Healthy Fruit Drink Recipes

welcome  Mr summer
with Mr summer we love colors , fruits , lovely summer odours and blends , i love summer ,,, with it's sun , the smell of sunblock ..... and above all fruits and fruity blends
i will give u some of my own recepies of some fruity cocktails

Tips to Get You Started

Smoothies are the healthiest and most satisfying fruit drink because they include whole fruit rather than just the juice. They're also the simplest.

Get Creative

Select a mix of two or three chilled or frozen fruits for taste, color, and nutrients. Remove stems, large seeds, pits, or tough skins. Strawberries are a favorite. Blueberries provide antioxidants and rich color. Peaches, most berries, melons, grapes, mangos, and cherries all blend well with other fruits. Pomegranates,  and kiwifruit offer unique health benefits, but they're trickier to balance with other ingredients.,The banana provides sweetness and puts the "smooth" in smoothie. Buy bananas fresh in quantity, quarter, place in a freezer bag, add a spoonful of sugar, shake, and store in freezer for up to three weeks. Remove pieces as needed.
Next, choose a liquid, one-fourth to one-third cup. Try milk or soy milk for a shake-like treat. Orange, apple, or grapefruit juice make a tangier smoothie. Pineapple or watermelon juice sweeten the recipe

the secret is to mix , fix and blend ..... feel the taste , the smell and enjoy


1-Crazy Fruit Smoothie

1 1/2 cups crushed ice

1 banana, chopped

1 kiwi, peeled and chopped

1/2 cup chopped strawberries

1/2 cup chopped pineapple

1 tablespoon coconut flakes for garnish

Blend the ice, banana, kiwi, strawberries, pineapple, in a blender until smooth; pour into a glass and garnish with the coconut flakes to serve.

( see how easy and delicious )

2- Strawberry and Pineapple smoothie

1 cup frozen strawberries

3/4 cup milk

3/4 cup pineapple juice

1/2 cup vanilla yogurt

2 tablespoons white sugar

6 ice cubes

1 teaspoon Wheat ( bleela )

Blend the strawberries, milk, pineapple juice, vanilla yogurt, sugar, ice, and wheat germ in a blender until smooth. You may need to scrape down the sides of the blender a couple of times and filter . Pour into glasses and serve immediately.    

you can add 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream in the blender for the taste

3- Fruit and Yoghurt smoothie

1/2 cup of your child's favorite fruit, such as peaches, bananas, pineapples, strawberries, mangos, etc.

3/4 cup of yogurt

1 cup milk

1 tablespoon sugar (optional)

 Peel the fruit, if appropriate, and cut them up into small pieces.

Put all of the ingredients into a blender and puree them together until smooth.
Pour into a chilled glass and serve with a straw.
Keep in mind that you may have to add ice or use frozen fruit if you really want to serve it cold. Also, a banana may be needed to get the smoothie to the right consistency (thick and creamy).

Healthy Smoothie Recipe Ideas

Although a good source of fruit, plus calcium and other vitamins and minerals, this high in fat and sugar. For a healthy smoothie, you can:

• use nonfat yogurt
• use skim milk
• use an artificial sweetener
• keep the skin on when using fruits like apples and pears to get extra fiber into your smoothie

4- Melon Lime smoothie

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 cups cubed honeydew melon
• 1 1/2 cups lime sherbet
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 4 fresh strawberries (optional)

           

1. Place  melon in a single layer on a baking sheet. Cover and freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
2. Transfer frozen melon to a food processor with the sherbet and lime juice. Puree until smooth. Pour mixture evenly into 4 glasses, and garnish each glass with a strawberry. Serve immediately.

i hope you enjoy it..... and if you have ideas of new recepies please tell me

A person who had influenced my life

well i am this 27 years old girl. Egyptian and proud ... since i was raised as a lonely child ... i read alot and met alot of people ( rather than my mom and dad )... my all time best friend was a book. yes a book
usualy i sit by myself read and read and read... feeling the depth and the beauty of what i am  reading and getting more and more information that helped me so much nowadays

I will start with my all time loved book * A tale of two cities *
and the incredible Sydney Carton

Who is Sydney Carton ? why he should be loved this much ?
Sydney Carton proves the most dynamic character in A Tale of Two Cities. He first appears as a lazy, alcoholic attorney who cannot muster even the smallest amount of interest in his own life. He describes his existence as a supreme waste of life and takes every opportunity to declare that he cares for nothing and no one.  In his conversation with the recently acquitted Charles Darnay, Carton’s comments about Lucie Manette, while bitter and sardonic, betray his interest in, and budding feelings for, the gentle girl. Eventually, Carton reaches a point where he can admit his feelings to Lucie herself. Before Lucie weds Darnay, Carton professes his love to her, though he still persists in seeing himself as essentially worthless. This scene marks a vital transition for Carton and lays the foundation for the supreme sacrifice that he makes at the novel’s end.

Carton’s death has provided much material for scholars and critics of Dickens’s novel. Some readers consider it the inevitable conclusion to a work obsessed with the themes of redemption and resurrection. According to this interpretation, Carton becomes a Christ-like figure, a selfless martyr whose death enables the happiness of his beloved and ensures his own immortality As Carton goes to the guillotine, the narrator tells us that he envisions a beautiful, idyllic Paris“rising from the abyss” and sees “the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.” Just as the apocalyptic violence of the revolution precedes a new society’s birth, perhaps it is only in the sacrifice of his life that Carton can establish his life’s great worth.

I copied this summary about his charachter from the internet ... a bit interesting but it makes me fall for him more and more

Sydney Carton Timeline and Summary

• Sydney Carton is orphaned as a young boy.
• He spends his schooldays writing other people’s papers.
• He spends his adult life doing all of Stryver’s legal work.
• We first meet him at Charles’ trial, where he convinces the jury that he looks exactly like Charles.
• The jury acquits Charles based upon this.
• In the courtroom, Sydney Carton points out that Lucie is fainting.
• How does he notice before anyone else?
• By this point, the case is pretty much over.
• Carton’s appearance has introduced too much doubt into the trial.
• Carton, who still seems pretty cynical about the justice system, wants to get out of the general area of the court.
• He asks Darnay to come out to dinner with him.
• Darnay can’t seem to break through Carton’s cynicism. And Carton’s already seen how Darnay looks at Lucie.
• In fact, just because Carton seems to like rubbing salt in his own wounds, he gets Darnay to propose a toast to "Miss Manette!"
• After sharing a drink or two together, Carton’s pretty sure he doesn’t like Darnay.
• Darnay sure doesn’t like Carton.
• Perhaps they might even get into blows over a girl…until, of course, Darnay realizes that Carton has just saved his life.
• Before they part, however, Darnay wants to know why Carton seems so angry and depressed.
• Muttering that he’s a "disappointed drudge," Carton says that he’s been worth nothing all this life.
• As Darnay leaves, Carton engages in a little bit of existential self-questioning.
• Why hasn’t he been able to change his own circumstances in life? Why isn’t he ever able to change his ways or become a better human being?
• Tough questions. And Carton’s got no answers.
• Next, we see Sydney working for Stryver.
• Sydney can’t stand the fact that Stryver’s a big jerk.
• Nonetheless, he spends most of his nights solving Stryver’s cases for him.
• Stryver, in the meanwhile, gets very, very drunk and mumbles to himself.
• As Stryver pours himself another drink, he wants Carton to drink to the "pretty witness" who came to court today.
• Carton gulps for a second, and then he mutters some unpleasant things about Lucie.
• Stryver’s taken aback. He was sure he caught Carton staring at Lucie for most of the day.
• Carton insists that Lucie means nothing to him. Nothing. Seriously.
• In the months that follow, Sydney visits the Manette house often.
• One night, Stryver has a confession: he has decided to marry.
• Sydney knows Stryver pretty well. He asks if the woman has money.
• Stryver takes Sydney to task for being such a cynic. He’s actually fallen in love this time.
• In fact, Stryver’s a bit worried that Sydney won’t like his choice of a bride.
• Once upon a time, Sydney spoke slightingly of the woman whom Stryver has decided to make the happiest woman on earth.
• Sydney starts a little bit. Could Stryver mean…
• Yes. Stryver means to marry Lucie.
• Luckily, that doesn’t work out too well.
• One day, Sydney finds Lucie alone.
• She asks Sydney what the matter is.
• He responds that his life is miserable and hopeless.
• She asks why he can’t change.
• Sydney doesn’t answer directly.
• See, Sydney knows that Lucie couldn’t love a man like him.
• In fact, that’s exactly what he tells her.
• Dismayed, Lucie doesn’t know what to say.
• Sure, she feels badly for Carton. She evens cares about him. But the saddest thing in this whole deal is that he’s right – and they both know it.
• True to her good-natured self, though, Lucie asks if there’s anything that she can do to help him without promising to love him.
• Carton says that if anyone could have reformed him, she could have.
• Apparently, Sydney just dropped by to unburden himself…sort of like a very, very painful self-help session.
• Distraught, Lucie asks again if there’s no way that she could be a force for good in his life.
• Sydney seems to have moved past this, however.
• He begs her to keep this conversation confidential; it’s the last time he’ll ever confide in anyone, and he’d like to remember that it ended well.
• Seeing that Lucie seems upset, he entreats her not to be troubled by his sorrows.
• More than anything, he wants her to be happy.
• In fact, he’s so committed to her happiness that he begs her to remember (once she gets married) that he would give his own life to keep those that she loves safe.
• Bidding Lucie farewell, Sydney rushes out the door.
• The first person to visit Lucie and Charles after they get married is Sydney Carton.
• Sydney makes a rather strange request: he wants to be Charles’ friend.
• More specifically, he wants to be able to pop over to their house without any warning, just like an old family friend would.
• Charles doesn’t seem especially inclined to agree, but Sydney reminds him of how Sydney saved Charles’ life in court.
• Charles agrees to be friends.
• In the years that follow, Sydney becomes an uncle to the Darnay’s children.
• When Charles is jailed in France, Sydney comes over to help.
• He meets with John Barsad, a spy, and convinces him to allow Sydney to enter the prison.
• He also buys a potion from a chemist.
• He visits the Defarges, where he overhears Madame Defarge’s plan to kill the entire family.
• Telling Mr. Lorry of the Defarge’s plan, he persuades Mr. Lorry to get the Manettes to leave town.
• He’s got a pressing request for Charles: he doesn’t have time to explain why he’s asking for the things he needs.
• Startled, Charles does what Sydney asks. They change boots, hair-ties and shirts.
• Charles begins to understand Sydney’s plan, but he’s certain that it won’t work.
• Speaking rapidly, Sydney asks Charles to sit down and write a letter that he’ll dictate.
• Charles complies.
• Sydney tells him to write an unaddressed letter saying that the time has come for him to make good on the promise he once gave.
• He knows that the reader won’t forget the promise. He wants her to be assured that he’s glad that his time has come.
• Puzzled, Charles stops writing. He thinks he smells a strange vapor.
• He starts up to rip the bottle out of Sydney’s hand, but Sydney’s too quick for him.
• Charles slumps to the ground, drugged.
• Sydney calls Barsad, who drags Charles out of the jail.
• They place Charles on a stretcher, and Barsad carries him away.
• At two, a jailer comes into the room and calls for Evrémonde. Sydney follows him.
• He gets into a line with fifty-one other prisoners, all of whom are scheduled to die.
• As the Guillotine begins to crash, the audience counts the number of heads which roll to the ground.
• Scared, the little seamstress clings to Sydney.
• She thinks that he’s an angel sent to be with her in her time of trouble.
• He comforts her, telling her that she’s going to a place with no suffering. She’ll be able to be with her family there.
• They kiss, and she steps up onto the guillotine before Sydney.
• The audience counts to twenty-two.
• Sydney murmurs the words of Christ, "I am the Resurrection and the Life…" as he steps onto the platform.
• The audience counts to twenty-three.
• Afterwards, the narrator tells us what Sydney was thinking as he walked to the guillotine:
• He foresees a time when vengeance in France will end.
• He sees a nation rising out of the blood and ashes of this time, a nation stronger and better for the struggles it has had to endure.
• He sees the Manettes in the future, with a child that bears his name.
• He imagines the stories that they’ll tell of a man who gave his life for their happiness.
• He sees his own name, cleared of all the stains he’s placed on it, living again through Lucie’s son.
• Sydney reflects that this action is perhaps the best one that he’s ever taken.

My photography work ( islamic history )

The Twenties Girl ( a BOOK TO READ )

A couple of months ago i found a lovely novel in my book piles
yes i don't have my books on shelves i have them in piles
the book is called the twenties Girl
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive.When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance—mysteriously appears, she has one request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it.
Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from and about each other

away from the book.... it grabbed my attention the small tiny details of the early 1920s dressing and makeup details.. music ... dances and even girls behaviors
how life was easy . how love was beautiful and truthful in the early 20s.. how girls were acting like ladies , and this beautiful charlestone dance

The whole book was about a missing dragon fly necklace....

see what the writer (SOPHIE KINSELLA) said about the jewllery she picked

( This paragraph is by Sophie Kinsella )

When I was at college I had a bicycle which I rarely used and which sat, week after week, in the bike racks. One day I went to get it out--and found a diamante necklace twined round the spokes of the front wheel. It was an old, vintage-style necklace, one of the prettiest things I’d ever seen. On my bike! How had it got there? Had someone borrowed my bike and dropped it? Was it a romantic gift from a secret admirer? (Ok, unlikely...)

I put up a notice in college--but got no claimers. It was mine! I wore that necklace over and over--and felt as though it had somehow magical qualities. Would it have felt so magical if it were a scarf or a hat or a purse? I don’t think so.

Jewelry has a magic all its own. Precious stones have always attracted legends, myths, crimes, lust. Quite sane women will go to pieces at the sight of a big enough diamond. Even as a tiny child I was fascinated by beads, jewels, tiaras...anything that glittered. And, like books, I find it hard to give pieces of jewelry away, even after I’ve stopped wearing them.

The biggest symbol of jewelry is love. Whose heart doesn’t stop on being presented with a little velvet box? Who secretly doesn’t crave a diamond, however teeny? Of course true love is putting out the rubbish every night...but that won’t make you gasp and tilt your hand to catch the facets of light.

When I was writing Twenties Girl I knew I needed to give Sadie, my ghost character, a mission. There was something in the world she still wanted--and it didn’t take long to decide on jewelry. A ring seemed too obvious...bracelets too inconsequential...but a necklace was perfect. I wanted it to be tactile, romantic, and the kind of piece you could imagine wearing with anything. Guided by research into jewelry of the 1920s, I conjured up in my head a long necklace of glimmering yellow glass beads, with a dragonfly pendant set with rhinestones. Not priceless....but special. I could imagine Sadie twirling the beads as she danced, I could imagine her gathering them and letting them drop. I could see it as an iconic, timeless piece.

A dragonfly seemed a perfect emblem for Sadie, too--beautiful, fragile, and darting around like quicksilver. The dragonfly symbol has different meanings for different cultures--for some it’s a symbol of change, for others it represents the subconscious. In Japanese paintings, dragonflies can mean new light and joy. To some Native Americans they’re the souls of the dead. All of these interpretations are perfect for the character of Sadie--a ghost who needs to "move on" and for whom the dragonfly necklace has a meaning all its own.

i searched the internet and i got some pictures of twenties style , fashion , clothes , hairstyles and dances

صلاح جاهين

Mohammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Helmy known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" was a leading poet , song writer , script writer and cartoonist

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let's start with one of his master pieces ... 3la ism masr

3la ism masr .... by nagham masry @ Skkiat elsawi

Jaheen was born in Shobra district, on 1930 to a middle-class family. He studied law  In 1955, he started working for the Egyptian weekly magazine "Rose al-Yousef" as a cartoonist. A year later, he moved to the new magazine "Sabah el-Khair" then he joines Al Ahram

Jaheen is the founder of the modern Egyptian cartoon school. Among his known cartoon series were Hashish addicts, Vigor Coffee-house and the Government Departments in which he introduced a theme called the "fahhama" or "the understander", an imaginary device clamped on the skulls of various cartoon characters, which intended to make the incomprehensible comprehensible thus drawing attention to the absurdities of modern life

Jaheen's cartoons usually had political and social goals, directing the attention of the public and the government to mistakes that needed correction. For several years, Jaheen's cartoons at Alahram  were widely viewed by its readers and were considered "news in brief" giving a gist of what preoccupied people most.

One of My favorite songs for nagham masry and written by jaheen

2 saba7an ( 2 A,M)

Jaheen wrote the lyrics of many songs, mostly patriotic songs that were performed by Abdelhalim His songs include: "Soura" or photo, "ehna elsha3b" or "we are the people", "Khaly elselah sahy" or "oh weapon, be ready"

                                           video of soura sang by the great Abd elhalim hafez
                                                     one of the most remarkable songs in our
                                                                       revolution

 He wrote for the puppet theatre, including the famous  "El-leila el-kebira" that was sang by the great sayed mekkawy :D one of my very best childhood memories

 Jaheen was fond of the late actress Soad Husni he wrote  "Shafika we Metwali" "Khally ballak men Zouzou"  and "Amira Hoby Ana"  In which Soad Husni  sang some of his most beautiful written songs  songs: "Ya wad ya te2eel", "Khally ballak men Zouzou"  "El-hayah ba2a lonha bamby" and  "El-donia rabe'"
 for the television the series Howa w heya  or "He and She" portrayed by Ahmed zaki and Soad Husni

(Quatrains) Roba3yat sala7 jaheen

One of the most remarkable books i love to read is Roba3yat sala7 jaheen . (Quatrains)
In 1963 Jaheen wrote it in which he expressed his beliefs, emotions and views of life, existence, good and evil. Each verse ended with one ironic expression "Agabi" or "how strange

 Some of his Roba3yat were sung by ALI elHaggar .... enjoy the video
i may just say rest in peace ya 3m sala7.... you were so patriotic , emotional and full of life

The Beauty of the citadel of Quaitbey

Some of the shots i captured at the citadel of Quaitbey (Alexiandria -Egypt)