“Everyday, think as you wake up, ‘today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”
Dalai Lama
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Natural Hair inspiration
Since I decided a month ago to wear my hair out this summer, I have been bombarding myself with pictures of naturals with their twistouts and afros. To inspire and recondition myself as to what my natural hair looks like and is capable of doing in its loose state. Here are a few that caught my eye.
via black ivory
Banana pecan chocolate chip muffin
One of my favourite past times is cooking. Believe it or not, I enjoy reading recipes, watching them too on youtube/tv and then trying to make them. One of my favourite websites for recipes is allrecipes. I was even more excited to find out about their youtube channel and stumbled across this recipe for Banana muffin.
I love this recipe as it is simple, easy and there are lots of suggestions on allrecipes on how to spice it up. And spice it up I did, I followed the recipes exactly with a few additional. I added a teaspoon of cinnamon to the dry ingredients and a dash of vanilla extract to the wet ingredients. I also added a 1/2 cup of chocolate chops and a 1/2 cup of chopped pecans ( you could use walnuts).
Lastly, I am very conscious of the amount of sugar I take in so instead of a 3/4 cups of sugar it was more like 2/4 cups and a dash.
With all that additions and subtraction ( the sugar), it turned out great that I have made these muffins 4 times! Here is what my muffins looked like.
They taste delicious as well that I have been snacking on this and might I say, it has been helping with my sweet tooth.
I love this recipe as it is simple, easy and there are lots of suggestions on allrecipes on how to spice it up. And spice it up I did, I followed the recipes exactly with a few additional. I added a teaspoon of cinnamon to the dry ingredients and a dash of vanilla extract to the wet ingredients. I also added a 1/2 cup of chocolate chops and a 1/2 cup of chopped pecans ( you could use walnuts).
Lastly, I am very conscious of the amount of sugar I take in so instead of a 3/4 cups of sugar it was more like 2/4 cups and a dash.
With all that additions and subtraction ( the sugar), it turned out great that I have made these muffins 4 times! Here is what my muffins looked like.
They taste delicious as well that I have been snacking on this and might I say, it has been helping with my sweet tooth.
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