LUNCH IN FRANCE

How lunch in France looks like? What is typical for France, is the fact that generally, French people have two hours lunch break during work. Oftentimes, they start their work at 9 a.m. and finish at 17.p.m. For this reason, they like eat their lunch with they workmates in restaurant. Of course, It isn’t a principle and sometimes they eat baguettes during the work. Therefore, if they have time, they like to order in restaurant. In this case meal can consist of appetizer like salad or soup, than  a meat or fish accompanied with a type of potato and a warm vegetable, followed with a dessert and occasionally a cheese platter. Lunch is often accompanied by wine atlough they have to back to work.

BREAKFAST IN FRANCE

Traditional breakfast in France doesn’t resemble breakfasts in other countries, so don’t expect to find bacon, eggs and sausage. So what actually do the French eat?

Traditional French breakfast consist of bread like farm bread and very popular in France baguettes. They combine it with jam, butter or the both. During special days like Sunday, they often eat freshly baked croissants which they can buy in local bakeries. Children are allowed to eat this croissants filled by chocolate, but adults eat it with jam or dipped in coffee, but they rather don’t eat croissants with butter.

Concerning drinks, it is not surprise that French love coffee. It is the most popular hot drink which go with breakfast, but tea is also commonly served in France. Children, of course, don’t drink coffee, so generally they drink fruit juice.

Additionally, they  eat yoghurts or fresh fruits for breakfast, but 3-4 slices it is enough for them.

This difference between France and England, for example, probably is the result of different climate. Personally I like eat bread with jam and coffee as a breakfast, but in this case I’m hungry after short time.

SPRING!

Yesterday we had first day of spring. J It is a wonderful period when all world wakes up. Flowers are blooming and we have impression that all world is positive, we are looking at the world through rose- coloured glasses. Of course, spring it is a good time to realize ours resolutions, to start a new things and above all, to start play sports like running and skating. Finally, we can ride a bicycle, what I like seriously. Unfortunately we have to forget about winter sports like skating and snowboarding. Concerning the mountains, only walking tours without skiing remain. Children can be disappointed that there is no more snow, but knowing our climate.. we can see sometimes snow during Easter, so who knows !

Benefits of drinking green tea

1. It reduces the risk of cancer: lung, breast, skin, stomach, colon, pancreas
It contains substances which defend our DNA from carcinogens

2. It make easier a slimming and it reduce cellulite
This drink effectively accelerate metabolism and reduce appetite.

3. It stimules the blood circulation
Regular drinking green tea prevents hypertension, reducing the risk of heart disease

4. It improve your learning ability
Due to the high content of caffeine in its composition.

5. It improve skin appearance
It slows the aging process so legular drinking slows the ageing process. What is more, green tea extracts have an antibacterial properties

6. Your immunity increase
Green tea support a proper functioning of the immune system

How to prepare crème brûlée ? – one of most popular french dessert

Recipe for 6 servings

Preparation time : 5 minutes + 40 minutes of baking

INGREDIENTS :

·         4 egg yolks

·         200 ml of milk

·         200 ml of liquid cream

·         50 g of powdered sugar

·         25 g brown sugar to caramelize

PREPARATION :

1.       Preheat oven on 100^o. Whip egg yolks with sugar. Pour hot milk and cream on it, mix it and avoid lathering.

2.       Prepare 6 little bowles, wash it using cold water and than pour the cream into.

3.       Bake it about 40 minutes. The cream has must be still trembling.

4.       Cool it down and leave it in a cool place between 4 and 24 hours.

5.       Dust with brown sugar and carmelize it using the fire. Than set for 5 minutes.

Bon appétit !

3 KEYS TO STRENGTHEN SELF-CONFIDENCE

Self-confidence is not a gift from heaven, we have to create it. Instead of this creation we have build a lack of confidence because of some unfortunate event or because of the others. We need some support to build our self- confidence.

Interior speech

The most important is to concentrate on our advantages and to forget our disadvantages, or at least do not expose them to the foreground. We have to change the way od thinking – from negative to positive.

Create your own value scale and forget about the past

Forget all criticism and all injunction, just focus on what do you want to do. People who were near you, created a schema and you feel obligated to follow it. But you don’t have to. Create your own objective and seek to it without thinking about schema and criticism.

Use your skills

It is better to improve yourself with small steps than do all the things in one moment and expect extraordinary effects. It is indispensable for aquire the self-confidence.
So you can’t be to rigorous for yourself. 

Inspired by: http://www.ithaquecoaching.com/articles/3-cles-pour-augmenter-la-confiance-en-soi-173.html

Vegetarianism

Millions people live without eating any meat and even fish, and each one of them has his own reasons for doing so : animals, environment, health, appearance, taste, to be trendy.

I will present a few advantages of being on vegetarian diet :

• ·         This diet is better for our health : balanced vegetarian diet is one of the best diets for our body.
• ·         It is better for environment : this diet is one of the best choices because it is more friendly for our entourage. The meat industry use an immense quantity of the ground, water, fossil fuels producing at the same time 18% of global greenhouse emissions and others pollutions.
• ·         This way of eating is better, of course, for the animals : more than 1 million animals are killed every day only because we want to eat them.  What is more, 80% of this living creatures came from the indrustial farms.
• ·         It is an act of solidarity : the occidental model of eating exhausted planetary resources to the detriment of the south countries.
• ·         It is a delicious food.

This reasons aren’t exhaistives. A good many religious recommend this diet and there is a great number of people who decided to refrain from meat on account of more general ethical reasons. This diet can be also one of the cheapiest ways of eating.