The squirrel, jumping from one branch to another, fell one day on top of a sleeping wolf.The wolf grabbed him and wanted to devour him, but the squirrel begged him to let him live.
- He's fine - replies the wolf - I will spare you, on condition that you tell me why you squirrels are always so cheerful. I get bored while I see you jumping and playing all the time.
"I'm afraid of you," murmured the squirrel. - Let me jump on the branch and I'll tell you.
The wolf let him go; the squirrel jumped onto the branch and said from there: - You're always bored, because you're bad; cruelty dries up the heart and kills joy. We, on the other hand, are cheerful, because we are good and do not hurt anyone.
How many sleeping wolves there are in the woods of our stories! Let's hope that touched by someone's good they learn to devour... their own wickedness.
(by L. Tolstoy))
Advice from nature
Olive leaves
The colon is a large diameter part of the large intestine, into which residual digestion substances pass more slowly than other intestinal tracts. Colitis, the inflammation that can result from it, can benefit from olive leaves. Boil 50 g in one liter of water until reduced by two thirds. of olive leaves. Let it cool and drink a glass of this natural medicine an hour before meals. With a smaller quantity of leaves, 30 g, boiled in half a liter of water, until reduced by half, you can prepare a drink to drink before main meals: it is a small help for arteriosclerosis problems.Lupins against itching
Boil 30 gr. in a liter of water for a quarter of an hour. of dried lupins and use the decoction to make washes and compresses. Your irritated skin will thank you.Method
Pumpkin with ricotta
Ingredients for 4 people:Yellow pumpkin 1,5 kg, salted anchovies 3,
100 g pitted black olives, one spring onion,
celery a rib, garlic a clove,
half a spoonful of salted capers,
2 tablespoons grated mature ricotta, 4 tablespoons olive oil, salt and pepper to taste
1. Desalt the capers and anchovies and bone the latter, peel the spring onion and the garlic clove; wash and clean the celery rib. Chop the anchovies and chop the other ingredients, then place everything in a saucepan with the oil and let it simmer over a very low heat, so that the anchovies come apart but don't fry.
2. Remove the zest and seeds from the pumpkin, wash it and cut it into chunks. When the anchovies are cooked, add the pumpkin and cook, stirring often, for about 10 minutes; then add the olives and leave on the heat for another 15 minutes. After this time, sprinkle with ricotta, season with salt and pepper, mixing well, and serve hot.
Good to know
clean the silver rub it with damp ash using a cloth. Rinse and use deerskin for polishing.
The pots have traces of limestone? Use the cooking water from the potatoes or that obtained from boiling their skins.
To keep the snails place a saucer with beer on the ground, or surround the seedlings with grainy sand.
Before using one new aluminum pan, boil a little milk and then throw it away. It is a practical method for removing any harmful substances.
When you cook broccoli or cauliflower To prevent the smell from spreading throughout the house during cooking, add a little milk to the cooking water, or a piece of bread or the juice of half a lemon which - among other things - helps to maintain the color natural of vegetables.
Do you want to delete thesmell of garlic or fish from your hands? In the first case, rub them with bicarbonate of soda and a little water and then rinse them. In the second, use cold milk.
Pour some water and a little bicarbonate into a small basin. Breathe the vapors: it is useful for burning throat.
