Oreo Ice Cream !

Hello hello! Summer is almost here and by the end of this week officially! The temperature goes higher and higher everyday! So is mine actually, 'cause it happens to have a cold the last days :(
Nevertheless, I have prepared for you a very easy recipe for homemade ice cream that you will love!
I have already made it twice the last month!

For the Oreo Ice Cream you will need:

200 ml whipped cream
400 ml sweetened milk
200 ml coffee milk or evaporated milk
1 small envelope or vanilla aroma
40 gr sugar powder
oreo biscuits

Before the whole procedure starts, leave all the ingredients for at least half an hour in the fridge. Then start with the whipped cream. The key to a successful ice cream is the whipped cream as it needs to be very well done! After mixing the whipped cream very well, I put it in the fridge and I let it to be there for as long it takes to grate the biscuits. I use ~ 5 oreo biscuits.
In the next step, I add the milk and the vanilla in the mixture with the whipped cream and I mix again. I put the mixture back to the fridge for some time and then I add the biscuits. I add the biscuits in the end and after the mixture is already cold enough, because I don't want the biscuits to sit at the bottom!
I knew this simple recipe since I was a kid, but this is the first time that I try it with oreo cookies! Oreo in greek means nice and I can tell you my ice cream was a great success! Next time I'll try another taste :) Keep the base the same and replace the oreo cookies with other biscuits/syrup/fruits and then you get a different taste of ice cream. I wish you good luck!

Discrimination

Dear readers, this time allow me to disclose some of my deepest thoughts to you. Is not that they were meant to be secret, but is more that they didn't really have the reason to be said out loud. Thus, I decided to aggregate them all in this post.

The theme of this post is about fat, yes fat, being fat, be considered as fat and all the implications that this has. In my opinion, the root of all these, is that sex sells. Our world was mainly led by men. Women are considered as a pretty creature, this humanoid creature that has to care about her body, her appearance, her kind manners, pleasing her husband and caring about the children. No matter how many trials have been made by women claiming their equal rights, this has been succeeded only in the so called, western world. I won't mention in this post the suffering of women in other countries. But I'll talk about countries, where both men and women have rights in education and in information, that is given generously on TV, radio, magazines and Internet!!. There is nothing you cannot find on the Internet! and yet the media manage to brainwash and poison our minds. Media define what is nice, what is good, what is healthy, what is manly or not, what you should want or not. The only feature that is used for this classification, is the money. If it sells is good, if not is bad. And the answer is always Boolean: Yes or No, Right or Wrong, Good or Bad. There is no middle way.

I consider myself as a lucky person, because I had the chance to study and because I had the chance to live abroad, in 2 different countries than mine. What i learned, is to be tolerant to those different than me and respect them for who they are and what they do and not how they look like. I opened my eyes, my ears and I observed the people around me. I chose whom I want to be and what is right to do. I have learned that we were not made in a mold and thus we do not look all the same.

Mainly due to my bioinformatics studies, I have learned that even if we share the same genetic information, DNA, that sort of defines that we are Homo sapiens and not e.g. zebrafish, we are still not the same. Because our body is a complicated machinery, that expresses every path of this information differently. This is why some people are blond, or have lack of adequate amount of insulin, or low blood pressure, or low testosterone and so on and so forth. I am very lucky to have gay friends or friends that chose to change their gender. 'Cause this reminds me that nothing is black and white in Biology. There is no wrong or right, is just different.

We are blond or dark, tall or short, muscular or not, with wide skeleton or not, blind, deaf... We are all those and even more in a big amount of it or less. It doesn't matter at all, because this is what makes us unique, special, beautiful! We are in this world to be real and not perfect! To share our love and create together. Any kind of classification is meant to separate us and I honestly mercy all those people that put labels to others.

I hate being told who I am, what i should do or eat. There is plenty of information out there, I know how to find it. Everybody has different body and knows well what is wrong or right for himself. If you find yourself putting different labels on other people, then you probably are a person with plenty of time. Why don't you consider finding a new hobby instead?

I came across to a project called the "The watchers". Is a book written by Haley Morris Cafiero. The book contains an aggregation of photos made by her depicting herself and people around her. She is probably considered as fat/overweight/obese by many that look at her with repulsion. And this is what she wants to show to us with her pictures. The way people look at her while she lives her daily life. The way we look at people and we name them labels. I have read that Haley holds a Bachelor in Photography and a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Ceramics from University of North Florida and a MFA (Master in Fine Arts) in Art from University of Arizona. She is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at Memphis College of Art. Her series of photographs, Wait Watchers, has been featured in over 50 articles all over the world and she has appeared on CBS This Morning and NPR to discuss her photographs. She has been nominated for the 2014 Prix Pictet and is a finalist for the Renaissance Prize. From this description, I see a very active and creative person, that has good studies and she is an Associate professor and Assistant Dean! Yet, she has been criticized for her appearance. Who are you ?? that you put labels to people?

People can go as far as their knowledge and imagination allows them to. You are the only limit to yourself. Learning/reading/listening/observing makes you a greater person. And always remember, the way people behave to you shows who they are and not who you are. When people call me things, I get mad at first, but then I mercy them, because they didn't have the life and the experiences that I had.