Homemade Frappé ;)

Like I promised, my recipe for this week will teach you how to prepare yourself a frappé.
The recipe was done by my mother and it works fine for my family, but you can adapt it to your own tastes or according to the ingredients you have. Let's get started.

This is for approximately 3 or 4 people.
Ingredients:
- Ice  (I use around 16 ice cubes, the more ice you use, the less milk you pour.)
- Milk (1 cup per person (4 in this case), or a little less if you used more ice than stated above.)
- Coffee powder : 60g. (Around 3 envelopes of 20g each.)
- Vanilla (1/2 spoon)
- Kahlúa: coffee liqueur (1-2 spoons)
- Cinnamon powder (Just to decorate the top at the end.)

Additional material:
-Blender
-Spoon
-Cups

Now step by step :)

Get your kitchen blender ready.

Pour in 16 ice cubes or so.

Pour in the coffee powder. Three of the 20g packs below, or an equal amount of any coffee powder.

Now, pour in the milk. Remember, 1 cup (or a little less) per person. In this case, you can pour in 3-4 cups.

It's time for the vanilla and Kalhlúa, here you decide how much you want of each. I recommend a 1/2 teaspoon of the first, and 1 spoon of the second one).

And that's it. Mix it all with the blender and pour in tall cups.

It should look something like this:

Isn't it pretty? Tastes delicious. :)
You can also now decorate the top part with some cinnamon powder. (Unless you're allergic to it ;P ).

And voilà, it's ready to enjoy.

For any doubts, comments or suggestions, ...comment below.

xo~

Living a little bit longer? Sounds perfect.

So I haven't updated this in a while.. and since school's over for now, I figured it'd be nice if I start using this blog again. :) Maybe one day it'll become important... (or not.)

Here's how it will go:
Mondays or Tuesdays I will post news and information and stuff like that.
Wednesdays or Thursdays I will post recipes.
And Fridays or Saturdays I'll post fun or random stuff. (facts, art, crazy news, whatever.)

Ok, now, some news I read recently.

Headline reads:

"Two cups of coffee a day cuts overall risk of dying by 10 percent, research shows." 

Even though there is a certain controversy due to the results of different studies that say coffee might be good or bad for some specific diseases or body functions, there is a new discovery. A study started in 1995 with leader researcher Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute, shows that people who drink coffee might actually live longer than those who don't.

"Compared to those who drank no coffee, men who had two or three cups a day were 10 percent less likely to die at any age. For women, it was 13 percent. Even a single cup a day seemed to lower risk by 6 percent in men and 5 percent in women. " (cbsnews.com)

However, even though for coffee drinkers there was less risk of having heart or respiratory diseases, diabetes, strokes, etc., there was no visible effect on cancer death risk.

Click here for the whole article. I strongly recommend you to fully read it. :)

As always, it's up to you to decide whether you consider coffee as part of your diet or not. I know I will. <3

Stay tuned for Wednesday's Receipe :D I'm sure you'll love it.