10 songs that celebrate trees
Trees and forests recur in all art forms, including music. Here are 10 songs (plus 1) dedicated to the Planet’s lungs.
Savoury muffins with vegetables
Ingredients for 9 muffins 150 gr of 00 flour 100 g of fresh cheese 200 gr of mixed vegetables (carrots, pumpkin, beet tops, broccoli, potatoes) 30 g of grated Parmesan cheese Half a bag of baking powder 120 ml of milk 1 egg Extra virgin olive oil A little bit of butter (to grease the
5 mistakes you shouldn’t make when preparing a main-course salad
To prepare a main-course salad you should follow a few simple rules. Sometimes people don’t abide strictly by the recommended amount of ingredients and they double or, on the contrary, half one of them. These wrong proportions change substantially the benefits of our main-course salad: e.g. it can be too high in calories or poor
10 songs with a coffee aroma
Bob Dylan – One more cup of coffee (Desire) “One more cup of coffee for the road, One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go” Ella Fitzgerald – Black Coffee “I walk the floor and watch the door And in between I drink Black coffee” Tricky – Black Coffee (cover) “And moody all the
Tempura, how to prepare it
In Japan, with the tempura batter is used mainly to prepare seasonal vegetables, shrimps and squids, on rare occasion meat. Tempura is a particularly light kind of frying technique, with which luscious and crunchy food is prepared. And it is easy to prepare, if you know the basic rules to make it. The batter
Amsterdam is home to the first cycling lane that generates solar power
Every day around two thousand cyclists ride the two-way cycling lane that connects Krommenie and Wormerveer, two suburbs of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. For commuters and students bicycles are the fastest means of transport to get around in this city. From 12th November, a 70-metre stretch of this path will become
5 electric cars you could buy now
Today (almost) all car companies produce electric cars. Here are a few models you can have a go at.
Halloween, the 10 spookiest songs for an unforgettable 31st of October
Forget about classics such as Deep Red, Thriller by Michael Jackson and Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Here’s a playlist of yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s creepiest songs. Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper http://youtu.be/nU5MyNuBdhg Sonic Youth – Halloween https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxu5wlgvsEI Portishead – Machine Gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJeiWYFrio Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe Eugene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpGdG27K9o Bat For Lashes – What’s A
Pumpkin and Parmesan cheese croquettes
Ingredients 500 g of mashed pumpkin 2 eggs Half a cup of whole wheat flour 2 teaspoonful of powdered yeast 8-10 spoonful of grated Parmesan cheese 2 spoonful of minced fresh rosemary Organic sunflower oil Whole sea salt Black pepper to grind Preparation Put the mashed pumpkin in a medium-sized bowl. Beat the
If you live with a smoker is like you live in Beijing
Living with a smoker means being exposed to pollution levels equal to those registered in a heavily polluted city, such as Beijing and London. The news comes from the study Fine particulate matter concentrations in smoking households: just how much secondhand smoke do you breathe in if you live with a smoker who smokes indoors?. The