recipes

Cherry blossom cake

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This is a perfect cherry blossom cake combinating soft brown and pink colors on two tiers.
*You will need
--use any cake recipe that you like for the base--
5cm and 7.5cm round cakes cut from 1 x 20cm square cake
150g marzipan
450g ivory sugar paste
12.5 round cake board
greaseproff paper
scribe
white royal icing
chocolate brown, dark pink and pale pink edible food colours
40cm pale pink ribbon 6mm wide, for the cakes
60cm chocolate brown ribbon 3mm wide, for the cakes and bow
3 piping bags
3 no. 1.5 nozzles
40cm dusky pink ribbon
15mm wide, for the board


Method:


1 cover two round cakes with marzipan and sugar paste, then stack centrally on a 125cm round cake board lined with ivory sugar paste.
2 Trace the cerry blossom design on to a sheet of greaseproof or tracing paper and scribe on to the base and top tier of the cake. Colour one third of the royal icing with chocolate brown food colouring. One third with pink and one third a paler pink.
3 Fix a lenght of pink ribbon overlaid with brown ribbon around the base of each tier with a little royal icing. Tie a bow with a piece of brown ribbon and fix to the ribbon on the top tier, over the join, with a little royal icing. Fill 3 piping bags fitted with no.1.5nozzles with the different coloured royal icing. Beginning with the brown icing, pressure pipe the brances following thw scribed design. Whit the pink icing, pipe pearls to make the cherry blossom, adding either a peler or darker pink centre for authenticity. Fix the 15mm ribbon round the cake board with a little royal icing and done!
Here is the blossom pattern zoom and print.

2010/fashion

Cristallized abayas

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more beautiful abayas, but this time sorry guys with the sharepoint url, I have seen moooore of the pictures posted here in other blogs with out a link back, not even posting the brand name when it comes to clothing or accessories so i hate to do this but all I was asking was a link back, I spend a lot of time trying to post something new so if you use the content of the blog pleeease put a link back to this blog .

From the Crystallized collection of Swarovski here they are the most beautifully abayas ever!

Mexico,

Aztec soup recipe sopa azteca

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There was a time when for work I had to travel and therefore live alone for some months in that time i didn't have any clue of how to cook and either time to learn or do it my self so, i use to take breakfast,lunch and dinner at a restaurant and one of my favorites is Sanborns in Mexico, I always had an Aztec soup it is just delicious and today i don't know why but i feel like i want to eat that, sadly here in Egypt we don't find tortillas but if you can find here is the recipe and a little of history about it

Aztec soup, or sopa azteca as it is known in Mexico, is a famous dish. It varies from region to region and different chilies are used in different versions of this tasty dish. This tomato-based Mexican food recipe is richly flavored with garlic and onions and the avocado, tortilla chips and chicken add even more delicious taste.

This is one of the best and most authentic Mexican food recipes and it is believed that Aztec soup was invented to use up stale tortillas, since some versions of the dish use tortillas rather than tortilla chips.



1 quart chicken broth
2 tomatoes, roasted and peeled
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1 small white onion
2 quajillo chiles, seeded and soaked in hot water 15 minutes
4 epazote leaves (optional)
4 corn tortillas
shredded cheese
sliced avocado
Mexican crema or sour cream
oil as necessary



Put the tomatoes, garlic, onion, chiles, and epazote in a blender with just enough of the chicken broth to allow the blades to move and make a smooth puree. Heat about 1 Tbls. of oil in a medium saucepan and fry the puree for about 15 minutes. Add the remainder of the broth and cook another 15 minutes. Add salt to taste.
Cut the tortillas into Frito-size strips and fry them in oil until crispy; drain on paper towels. Serve the soup garnished with the tortilla strips, cheese, avocado slices, and cream. Shredded, cooked chicken may also be added as a garnish.


Preparation Time: Serves: 4
Recipe Origin: Mexico
by:
Karen Hursh Graber
2010/fashion,

Vanity is not the attitud of a believer

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As you have noticed, I do like all the embroidery,beaded and crystallized stuff, but then, thanks to this huge monster called Internet, I came across a very interesting comment about "Islamic Fashion".


wish makes me wonder Why do we call it Islamic Fashion?,Is there something called Islamic Fashion??


And then, I realised that all this gorgeous abayas and jalabaiyas are not a "Muslim Fashion", they an Arab fashion, an Arab Style of dress which does not always reflect what Islam order us.


We as Muslims have a dress code wrote it in the Qur'an



The Islamic Dress Code

By: Khalid Baig

Qur'an and Sunnah have provided ample guidance on the subject which can be summarized in four essential principles.

Our dress must cover our body adequately. Again we cannot determine what is adequate coverage on our own, as any witness to the misery of those who have tried it can readily ascertain. Shar'iah, as always, takes us out of this misery by defining it for us. For men, it is the middle part of the body from navel to knee. For women, it is the entire body except hands and face. These parts must never be exposed to any other person (except in case of genuine need e.g. medical treatment). In addition, the cloth must be neither see-through nor tight fitting.

Our dress should provide adornment. It should provide for decent appearance. Our appearance should not be an eyesore for decent human beings. For men, this extends the coverage requirements to include most of the body. For women, the essential requirement is that their dress should identify them as respectable ladies who would be honored not harassed. Additionally, hijab rules aim at protecting them from the gaze of other men.
Our dress should establish our Islamic identity. At the least it should not identify us as followers of another religion. But, additionally it should positively identify us as Muslims.
The design of our dress must avoid three deadly sins:
  • show off

  • arrogance

  • and self indulgence
These are very serious diseases of the heart in their own right that we must avoid at all times. Our garments provide an easy opportunity to nurture them. Hence the need to be extra cautious. One Hadith states "Eat what you feel like and wear what you feel like. But avoid two things: extravagance and arrogance." [Bukhari]. At the risk of stating the obvious one should be reminded that this Hadith establishes an overriding concern that limits our choices within the realm of what is considered halal. It does not do away with the distinction between halal and haram.

As one implication of this general requirement, men are also required not to wear their lower garments below the ankle. (Many well-meaning Muslims today have been persuaded that this is a petty issue. This misgiving can be put to rest in a hurry if we just refer to the Hadith of Jabir bin Sulaym, Radi-Allahu anhu, in Abu Dawood. He asked the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam for some advice when leaving him after his very first meeting. Of the six pieces of advice given him one was: "Never let your lower garment go below the ankles because that is arrogance. And Allah does not like arrogance." Another was "Never belittle a good deed.")
Islam has not prescribed a particular dress style, giving us ample room to accommodate our needs, circumstances and tastes. However, these principles are for everyone and forever. Any garment that accommodates these principles will be Islamic dress. This is Islamic formula to dress for success. Eternal success.

Allah سبحانه وتعالى said:

Ù‚ُÙ„ْ Ù…َÙ†ْ Ø­َرَّÙ…َ زِينَØ©َ اللّÙ‡ِ الَّتِÙŠَ Ø£َØ®ْرَجَ Ù„ِعِبَادِÙ‡ِ ÙˆَالْØ·َّÙŠِّبَاتِ Ù…ِÙ†َ الرِّزْÙ‚ِ
"Say: Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah which He has brought for His servants and the good things of His provision?" [Al-A'raf: 32]

At-Tirmidhi narrated from Abdullah ibn Amr who said:

‘The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Allah likes to see the signs of His favour (bounties) on His servant,'"

i.e. He loves for His servants to enjoy His favour and enjoy the good things He has provided for him.

But Allah سبحانه وتعالى hates the haughtiness, arrogance and transgression that may result from a life of ease. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى hates the life of ease if it produced haughtiness, transgression, arrogance and tyranny. Since a life of ease and comfort by the abundant wealth could lead some people to arrogance, tyranny and haughtiness; that is it creates Taraf in them, Islam prohibited that type of luxury. So Islam prevented corruption if it resulted from the abundance of wealth and children, making people arrogant and tyrannical. Islam prohibited that strongly.

So when it is said that Taraf is Haram it does not mean the life of ease is Haram, it rather means that arrogance which results from the easy use of wealth is Haram, as Taraf would mean linguistically, and as luxury (Taraf) would mean from the verses of the Qur'an.
2010/fashion

2010 maroccan style abaya

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let's take a look today to Moroccan style abaya brought to yo by Takschita.de


I keep telling my self this is not a FASHION blog so, why you do it always????
but what can I do?, I'd like all this designs because they are new for me, I'm a converted Muslim who doesn't had any contact before with all this middle east culture and style so I'm really amazed of all this embroidery and color combination.
If you haven't noticed Mexico,because of its proximity to the United States is heavily influenced by the style of dress why is basically minimalist when we talk about ornaments and very monochromatic about colors, and when finally I have a true contact with this culture I have no more to say but this is really different and all this clothes have a really hard detailed work and I love it!.





Science

A posible vaccine to prevents breast cancer

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A new vaccine that prevents the development of breast cancer showed positive results in mice, U.S. scientists say.



Experts at the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic (Ohio), say that a single dose of immunization prevented the development of breast tumors in rodents and also inhibited the growth of existing tumors.



They now plan to conduct clinical trials of the vaccine in humans, according to advance in the journal Nature Medicine.



If successful, will be the first vaccine to prevent the disease in many countries is the leading cause of cancer death among women.



Unique challenge


The vaccine is composed of an antigen-a substance that causes the formation of antibodies, called a-lactalbumin.



In the study, carried out in mice genetically engineered to be prone to cancer, half were vaccinated with the antigen and the other half with a vaccine that did not contain the compound.


None of the mice injected with developing the disease antigen, but all the rest it was developed, say the authors.


If it works in humans the same way as it worked in mice will be monumental.Might be able to eliminate breast cancer


Prof. VIncent Tuohy Prof. Vincent Tuohy


So far, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English) approved cancer preventive vaccines, one against cervical and other against the liver.


However, these immunizations virus attack: the human papillomavirus (HPV) in cervical cancer and hepatitis B (HBV) in liver cancer.


The new vaccine, however, strikes the formation of the disease.


The viruses are recognized by the immune system as foreign invaders, but not so with cancer, which is the uncontrolled growth of the cells themselves.


So a vaccine to attack the overgrowth of cells, is really attacking the patient's body itself, destroying also their healthy tissue.


La The key to the new immunization, Professor Tuohy explains, is "finding a target within the tumor is typically not in a healthy person."


In the case of breast cancer, scientists detected the antigen a-lactalbumin, a protein found in most breast tumors but not in healthy women, except when they nurse.


No damage to healthy tissue


In this way, scientists say, the vaccine can prepare a woman's immune system to attack the a-lactalbumin, avoiding the formation of the tumor without harming healthy tissue breast.

The vaccine antigen was able to prevent the development of tumors in mice.

Scientists plan to vaccinate women older than 40 years, the age at which begins to increase the risk of the disease and decrease the chance of pregnancy.
And it could be offered to younger women with increased risk of developing the condition.

Although experts say it will have to wait some years before the vaccine becomes available in the clinic, progress, they say, could have major implications for the prevention of breast cancer.


" "This study is in its early stages and hope to see the results of large clinical trials to see if this vaccine is safe and effective in humans," says Dr. Palframa Caitlin, the British charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer.


According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year worldwide and about 500,000 die from the condition.



Although disease rates have declined gradually since the mid-90s in developed countries, thanks to early detection and improved treatments, in nations with low and middle income the number of cases continues to rise.