martes, 7 de junio de 2011

RECIPES

GAZPACHO

Ingredients

-6 tomatoes
- 2 green peppers
-1 red pepper
-1 cucumber
-1 head of an onion
-1 garlic (optional)
-Salt, extra virgin olive oil and vinegar.

Elaboration

1. Put slices of bread in water with salt an oil.
2. Peel and chop the tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, onion and garlic. For the peppers remove the seeds. Mix it all together.
3. Place the mixed ingredients and then add water and mach until you create a creamy. Add the bread and beat again until everything is well crushed.
4. Add cold water and mix again. Check the salt and the vinegar.
5. Pass it through a strainer to remove any remaining food without crushing.
6. Add water if it’s necessary. Put it in the fridge until the desires temperature and then add extra virgin olive oil and remove all.
7. It can be accompanied with cucumber, cubes of bread, diced pepper and chopped onion. Each guest can serve the ingredients that they like.


BY: Fiona Fernández



FRESH PASTA

Ingredients:

- two bowls of pasta
- salad
- four tomatoes
- one carrot
- fourd hard-boiled eggs
- 50 grs. of cheese into strips or fresh cheese
- one onion
- olive oil
- vinegar
- salt and pepper
- black olives
- gambles

Elaboration:

1.Put in a bowl the salad and then cut the onion into thin slices and mix the pasta. Also with the fresh cheese.
2. Turn around the tomatoes and the hard-boiled eggs cut in half and carrot sticks if you like gambles you can add too.
3. Decor this salad with olives in the center and then add four spoons of olive oil, vinegar, salt or pebber


BY: Alba Benítez


ROASTED DUCK WITH PRUNES AND PINE NUTS


Ingredients

-A black Penedes duck cut into 8 pieces.
-Olive oil.
-Lard.
-A few drops of aniseed.
-1/2 glass of brandy.
-1/2 cinnamon stick.
-Dried prunes.
-Pine nuts.

Elaboration

1. We have to put the prunes in a saucepan with water and when it starts to boil we turn off the heat and leave them to soak.
2. In a casserole dish put a spoonfol of lard, some olive oil, the cinnamon and the previously seasoned duck. Leave to cook for a while and when it starts to colour add the aniseed and the brandy.
3. Cook slowly with the lid on the casserole dish and when it looks although it is cooked take the lid off so it can get gold.
4. In a frying pan with some of the oil form the casserole dish add the pine nuts and the prunes well drained and fry it for a few minutes.
5. We’ll serve the prunes and the pine nuts separately in a bowl, so everybody can take what they want.



BY: Andrea Medina


PHILADELPHIA CHEESE CAKE

Ingredients:

- 125g of digestive biscuits
- 40g of butter
- 250g of philadelphia
- 400g of condensed milk
- 120ml of lemon juice
- jam of forest fruits


Elaboration

1. Crushed the biscuits and mixed with the melted butter. Put the dough in a mold.
2. Beat the philadelphia with the condensed milk. After mixed with lemon juice.
Put over the prepared dough and put in the refrigerato for one hour.
3. take it out of the refrigerator and puts on the jamm of forest fruits.



BY: Queralt Torrent

FASHION

CASUAL LOOK:

On the catwalk fashion of the Fashion Week 2011 the contrasts have been the fact more clear. Some designers bet for romantic and sophisticated but casual looking, others are inspired for the 70’s, floral prints, long skirts just over the ankle or the most elegant chooses oriental inspiration.
Apparently one of the most successful trends has been the white inspiration, it reappeared in two versions: one minimalist like Donna’s Karan New York without accessories, inspirited in the people from Ibiza and the other version like Dolce&Gabbana’s or Versace’s is more suggestive and sensual with corsets and underwear with embroidery or ruffles dresses, some of them reminiscent of classical ballet dancers.


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SPORTS LOOK:

Are you passionate about sports and you love fashion? Now you can combine it with the new sports trend for this season.
Now we find that more and more fashion designers are making sportswear as part of their collection, as an example Stella Mc-Cartney, who design every season clothes for Adidas resulting sportswear sophisticated that follow the latest trends.
Other examples include Shape-Up Shoes that tone your legs and can be used daily without having to go in sportswear dressing and another one, Nike that release his Free Nike shoes that encourage your performance naturally and also follows the trends.


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NIGHT LOOK:

It is always essential to bear in the closet one or two dresses for a night out. The best is a long dress that gives elegance, simplicity and femininity, and highlights the woman shapes. The details are important this season, an abundance of printed silk, volumes, delicate ruffles and embroidery.
As regards the color, red, silver, blue and black are the most used. The material is usually silk.
Emphasize different types of necklines, that goes from without sleeves to type V necklines.
As the resulting of all this we have a dress that every woman needs in her closet.



SCIENCE

The tattoos

Who decides make a tattoo think that will have a mark all the life, but people don’t know that one part of the ink dissapear over the years. The teacher Ian Eames of the University College of London has created a mathematical model to show the the changes with pass of the years in the skin.
The principal factors of this changes are: the exposition to sun and the type of ink used are the important factors that determine how the tattoo change over time.
When the tattoo needle puncturing the dermis to apply the ink in the skin, an strange substance comes in many cases of heavy metals, mercury, lead, cadmium, zinc, iron and nickel too.The body produces and immune response that causes with blood cells come to clean. In this process the body eliminate some of the ink particles, but others remain and become trapped in the body trapped in the body tissue and forming part of the tatoo.
In a month the link between the epidermis and dermis was renovated and the picture will be forever in your body.
An important things: the cells that containing the ink die and for this cause the tattoo changed and not always retained its original appearance.






The smell of the bars without smoke

Since the snuff disappeared from bars, restaurants and pubs, costumers who comes to these places receive more odors, such as human sweat, beer and other smells that before didn’t feel it because we had the snuf smoke.
Scientists from Delt University of Technology in the Netherlands say the have found a solution to this problem: use fragances in the premises which among other things make people dance again and make us feel better.
Their conclusions are published in the journal chemosensory perception, where Hendrik Schifferstein and colleagues suggest installing machines that emit good aroma.
In a series of experiments, Schifferstein tested the efect of orange essence(relaxing), mint(stimulating) and seawater(neutral) with more than 800 subjects. All the smells made the young dance and have fun again, and they like it more the music and the mood of these people.



BY: Alba Benítez

SPORTS

Final in Wembley between Manchester and Barça


In Wembley both teams won his first Champions, and now they come with the desire to repeat the history in this stage.
Manchester United was the first english team who won the Champions in 1968.
FC Barcelona won his first Champions League on May 20th, 1992 when the “Dream Team”of Johan Cruyff got this expected cup. A free-kick in the extending time was enough to won Sampdoria. Barça getting this cup for the first time because it had escaped twice.
Both teams have the same number of cups, three each. Who win the Champions next May 28th will have its four cup.
It was in May 17th 2006, the second Champions when the group led by Frank Rijkaard won 2-1 Arsenal goals from Eto'o and Belletti.
The third and final cup was won two seasons ago whit the same rival, Manchester United.
The final match was played in Rome and Guardiola’s team imposed on the “red devils” 2-0 goals from Eto’o and Messi. They got the triplet in this season.
Barça has reached three finals in the last five years, and Manchester has played the final three of the last four editions of the Champions League. Better equality impossible.

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“Never in my best dreams”

Yesterday Rafael Nadal won his sixth Roland Garros in the final after defeating Roger Federer. At the end of the match said that he never could imagined this success in their best dreams.
"It will be impossible to forget for me what has happened in this tournament I would not have been imagined even in my best dreams" he said after equaling the record of Bjorn Borg.
Excited and happy, Nadal gave thanks to life before receiving the Cup from Jim Courier the winner of four Grand Slams, two Roland Garros.
The sixth Roland Garros between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer classified the Spanish as the sixth player with more titles in the tennis history. Roger leads the list with 16 titles.

GOSSIP

Ana de Armas and Marc Clotet get married

The cuban actress Ana de Armas (22) and the catalan actor Marc Clotet (30) will get married in July, in a beautiful estate in Barcelona, ten months after they started going out. It will be in July, during a break in their series, he works in Física o Química and she in Hispania, both of them from Antena 3.
The chosen place is Barcelona, in a estate property of Clotet’s family. It seems that it will be a very intimate ceremony. The best man is Ana’s father and the best woman is Marc’s mother.
The cuban actress has already started looking dresses for the big day and although she hasn’t chosen any, it is very clear what she wants: a simple model, made of silk and with great cleavage.
In love with someone else in fiction
Behind the cameras they only have eyes for each other but in front of them they’re in love with their respective partners: Vaquero (Marc’s character in FoQ) is in love with Olimpia (Ana Milán) and Nerea (Ana’s character in Hispania) with Paulo (Juan José Ballesta).







Gerard Piqué and Shakira, romantic days in Italy

Shakira couldn’t go to see how Barça was classificated for the final of the Champions League because she was in Milan, where she was doing a concert, but this didn’t stop them to see each other the following days in Italy. As evidence of that, there are photos of the couple of the moment in the lake Como, where they have emulated a real dolce vita.
They have hosted in a romantic and passionate five-star hotel called Villa East, where the real luxury suite costs about 1500 euros per night. Once inside her room, paparazzi, crowded in front of the hotel, photographed Shakira in pijama and the football player in his underwear, playing with the curtains of the suite.
Although they spent several hours inside the room, the couple also had time to take a boat ride on lake Como and enjoy one of the incredible scenary that gives the region of Lombardy. Even as the images show, they didn’t spend too much time to contemplate the idyllic picture.