Sunday, January 12, 2014

fudge mmmm


mmmmmm fudge


Grandmother's Kitchen



Super Easy Dark Chocolate Fudge Recipe

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A Nice, simple easy to prepare dark chocolate fudge recipe

Ingredients


3 cups semi-sweet dark chocolate chips, morsals
1 (14 ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Over low heat, melt the chips in the sweetened condensed milk.
  2. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
  3. Spread evenly into an wax paper lined 8x8 pan.
  4. Chill and pop out of pan.
  5. Peel off wax paper and cut into pieces.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

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Information from the Trim Down Club

I found this site  on face book and the information makes sense:


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TrimDownClub, December 31, 2013
After the holidays  tips
A classic recipe for success that stands the test of time: eat breakfast regularly, get a good mix of exercise, and above all, don’t starve yourself!
1. Make sure that the types and amounts of foods in the house goes back to how it normally are. In other words—put away any remaining food gift packages, or bring them to work to share with others. It’s impossible to go back to normal and have a routine that includes awareness of your body’s genuine hunger feelings when your house is packed with boxes of candy.
2. Don’t eat too little. Even when you want to lose weight, it’s important to eat. Starving yourself causes the body to go into a state of emergency and slows down your metabolism. This leads to a reduction in the amount of calories burned. To know exactly how many calories your body needs to exist, it is recommended to test metabolic rate at rest (RMR) or have it calculated for you by a professional.
3. Again: many meals, small dishes throughout the day. Heavy meals strain the digestive system and can lead to partial, inefficient digestion of the food. The excess food consumed in a large meal is not utilized and instead, is stored in the body’s fat reserves. It is advised to have five or even six meals during the day in order to increase energy burning and optimize the process of food digestion and absorption.
4. Have we mentioned breakfast? Don’t skip it—they don’t call it “the most important meal of the day” for nothing. Our body’s fasting at night causes a breakdown of the bones, while breakfast stops this process and assists the bone tissue in rebuilding itself following the entrance of food to the intestine. It also provides energy to run the body. Skipping breakfast can cause the body to enter a state of stress and reduce calorie burning. Recent studies show that the body has a very sophisticated metabolic system where the metabolic rate is set in the morning: If we have breakfast, the body feels that everything is ok and runs normally. However, if we don’t eat in the morning, the body feels that something is wrong and therefore reduces the metabolic rate. Thus, if you’re in a weight loss program and don’t eat in the morning, you are sabotaging your efforts doubly.
5. Engage in muscle-building physical activity. Training with weights helps to develop muscle mass in the body and contributes to the balance between the food we eat and the amount of calories burned. Fat tissue is relatively metabolically “slow,” so when muscle mass exceeds it, the body burns more calories even when you rest. Every kilogram of muscle consumes 13 more calories as part of the basic daily metabolism.
6. Do aerobic activity. This sort of activity is based on a non-maximal physical effort. It involves large muscle groups for a long amount of time, such as walking, jogging, swimming, or bicycle riding. Aerobic activity increases the body’s oxygen consumption and heart and respiratory rates so that more oxygen reaches the muscles. Our body’s aerobic energy system should provide a relatively large amount of energy that will last for a long-term consumption. To do this it harnesses the breakdown of fats and carbohydrates. This system is the answer to muscle exertion lasting more than three minutes, and its operation is done in the presence of oxygen.   The performance of aerobic activity can help improve fitness and  weight loss. Obviously the impact of the aerobic activity depends on the frequency of performance, the duration, and the intensity level. The minimal amount of regular aerobic activity required for getting results is 20 minutes twice a week. If you wish to achieve significant weight loss and physical toning, it is advised to work your muscles at least four or five times a week, each exercise  session lasting about 30-40 minutes—some experts recommend reaching a whole hour.
7. Make sure you get enough sleep hours. Studies found that a lack in sleep hours can increase appetite, disrupt metabolism, and slow down weight loss. People who suffer from lack of sleep tend to feel hunger even if they ate a sufficient amount of food. The reason for this lies in the disrupted secretion of the cortisol hormone, which functions as an appetite regulator, among other things.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Dolly Parton Hard Candy Christmas




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Awesome 747





Years ago I was visiting a cousin and for the first time experienced disco and the 747, I spent hours of fun dancing , it was fun to dress up and to be a part of such a fun craze..


Whatever Happened To ... Club 747?

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"Saturday Night Fever" hit the Rochester area in a big way when Club 747 opened in November 1977.
Many area "discos" at the time were just neighborhood bars with dancing. Club 747, at 2525 West Henrietta Road, was swankier, aiming for a glitzier atmosphere.
The place looked like a 747 jet and was equipped with gear and furnishings from converted jets. Patrons got "boarding passes" to enter through an airplane fuselage door. A disc jockey spun tunes from a sound booth in a cockpit, and big screens showed jets taking off and landing, complete with the realistic, deafening jet engine sound.
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"Club 747 has arrived to give Rochester a taste of big-city disco life," a news article from 1977 said. "The 747 apparently aims to be all class."
Jet-airliner lounge seats lined the sides of the interior. Male employees dressed like pilots and the women wore sexy white outfits. The place was developed by Jim Cosentino of Buffalo, who had opened a Club 747 in Buffalo three years earlier. The Rochester club was bigger, taking seven weeks to build at a cost of $350,000.
The classy disco was an immediate hit. More than 15,000 people showed up in the first three weeks. Club 747 only allowed 595 at a time, so waiting in line becamederigueur. So, too, did dressing up in what was stylish at the time.
"Fridays and Saturdays are still the mob-scene nights, with lines right into the (adjacent) Record Theater," a 1978 news review stated. "They're also the nights you'll see white suits and slinky satin dresses or pantsuits and high heels."
Bill Stiewe of Greece was there six nights a week. Now 59, Stiewe was a dance instructor for the first two to three years after Club 747 opened.
"Those were some fun days," said Stiewe, who now works as an engineer at Rochester Gas & Electric. "Those were some of the best days. Everyone went out to have a good time. The girls were dressed up, big-time. Their dresses were flying in the air. Men had polyester dress shirts and suit jackets."
The pulsating musical beat from bands like The Commodores, Chic and the Bee Gees filled the air. Dancers twirled beneath hundreds of flashing lights. Club 747 was a huge pick-up spot, and hedonism was the name of the game in those days before AIDS changed the dating scene.
"The dance floor was full of hip-shaking, hair twirling and head-bobbing," a 1977 review of the 747 read. "Some were Hustling, some were doing the Worm and still others were doing their own free-form thing. Unique is the ethnic and cross-cultural mix at the Club 747."
The review goes on to state that Club 747 offered a "cosmopolitan mélange" of people, most with the prime concerns being drinking, meeting that one special person, or simply watching everyone else have a good time. By midnight, there was little elbow room on the dance floor or elsewhere."
More full-fledged discos opened here in 1978, including Club 2 on 2 in Brockport and the 2001 Club in Chili-Paul Plaza. Some of the clubs, including 747, opened their doors to underage teens for alcohol-free entertainment on Sundays.
Club 747 closed for a time in the 1980s and reopened in 1985 with a half-million-dollar renovation. The club acquired 3,500 square feet from the neighboring Record Theater and more than doubled the size of the dance floor, according to a news story.
The disco craze had waned, though. Club 747 closed for good by mid-1986, said Bill Levy of Brighton, who installed the original sound system for the 747 and later served as the club's general manager. A Hyundai dealership is now at the site.
Disco wasn't for everyone. But for those who loved the scene, Club 747 was the pinnacle.
"That was the go-to destination," said Mike Dailor of Irondequoit, who deejayed at 747 in its early years.
"Friday and Saturday nights were a given at 747," Stiewe said. "I remember it like it was yesterday."
Morrell is a Rochester-based freelance writer.





Oh my gosh December already, I was searching for a background as awesome as the leaves for fall was but so far no luck. :-)   I will make it festive anyway ....Bakes Christmas cookies today, picked up some tiny decorations to put on my tiny dwarf alberta spruce tree I have in my bedroom, I have lots of tiny candy canes, red bows streams of silver ribbon and red bulbs.  It almost seems more difficult to decorate the little ones.

Finishing up the semester at school, lots of papers and projects to get done in a two week period. But when it's done it's done till January 20th, I have my life back for a whole month!


I have enjoyed this semester it's been fun and I am always happy when I do well.



Christmas time In New York City






Hey everybody....every year we go to New York City on a bus trip..Golden Memories tour buses.  The bus leaves at 3 am on Saturday so when we come home from work on Friday it's  push time to get everything done...packing the snacks and water for the way ...also a blanket and pillow, you sleep on the bus and sometimes it gets chilly  and of course the pillow stops your head from bumping the window if you have the window seat.  Even though we sleep on the bus for hours it is best I find to take a nap before driving into Greece at 3 am, don't want to fall asleep driving to the pick up spot.  We get up at 1 ish take showers get ready for the new day  feed the dog , toss him a treat, grab our bags and off we go.

I don't love the trip in the cold and dark at 300 am but find that the shivering does keep me away.:-)

In twenty minutes on the x-press way totally by ourselves we are in the parking lot of a restaurant waiting for out bus to arrive. Better not to fall asleep during your wait or you could wake up in a parking lot full of cars and no one in site.  After a few hours usually three, we wake up to the air brakes of the bus , the light above us going on  and  reading a sign telling us we are in Pennsylvania ..  awesome I have left the state in my sleep. The trip to the bathrooms, mb some breakfast then back on  the bus, to fall asleep on the bus until the sun is shining on your face.

Within seconds you are excited about being at your destination......Christmas in New York City!

And our quest for the day begins.

Lots of people...
Lots of  things to see...
Lots of cold weather..

Lots of excitement.....
Lots of walking...

and lots of talking pictures of everything along the way....lots of fun fun fun