Words & Brush Weekender : Easy listening music and chat, Friday 1st October 2021 this week its Movie music !

Easy listening music and chat,  Friday 1st October  2021 this week its Movie music !

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush,  please post music from your favorite movie of any  genre & chat with friends!

 The Magnificent Seven • Main Theme • Elmer Bernstein

Goldfinger  • Main Theme • Shirley  Bassey

 The Graduate • Main Theme • Simon and Garfunkel

The Sound of Music • Main Theme • Julie Andrews

South Pacific • Main Theme • Rodgers & Hammerstein

The Great Escape • Main Theme • Elmer Bernstein
 

 

The Grease • Main Theme • The Bee Gees

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: Chocolate peppermint and coffee-glazed donuts

 

Chocolate peppermint and coffee-glazed donuts

These sweet and scrumptious donut flavors top any drive-thru donut shop varieties you’ve tasted.

By Sarah F. Berkowitz, From the Grapevine

https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/israeli-kitchen/recipes/chocolate-peppermint-and-coffee-glazed-donuts

• YIELD: 2 DOZEN DONUTS

• PREP TIME: 20 MINUTES
• COOK TIME: 36 MINUTES

Donuts tend to have a reputation as one of those no-good foods that only police officers are allowed to enjoy, with their requisite cup of coffee, during long, all-nighters. But this recipe is a game changer – the donuts are baked, not fried, made with high-fiber whole wheat flour, no added oils, and they taste as delicious as they look.

Choose from two different toppings – peppermint and coffee – or make both and serve your friends and family a gorgeous platter of homebaked goodies. My apologies to the donut drive thru, but they won’t be seeing you again – these donuts are too good, easy to make, and a whole lot less guilt-inducing.

INGREDIENTS

For donuts:

• 4 cups white whole wheat flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa powder
• 4 tablespoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon Earth Balance or butter
• 2 2/3 cup coconut milk

For peppermint glaze:

• 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 2-3 tablespoon milk
• 1-2 teaspoon mint extract
• 1/2 cup crushed peppermint candies for sprinkling

For coffee glaze:

• 1 1/4 powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
• 2-3 tablespoon hot water
• 1/2 cup turbinado or demerara sugar for sprinkling

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 400° F. Grease donut pans with Earth Balance or butter, using a paper towel to spread.

Mix dry ingredients. Add remaining ingredients gently just until incorporated.

Fill donut wells about 2/3 full and bake for 10 minutes.

Allow to cool for several minutes. Run rubber spatula around edges, and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

While donuts are cooling, prepare glazes. In two separate medium bowls, combine powdered sugar with remaining ingredients until smooth.

When donuts are completely cool, drizzle half of them with the peppermint glaze, and then top with crushed peppermints while glaze is still soft.

Drizzle the remaining donuts with coffee glaze, and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.

Enjoy. And remember to share! They’re not completely guilt-free…

Enjoy !

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Monday Open thread

 

Good Morning and happy Monday!  Although we are a creative bunch here and content with simmering ideas to create something,  let this is our way to say hello. Got coffee?  Ready for the day?   What are you working on today?  

  Or you never know this might happen with coffee!  

Our kids had a five day weekend and there's nothing like family time.  Today the goal is continuing on the current scenes in book 3, I need to reconstruct it with some free writing. Working on the villain's ending in progress. Have a great day!

Words & Brush Weekender : Easy listening music and chat Saturday 25th September 2021

Easy listening music and chat,  Saturday 25th September 2021

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush,  post music of any genre & chat with friends! 

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Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade 1941

Avalon Jazz Band - I love Paris (Cole Porter)

Take Me Home, Country Roads - The Petersens

Marty Robbins... (Long Version) "El Paso" 1959

Stranger On The Shore - Acker Bilk

The Seekers - Georgy Girl (1967 - Stereo)

Dave Brubeck - Take Five ( Original Video)

 
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 So lets a get movin  & shakin ! 

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: Blood orange margarita

 

Blood orange margarita

This is the best margarita recipe using blood oranges – and the easiest.

By Sarah F. Berkowitz, From the Grapevine 

https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/israeli-kitchen/recipes/blood-orange-margarita0

Blood orange is the new black. (Photo: Sarah F. Berkowitz )

• Yield: Serves 2-4

• Prep time: 5 minutes

I picked up some bold-colored blood oranges while shopping, knowing I would try to find the best recipe I could to utilize their intense color and gentle citrusy flavor. 

The best margarita recipe I could find was a super easy one, perfect for this not-too-frequent mixologist! When it was time to garnish, that’s when I really had fun – and so will you.

Blood oranges make a fantastic margarita flavor. (Photo: lidante/Shutterstock)

Ingredients

• 16 ounces tequila
• 4 ounces blood orange juice, freshly squeezed
• 2 ounces cointreau
• 6-8 ice cubes
• Himalayan pink sea salt

Garnish

• 1 blood orange, sliced thin and halved
• 2 blood orange skins

Directions

Blend first 4 ingredients in a blender.

Run an orange slice around rim of each glass, and dip into pink sea salt.

Pour margaritas into glasses, and add slices of blood orange.

Garnish with peel curls from remaining blood oranges. (Check out these easy cocktail garnishes, or an easy citrus curl garnish.) 

Enjoy !

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Happy Fall Everyone!

 

Summer is gone behind us as Autumn is sworn in.  A harbringer here are many signs.  Squirrels foraging more and I see more neighborhood cats looking for an easy meal.   Geese start coming from the north.  Crickets send a chorus of their songs ringing in the new season.   I have a cousin that works in Alaska.  We just happened to meet on FB by accident. We have the same last name, and he is also a writer.  He is already seeing the first dusting of snow on the mountains and pan ice forming on the rivers.     My mom is already thinking of pumpkin muffins with dark chocolate chips.    With the cool breeze it is nice to take more walks without overheating.

                           

My kids are already thinking Christmas and I almost started playing Christmas songs this early.   For me I find fall a bit more inspiring with writing and journaling.  Take in the smells and the beauty as the season changes.    Even though we are still in the midst of a pandemic with stuff going on in the world, stay with us and have a coffee.  Tell us what you are doing for the season.  

                        

My goal this season is to get the the book writing done then edit.   It is nice to have a good diversion with a good book and close out the static.  Barnes and Noble are still around.  Do you have a nice book store to go to in your area?  Are you going to be baking for lots of company for Thanksgiving?  Ihave a feeling with last year we'll be catching up with family and friends t rejoice in life and love an dbeing close again.

Earth Tone Stamp Design

 

Done on magenta paper, the colors are cobalt, red, white, forest green, and orange. Flick through some of the white spots to create winged shapes, using swirls to suggest wind. A regular arrangement of such designs create a quilt. That provides a theme suitable for imprinting on mugs, Tees, etc. Plus, you get a chance to get out your paints and play, until a more studied subject is on the menu.