I'd like that this could sound like one of those tear-jerking birthday cards, but even if I'm not good at getting exactly what I want I'll try to do my best.
I wish you a happy birthday. A very, very happy one.
I know you don't like this day of the year, I perfectly know that if you could you would skip it... just as I do with songs on my radio when I'm driving. But but but... IT IS you birthday and we have to celebrate. People usually get presents for their birthday: new shoes, clothes, books, jewels, sometimes even something more precious. But since you are an unusual person I thought that you deserved something different. Here it is. Just some notes and some words to let you know that I'm happy you are there.
It's your birthday, the cake is mine but we can share it :)
This song is for you, my friend.
Glossary tear-jerking: an excessively sentimental person, for example a tear-jerking person cries when he/she reads a nice birthday card from some friends
skip: when you skip, you do a little hop from foot to foot as you move along. When you have no patience you skip tracks on a cd
share: if you have a good friend you will probably share your cake, if you have a great friend you will share moments together eating cakes.
If you look up in the dictionary you will find that a “lowlife” is a “bad person”, someone of low moral character.
The title of The Weeknd and Future’s song suggests a reference to the word’s meaning, and their lyrics details the activities they consider to be a part of a “lowlife:” drugs, alcohol, strippers, cheating, murder, and spending exorbitant amounts of money.
But this song can also be interpreted as a play, a disapproval and a protest on the term “high life,” generally understood as a luxurious lifestyle afforded to the rich and famous.
I think this song is very beautiful because it concerns about life and the words are interesting for those who understand this kind of music; moreover the soundtrack is relaxing and the videoclip is very well done.
“Low Life” is a song by Future, an American hip hop recording artist, featuring the Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer The Weeknd. It was released on Christmas day 2015, as a gift to their fans.
Excerpts from the lyrics
Cause I'm always repping for that low life
Repping for that low life turn up
Low life, low life, low life
Know I'm repping for that low, low life
Representing, I'm representing, representing
Said I'm repping for that low life
Low life, low life, low life, low life
I'm representing for that low life
Said I'm repping for that low life
I'm repping, that's repping, I'm repping
Low life, low life, low life
Rep, rep, rep, rep, rep, rep, rep
Woo, woo, woo, woo
Yeah
I just took some molly, what else?
Got some bitch from Follies with us
She gonna fuck the squad, what else?
I'm a fuck her broads, what else?
Bitch from Pakistan, what up?
Ferraris and them Lambs, what else?
'Bout to fuck this club, what else?
'Bout to fuck this club, what else?
Glossary
Squad: any small group of persons engaged in a common activity; a team. Molly: Adverse effects of MDMA use include addiction, memory problems, paranoia, difficulty sleeping, teeth grinding, blurred vision, sweating, and a rapid heartbeat. Repping: a representative of a company, as a salesperson.
“See You Again” is the song recorded by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for the soundtrack of “Fast & Furious 7”, the last chapter of the saga dedicated to the super fast cars. Charlie Puth wrote the lyrics and he sings the original piece and the chorus of the song with Wiz Khalifa who instead is responsible for part of the stanzas. In a brief interview Charlie revealed that he wrote the song thinking in particular also to another friend of his who died very young in a car accident, the American actor Paul Walker, a symbol of the saga along with Vin Diesel. Who sings remember the good times spent with the friend now dead and so establishes a kind of dialogue, with the certainty that one day he will meet him again, hence the title of the song “See You Again” .The comments to this successful song could only come from Craig Kallman, president of Atlantic Records, who distributed the song and the soundtrack of “Fast & Furious 7”: "This is one of those special moments where all the forces are aligned to create a song able to vibrate emotionally million people around the world. The combination of the power of a star such as Wiz and the presentation entrusted to Charlie, as a singer and brilliant author, is truly magical and touching the nerves of Paul Walker legion of fans."
Lyrics
It's been a long day without you, my friend
And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again
We've come a long way from where we began
Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again
When I see you again
Damn, who knew?
All the planes we flew
Good things we've been through
That I'll be standing right here talking to you
About another path
I know we loved to hit the road and laugh
But something told me that it wouldn't last
Had to switch up
Look at things different see the bigger picture
Those were the days
Hard work forever pays
Now I see you in a better place
How could we not talk about family when family's all that we got?
Everything I went through you were standing there by my side
And now you gonna be with me for the last ride
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It's been a long day without you, my friend
And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again
We've come a long way from where we began
Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again
When I see you again
First you both go out your way
And the vibe is feeling strong
And what's small turn to a friendship
A friendship turn into a bond
And that bond will never be broken
And the love will never get lost
And when brotherhood come first
Then the line will never be crossed
Established it on our own
When that line had to be drawn
And that line is what we reach
So remember me when I'm gone
How could we not talk about family when family's all that we got?
Everything I went through you were standing there by my side
And now you gonna be with me for the last ride
So let the light guide your way, yeah
Hold every memory as you go
And every road you take will always lead you home, home
It's been a long day without you, my friend
And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again
We've come a long way from where we began
Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again
When I see you again
When I see you again
When I see you again
Glossary stanzas: an arrangement of a certain number of lines in a poem bond: feeling that unites one person to another brief: lasting or taking a short time entrust: to give something for safekeeping to (someone)
This is a delicious recipe from the Chinese tradition.
If you want to eat a tasty dish that will make you live a real Asian experience, you have to try this recipe! Tang Cu Pai Gu is bitter-sweet mix of ribs, spices and sauces with a sprinkle of vinegar and wine.
If you are lucky (and a bit lazy…), you can try Tang Cu Pai Gu in some famous Chinese restaurants or take-away.
I suggest you to try this recipe because it is a satisfying food experience.
If you are a good cook you can do it at home, following the recipe below!
INGREDIENTS:
1 pound spare ribs (cut into to 1.5 inch sections)
2 tablespoons of cooking oil
30-35g mashed rock sugar
2 tablespoons of light soy sauce
2 tablespoons of cooking wine
3 tablespoons of black vinegar
1 teaspoon of extra black vinegar
1 star anise (optional)
3 ginger slices
4 green onions (only the white part)
Hot water as needed
½ tablespoon of white sesame seed for garnishing
Spring onion for garnishing
INSTRUCTIONS:
1- Cut ribs into 1.5 inch sections. Place them in a pot with cold water. Bring to boiling and continue cooking for 2-3 minutes. Take the ribs out and rinse them under running warm water. Set aside to drain.
2- Add cooking oil and smashed rock sugar in a wok, heat over a slow fire. Keep stirring until the sugar melts and turns into dark red.
3- Add ribs until they become almost brown, place light soy sauce on top, cooking wine and black vinegar. Continue stirring and frying for 2 minutes, pour enough hot water to cover and add ginger, green onion and star anise.
4- Cover the pan with the lid and simmer for 25 minutes over slow fire. Stir once or twice in the process. Pick the ginger, green onion and star anise out in the later stage.
5- Turn up the fire. Keep stirring and stop when the sauce has almost adhered to the ribs. Be carefully in the last minutes in order not to get your ribs overcooked.
6- Add 1 extra teaspoon of black vinegar and sesame seeds. Combine well.
7- Garnish with chopped springs onion before service.
Glossary Lazy: taking a comparatively long time Inch: unity of length Wok: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel Pot: a kitchen utensil used for cooking Rinse: the act of removing Stir: the act of mix something Fry: to cook something with fat/oil Anise: aromatic herb Pour: to flow something in a different container Lid: the cover a hole (especially a hole in the top a container) Simmer: boil slowly something at low temperature Overcooked: cooked too long Garnish: to decorate with other food
I’ve been familiar to this recipe by chance…
It was a hot sunday morning in summer 2015. My friend and I decided to ride our scooter to the Oglio river near Palazzolo and there have a swim. Around midday other friends of us joined us and we had our bag lunch all toghether and after that we started getting fun diving and swimming in the river. After taking some pictures and selfies, it was time to go back home. When we climbed on our scooter again my friend and I realised that it didn’t start. We tried and tried again but it definitively left us walking home. So we had to push it for about 2 km until the house of my friend’s granny. She soon noticed we were very tired after the effort so she offered us a refreshing traditional dessert from Palermo. It’s called “gelo di melone”, a kind of watermelon pudding with chocolate chips on the top combined with a glass of black cherry sparkling syrup. I enjoyed it so much that I immediately asked her the recipe. Here it is, except the quantities of the ingredients because, my friend's grandmother said, "they are a secret".
Ingredients:
Watermelon
Cornstarch
Sugar
Chocolate chips
Preparation:
Grate the watermelon, separating the juice from the pulp and the seeds.
Pour the juice into a small pot, heat it adding the cornstarch and the sugar until you get a thick and jelly-like mixture.
Pour the mixture into proper molds and garnish with the chocolate chips.
Once it's cooled down, leave it to rest in the fridge for at least two or three hours.
Finally serve the "gelo di melone" with a glass of black cherry syrup (possibly diluted with sparkling water) to accompany it.
Glossary
by chanche: without plan or intent; accidentally. to join: to come into the company of; meet or accompany; to participate with (someone) in some act or activity; to take part with others bag lunch: a lunch meal made at home or bought and brought to work or another activity in a paper bag or similar container to dive: to jump quickly into water, especially headfirst to realise: to understand clearly effort: something done by hard physical work watermelon: a large melon with a hard, green rind and sweet, juicy, usually red pulp pudding: a soft jelly-like dessert, usually made with milk, sugar, flour, and flavoring syrup: a thick, sweet liquid consisting of fruit juices, water, etc., boiled with sugar starch: a white, tasteless chemical substance in plants, forming an important component of rice, corn, wheat, and many other vegetable foods, used for thickening gravies and sauces, making puddings, ecc... jelly: a savoury food preparation set with gelatine or with a strong gelatinous stock and having a soft elastic consistency mold: a empty form for giving a particular shape to a liquid or a soft substance to cool down: to reduce temperature to rest: to relax, to sleep, to take a break
If you follow the usual ingredients you will make the cake
but you will already know how it will taste.
People will appreciate it but they will forget it very soon.
It always takes a touch of genius in any recipe to be sure that it won’t die
with the last bite.
We are a group of girls with the passion of cooking and even if it's not your birthday today we are going to share with you some of our secret recipes!
Here is our special strawberry cheesecake... yummy!
INGREDIENTS
24 cookies
3 tablespoons of butter melted
250 g Philadelphia (or cream cheese softened)
¾ cup of sugar
3 eggs
DIRECTIONS
Preparation time: 20 m
Cooking time: 45 m
Ready in 4 h 5 m
PREPARATION
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Put 16 cookies in a plastic bag, flatten the bag to remove the excess of air, then finely crush cookies by rolling a rolling pin across the bag.
Place the crushed cookies in a bowl and add butter mixing carefully.
Press firmly onto bottom of springform pan
Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl using an electrical mixer on medium speed until the mixture is well blended. Then add the 3 eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition.
Sprinkle with marmalade and make the cake tasty and lip-smacking adding red and fresh strawberries
Bake for 45 minutes or until the centre is almost cooked. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight before serving.
Cut into 12 pieces and enjoy it!
If you resist eating the whole cheesecake store it in the refrigerator.
Glossary
Yummy: very pleasing to the taste, delicious
Flatten: to press (oneself or one’s
body) against a surface
Rolling pin: a tool consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at
each end
Bottom: the lowest or deepest part of anything
Pan: a wide or broad, usually shallow metal container used for cakes and for
cooking in general
Blend: to combine or mix two elements together so that the constituent parts
are indistinguishable
Sprinkle: to disperse or distribute here and there, for example you sprinkle
sugar on the top of a cake
Lip-smacking: displaying or expressing enjoyment or pleasure, especially at the
taste of food or drink
We have chosen this song because it is a love song and it passes down to us beautiful feelings, above all if you’re in love!
It’s fantastic to find a person who loves you as you love him/her.
The Goo Goo Dolls is an American band composed of three musicians, the typical punk-rock group: John Rzeznik (vocal and guitar), Robby Takac (bass and vocal) and Mike Malinin (drums).
Their name comes from True Detective magazine which advertised a doll called Goo Goo.
In 1998 Goo Goo Dolls were invited to write a song for the soundtrack of the Hollywood remake of "Wings of Desire" by Win Wenders: "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan.
The song written was "Iris" and it had suffered a resounding success, leading the Goo Goo Dolls on top of the charts around the world.
The lyrics relates directly to the plot of the movie: an angel who falls in love with a girl, but she can’t see him since he's an angel. He feels so much love for the woman that he gives up his angelic being to stay with her and became real.
The whole movie is a metaphor of the magic that surrounds a person when he/she falls in love: you disappear in front of the rest of the world and nothing is more important than having that person with you.
It's impossible to explain clearly what you feel, but what really counts is being understood by the persone you love!
Here is the lyrics:
And I’d give up forever to touch you
‘Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be
And I don’t want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
‘Cause sooner or later it’s over
I just don’t want to miss you tonight
And I don’t want the world to see me
‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can’t fight the tears that ain’t coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you’re alive
And I don’t want the world to see me
‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don’t want the world to see me
‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don’t want the world to see me
‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
Glossary: Soundtrack: the recorded sound accompaniment to a film Plot: the story of a play or a film Breathe: to take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide; to respire Tear: the clear salty solution secreted by the lacrimal glands, when human people cry, they produce tears Lie: an untrue or deceptive statement used to mislead Chart: a visual display of information Give up: not to fight difficulties., to renounce Resounding: characterized by resonance, having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected Ain’t: it's a slang word (am not, is not, are not)
Naples has two different types of street food: the best traditional ones and the modern ones that allow us to enjoy the new face of Naples.
Walking around the streets and alleys of Naples can be a completely different experience when accompanied by good street food. The Street Food is often criticized by many, but especially loved by people and tourists who cannot leave the city without trying some traditional Neapolitan products.
Naples is not only a place of tradition and culture, but in recent years new cultures from all around the world have set there bringing with them new forms of street food. Not only classic flavours, but also the American and Asian ones.
We want to propose you some recipes and descriptions of Traditional and Modern street food.
Zeppole and Panzerotti
Why not walking around the city while eating some Zeppole or Panzerotti freshly baked?
The Acuzano family, from 1938, manages the historic “Friggitoria Vomero”: here you can find Zeppole that are fresh pasta with a pinch of salt, fried in hot oil. The Panzerotti are potatoes croquettes stuffed with parsley, parmigiano or pecorino, salt and pepper, fried in hot oil as well.
Frittatine di pasta
Frittatine di pasta are that type of dish that once you have tried it, you cannot stop eating!
This is a traditional recipe, that you can try in every pizzeria while you are waiting for your pizza.
It is a croquette stuffed with bucatini, besciamella, cubes of ham and green peas. The mix is fried in hot oil.
On the web you can find a lot of recipes to make them by yourself, but the ones prepared by the shop “Imperatore” have an incredible flavour!
Taralli napoletani
This is a product that nowadays represents a tipical excellence.
Taralli are made with flour, sugna (lard), one cube of brewer’s yeast, almond, salt and pepper (the right amount), all baked for 25 minutes. The best Taralli are made by the Infante family, that owns “Casa Infante”. They are the exellence from the 1940.
Sfogliatelle
And, finally, here we are to the typical Neapolitan dessert: la Sfogliatella. This historic delight conquests every palate, Neapolitan or not.
The mixture is made by flour, strutto (lard), water, a pinch of salt, honey, stuffed with semolina, fresh ricotta, powdered sugar, eggs, water, sweets, vanilla extract, cinnamon, a pich of salt.
The historic “Pintauro” is the most famous bakery, that takes out the best Sfogliatelle of the planet!
Nowdays there also modern and tasty street food like Kebab, Pita, Hamburger and Hotdogs ...but that cannot be compared with the traditional Neapolitan dishes!
And remember... In Naples when the meal is ready you will always hear someone saying “Jamm à magnià!”
Glossary
Allow: To let someone do something; Alley: Narrow street with walls or buildings on both sides; Manges: Skillfully handle something; Delights: When you like someone or something; Recipe: Directions for making a dish or dessert; Brewer’s yeast: Used as leaven in baking and brewing; Flavour: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
Welcome to America! The rich country, the powerful world power, where people criticize other people for the skin color, vote inefficient politicians and do war without any reason.
Hey, but we’re in America, don’t they live well here?
This song was very criticized for the irony with which EMINEM talks about subjects like police, racism and the average American man. Eminem is a perfect example of the union between the black culture and the white culture: that’s why our newsroom thinks that the lyrics should be read and understood deeply. Here is the lyrics:
America, hahaha, we love you, how many people are proud to be citizens of this beautiful
Country of ours, the stripes and the stars for the rights that men have died for to protect,
The women and men who have broke their neck's for the freedom of speech the United States
Government has sworn to uphold, or
(You, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song) so we're told...
I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see,
So many motherfucking people who feel like me, who share the same views
And the same exact beliefs, it's like a fucking army marching in back of me, so many lives I
Touch, so much anger aimed, in no particular direction, just sprays and sprays, and straight
Through your radio waves it plays and plays, 'till it stays stuck in your head for days and
Days, who would of thought, standing in this mirror bleaching my hair, with some peroxide,
Reaching for a t-shirt to wear, that I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this, how
Could I predict my words would have an impact like this, I must've struck a chord, with somebody
Up in the office, cause congress keeps telling me I ain't causing nuthin' but problems, and now
They're saying I'm in trouble with the government, I'm loving it, I shoveled shit all my life,
And now I'm dumping it on...
[Chorus]
White America, I could be one of your kids, white America, little Eric looks just like this,
White America, Erica loves my shit, I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get, white America, I
Could be one of your kids, white America, little Eric looks just like this, white America, Erica
Loves my shit, I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get...
Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself, if they were brown, Shady lose, Shady
Sits on the shelf, but Shady's cute, Shady knew, Shady's dimple's would help, make ladies swoon
Baby, {ooh baby}, look at my sales, let's do the math, if I was black, I would've sold half, I
Ain't have to graduate from Lincoln high school to know that, but I could rap, so fuck school,
I'm too cool to go back, gimme the mic, show me where the fucking studio's at, when I was
Underground, no one gave a fuck I was white, no labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was
Like, fuck it, until I met Dre, the only one to look past, gave me a chance, and I lit a fire up
Under his ass, helped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got, was probably his in
Exchange for every white fan that he's got, like damn, we just swapped, sitting back looking at
Shit, wow, I'm like my skin is it starting to work to my benefit now, it's...
[Chorus]
See the problem is, I speak to suburban kids, who otherwise would of never knew these words
Exist, whose mom's probably would of never gave two squirts of piss, 'till I created so much
Motherfucking turbulence, straight out the tube, right into your living room I came, and kids
Flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre, that's all it took, and they were instantly hooked
Right in, and they connected with me too because I looked like them, that's why they put my
Lyrics up under this microscope, searching with a fine tooth comb, it s like this rope, waiting
To choke, tightening around my throat, watching me while I write this, like I don't like this,
Nope, all I hear is, lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy, sponsors working 'round the clock, to
Try to stop my concerts early, surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston,
After it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to blossom, so now I'm catching the flack
From these activists when they ragging, acting like I'm the first rapper to smack a bitch, or
Say faggot, shit, just look at me like I'm your closest pal, the poster child, the motherfucking
Spokesman now for...
[Chorus]
So to the parents of America, I am the derringer aimed at little Erica, to attack her
Character, the ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns, sent to lead the march right up to
The steps of congress, and piss on the lawns of the White House, to burn the casket and replace
It with a parental advisory sticker, to spit liquor in the faces of in this democracy of
Hypocrisy, fuck you Ms. Cheney, fuck you Tipper Gore, fuck you with the freest of speech this
Divided states of embarrassment will allow me to have, fuck you, [vocal melody],
He, hahaha, I'm just playing America, you know I love you...
Glossary
Proud: when you are proud you feel satisfaction with yourself (proud=arrogant, sometimes) Citizens: people who live in a country Strips and stars: it is a reference to the American flag Freedom of speech: a situation in which all people can speak freely Sworn: promised Uphold: to support something Believe: for example, I believe in Santa Claus Anger: a strong emotion you feel when you think someone has done you wrong Waves: Eminem means the radio signal Stuck in your head: something fixed in your head Bleaching my hair: make hair lighter, for example make it blonde Ain’t: it is a slang expressions to say “I am not”
Trouble: difficulty Trl: Total Request Live, it is an American TV program Swoon: to faint, to overcome with emotion Give a fuck: not being interested in something Gave a chance: to give an opportunity Suburban: people who doesn’t live in a centre of a city Lyrics: the words of a song Comb: a small plastic or wooden tool you can use to untangle your hair in the morning Choke: when someone suffocates Throat: neck Bothered: when someone is annoyed Faggot: an offensive slang term Pal: friend Derringer: it is a small pistol Worthless: without any value Parental advisory: it’s a sort of parental control on the children’s computer Allow: to consent something
“Stitches” is a country pop song about a love crisis and suffering. In the song the singer seems to be the victim of a difficult love situation: his ex-girlfriend is breaking his heart.
Shawn Mendes wrote this song thinking about the people that were living the same situation. He collaborated with Glen Scott, Martin Terefe and Scott Harris. He needed stitches for his broken heart, but who doesn’t need them?
Our newsroom, “TheWeather”, has chosen this song because it is a situation that everyone sooner or later will face.
This song is about a situation that young people very often feel. He speaks of a love affair gone wrong and how the singer feels.
Listening to this song we understand the singer’s feeling and emotion and we can easily remember the way we have felt when we passed through that kid of period.
Glossary
Sore: a sore is a broken patch of skin, or it's something that gives you pain Deeper: extending far down from the top or surface Bleed: when you bleed, blood runs out of your body Stitch: a medical link made on your skin when you have an injury Lure: to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward. Move: to change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically. Needle: a very fine piece of metal with a point at one end and a hole or eye for thread at the other, used in sewing Thread: a fine cord of twisted fibers used in sewing Breathe: when you breathe you take air into your lungs and let it out in a regular rhythm Aching: a persistent usually moderately intense pain Knee: a part of the leg, the joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella Tripping: fall because of an obstacle Crisis: it is a difficult or dangerous time in which a solution is needed and quickly Seem: to give the impression or sensation of being something or having a particular quality Need: a need is something essential Suffer: to feel pain or something equally unpleasant
Hello we are the Truceklan group!
We chose this topic because one of our class mate is very good at preparing this dish, and sometimes he makes us taste it (we are very lucky!)
This is his mother's recipe. We asked her if she could give it to us: at the beginning she did not want but later she decided to share it.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of eggplant
- 3 eggs
- 150 grams of flour
- 500 g of tomatoes
- 1/2 onion
- A few leaves of basil
- 1/2 cup of oil
- 300 grams of smoked cheese
- 150 grams of grated Parmesan cheese
- salt
- oil (extra virgin olive oil)
How to prepare Parmigiana
To prepare the sauce soften the onion in oil, add the chopped tomatoes, just before finishing the cooking, add the basil and season with salt.
Slice the eggplants lengthwise, with a 2.1 cm thick, dip in flour, beaten eggs with a little salt and fry in oil.
In a baking dish greased with oil throw a ladle of tomato sauce, forming a layer of eggplant, a handful of grated Parmesan cheese, a ladle of sauce, mozzarella slices, another layer of eggplant and so on. Finish with the tomato.
Bake at 180 degrees for forty minutes.
A variant provides that eggplants are grilled instead of fried. In another, the eggplants are peeled and rolled in whole wheat flour, beaten egg and again in flour, making the dish look like baked pasta, because the eggplants treated in this way become almost unrecognizable.
Glossary Recipe: a recipe is directions for making a dish or dessert Eggplant: egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin, typically dark purple Flour: Flour is a fine, powdery ingredient that's used to bake bread and cake and it is made by grinding wheat or other grains. Egg: an egg is the shell-covered, roundish object that's laid by birds and reptiles, which usually has an embryo inside. Potato: The potato is a tuber. You can find it baked, mashed, or fried,. Mozzarella: Mozzarella is a soft, mild cheese that's commonly used to make pizza. If you love that stretchy white melted cheese on your slice of pepperoni, you're a fan of mozzarella. Ham: Ham is a type of pork, or meat that comes from a pig. Cheese: Cheese is a dairy product that's made from milk. Many delicious foods with cheese are made even more delicious . Oil: You can dress your salad with olive oil and use motor oil in your car's engine To cut: The verb cut means the act of slicing with a knife To mix: To mix is to combine or blend different things together. Season: one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions. Ladle: it is a large spoon with a deep bowl for scooping and serving soup and other liquids. If you make clam chowder, it might be messy to serve it without using a ladle. Baking tray: a cooking tool consisting of a flat rectangular metal sheet used for baking cookies or biscuits. Immerse: to put something in a liquid. Oven: An oven is a device for baking food using heat. Pan: A pan is a container used for cooking.
Heidi lives in a village in Switzerland. When she is only a year old, her parents die and she is left with her aunt Dete. Dete moves to Frankfurt and she takes Heidi to live with her grandfather in the mountains, but he does not want her but has no choice. Heidi is a sweet-tempered child and Grandfather soon comes to love her. She makes friends with a boy called Peter and she loves going up the mountain with him and his goats. Grandfather takes Heidi to visit Peter’s grandmother. She is blind and regrets the fact that Peter can’t read to her from her old song book. She is also afraid because the house is old and it might fall down. Heidi goes to visit her every fine day, and her grandfather goes sometimes to repair the house. Two years pass and Dete returns to take Heidi to the house of a rich family in Frankfurt, whose twelve-year-old invalid daughter, Clara, needs company. Heidi makes friends with her and learns to read, but she is homesick. She writes a letter to Clara’s father, who comes quickly and he finds out Heidi walking in her sleep in her white nightdress. He sees the child is unhappy and decides to send her home. On her way up the mountain, Heidi visits Peter’s grandmother and she also teaches Peter to read. Then Clara visits Heidi and loves the mountain life and eventually she learns to walk.
Heidi is a cartoon that accompanied us in our days since we were kids.
The little Heidi was loved by everyone and has made happy our childhood happier:
it cheered our mornings before going to school. She taught us humility and
generosity toward others and the value of friendship. We like to remember when
Heidi, despite the negative events, could find a way to solve the situation and
make everyone happy… all by herself, without any help. Thinking about the new
generation, we realize that curiosity that aroused in us in waiting a new
episode was greater, since we didn’t have all the technology that features the
media now.
So, we wonder, can today’s children really grasp the message that
the author was willing to send us?
Glossary
Sweet-tempered: a person who is friendly, cordial Blind: a person who can’t see Goat: an animal which was found native in mountainous regions but today is distributed in domesticated varieties. Homesick: depressed or melancholy at being away from home and family
we have chosen “Masters
of War” by Bob Dylan because we listen to music often without a real meaning,
avoiding those songs written on true events that should do reflect.
Bob Dylan through this
song written more than 50 years ago still succeeds in getting the attention of
listeners through words that still are worth.
The first time that we
have listened to this song and we have read the lyrics we realized that
it is about deep true subjects. So we suggest you to listen to it!
Bob Dylan released the
album “The freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” in the spring of 1963. In the meantime,
Martin Luther King pronounced his famous words “I have a dream” and there was
also the murder of John Kennedy (president of the USA) in Dallas. The song’s
melody was adapted from the traditional “Nottamun Town” (an English folk song
which possibly dates from the late medieval period) and it became immediately a
hymn for the pacifist. In the USA and
all around the world the radio was transmitting this song:
Come you Masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.
How much do I know
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your Death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'til I'm sure that you're dead!
Let's reflect about this
verse: “You play with my world, like it's your little toy”. The meaning is that
the other person shouldn’t make the same mistakes he did in the past and we
have to be kind and friendly with the other people, especially with someone
that lives a hard life. So we have not to be evil and bad with the weak people.
We are all citizens of
the world so nobody can obstruct us and our dreams.
Glossary
Lyrics: the text of a song Bullet: a projectile that is fired from a gun To deceive: to lie, trick Drain: a hole through which water is carried away To fasten: to attach, for example when you drive you have to fasten your safety belt Trigger: you shoot the gun by pulling the trigger Mansion: hall, residence To flow: to run, for example water flows in a river To bury: when you dig a hole in the ground to bury something Fear: afraid, for example you can have fear of snakes To hurl: to throw something away hard Threatening: minacious To be worth: the quality that makes something valuable Forgiveness: the act of excusing a mistake or offense Toll: a fee, a payment made for something such as the use of the roads Casket: the box in which a corpse is buried or cremated Pale: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness Lowered: below the normal level Obstruct: when you obstruct something, you block it
