Thanksgiving

Poached Pear Pastry

This is a favorite fir al to enjoy.

Fun to make, even better to eat.

Ingredients:

4 firm pears 

2 cups sweet dessert wine

2 cups water

1.25 cups brown sugar

3 strips lemon zest removed with a vegetable peeler

juice of 1/2 a lemon

2 cinnamon sticks

1 sheet puff pastry thawed

Directions:

Peel the pears. 

If they don’t stand up straight on their own, cut a bit off the bottom to create a flat surface.

In a saucepan, combine the wine, water, sugar, lemon strips and juice, and cinnamon sticks. 

Heat over medium high until the sugar dissolves. 

Add the pears, and lay them on their sides.

Riper pears will need less cook time, but typically your pears need somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes on each side. 

Once the pear is knife tender on all sides, remove from the poaching liquid. 

You want the pears tender, but not mush, so watch over them.

Turn the heat to high to start reducing the poaching liquid. 

Reduce until it’s thick and amber colored.

We remove it from the heat and as it cools, it will thicken even more.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Cut the puff pastry into long strips using a pizza wheel.

Wrap the puff pastry strips around the outside of the pear, starting from the bottom. They should stick pretty well on their own.

Bake the pears for 15 to 20 minutes, until the puff pastry is golden brown. 

Drizzle the pears with the reduced poaching liquid, and enjoy!

Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

Letting Things Go

Everything Is Energy

From the Minds Journal:

The Nobel Prize awardees in physics, beyond doubt, proved that the physical world is one big ocean of energy that materializes and dematerializes in a split second, over and over again. Nothing is solid. 

This is the world of quantum physics.

They proved that thoughts are responsible for holding this ever-changing energy field together in the form and shape of the objects we know.

So why do we see a person, instead of flashing clusters of energy?

Think of a film roll. A film is a collection of about 24 frames per second. 

Each frame is separated from the other by a small space. 

Compared to the speed these frames change with, our eyes are tricked and see them as a continuous film.

Think about television. 

The cathode tube is a simple tube with a bunch of electrons hitting the screen in a certain way, making an illusion of shape and movement.

Anyway, this is how all objects are made.

We have five physical senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste). 

Each of these senses has a specific range (for example, a dog hears a different range of sound that people do; snakes see a different spectrum of light than us, and so on). 

In other words, our senses perceive energy from a certain fixed point of view and that’s how they create images and form our perception.

But that’s neither exact nor complete. That’s just an INTERPRETATION.

How can we say that everything is energy and we control it with the power of thoughts?

All our interpretations are based exclusively on our “inner map” of reality, but not the real truth. 

Our “map” is the result of the collective experience of our personal lives.

Our thoughts are associated with this invisible energy and they determine what form it will take. 

They can literally change the universe “particle after particle”, creating our 3D life.

Look around you.

Everything you see in our physical world began as an idea that kept growing until it materialized into a physical object through a series of steps.

You literally turn into your most frequent thoughts.

Your life has become what you imagined and believed in.

The world is literally your mirror, it allows you to experience everything you believe to be the truth in this 3D plane … until you change it.

Quantum physics tells us that the world is not a constant as it may appear to be. 

Instead, it is a place of constant motion in which our individual and collective thoughts keep building, tearing down, and rebuilding. It’s a perpetual mobile.

What we believe to be true is actually an illusion, almost magic.

Fortunately, we started to expose the illusion, and, most importantly, we are learning how to change it.

Here’s a simple explanation.

What are the components of our body?

The human body is comprised of nine systems, including the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary system.

What makes these systems?

-Tissues and organs.

What are tissues and organs made of?

-Cells.

What makes the cells?

– Molecules.

What makes a molecule?

– Atoms.

What makes an atom?

Energy!

We are just an energy light in its most beautiful and intelligent configuration. 

An energy that is constantly changing under the surface and all of that it’s controlled by our powerful mind. Everything is energy.

If you could see under a strong electronic microscope and do other experiments on it, you would see that you are made up of clusters of forever changing the energy in the shape of electrons, neutrons, protons, and other sub-atomic particles.

So is everything else around you. 

Quantum physics tells us that the act of observing the object is the one that causes the object to be there.

The object does not exist independently of its observer! 

So, as you can see, during observation, your attention is focused on something and your intention literally creates that thing.

That is scientifically proven.

Your world has consisted of soul, mind, and Each of these three has a function that is unique. What you can see with your own eyes and experience with your own body is the physical world, which we call the BODY. The body is an effect created by a cause.

That cause is called THOUGHT.

The body cannot produce. It can only experience and be experienced … it’s a unique ability. On the other hand, the thought cannot experience … it can make, create and interpret. It needs a world of relativity (the physical world, Body) to be experienced.

Energy is everything, the one that gives life thought and body.

The body has no power to create, although it gives the illusion that it does. This illusion is the reason behind so many frustrations. 

The body is a pure effect and has no power to cause or create.