Sunday, April 27, 2014

Healthy Veggie Lasagna Recipe

Veggies:
3/4 cup sliced mushrooms
3/4 cup chopped zucchini
1/2 cup sliced carrot
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/2 cup thinly sliced red (or white) onion
3/4 cup spinach
1 tbsp olive oil to cook the veggies
1/2 tsp garlic/herb seasoning
salt/pepper to taste

Place ingredients in a pan with garlic/herb seasoning, the salt and pepper, and olive oil and sauté vegetables for about 5 minutes or until ready (they will be a little softer than they're supposed to, but do not let them get mushy; spinach will also be wilted)

Sauce:
1 tbsp pesto sauce
3 cloves garlic
1 can tomato paste
2 cans tomato sauce
1/4 cup chopped yellow pepper
1/4 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp basil
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
2 tbsp chopped white onions
salt/pepper to taste

Place ingredients in a blender and push "puree" until the sauce looks ready and isn't clumpy

Base:
7 lasagna noodles, cooked and cut in half
1 (15-ounce) carton cottage cheese
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
1 tsp parmesan cheese (to sprinkle on top)

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees

Combine cottage cheese and sauce. Fill the bottom part of an 8 inch square baking pan (or dish) with noodles, put veggies on top, the sauce/cottage cheese mix, and then mozzarella cheese. Continue to add layers until you run out of ingredients, but make sure that there are noodles on the very top. Put a little bit of the sauce/cottage cheese mix on top and then sprinkle 10 shakes of parmesan cheese on top.

Place finished lasagna in the oven for 30minutes covered. Uncover and then bake for 20 more minutes. Let stand for at least 10 minutes. Times may vary slightly, so make sure to consistently check on your lasagna!

Enjoy :)


Saturday, April 26, 2014

Lightning Bridge Preview and SoundCloud

I have created part of a song JUST USING GARAGE BAND! It's electronic!

I also now have a SoundCloud account: http://soundcloud.com/dbzmaron/

Here is the Youtube version of it with a lovely banner that I photoshopped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI3Ob1vqUqY

Enjoy! It's only about 50% done though, but I figured that I might as well post what I have because this is the first time I've ever done this!

Accessories

This is a spoken word version of how it would feel to be used, as well as how people shouldn't be used and treated as objects. If that ever happens to you, you're better than that! Stand up for yourself and show whoever is mistreating you that you are worthy of better, don't deserve to be taken advantage of, and they are not worthy of being a part of your life. Enjoy!




Accessories…
When you think of an accessory, you generally associate it with being an object that you wear or random extra useful programs that you’d find on your computer…

Think again…

If you want to refer to a person as “being something”, you’d usually describe them as nice, kind, happy, pretty, shy, sweet, introverted, extroverted, whatever…
Accessories are supposed to be nice, just like how people are at least supposed to be…
They can be used, abused, worn out, and thrown away…
Or used until broken kind of like how you want to hold onto your car until it’s been driven into the ground and won’t even function anymore…

Now imagine a wallet…
Yes, it’s where people store their money, credit cards, and whatever else
You can get a fancy wallet or a cheap wallet, hold it in your purse or pocket, and run along with life as usual.

Just think about it for a second…

Take all these definitions of items you hold onto for daily use and apply that definition onto people…

People are used like a machine…
They work from sunrise to sunset for the pleasure of others to expect and receive little or nothing in return…
And when that does happen,
They don’t fully realize the extent of how poorly they’re being treated
Because the people on the using end look at the situation in terms of “how can I benefit from this person?”
You can’t just put a price tag on people and expect them to do all your nonsensical tasks for you and expect them to be fully productive after a certain point,
Because people have a limit of how much they’re willing to endure and once that line has been jumped over and stomped on a bunch of times, they end up saying “screw this” and just vanish…

People are used like a wallet…
If you take a highly successful individual and pair them off with a bunch of people who have nothing at all in their lives,
Those who have nothing will feed off their prey like a hungry shark who’s starving for its dinner, bite, and leave when there’s nothing left… and just suck all of your money away because they are miserable and have NOTHING for themselves and think it’s ok to be some kind of a leech to people…
And you give it to them because you want to do whatever you can to help the person get back on their feet, be happy, and share the same fun that you have with some hope of them at least being somewhat appreciative…
But meanwhile, it’s just an expense to you and costing you money
Just to have a friend who only sees you as a body and a wallet and nothing more…

Friends should be an ASSET… NOT an EXPENSE!

The lonesome warrior will either let it happen and sulk in the pain and misery or take a moment to realize that they are more worthy than being someone else’s dinner and vanish…

Because being used like an accessory hurts… it’s PAINFUL… it’s HORRIBLE… it’s an infliction of sheer hell, and treating the virtue of kindness as if someone just took a shit in your face…
So why do we even try to break people like how a three year-old rips the head off of a Barbie doll?
Because people are a bunch of selfish assholes who are only in it for themselves and don’t care about the implications of the situation on others…

Well, what do we do?

We need to unite and become stronger and find the right fish in the sea instead of letting ourselves take years and years of vicious pain and not do anything to change the situation in order to grow and better ourselves!
We need to break the cycle of improper use and realize that we aren’t a toy, machine, or wallet, we’re DEFINITELY NOT an accessory, and realize that we are BETTER than that!
We are STRONGER than that!
We are more POWERFUL than that!

What are you waiting for?
Stand up for yourself!
Speak out loud and have your voice heard!
It’s the only way to win the battle!