May
2014

How to tone your body in one week

categories: My babbles, Uncategorized, Working out

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If only it were true that we could tone our body in just one week. Unfortunately we need more time. How to achieve a toned body?  Well first of all, stop thinking, fantasizing or dreaming about a toned body, just start today.  Don’t try to find an excuse it will only take less than 5 minutes of your time.

Let’s start with the following exercises, twice a day for a week:

5 x 30 crunches

2 x 30 second side plank

2 x 30 seconds plank

For some of you this may be difficult but keep trying, in the end you will succeed! If you don’t know how to do these exercises, aren’t we lucky that we have  a channel called YouTube.

 


Apr
2014

Homemade tomato salsa or tomato chutney

categories: Food, Food Pictures, My babbles, Recipe, Uncategorized

UntitledA bowl of tortilla chips and a nice salsa is so yummy. I never buy any salsa’s, I make them myself with only a few ingredients. The salsa is much more tastier than store-bought, it does not contain any preservatives, chemicals or  “secret ingredients”, like loads of sugar. Manufacturers are smart, they just give this “secret ingredient” another name like fruit juice concentrate or fructose…. My motto is “know your food”, know what you eat.

Recipe homemade tomato salsa or tomato chutney

Ingredients

1 teaspoon oil

1 small clove garlic, minced

Any kind of chili peppers to your taste*

1 can (400 grams) peeled tomatoes, drained and cut into smaller pieces

Coriander to taste, chopped

Salt to taste, I used about half a teaspoon

Directions

  1. Heat the oil
  2. Add the garlic, do not let it burn
  3. Add the chili peppers
  4. Give it a quick stir
  5. Add the canned tomatoes
  6. Add salt to taste, (I used less than half a teaspoon)
  7. Let it simmer on gentle heat
  8. Stir occasionally
  9. When the water has evaporated add the coriander and stir
  10. Cook for another minute
  11. Serve with your (homemade) tortilla chips

If you like onions you could add some finely chopped raw red onions ones the salsa is done.

*I used Scotch Bonnet peppers, be careful they are HOT.