Ingredients

• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp mayo
• ½ tbsp Dijon mustard
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 1 tbsp parsley
• 1 tsp Italian herbs seasoning
• 1 tsp salt

C'est vraiment bon.

Je n'avais pas de persil ni de mélange d'herbes italiennes.
J'ai fait mon propre mélange d'herbes pour remplacer.
C'est testé et approuvé

Cette recette est parfaite pour 1 sandwich si on suit la vidéo ou 2 sandwich si on applique le mélange que sur sa face intérieure.

Windows est une catastrophe pour la vie privée, pour l'environnement et pour la liberté. Si vous pouvez vous en passer, il vaut mieux utiliser une distribution Linux. Si ce n'est pas le cas, cette vidéo donne quelques pistes pour limiter les dégâts.

Cette liqueur est aussi appelée "liqueur d'officier" ou aussi "confiture de vieux garçon".

Le principe : malgré son nom, il ne s'agit pas d'une confiture mais de fruits à l'alcool!

Utiliser en quantités égales (100 g environ), tous les fruits de saison de mai à octobre à l'exception des agrumes et autres fruits exotiques (bananes, mangues, ...). Déguster aux environs de Noël et toujours avec modération.

La recette :

• Utiliser un grand bocal en verre ébouillanté et fermant hermétiquement.

• Au fil des saisons, de mai à octobre, placer des fruits sains, lavés et essuyés, dans le bocal.

• Ajouter la moitié du poids en sucre, recouvrir d'alcool de fruits (acheté au supermarché).

• Fermer hermétiquement. Entre chaque ajout de fruit, conserver au frais et à l'abri de la lumière et compléter d'alcool si le niveau vient à baisser.

• Incorporer successivement :

  • fraises (petites et fermes) (fait)
  • cerises (équeutées) (fait)
  • groseilles (égrappées) (fait)
  • framboises (fait)
  • cassis (égrenés) (fait)
  • pêches (pelées, dénoyautées et coupées en dés) (fait)
  • abricots (pelés, dénoyautés, coupés en deux) (fait)
  • nectarines et brugnons (dénoyautés, coupés en quatre) (fait)
  • melon en dés (fait)
  • prunes : mirabelles (fait), Reine-Claude (fait), quetsches
    (coupées en deux et dénoyautées)
  • grains de raisins blancs et noirs (fait)
  • poires (pelées, épépinées et en dés) (fait)
  • ...

Il faut attendre 3 mois avant de déguster cette liqueur.

Conseils et suggestions :

• Ne mettre qu'en très petite quantité les fruits très aqueux tels que fraises, melon et poires.

• Surveiller régulièrement pour vérifier que des moisissures n'apparaissent pas. Si elles apparaissent, les retirer et ajouter un peu d'alcool.

• En guise de conseil de dégustation, vous pouvez vous en servir pour agrémenter des desserts comme des coupes de fruits, des glaces.

Ingredients for 10 yields

For the cake:

• 4 Eggs whites
• Pinch Salt
• ¼ cup + 2 Tbsp. (75g) Sugar
• 180-200g whole almonds or 140g ground almonds

For the cream:

• 4 Egg yolks
• ¼ cup + 2 Tbsp. (75g) Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
• 100ml Heavy cream
• ½ cup + 1 Tbsp (130g) Butter, softened

For decoration:

• Sliced almonds

Instructions

1. Make the cake: preheat oven to 170°C (340°F). Grease two 8-inch (20cm) round cake pans with butter, line bottom with parchment paper. Grease the parchment as well, set aside.
2. In a food processor, process the almonds into fine crumbs. You also can use store bought ground almonds.
3. In a large clean bowl, place egg whites and pinch of salt. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until foamy, then gradually add the sugar, beat until stiff peak form.
4. Gradually fold ground almonds into the meringue. Do not over fold. Divide the batter between prepared pans.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Allow to cool.
6. Make the cream: in a bowl, whisk egg yolks with sugar and set aside.
7. In a small saucepan bring the cream to a gentle simmer. Gradually pour hot cream into the egg yolk mixture while constantly whisking. Transfer the mixture back into the saucepan and cook until thicken, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, add vanilla extract and stir, transfer the mixture into a bowl, cover and place in the fridge for 1 hour.
8. In a large bowl beat softened butter. Gradually add chilled cream and whisk until combined. Add 2-3 tablespoons at the time.
9. Place 1 cake layer on a place or a cake stand, the spread a layer of cream, then top with the second layer cake. Spread the cream on top and sides of the cake.
10. Decoration: toast almond flakes on a dry pan, allow them to cool. Then, decorate the side and top of the cake with toasted almond flakes.
11. Keep the cake in the fridge for at least 4 hours before serving.

Here a recipe for all who want to try it

• 595grams of flour (Tipo 00 flour)
• 386grams Of water (cool temperature)
• 18 grams of salt
• One teaspoon of dry yeast or a quarter of fresh yeast block

If you don’t have tipo 00 flour use type 405 which is very similar but little less water.

Important: mix the flour and salt because yeast hates salt. Let the yeast dissolve in the water and then put it slowly in the flour to mix it well and then knead. I only can recommend a technique to knead it correctly.

Let it rest in a bowl for 3 hours but cover it with a wet kitchen blanket to keep the dough humid. That is very important to prevent it from drying

I'm not talking about paperback romance novels or the YA equivalents, like Twilight, because that makes sense to me -- those are written only with women readers in mind. I'm talking about examples like the Jim and Pam storyline in The Office. Watching something like that unfold can be so exciting for me, and I doubt that it's the same for guys. But maybe it is. But if not, why not?

I'm asking this question just as much to see if guys actually do enjoy a well-written love story as to understand why they don't, if that's the case.

To generalize for the purpose of an easy answer, let's think in stereotypically gendered terms. When it comes to love, men have an active role while women have a passive one.

What are the implications of this? It means that what a woman feels as the ups and downs, the mystery, the unknown, the excitement, etc., all things that define "blossoming" love, are things that happen to her. She is passive, she is the recipient. Her agency is contained in her response to these things.

But for a man, anything that makes "love" progress (or regress) pretty much directly stems from one of his actions. He does something or initiates and a woman responds/reciprocates. Because he does not have the gendered luxury of taking a backseat or passive role and watching things happen (if he does, nothing will; the woman will lose interest), he begins, by necessity, to view love as the cause and effect relationship that it more accurately is in reality (he does something, woman responds).

Seeing something like this takes a ton of the "magic" out of it. Compare it to seeing the sun rise every day. It becomes a lot less mystical, exciting, and dramatic when you know exactly why it happens and can simply see it for the cause and effect relationship that it truly is... you may even begin to take it for granted.

This is why romance eventually becomes well... unromantic for men. Romance is not a phenomenon, but instead a verb; it's a series of actions carried out by a man to earn a woman's affections... it's labor.

So when women or their SO makes romantic gestures to men, do they like it? Do men that were heavily pursued by women feel this way? What would be some good romantic gestures for men they would appreciate?

I wonder if this is true in same sex male couples too. Does one do the work over the other? Do they view romance the same or different?

Your answer is fantastic but it raises so many other questions

So when women or their SO makes romantic gestures to men, do they like it?

You're a little bit off the mark—you're actually describing an inversion of the gendered roles here (i.e. the woman is an active contributor while the man is a passive recipient or responder). While a man will appreciate such a gesture, it's not quite what composes the male romantic fantasy (more on this later).

Do men that were heavily pursued by women feel this way?

Men who aren't used to being pursued are usually confused or thrown off by the reversal of gendered roles. The result is the prevailing idea that men do not respond well to being approached first by women or even the autobiographical accounts from men describing instances where they couldn't respond well even if they were attracted to the woman approaching them. This is the men being shocked out of the traditional "script" of romance.

Secondly, when you talk about women pursuing men, that usually happens in a markedly different fashion than the way in which men pursue women (hint: it's more passive). A woman "aggressively" pursuing a man looks more like said woman going to extensive lengths to make it clear that she is available for pursuit rather than actively pursuing; the man is still usually leading things forward in some manner by handling the logistics of this romance. This is where you get those autobiographical stories from men about missing signals; "aggressive" pursuit from women is (usually) a set of passive signals that are clear to men who are experienced, but unclear to men not used to being "pursued."

I wonder if this is true in same sex male couples too.

I do too. I talk with a homosexual friend about stuff like this a lot, maybe I'll bring it up next time I see him.

The Male Romantic Fantasy

I'd say that men usually feel most loved when this normal state of affairs is negated; when they are made to believe that a woman's love is not conditional in the cause-and-effect manner described in the parent post. Love is work for men, but it can be rewarding work when things are going smoothly and the woman is happy as a result. But the male romantic fantasy is to be shown that the woman feels the same way and stands by him when he's down on his luck, when the money's not there, or when he's not feeling confident. He wants to know that the love he believes he's earned will stay even when the actions that feed it wane (however temporarily). A good woman can often lift a man up in his times of need and desperation and weather the storm even when things aren't going well. The male romantic fantasy is an enduring and unconditional love that seems to defy this relationship of labor and reward. A man wants to be loved for who he is, not for what he does in order to be loved.

An interesting way to examine this is to look at what women often call romantic entitlement. An entitled guy is a dude who maintains an unrealistic notion of men's typically active role in love. Before acknowledging reality, this boy uncompromisingly believes that he shouldn't have to do anything or change anything about himself to earn a woman's love; he wants to be loved for who he is, not what he does.

All men secretly want this, but there comes a day when they eventually compromise out of necessity. After that day, they may spend years honing themselves, working, shaping themselves into the men they believe women want to be chosen by. A massive part of what causes boys to "grow up" is the realization that being loved requires hard work. This impetus begins a journey where a boy grows into a man by gaining strength, knowledge, resources, and wisdom. The harsh realities of the world might harden and change him into a person his boyhood self wouldn't recognize. He might adopt viewpoints he doesn't agree with, transgress his personal boundaries, or commit acts he previously thought himself incapable of. But ultimately, the goal is to feel as if his work is done.

When he can finally let go of the crank he continually turns day after day in order to earn love and, even if only for a moment, it turns by itself to nourish him in return, that is when he will know he is loved.