Favorite Cheese Ball

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Awesome Cheese-ball/log-recipe!

Cooking for Seven

A few years ago, my sisters and I were asked to bring a cheese ball to a bridal shower. We threw a few things together, tasting as we went along, until the flavors were just right. It was a great success, and to our pleasure, a lady asked for our recipe.

We have tried other cheese ball recipes, but none can compare to this one. Simple, yet very tasty. Dad complains if we try any other recipe.

The original recipe contained cranberries. We generally leave these out, but it is quite good with them. We have also tried it with a few drops of liquid smoke with excellent results. If you prefer a spicier cheese ball, simply increase the amount of cayenne, pepper, or onion. Or decrease the amounts if you like your cheese ball mild.

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:: Favorite Cheese Ball ::

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Ingredients:

  • 1 8-ounce package of cream cheese

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The Villa is quiet good

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Just watched this movie a kind of ghost thriller ‘The Villa’ made by the guys who did this movie Pizza and its quiet good, not bad indeed.

Its a story of a writer who deals with a house he inherited from his dad, apparently this house was built by a black magician and this house is able to induce messages from future into the brains of people who live there and how these message become true even if people try to stop it.

The movie starts quiet good, the middle of the movie seems boring just like normal love story, but at the end the stuff start and we know why thing were the way they were, and stuff takes a superb turn.

These Tamil movie makers must learn about science a bit. Though this movie builds on blind faith, I can’t accept the fact that water exposed to sunlight…

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CryptoLocker, ransomware and holding the internet hostage

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Submitted by Charlton Stanley, Guest Blogger

“I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually ‘Nothing; you’re screwed’.”
   – Bruce Schneier

cryptolockerThe quote by Professor Bruce Schneier at the top of this article is the unvarnished truth by one of the leading internet and cryptography experts in the world. Which brings us to the subject of this story. The latest threat to everyone’s computer is a form of malware called “Ransomware.” This is not new, having first appeared years ago. Those first attempts were clumsy, the software codes easily broken, and the perpetrators caught. However, in the past few weeks the threat is back, more sophisticated and more dangerous than almost any malware threat to date. Although often referred to as a virus, it is not a true computer virus, because it does not self-propagate. It is a…

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He calls me “Mama”….

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He calls me “Mama”….

I know our time together is shortened, by his health, being a severely disabled Army Veteran. I know he knows that he’s not much longer for this old world. Sometimes he’s not himself, or not all there, sometimes he has mood-swings, and it’s hard to be both a wife & his full-time-caregiver. (The wife part seems to go out the window, when all I can do is care for him.) Sometimes, when not himself, he reverts, like a small child when he needs something, or my help, and he calls out to me, he calls out “Mama”. That one word that means comfort, care, love, and safety, baby’s first utter it when in need. He doesn’t realize it when he does it, doesn’t want to believe me when I tell him how he acts, how he is at times. He’s afraid, of slipping away, in partial denial of being in the throws of doing such so soon. It’s always such a fight and struggle, just to keep him alive. Last year, in March, the month before our wedding anniversary which is April 29th, he literally died, 3 times in one night. I resuscitated him once at home, and the Dr’s at the local ER had to use the crash-cart and they shocked him back twice in 30 minutes time. This year, at the end of February, through the beginning of March, he’s been in the V.A. hospital for a week the first time, lucky he made it, then right after getting out, spent Saturday& Sunday at home, before ending up back in the hospital again, once again, lucky he made it. The mood-swings, are hard to cope with as his health declines, and it’s hard, hard watching him slip away, getting closer to death right before my eyes, even though it’s not like the marriage it started out to be, he still loves me, still needs me, wishes he could still be that, and then he lapses again, calls out to me, and I come to him, help him, he calls me “Mama”….

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We’ve gone vegetarian, “Pescatarian” to be exact.

I choose not to eat certain things. When deciding what type of vegetarian you want to be, think about what you want to include or avoid. You don’t need to fit into one of these categories, but understanding them will help you think about your short-term and long-term goals.
1. Pescatarian (also spelled pescetarian)
The word “pescatarian” is occasionally used to describe those who abstain from eating all meat and animal flesh with the exception of fish. Although the word is not commonly used, more and more people are adopting this kind of diet, usually for health reasons or as a stepping stone to a fully vegetarian diet.
2. Flexitarian/Semi-vegetarian
You don’t have to be vegetarian to love vegetarian food! “Flexitarian” is a term recently coined to describe those who eat a mostly vegetarian diet, but occasionally eat meat.
3.a. Vegetarian (Lacto-ovo- vegetarian)
When most people think of vegetarians, they think of lacto-ovo-vegetarians. People who do not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but do eat eggs and dairy products are lacto-ovo vegetarians (“lacto” comes from the Latin for milk, and “ovo” for egg).
3.b.Lacto-vegetarian is used to describe a vegetarian who does not eat eggs, but does eat dairy products.
3.c.Ovo-vegetarian refers to people who do not eat meat or dairy products but do eat eggs.
4. Vegan
Vegans do not eat meat of any kind and also do not eat eggs, dairy products, or processed foods containing these or other animal-derived ingredients such as gelatin. Many vegans also refrain from eating foods that are made using animal products that may not contain animal products in the finished process, such as sugar and some wines. There is some debate as to whether certain foods, such as honey, fit into a vegan diet.
5. Raw vegan/Raw food diet
A raw vegan diet consists of unprocessed vegan foods that have not been heated above 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius). “Raw foodists” believe that foods cooked above this temperature have lost a significant amount of their nutritional value and are harmful to the body.
6. Macrobiotic
The macrobiotic diet, revered by some for its healthy and healing qualities, includes unprocessed vegan foods, such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and allows the occasional consumption of fish. Sugar and refined oils are avoided. Perhaps the most unique qualifier of the macrobiotic diet is its emphasis on the consumption of Asian vegetables, such as daikon, and sea vegetables, such as seaweed.