the health benefits as well as the taste.  Now that challenge is being met better and better as more creative cooks are discovering and including  more natural and healthier ingredients in their dishes. For example, natural herbs and spices are slowly replacing butter, salt, fat. Lemon  and lime juice as well as apple cider vinegar are examples of liquids many cooks are using to flavor their dishes and add the health element at the same time.

In addition, natural herbs and spices help to add flavor without the health dangers of the past. For example, healthier seasonings like onion and garlic powder, rosemary, bay leaves, oregano, tarragon,  peppers and a host of other flavor enhancers  help to make today’s healthy soul food recipes leaner, meaner and tastier. With the work of creative cooks the future looks bright for this popular southern food favorite.



By: Roy Primm

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While researching for a topic that is always on our minds, yet a very few of us really do something about it, “Work-Life Balance”, I came across the transcript of Steve Jobs commencement speech at Harvard in 2005. What he said made me realize what goes in his mind and how he feels things.

I must have watched this video a couple of years back, however, the transcript got me cornered!

This is how icons and people who have been able to change the world think. With their thinking and the will to do something about it, they have been able to achieve everything that you and I could only dream about. And even THAT we don’t do… Because…Loag kya kahengay! What will people think. To know more about dreaming big, please read my earlier post, ‘Do people laugh at your dreams?’.

Steve dropped out of college and yet made it big. He says, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I have come to a college graduation.

I’d like you to click on the link here & read the transcript, or click here to watch it on Youtube.

He tells 3 stories about his life.

1. Connecting the dots

He says do whatever you love doing. In the end the dots will connect. He learnt calligraphy in college and dropping out of everything that he was supposed to do. In his words:

“It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”

2. Love and Loss

Most of us know that Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple when he was 30. Imagine being fired from a company that you created in your parents garage which made it big to a US $2 billion company.

He says: ”I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.

It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.

Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world…

Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance, and…

Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.”





Makes sense? YOU think you are a failure? At what age? Lost everything? RETHINK!

3. Thinking of Death Makes You Follow Your Heart!

Steve got diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. “I didn’t even know what pancreas was!” Yet, luckily it was a rare kind which could be cured through surgery. In his words:

“When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

And his famous words:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

In the end, he says he read this at the back of an old magazine 40 years back which said:

‘Stay Hungry… Stay Foolish.’





“And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

This is a must read for everyone. Means everyone!

So, please take time out and read the whole transcript or watch the video. You won’t regret it, I promise.

Nahi to paisey wapis!

God bless you.

Dare to dream…

Follow your passion…

Kal ho na ho…

Nuruddin Abjani



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Soul food cookbook back in style? Yes! Because of the economic downturn of late, more people are eating more meals at home and saving money in the process. That means more people from the fast food generation of the past are learning how to cook, many for the first time. This has caused a renewed interest in cooking in general and recipes in particular.  Because of the ease of preparation and the comfort food feeling it gives,  the interest in southern food is growing fast. The south has risen again, at least when it comes to recipes and cooking.

Soul food cooking has emerged as a skill of renewed interest to many African American families who continue to look for ways to stretch their food budgets.  “When times were the toughest for our ancestors, they knew they could always turn to their traditional food for comfort and economic stability. Our great grandmothers and grandmothers always new how to stretch a meal, now the recession is forcing us to take another look at how they did it,” says Martha  Hastings,  former Howard University, Black History Professor.

Soul food cookbooks continue to  experience a surge in interest as evidence of this growing trend. With today’s  health conscious consumer,  more cookbooks are changing to meet that challenge. Many of today’s  southern recipe books have eliminated the unhealthy ingredients associated with soul food of the past. For example, many have excluded high-fat pork products, which also contains large amounts of sodium.

You’ll find more recipes containing more natural seasonings and spices to satisfy the increasing numbers of people watching their health and their diets. These changes is quickly changing the cooking landscape when it comes to southern food.  No doubt more soul food cookbook publishers are watching the sales figures closely to see if the upward trend continues. Stay tuned!



By: Roy Primm

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Culinary methods and varieties differ from nation to nation. You will find a great difference in taste, cooking, garnishing, and the ingredients used. With changing lifestyles, the traditional eating has witnessed a revolutionary change. You need not spend hours in the kitchen, as you get ready-to-eat snacks to appease your appetite. So, when you are in a hurry or just spend some leisure time at home or at the restaurant, you will love savoring snacks and sweets food.

Food in India is different from rest of the world; you get countless varieties. You can satisfy your palate as per your choice. It is not only meals but also snacks and sweets that are specific to one particular state in the country. And food in India is a legacy carried from generation to generation. In few of the culinary specialties, you will get a blend of various cultures and ages. It would not be an exaggeration if the statement of food in India that of being influenced by numerous civilizations is made. Tourists who have visited the various parts of the country have spoken volume about snacks and sweets food.

No Indian festival or marriage ceremony is complete without sweets. Right from serving to gifting, sweets food have found their way into the homes of all Indians. And given the increasing demand, there are brands that have maintained a market rapport with a quality collection of sweets. Going by the online trend, you also get sweets and snack food online no matter where you are located. Most of these brands have their own chain of outlets spread across the country or franchise centres. These brands also represent the wonderful food in India, most etching distinctive identities not only in the Indian market but also globally.

The Indian snack industry is one of the largest when considered in the global level. As aforementioned with rising standard of living, people are more resorting to snacks items during breakfast, supper or any time; snacks most often take the place of meals. Right from production, using up, export and growth prospects owing to emerging markets, increasing demand, and incorporation of latest technologies, the snack industry in India has witnessed a dramatic change. Ready-to-eat foods, samosas, kachoris, namkeen, chips, are few of the snacks that are most preferred by Indians. Given the rising demand, the snack industry is going to witness further growth in the future.

If you are looking for franchise business opportunities in the snack industry that also encompasses sweets, you can go online and look for such deals. You can also visit the corporate sites of the leading brands to find out if franchise business opportunities are offered or not. It is like starting your own business – especially a lucrative business. The greatest advantage of purchasing a franchise is that you become your own boss but representing an already established brand. So, you need not create a market as the market is already created for you!!



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In a nutshell let’s get the facts straight about food hygiene certificates, and answer your questions about finding the food hygiene course which is the most suitable for you. Yes, a food hygiene course taken online will be accepted by an Environmental Health officer and by local authorities.  They are specifically designed to help you meet the legal requirement for food handlers.  No, you don’t have to go to a local college or sit in a classroom to achieve your food hygiene certificate; you can take it online and sit back while your new food hygiene certificate finds its way to you through the post.

How do I know which course to take?

That’s easy. One simple rule:

If you make food to be sold, or sell food directly…

…You need the Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate for Catering.

It’s the most popular course by far, be sure to bear in mind that Environmental Health will be looking to see that you have refreshed your food hygiene training every 3 years!

What’s the law?

It’s fairly straight forward.

Many people have doubts over whether their local authority, council, or specific company will accept their food hygiene certificate, and are looking for a guarantee that their Food Hygiene Certificate will be accepted.  The bottom line is, that in doing this training, you have met the legal obligation.

The Environmental Health officer is looking to see that food handlers are appropriately trained, and if you don’t have 2-3 hours for food hygiene training and you are at risk of failing your Environmental Health Officer inspection.



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