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WHIPPED RICOTTA TIRAMISU CANNOLI

 

INGREDIENTS

1½ CUPS (360G) RICOTTA

1 CUP (250ML) THICK (DOUBLE) CREAM

1½ TABLESPOONS STRONG ESPRESSO COFFEE

¼ CUP (40G) ICING (CONFECTIONER’S) SUGAR, SIFTED, PLUS EXTRA FOR DUSTING

8 LARGE CANNOLI SHELLS

2 TABLESPOONS FINELY CHOPPED CHOCOLATE-COATED COFFEE BEANS

METHOD

Place the ricotta, cream, coffee and sugar in a large bowl and whisk until thickened. Place in a piping bag fitted with a 1.5cm star nozzle. Pipe the ricotta mixture into each cannoli shell, sprinkle with the coffee bean and dust with the extra sugar to serve. Makes 8.

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Let me tell you this: If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone.

It's not. The worst thing in life is ending up

with people who make you feel alone.

Robin Williams

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compatible

 as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love 

and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're

 not alone.

 Orson Welles

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive

 use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Rollo May

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody.

 You do what you want.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

People in general disappoint me.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made

 companionship with what there was around me, 

sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own

 insignificant self; but my books were always my friends,

 let fail all else.

Joshua Slocum

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Pablo Picasso

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right, or tell the truth."

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne Dyer.

 

Be Creative and innovative. Think differently and positively.

 

A blind man sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only few coins in the hat.

A woman was walking by. She took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. She then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. She put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind man. That afternoon the woman who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The man recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The woman said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What she had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

“It is He, Who has created for you (the sense of) hearing (ears), sight (eyes), and hearts (understanding).

Give thanks and have a beautiful day :-).

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Dior Couture

Delphine cocktail dress, Ligne Aimant, 1956 Autumn-Winter collection

Spectacular Venezuela Dress, Fall/Winter 1957

Caracas, Libre, 1957 Spring-Summer

'Zemire' cocktail dress 1955

Christian Dior’s daytime suits 

Auteuil two-pice day suit from the Spring/Summer 1949 collection

 Christian Dior 1955

Day dress from 1955 with handprinted 'Bambou' fabric

 by Staron with coordinating gloves

Sharon printing register from May 1955 recorded the

 names and firms commissioned to create the designs

Rose France Grand Gala Gown Autumn-Winter 1947-48

The Isabelle evening dress Spring-Summer 1948

Tour Eiffel gold jacket, 1949 Spring-Summer,

 made of silk satin lined with cotton lace

 Mexico evening dress from his 1953 spring/summer

 Tulip line made from silk organza 

 

Inspired by vintage couture

                                                 Jean Dessès 1953-54

1954

1950's