Steak and caramelised Onion Sandwiches with Mustard Cream

Try this fingers licking delicious Steak sandwich which is served with caramelised onion and mustard cream to make a great deal.

Ingredients:

• cooking oil spray
• 2 medium brown onions, sliced
• 2 teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 1/4 cup extra light sour cream (we used Weight Watchers)
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 500g ‘minute’ steaks, trimmed
• 8 slices multigrain sourdough
• 2 cups lettuce leaves
• 2 tomatoes, sliced
• 1/2 cup canned beetroot slices, drained

Method:

Step 1 Spray a large frying pan with oil. Add onion and cook for 10–15 minutes over low heat, until very soft. Add 1 tablespoon water occasionally to prevent sticking. Stir in sugar and vinegar. Remove from heat and keep warm.

Step 2 Beat together sour cream and Dijon mustard in a small bowl. Set aside.

Step 3 Spray steaks with oil and season with ground black pepper. Cook over high heat for 1 minute each side, or until browned and just cooked. Remove from heat and rest for 2 minutes.

Step 4 Meanwhile, toast bread and place 4 pieces on plates. Top with lettuce, tomato, beetroot, caramelised onions and steaks. Spoon over mustard cream and top with remaining toast.

Women’s Healthy Diet Plan

When it comes to diet, women should be careful in selecting the food menu. The countless women’s healthy diet plans shown on television are not for everyone. You have to keep few questions in mind before you are following the women’s healthy diet plan.

Women’s fitness is a serious issue and to figure out that which diet is right for you, you have to ask yourself: Does it match the style in which I eat? Women’s health guide suggest that dinner and lunch are not enough, in case of traveling take home cooked meals like sand witches.

Women’s healthy diet plan suggest that you should also see if you exercise this much? Women fitness regime emphasise that some diets mix in a lot of physical activity, while others keep it simple to aerobics. If you’re the kind of person who can’t stand exercise, or isn’t very active, following a diet that requires 5-6 visits a week gym is not going to help you out.

Women’s health also states that you should see if you are going to follow women’s healthy diet plan. When people start a diet, they have a goal in mind to lose X amount of pounds and would go on for six months and as soon as they go off the diet, they will quickly regain those lost pounds.

To keep the weight off permanently, you need a weight loss plan that you can follow every single day for the rest of your life starting with a question: are the foods practical?

First of all for women’s health sake, don’t pick a diet that excludes your favourite food groups or is simply not something you like. While eating fresh fruits and vegetables all day can be rewarding to your health, fresh fruits tend to be much more expensive than other types of diet food.

Also women’s healthy diet plan questions the seriousness of your commitments towards fitness and health regime. The fact is, we don’t like to be chained down by a certain food plan, we, need some flexibility also.

For women’s health sake, take your goals into consideration, your lifestyle, and your ability to follow a diet and you’ll be sure to select one that is right for you.

Woman and Man, made for each other

Have you ever thought that why God has made only two creations in the form of humans, a man and a woman? Furthermore, why he made them in pairs?
The perfect answer I’ve observed is “to maintain the balance”. In order to have a sense of stability and a feel of equality, not only human beings but every living organism is present in the form of pairs; a male & a female.

Different school of thoughts have their own different point of views, logics etc, to describe the reason of being in pair. For example, biologists say that it’s simply because of the need of reproduction, biologically grown-up individuals (both animal & Human) attract towards each other just to reproduce. This is the purpose of being living, according to most of them. In sociologist’s point of view, man (human being) is a social animal; so we need others to live comfortably, with the support of one another. In every aspect of live, rich or poor, old or young, man or women, we all just need one another, in many ways; emotionally, psychologically, religiously, financially, socially etc. Particularly, to maintain a family system, which is the basic unit of one’s society, man and woman “need” each other.

Psychologists reveal that with the aim of living happy, healthy and a well-balanced life, it’s necessary to have a loving & sincere life partner. One can perform the duties at work place better, when he/she feels better in every way, having internal happiness and satisfaction. One can have soft-hearted nature and can be generous to all, only when he/she knows the value of emotions & feelings. One can be active or full of life, only when he/she is having some sold purpose to live. This all can only be happen to one, having a caring, loving & sincere life partner. Actually, the presence of such a spouse in your life can fulfill your life with happiness, it gives you courage to tackle every difficulty, and it boosts your confidence to face the whole world.

However, religious school of thought supports all these logics, and considers them rightly. Now, let’s analyze the above mentioned logics by different experts of their related fields. First let’s talk about the biological point of view. No doubt, mature individuals feel the need to reproduce but in this regard, there is a big big difference between animals and humans. On the contrary to animals, humans feel this attraction through the beautiful process, which we call “LOVE”. Yes, man and woman when started feeling like this for someone special, it indicates that he or she will that one; and they make pair.

Similarly, through social context, when suddenly or with the passage of time, one meet with the other one and started knowing him/her, they come to know about their family background, education, occupation, living and life style etc. Then if one finds the other, “just perfect” to live with, they make pair; as to harmonize the living standards, one always wants an understanding life partner.

Now here comes the mind readers, the psychologists; they talk about sentiments. Feelings, emotions, nature, habits, etc all means a lot to them. They reveal the hidden secret of happiness to us, the presence of love ones around us, specially the presence of someone utmost special. So according to them, it’s too necessary to choose your life partner on the basis of trust, sincerity, respect and other such valuable parameters. Only then, you can keep yourself psychologically satisfy and can perform all your tasks in a better way.

The last but the most important is to obey the religious point of view, which teaches us the lesson of synchronization. The harmony & balance in the family system, which can only be possible if man and women treat one another equally, and give the respect one deserve. Every religion recommends a beautiful relationship status of marriage, to unite the twolove birds in a one strong bond for forever.

So, beyond all the differences, physical, financial, mental, emotional and spiritual, treat your partner equally and don’t even think that these differences are the problems; you have to face. Mark them only as diversities in personalities and don’t let them enter in your life to disturb. Two love birds might have some contradictions between them but they must have many similarities for sure, if they are made for each other.

Taylor Swift: The American Beauty

Curly blonde hair, cowboy boots, glittery guitars, long gowns and princess dresses can make you think about few female American singers but if we talk about grabbing loads of awards just at the age of 20 than there is no confusion about the name that pops up in anyone’s mind and that is ‘T-swizzle’… THE ULTIMATE TAYLOR SWIFT!

Taylor swift is a multi-Grammy Award winning American, in 2010 and at the age of 20, became the youngest artist in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Not only this, but in 2011, Swift was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year. Additionally Swift has been named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the Entertainer of the Year for both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, among many other accolades. As of this writing, she is also the top-selling digital artist in music history.

Born on 13 December 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift spent most of her childhood on an 11 acre Christmas tree farm. Her family moved to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, when she was age 9. When she was 12, she wrote her first song ‘Lucky You’. At that time, no one knew that the song would actually get lucky for Swift. Because it was then, when she realized her passion about music. Swift’s family moved to Nashville when she was age 14 and once she was in Nashville, Swift secured an artist development deal with RCA Records.

Swift left RCA Records when she was age 15 because she was ready to release an album using her own material, while RCA wanted her to record the work of other songwriters and wait until she turned 18 to release an album. At an industry showcase at Nashville’s The Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks Records executive, who was in the process of forming independent label Big Machine Records. Swift was one of Big Machine’s first signings.

‘People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has‘, is one of the personal quote of Swifty which shows that music is her passion. Her thoughts have always been very different from the teenage school going girls. Taylor thinks that there’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Taylor has a very different feel in her songs. She mostly talks about her life and exes in her songs and there is a whole story telling in her songs.

Awards and Achievement For Taylor Swift, The American Beauty:

• Six-time GRAMMY winner, and the youngest winner in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (for Fearless, released in 2008).

• Her 2010 album, Speak Now, was lauded on Rolling Stone’s prestigious The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (by women) list, and Time magazine has named Taylor one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

• Billboard’s Woman of the Year

• The reigning American Music Awards Artist of the Year

• Both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music’s current Entertainer of the Year.

• Most awarded star in the history of the Teen Choice Awards, taking home honors for both music and movies.

• Career record sales in excess of 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads.

• Each of her three studio albums has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide, and her most recent album, Speak Now, is one of only 17 albums in the entire history of music to sell more than 1 million copies in a single week.

• She has had singles top both the country and pop radio charts around the globe, is one of the top 5-selling digital music artists worldwide, and is the top-selling digital artist in country music history.

• Taylor holds the Billboard records for the Most Top 10 Debuts in the History of the Hot 100 Chart, the Most Charting Songs from One Album in a Single Week, and the Longest Charting Album on the Top 200 Chart. Speak Now is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Fastest Selling Digital Album by a Female Artist.

These are just the highlights of her achievements. There is a lot more than this!!

Taylor Swift will release her fourth studio album, Red, on October 22nd, 2012. So all the fans of Taylor Swift, Be ready to Grab RED in October!

Keep your eyes alive: Banish bags and blitz dark circles with our beauty advice and beauty tips

Use our beauty style guide for eliminating under eye problems. Our beauty tips and beauty products will help you in your quest for trouble free peepers!

When it comes to beauty advice, there are several avenues to explore. So for now, we will focus on just one. They say our eyes are the windows to our souls. So it’s a good idea to use the best beauty tips to make sure your peepers are looking at their best. Here we have a beauty style guide for your eyes, including some great beauty products to fix those dark circles and puffiness around the eyes. Follow these beauty tips and see the change.

Dark Circles
Some dark eye circles are hereditary, in which case it’s harder to shift them. Our beauty advice: Treat them with a beauty product aimed at bluish circles. Try Good Skin Instant Lightening Cream.

Yellow or brown coloured circles are caused by melanin build up. Our beauty advice is to use an eye cream with added SPF. A good beauty product to try is Liz Earle Daily Eye Repair SPF10.

Beauty advice for when you want to try and hide those dark circles in the day is to use a cream with light diffusing particles. Try this beauty product: Olay Total Effects Eye Transforming Cream.

For some non cream based beauty style advice, we suggest you drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of water daily. Another beauty tip, which I learnt on my travels to Asia, is to apply potato slices on your dark circles for 15 minutes daily.

De Puff Those Bags
Lack of sleep is usually the main cause for excess baggage under the eyes! Our beauty style advice is to try exercising or sleeping with one less pillow at night!

A beauty product raved about being a fantastic replacement to surgery is Skin Doctors Eyetuck, claiming to reduce puffiness in 95% of users who have tried it. What better beauty tip could one need?

A newer beauty product I am a fan of is Garnier’s Eye Roll-On, which contains caffeine to boost circulation.

Beauty tip alternatives include heading to a sauna, where the steam will reduce the puffiness instantly. Or another beauty tip is to hold some ice to the area surrounding the eye.