COLD, COLD COFFEE.

Coffee with ice ... is certainly in high demand in these hot days. As simple as hot coffee, ice and sugar. But with a little coffee can do to lengthen the desktop and ... to refresh.

-Coffee with ice cream: per liter of hot coffee, add a pint of vanilla ice cream. Mix well and let cool. Cold, cold, no one can resist.

-Coffee with condensed milk. This is the recipe: a finger of condensed milk, coffee and a few drops of Cointreau. And let cool.

Chocolate-coffee: same as above but instead of Cointreau, a little whipped cream. This coffee is taken hot, but also very good.

With very little can surprise. Yes, do it with a little time to get it right cold.

FRUIT SMOOTHIES

When summer begins (and this one promises to be hot) and think of food, then think very appetizing and healthy fruit that presents the market: melon, watermelon, apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines, ... . Everyone likes a fresh fruit in summer. And at the table, you may have the dessert in many ways. For those who dare, milkshakes featured here for the whole family. There are hundreds of them, and you can innovate your own smoothie. In any case, they are a rich source of water, water soluble vitamins (B and C), fiber and sugars. You can leave it in the fridge, for any time of day: take this season! For now, smoothies sweets, but there are also savory!Refreshing melon and watermelon, homemade lemonade, pineapple tango, orange and strawberry cream. nectarine and mango smoothie ...Nectarine and mango smoothie

    250 ml of milk
    350 g of lemon sorbet, 1 ripe mango diced boneless.
    2 ripe nectarines pitted and diced
    To decorate: nectarine thin wedgesPour the milk into a food processor or blender cup. Add half of the sherbet and beat at low speed until all well blended. Add the remaining sorbet and beat.Then slowly add the mango and nectarine and grind everything to a smooth mixture.Serve the smoothie in glass cup with thin wedges of nectarine.Refreshing melon and watermelon.

    250 ml of plain yogurt
    Galia melon 100g chopped
    100 g of chopped cantaloupe
    100 g of chopped watermelon
    6 ice cubesPour all ingredients into a food processor or blender cup and blend until well blended.Homemade Lemonade

    150 ml of water
    6 tablespoons sugar
    1 teaspoon lemon zest
    125 ml of lemon juice
    6 ice cubesPut the water, sugar and zest to a boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature. add the juice and pour into a jar and cover. Cool enough time.Serve in glasses halfway. Put the ice cubes and a slice of lemon and fill the glass with sparkling water (if you will).Orange and strawberry cream

    125ml natural yoghurt
    175 ml of strawberry yoghurt
    175 ml orange juice
    175 g of frozen strawberries (if not, replace 70 g strawberry jam)
    1 banana, frozen and sliced.Mix the two types of yogurt and orange juice. Add the strawberries and bananas and blend until well blended. Book.In tall glass is nicely decorated with strawberry half.

SANDWICHES!

Eat a healthy snack is a question of ingredients. In spite of the fame that has bread, is an important source of antioxidants and essential nutrients to our food, cereals are actually at the base of the food pyramid and the bread is the most representative.

Taking advantage of the huge market that offer a wide variety of breads, healthy ingredients play is more than fun, it's a way to cut from the monotony and enjoy anytime.

They serve as snack, when going on excursion, and can even be part of an impromptu dinner and inviting.

Propose different fillings for bread sometimes a companion:

Serrano ham with tomato-

-Mayonnaise, lettuce, smoked salmon and prawns

-Soft cheese and green asparagus

-Omelette with green peppers and ham

-Lettuce, cheese with walnuts Azun

-Wheels tomato, mozzarella and arugula

-Anchovies, anchovy and red pepper

-Lettuce, tuna and egg

-Fresh cheese, anchovy

-Brie cheese and jam

-Lettuce, turkey and asparagus

-Veal roast with apple and onion poached

-Brie cheese, ham and green pepper

-Fresh cheese, apples and walnuts

-Lettuce, shrimp, cucumber and tuna

-Smoked salmon, egg and pickles

And enjoy without thinking about calories.

A CLASS OF WINES VERY SUBSTANTIAL

It is not something that happens every day, but the truth is that yesterday I was in a class on wine and do not want to stop putting here some letters on some point you think we can help.
For example, it is well known the benefit on cardiovascular health for their phenolic content and potent antioxidant. But I'm going to more practical matters in the short term:
Red wine is not taken at room temperature: what exactly is the ambient temperature????? Not the same Bilbao Cadiz ... So as a tip, it's good to get him a while before the fridge, so that when we get to the table not we exceed 16 ° C.
The pink and white wine, it must be removed between 6 and 10 ° C, so it is best to refrigerate the day before. If you have bucket, use it: half water and half ice, with a napkin.
The wine good consúmelo sooner because it oxidizes very easily.
A good wine ... you do not give it with cheese! (I'll tell you why this said).

NATIONAL DAY OF NUTRITION 2011

As every year, FESNAD (Spanish Federation of Nutrition, Food and Dietetics) proposes at this time the National Nutrition Day, which this year takes place on May 28 with the slogan "Put exercise on your plate."
Yes, we all know that is very important. There's nothing like opening a newspaper or magazine to find advertisements and posters in any Primary Care Center, etc.
Although in this case there is an entry "practical short term," I think it is worth commenting on the benefits of sport now, when the World Health Organization has stated that estimated in 2025 (not missing much) more 2000 billion adults will be overweight. And being overweight is not a cosmetic issue, it is a health problem in Spain and has for years overtones of pandemic (elsewhere already is).
Not so much about dieting feeding little light to yours (sometimes not doing a favor) or not educating them nutritionally, but know how to combine diet and exercise.


Physiological benefits:

- Increased cardiorespiratory fitness, that optimizes the general functioning of the organism and its performance against specific demands.
- Reduced risk of heart disease and preventing second episodes of heart attacks in people who have suffered heart attacks.
- Decreased blood pressure and prevention of essential hypertension.
- Prevention and reduction of respiratory disorders.
- Prevent impaired bone mineralization.
- Prevent atrophy in muscle tissue, shortening and joint stiffness.
- More flexibility at any age.
- Prevent and control muscle pain (myalgia and myositis).
- Reduce weight and maintain weight loss: increased muscle mass or lean body mass and decreased fat mass.
- Improve overall physical appearance.
- It also helps to be aware of the strengths and limitations of the individual physical, facilitating proprioception and giving a sense of one's body.

About the heart:

- Decreases resting heart rate.
- During exercise increases the amount of blood ejected from the heart with each beat, and cardiac efficiency is higher "spending" less energy.
- Stimulates coronary circulation within the heart muscle favoring the "power" of the heart.

On the circulatory system:

- It contributes to the reduction of blood pressure.
- Promotes and increases circulation throughout the body.
- Reduces the formation of clots in blood vessels, preventing the onset of heart attacks, thrombosis and embolism.
- Acts on the vascular endothelium, improving activity and keeping it more elastic.
- Improved venous return by preventing, among other conditions, the appearance of varicose veins.
On the locomotive:

- It helps strengthen joint structures (bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons) and improves the function of the musculoskeletal system contributing to the quality of life and level of independence especially among the elderly.
- Increases muscle and joint elasticity.
- Increases strength and muscle endurance.
- Helps prevent osteoporosis.
- Prevents muscle deterioration caused by years.
- Facilitates the movement and development of the activities of daily living.

On metabolism:

- Increase the capacity utilization of oxygen that reaches the body by the circulation.
- Increased muscle enzyme activity, allowing better muscle metabolism with less need for cardiac work requirement.
- Improves the immune response to infections or attacks of various kinds.
- Increases the secretion of various hormones work and contributing to the improvement of body functions.
- Increase fat consumption during the activity thus contributing to weight loss.
- Assists in the reduction of total cholesterol and LDL ("bad") cholesterol with increased HDL ("good").
- Improved glucose tolerance favoring the treatment of diabetes.
- Helps digestion, promotes intestinal transit regulating bowel habits and preventing constipation, reducing the risk of colon cancer.

On the psychological aspects:

- Increased feeling of wellbeing and reduces mental stress (endorphin release occurs favoring the "feel good" after exercise).
- Increasing and strengthening self-confidence and self-esteem.
- Improved self image helping to establish a positive relationship with one's body.
- Decreases the degree of aggressiveness, anger, anxiety, distress and depression.
- Decreases the feeling of fatigue, giving more power and work capacity.
- Improving the quality of sleep and reduces insomnia

On psychosocial aspects:

- Relieves adverse moods and other manifestations of psychological stress.
- Provides entertainment, distraction from everyday problems
- Prevents and reduces symptoms of pathological anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder) and depression.
- Helps prevent and anomalous behaviors in as antisocial behavior
- Involved in the prevention, control and abandon unhealthy behaviors such as alcoholism, smoking and drug addiction.
- Help to develop a lifestyle based on commitment and perseverance, optimism, cooperation ...
- Set values ​​and positive role models.
- Development and strengthening of social relations.
- Learning and development of sports skills.
- Coping and challenges achieving

Are you convinced?
You know what benefits can be found among you the practice of sports?

GAZPACHO!



See, your gazpacho!!

 It's hot and the first thing people start to say at this point is "I would take a gazpacho, cold, cold, but like my mother." You come home, open the fridge and you find the brick you bought at the supermarket. Well worth (and that there are brands that have really gotten)!
Already at this time where the tomato starts to get good and cheap, you'd be surprised how easy and fast it is to make one yourself. Transcribe here a recipe, suitable for all kind of inexperienced. And do not be fooled, everyone knows it's a matter of putting. So instead of buying a brick of 2-4 €, buy 1 kilo of plum tomato (the tomato has more juice and better for the gazpacho, tomato juice, salmorejo ...) and try this recipe:
ingredients:
1 kilo of plum tomato
1 small cucumber
1 green pepper
garlic
1/4 loaf
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
900 ml water
a dash of vinegar
Preparation:
Soak bread in water with vinegar. Add tomatoes, peeled and chopped cucumber, bell pepper and garlic.
Blend everything and go through the Chinese (If you thermomix, no need to strain it). Back to shred añdiendo oil slowly to emulsify. Season and cool.

Maybe the first time takes 10 minutes, but the following will be a "cakewalk". Still preferring the brick to YOUR gazpacho?

Ah! be sure to comment on what has come out so you (if you have time ...)

YES, YOU CAN!

I start with this motto that has become so famous about what can happen at home. As each day has its own desire and let it fly, wanted to send some encouragement from here for those who think it never has time to do in the kitchen what you would like. Probably someone is right, but I suspect not all.
"Mom, you always do the same macaroni" or "every Monday chicken", or any other comments can arise at home. And the truth is that one can think that is true because if it is true. Advice?
80:20.
Yes, the ratio is valid for almost any activity. Think 80, 20 do.
For our part implies the willingness to think which one is at home and not get in any way and do the first thing that comes to mind. Sure, and macaroni are always the same. But if you "waste time" a day thinking about an alternative (as simple as this) as you board the bus, and decided to take a chance to innovate, will soon see that the mood in home improvement. Simply because we stopped a moment to think.
Total, a snake biting its tail and after one thing (it is very satisfying to see others happy with something so simple) comes to mind again, and again, and how to improve that, ... and was surprised at how "fan in your house" you can become.
And for this not just in words, here's a recipe for macaroni ... "Different" and very, very simple.

PASTA WITH WALNUTS

Ingedientes (for 8 people):
Pasta spirals
Nuts, 90 g
Margarine, 100g
1 tablespoon breadcrumbs
Sugar
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Salt, pepper
Preparation:
Melt margarine in a pan and add the cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg, salt and chopped nuts.
Cook the pasta in boiling salted water for the time indicated by the manufacturer, stirring occasionally. Drain and add to the pan with the mixture and a little olive acite. Salt to taste and place in the source. It is fine if it is decorated in the center with a little chopped parsley.
Do not tell me you can not!