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chocolate birthday cake

chocolate birthday cake

LennaStokes

On my friend's son's birthday, I volunteered to make him a cake. I would find opportunities to practice more so that I could make progress! Although I still stayed at the same level after learning. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to make a chocolate one because boys didn't want to make it fancy. Before doing it, I consulted my son for advice, and my son said that he couldn't put dark chocolate in it. It's bitter! I don't like it. Then I chose milk chocolate with almond slices. Children like it very much. To be honest, I don't like the bitterness of dark chocolate either.
Brown sugar oatmeal bread

Brown sugar oatmeal bread

ScottyKling

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, brown sugar is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen. It has the effects of replenishing qi and replenishing blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, relieving pain, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. To give full play to these effects of brown sugar, we are also very particular about how to eat it: boiled eggs with brown sugar can complement the nutrients of eggs and brown sugar, making the elderly look ruddy and energetic; taking dried longan soaked in brown sugar has a positive effect on improving sleep; soaking ginseng in brown sugar has the effect of conditioning breath and improving low blood pressure. <br />Oat is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the liver, spleen and stomach meridians;<br /> It has the effect of nourishing the liver and regulating the stomach. It is used for lack of food, poor appetite, poor bowel movements, etc. caused by disharmony between the liver and stomach.
Tai Chi rice

Tai Chi rice

WilberKuphal

Legend of Black Rice:<br /> Mulian's mother suffered on the Hungry Ghost Path on the 18th floor of Hell. After Mulian cultivated and achieved enlightenment, she went to great lengths to get permission to visit her mother in Hell. However, every time she prepared food, she was eaten by the hungry ghost jailers along the way. In order to feed her hungry mother, Mulian was puzzled. For this reason, she often lingered in the mountains. One day (it was the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar), in helplessness and annoyance, Mulian accidentally picked the leaves from a short tree beside her on the mountain, put them in her mouth and chewed them in boredom, and found that the leaves were fragrant and delicious, and the leaf juice was black. Mu Lian thought that if she used this leaf juice to soak rice and boiled it into black rice and sent it to her mother, she would not be eaten by the jailers. So Mulian took the picked leaves home and smashed them, soaked the rice with leaf juice, boiled them into black, and sent them to her mother. Sure enough, the hungry ghost jailers stopped fighting, and Mulian's mother finally had a full meal. Mulian also finally saved her mother from the hungry ghost path. In order to praise Mulian's filial piety, every family in Yixing eats black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, which has been passed down to this day. Nanzhu leaves (commonly known as "Wufan Grass" in Yixing) used to make black rice by folk people in Yixing mainly grow in the hilly and mountainous areas of southern Yixing. The rice used to make black rice is generally mainly glutinous rice, mixed with some japonica rice, which is particularly fragrant and delicious after cooking. The custom of eating black rice in Yixing has a long history and has been passed down from generation to generation. By the Ming Dynasty, medical scientist Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" stated: "Pick the leaves of Nanzhu and mash them, soak them in to obtain juice, and cook japonica rice or glutinous rice to make a dark rice. After taking it for a long time, it will lighten the body and improve eyesight, and have black hair to retain the face. Strengthen your strength and prolong your life." There is also a record in the "Yixing County Annals":"We eat black rice on the eighth day of April. On this day, the performance is called 'black rice offering.'.. It is also said that Mulian soaked glutinous rice with leaves of Qingjing Tree (a name called Nantian Zhu) and boiled it into 'black rice' to deceive ghosts and soldiers to save its mother. This custom has been passed down to this day." Yixing black rice is a specialty of Yixing. It is also a unique folk culture created by the people of Yixing. It has distinctive local characteristics and has great influence around Yixing. <br />This product has the effects of replenishing spleen and kidney, relieving cough, tranquilizing the nerves, improving eyesight, and blackening hair. It is suitable for dietary therapy and tonic for people with weak physique.