Basic Cold Summer Soups | The Food ReFashionista

This post comes to you via the dieter?s never-ending question, ?How do I gorge on vegetables today?? And it comes with a picture of Cold Creamy Cauliflower Soup, made last summer.

In the winter, it?s fine to roast vegetables but, in the summer, you want something cool, refreshing, and delicious to drink.?But you can?t guzzle down what everyone else can: beer, soda, fruit juices, mint juleps, etc. Even that old fallback, diet soda, is getting a bad rap.

Have you ever considered a cold, delicious, vegetable soup?

All it contains is:

• Your vegetable (or mix of vegetables) of choice, in big chunks
• A large sweet onion, cut into big chunks
• Chicken or vegetable broth to cover
• Garlic and other spices, to taste
• Salt, to taste

All you have to do is:

1. Cover the soup pot, bring to a boil, lower heat, and simmer for 30 minutes. Let cool.
2. Now, here comes the important tip. Remove 1-2 cups of the liquid before processing. Why? Because this is how you can control for the soup?s thickness.?
3. After removing the liquid, use a hand blender to process until smooth. If soup is too thick, you can add some liquid back in.
4. Chill and then drink as much as you want!

These recipes can work as creamy cold soups.

And last, but by no means least:?Peanut Butter Tomato Soup.?It?s made a bit differently than the others so I?ve separated it out for you. This soup is particularly good with huge summer tomatoes. ?I often buy bags of discounted tomatoes, skin them, and make this soup by the gallon.

Happy guzzling!

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Sarah Palin bucks Tea Party, endorses Sen. Orrin Hatch in Utah

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Major powers seek Iran concessions at Baghdad talks

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - World powers will test Iran's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear program at talks on Wednesday aimed at easing a decade-old standoff and averting the threat of a Middle East war.

The stakes could scarcely be higher: global oil markets are edgy over toughening sanctions on Iran's vital crude exports and the possibility of Israeli strikes against its defiant arch-foe, which has threatened reprisals if it comes under attack.

Wednesday's meeting between Iran and six world powers - the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain - will be the second since diplomacy resumed in mid-April in Istanbul after a 15-month hiatus during which tensions soared.

Around 15,000 Iraqi police and troops will protect the venue inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which has been the target of attacks. Tehran's suggestion of a meeting in troubled Iraq, whose leadership is friendly to Iran, was seen by some diplomats as testing Western commitment to seeking a deal. Formal talks are expected to start around noon (5.00 a.m. EDT).

"Istanbul was important because for us it was a test of the Iranians' willingness to engage. Baghdad should focus on concrete substance," a European diplomat said. "The ball is in their court. It is they who must make the first step."

One senior Western official said the six, led by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, would make Iran "a detailed proposal that will include confidence-building measures". Ashton arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday morning after last-minute talks with her negotiating partners in Jordan.

Among the proposed measures will be an updated version of an idea first put forth in 2009 that envisaged Iran shipping out its stockpile of low-grade uranium in return for higher-enriched fuel for a medical research reactor in Tehran, another diplomat said.

The main goal of the six powers - known as the P5+1 for the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany - is expected to be an Iranian agreement to shut down the higher-grade uranium enrichment that it launched in 2010 and has since expanded in an underground plant at Fordow that, to Israeli alarm, would be largely impervious to attack from the air.

Producing such highly enriched material in such quantities has shortened the time Iran might need to build an atomic bomb.

Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful bid to generate electricity and has repeatedly ruled out suspending its enrichment of uranium, an activity which can have both civilian and military purposes.

But it has indicated possible flexibility on the higher-grade enrichment of uranium to a fissile concentration of 20 percent, the part of Iran's work that most worries the West.

INSPECTION DEAL "CLOSE"

In a possible sign of a new Iranian willingness to address concerns about its atomic ambitions, the U.N. nuclear supervisor said on Tuesday he expected to sign a deal soon to unblock an investigation into suspected work on atom bombs.

But Western diplomats will be wary of past failures to carry out extra inspection deals between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, and their patience is wearing thin.

They want Iran to cease work at the Fordow site and export its stockpile of higher-grade uranium - demands that analysts say Tehran would be unlikely to accept while sanctions remain.

"The key issue is the 20-percent enrichment potential. This has to be addressed in order to have a productive outcome," said one Western diplomat. "The marching orders for Baghdad are to have concrete ideas on the table, maybe not necessarily agree on all details of these ideas, but to have a clear commitment."

Iran maintains that it needs uranium refined to a fissile concentration of 20 percent for its medical isotope reactor. Enrichment to 5 percent of fissile purity is suitable for power plant fuel, while 90 percent constitutes fuel for bombs. The technical leap from 20 to 90 percent is easier than that to reach 20-percent purity from the lower levels around 5 percent.

"The meeting may not produce any miracles," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "The Iranians are coming with a positive attitude. This is what we are hearing from both sides. They are coming to move, not just to talk."

But Iranian officials kept up a defiant tone.

"The wall of distrust between Iran and the West is high and our public opinion has serious doubts about their compliance with their obligations. The negotiations ... are a good litmus test to prove the West's goodwill," Iranian Press TV quoted Kazem Jalili, spokesman for parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, on Wednesday.

SANCTIONS, CARROTS AND STICKS

Iran has suggested it will try to leverage its reported rapprochement with the IAEA into a deal in Baghdad to relax sanctions inflicting increasing damage on its economy, including a European Union oil embargo due to take effect in July.

But Western officials ruled out such a weighty concession so soon, even though their call for a "step-by-step" negotiating process is widely seen as a tacit admission that sanctions will have to be eased at some point.

"Sanctions are only going to be lifted if we have significant and genuine progress," one diplomat said.

Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Washington think-tank Foundation for the Defense of Democracies said some concessions from the West would be crucial. "Maybe the U.S. and the EU should agree to suspend measures of minor nature," he said.

"They don't want these negotiations to fail."

Israel, widely assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, has made clear its skepticism about the chances for diplomacy to rein in its arch-enemy.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel was concerned that the world powers would not press hard enough to put a full stop its nuclear program and that Israel would keep all options open to achieve that goal.

"This is the time for the entire world to join hands and stop them," Barak told Israel Radio. "We know the Iranians are talented chess players and will try to achieve a nuclear option. Our position hasn't changed. The world has to stop the Iranian nuclear program. All options remain on the table."

Clara O'Donnell, at Washington's Brookings Institution, said: "The likelihood of an Israeli military strike will remain lower while the talks are ongoing. But they are likely to keep talking about it, to keep up the pressure."

(Additional reporting by Sebastian Moffett in Brussels, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna, William Maclean and Andrew Quinn in Baghdad, Adrian Croft and Mark Heinrich in London and Allyn Fisher-Ilan in Jerusalem; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Philippa Fletcher)

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'A Tale of Two Homes' ? Tornado: One Family's Personal Account of ...

Today, we launched the latest in our successful educational Tale of Two Homes video series: A Tale of Two Homes ? Tornado. ?The video tells the remarkable story of the Harrison family of Athens, AL, who survived an EF-4 tornado that completely destroyed their home and most others in their neighborhood.? The Harrison?s and their two children emerged unscathed from their tornado safe room shortly after the tornado passed.? As a result, they have chosen to share their story of survival to further spread the message ? safe rooms save lives.

A Father?s Decision to Build a Safe Room Saves His Family

Kevin and Sarabeth Harrison are convinced that they and their two young children are alive today thanks to the safe room they consciously decided to build into the corner of their garage. ?Made of reinforced concrete block, the family took refuge as a tornado devastated their neighborhood and surrounding areas ? killing 250 people in its path. ?The Harrisons are still shocked to recall how 30 seconds of roaring winds forever altered the lives and landscape of their community. ??The tornado ran right on top of us,? Kevin Harrison said.

Tornado safe rooms save lives. The Harrison family?s experience is a perfect example. Their decision to take their safety into their own hands and build a safe room undoubtedly protected them from serious injury and possible death when the tornado hit Athens April 27, 2011. ?Their willingness to share their story to encourage other families to build safe rooms makes them true heroes of the disaster safety movement

Give an Ordinary Room an Extraordinary Purpose

A safe room can provide ultimate life safety protection from the dangerous forces of severe winds and tornadoes. ?Homeowners can build or retrofit the interior spaces of ?their homes to safe-room standards or choose to purchase pre-fabricated safe rooms designed to withstand tornado-force winds. ?Closets, bathrooms, laundry rooms and outdoor rooms like garden sheds and pool houses can be enhanced to serve as safe rooms.

A properly built safe room not only protects families from high-wind events, it also creates a multi-use space in the home that adds to its value.? Tornado safe rooms increase the sale price of a home by 3.5 percent or an average of $4,200.? For example, anyone who installs a tornado safe room in their home is able to recoup almost all of their investment when they sell. The price of a safe room can start around $3,500 to $4,000 depending on its size and built-in amenities. A $5,000 tornado safe room will provide an 84 percent return on investment.

Visit www.flash.org to see ?A Tale of Two Homes ? Tornado.?

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Launch success for SpaceX mission

22 May 2012 Last updated at 03:58 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

Watch the launch from Cape Canaveral

California's SpaceX has launched on a mission to re-supply the space station - the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private company.

The firm's Falcon rocket, topped by an unmanned Dragon freight capsule, lifted clear of its Florida pad at 03:44 EDT (07:44 GMT; 08:44 BST).

The initial climb to an altitude some 340km above the Earth lasted a little under 10 minutes.

Within moments of being ejected, Dragon opened its solar panels.

It will take a couple of days to reach the station. The plan currently is for the vessel to demonstrate its guidance, control and communications systems on Thursday, at a distance of 2.5km from the International Space Station (ISS).

If those practice proximity manoeuvres go well, Dragon will be allowed to drive to within 10m of the station on Friday. Astronauts inside the platform will then grab the ship with a robotic arm and berth it to the 400km-high structure.

They will empty Dragon of its 500kg of food, water and equipment, before releasing it for a return to Earth at the end of the month.

The mission has major significance because it marks a big change in the way the US wants to conduct its space operations.

Nasa is attempting to offload routine human spaceflight operations in low-Earth orbit to commercial industry in a way similar to how some large organisations contract out their IT or payroll.

The carriage of freight will be the first service to be bought in from external suppliers; the transport of astronauts to and from the station will be the second, later this decade.

The US agency hopes these changes will save it money that can then be invested in exploration missions far beyond Earth, at destinations such as asteroids and Mars.

SpaceX has many new systems it has to demonstrate in the coming days, and has tried to lower expectations ahead of the mission.

Nasa has set the California company a series of development milestones. Only when those have been met fully will a $1.6bn ISS re-supply contract kick in.

The agency is also looking to engage a second cargo partner. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Virginia is slightly behind SpaceX in its development schedule, although it started work on its Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule system later. Orbital expects to fly a first mission to the vicinity of the ISS later this year or early in 2013.

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Seinfeld reveals least-favorite 'Seinfeld' episode

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"Seinfeld" ran from 1989 to 1998.

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

For a show about nothing, it was really about something. But not all the "Seinfeld" episodes were gems. Jerry Seinfeld appeared on "Watch What Happens Live" Monday night, and host Andy Cohen quizzed?him as part of the show's "Plead the Fifth" segment. Cohen convinced?the comedian?to admit to his least-favorite "Seinfeld" episode.

"There was one where a guy had a stroke, and we were feeding him on the couch," Seinfeld said. "I felt very uncomfortable with that episode ... yeah, it was weird."

While Cohen drew a blank on exactly what episode was being discussed, turns out it was a season-three show called "The Alternate Side." The man in question was Elaine's older writer boyfriend, Owen March, played by Edward Penn, and the episode was better known for the line, "These pretzels are making me thirsty!" (Kramer has the line in a Woody Allen film, and George parrots it often.) It also delivered Jerry's classic customer-service put-down when he explains what a reservation is to a car-rental clerk.

Cohen also got Seinfeld to confess that he had managed to reign as master of his domain for "a reasonable period of time," and that the actresses who played Jerry's girlfriends often had bad breath because they would skip eating out of nervousness about their weight. Cracked fellow guest Matthew Broderick, "So they start to die from within?"

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