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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Meaningful-ish Quotes and Phrases

So I was looking for something to put on my Gmail status, but I couldn't think of anything, so I Googled it. Here's what I came up with:

Keep dancing to the music.

There are two types of people: the Bores and the Bored.

Happiness is a perfume that you cannot pour on someone without getting on yourself.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you look hard enough.

It goes in one ear and out the other.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Quality is never an accident—it is the result of intelligent effort.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.

When you fight fire with fire, all you get is a bigger fire.

What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of an education.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

Dream like you’ll live forever, live like you’ll die today.

Why be scared if what your doing is worth the risk?

The expectation is half the adventure.

Grass is always greener when you keep it in the fridge.

In this great future, you can’t forget the past.

Joy is not in things, but in our hearts.

If you don't like it, change it. If you can't change it, live with it. If you can't live with it, you know where the door is.

If at first you don’t succeed, give up.

If you can keep your head while others around you are losing theirs, you haven’t the faintest idea of what’s going on.

Live each day as if it will be your last because one day you will be right.

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Amelia Earhart Quotes

~"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
~"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."
~"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
~"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
~"Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization."
~"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."

~"...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying..."

Perfect Cauliflower

Even if you HATE cauliflower (like moi) you will love, love, love this! It is one of the only ways to get me to eat my vegetables (other than putting brown sugar on my carrots) and if that's not a miracle, I don't know what is.

"Even if you hate it; even if you detest it; even if you loathe and abhor cauliflower... You're going to love it after this...

You must, must, must try this recipe!

Ingredients:
One head cauliflower
Olive oil
Kosher salt
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2) Cut cauliflower in florets, then cut each floret in
half so each one has a flat side.
3) Rinse thoroughly.
4) Spread one layer deepon a lined baking sheet.
5) Drizzle with olive oil.
6) Sprinkle with kosher salt.
7) Roast for 20 min.

They will come out savory and browned and crunchy and amazing!" Quoted almost exactly from my mom's blog... so thanks mom!

Perfect Banana Bread

Notice the title of this is Perfect Banana Bread, not Almost Perfect Banana Bread. I got this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens, so thanks to them!!!

Materials:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg
1 cup mashed bananas (usually about three medium of them works)
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cooking oil
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2) Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium size bowl, set aside.
3) In another bowl, combine the egg, bananas, sugar, cooking oil.
4) Add egg mixture to dry mixture all at once.
5) Stir till moistened.
6) Fold in nuts.
7) Taste test.
8) Get out a bread pan and spray with cooking spray.
9) Spoon in batter.
10) Bake for 50-55 minutes.
11) Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes before you enjoy!

Perfect Cookies

You have never tasked anything as good as this stuff! Thank you Better Homes and Gardens peeps.

Ingredients:
1 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 12-ounce (2 cups) semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2) In a large mixing bowl: beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and baking soda.
3) Beat in eggs and vanilla.
4) Beat in flour.
5) Taste test.
6) Drop dough on a cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.
7) Let cool before you enjoy or you will burn your mouth!