[heba]

im extremelyyyyyyy tired
worked 3-11 today (the mall was open late...wow i hate christmas time)

i wanna sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

[DramaRani]

Hi FPHers. Remember me ?

[nooni]

fifa

im watching a friends cat (filet mignon's to be exact.. if u any of u remember her ) and having a cat is alot harder than i thought it would be but its still a cutie

went to the mall today and there were a few nice things there.... not a bunch of cool sales though.

[zakk]

Originally Posted by Sha_

Assalamualykum sisters,
This should probably go in the baking thread, but I figure more people visit this one..

I have a kind of urgent baking question for zakk, but if any of you can help then please answer inshAllah!

Our uni Islamic Society is doing a bake sale for charity (Islamic Relief, for the Bangladesh cyclone appeal) on monday, so i'd need to get ingredients tommorrow:

I saw on your (zakks) facebook baking photos (via the link on the baking thread) cupcakes with cream on top.
What kind of cream exactly is it? Do you make it/buy it? Is it buttercream? How do you make it? Or is it another type of cream? Is the cream on the cakes on pic 13 the same as the cream on the cakes in pic 5? Except applied differently? is it really soft and mushy cream that'll get messed up if I take it in a box to uni or should it be ok?

JazakAllah! x

Salaams,

it's store-bought frosting( betty crocker). Yeah, it's just applied differently, I piped it out of a pastry bag to make it look fancier. It should be fine in a box as long as you don't let the box touch the frosting.

[Sha_]

Originally Posted by zakk

Salaams,

it's store-bought frosting( betty crocker). Yeah, it's just applied differently, I piped it out of a pastry bag to make it look fancier. It should be fine in a box as long as you don't let the box touch the frosting.

I just came back from Tesco. I saw that there, but came back without it, coz I wasnt sure .

Well, I phoned my sister while at the shops, she says you can make buttercream/frosting out of butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence, and you make it chocolatey by adding cocoa..has anyone tried that?

Doh. It would've been easier if I bought it .


I'm gonna try it and see how it goes. I might be going back to Tesco tommorrow

[displaced]

Originally Posted by Sha_

I just came back from Tesco. I saw that there, but came back without it, coz I wasnt sure .

Well, I phoned my sister while at the shops, she says you can make buttercream/frosting out of butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence, and you make it chocolatey by adding cocoa..has anyone tried that?

Doh. It would've been easier if I bought it .


I'm gonna try it and see how it goes. I might be going back to Tesco tommorrow

making buttercream is easy.

beat 1 stick of softened butter with powdered sugar, add 2-3 tsp vanilla extract. beat some more. alternate adding milk and more powdered sugar until it's the consistency you want.

for chocolate, just add in 1/2 or 2/3 cup cocoa powder before the sugar.

I don't like canned frostings, always make my own.

[farah]

Originally Posted by displaced

making buttercream is easy.

beat 1 stick of softened butter with powdered sugar, add 2-3 tsp vanilla extract. beat some more. alternate adding milk and more powdered sugar until it's the consistency you want.

for chocolate, just add in 1/2 or 2/3 cup cocoa powder before the sugar.

I don't like canned frostings, always make my own.

word. if you have it on hand, use whipping cream instead of milk

[displaced]

Originally Posted by farah

word. if you have it on hand, use whipping cream instead of milk

I think whipping cream's a bit harder to use when you're not used to it because it makes the frosting stiff fast but then if it's not kept chilled, it gets liquidy.

[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by psychoteddybear

One more reminder, HPV is virtually 100 percent avoidable without a useless, expensive vaccine. And bear in mind: this year, some 11,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer, which can be caused by HPV, and about 3,700 will die from it. In comparison, 16 times more American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer (178,480), and 11 times more will die from it (40,460).

While Dr. Mercola makes some good points about vaccines in general and has a healthy skepticism of pharmaceutical companies, I'm going to have to call bull on this part. Yeah, HPV is preventable. But how many people are aware or willing enough to actually do what's necessary to accomplish that?

Both partners would have to be tested before any kind of sexual contact and would have to remain monogamous. Easy enough, right? Hah! HIV is tragic proof that that's not true. People are scum. And as Muslims, we may hold ourselves to a higher standard, but that doesn't guarantee that you'll be safe - you know what you may or may not have done, but that doesn't save you from someone else's mistakes.

Also, he's misleading with his numbers. 11,000 women may be diagnosed with cervical cancer annually. However, many, many thousands more are diagnosed with cervical dysplasia of varying severity - that's pre-cancer, ladies. Untreated, these women would go on to develop cancer. The testing for cervical dysplasia is the same as for cervical cancer, and it is somewhat invasive (pap smear). The treatment for dysplasia is still surgery, and we know for certain that the surgery does cause problems with pregnancy (in addition to pain and emotional anguish).

Also, the vaccine isn't perfect, we already knew that, and that's not what its developers were claiming in the first place. No vaccine protects everyone, all the time. They don't have to, because when most of the people are protected, that significantly inhibits the movement of a disease through a population. Gardasil protects against subtypes 16 and 18, which cause 70% of cervical cancer cases. If someone told me they could reduce my cancer risk by 70%, I'd say sign me up, and I'll take my chances with the other 30%. Yes, there are other subtypes which are risks for cervical cancer, and I'm sure there will be vaccines against those once they become more prevalent (another population phenomenon - as you reduce the amount of a disease or bug in a population, other diseases/bugs become a bigger proportion of health issues).

Finally, the comparison to breast cancer is specious. Breast cancer risk is primarily genetic - it's inherently not preventable, unless you prohibit high risk individuals from reproducing (eugenics anyone?). Therefore, the healthcare system invests heavily in screening and treatment is rapid and aggressive. By contrast, the vast majority of cases of cervical cancer are related to infection. However, the problem with HPV/cervical cancer is that we don't quite understand who is at risk to develop cancer. Many people who become infected with the virus actually clear the infection and don't go on to harbor it in their tissues. Those who don't clear it are at risk to get cancer later. But we don't know who's going to clear it and who will continue to be infected. So we need to protect everyone to the extent possible to have the best reduction in cancer rates.

Whew.

P.S. The side effects of dizziness and fainting are often psychosomatic. Who's at the highest risk to develop psychosomatic symptoms in general? You guessed it, young women.

P.P.S. Congratulations is you actually read all of this. And it's usually not a good idea to take any medical advice without questioning it, whether it comes from the medical "establishment" or from outside it.

[bluey]

Sometimes I think marriage isn't worth it and I don't understand what the hype is about. I've been hearing so many stories frequently of couples getting divorced and couples going through a hard time, it's really put me off. We attended a Wedding in the summer and mashallah the bride was really sweet, she must be around 19-20 and today we heard she got divorced. It's just been a few months. And someone else I know, who is a family friend, gets physically abused by her husband and mother-in-law frequently and the reason she doesn't ask for divorce is because her own family isn't financially stable so she doesn't have support. Subhanallah, some of the stories are so heart breaking.

[displaced]

Originally Posted by bluey

Sometimes I think marriage isn't worth it and I don't understand what the hype is about. I've been hearing so many stories frequently of couples getting divorced and couples going through a hard time, it's really put me off. We attended a Wedding in the summer and mashallah the bride was really sweet, she must be around 19-20 and today we heard she got divorced. It's just been a few months. And someone else I know, who is a family friend, gets physically abused by her husband and mother-in-law frequently and the reason she doesn't ask for divorce is because her own family isn't financially stable so she doesn't have support. Subhanallah, some of the stories are so heart breaking.

women should be able to support themselves.

[Timbit]

Originally Posted by heba

im extremelyyyyyyy tired
worked 3-11 today (the mall was open late...wow i hate christmas time)

i wanna sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Where do you work?

[bluey]

Originally Posted by displaced

women should be able to support themselves.

Exactly. Especially in todays day and age with the divorce rates going up so high.

But still some societies and families are in situations where the Women don't. Her Father passed away and she has nothing to fall back on. I wasn't that close to her, but I knew her, had been to her house frequently, etc. When I heard, I couldn't sleep at night. The Guy never wanted to marry her in the first place, but his father told him too and he told her after they got married that he'll make her life a living 'hell' until she leaves because he wanted to marry someone else. He kicked her once while she was pregnant and he hits her. Her mother-in-law abuses her too.

Sad world we live in.

[displaced]

Originally Posted by bluey

Exactly. Especially in todays day and age with the divorce rates going up so high.

But still some societies and families are in situations where the Women don't. Her Father passed away and she has nothing to fall back on. I wasn't that close to her, but I knew her, had been to her house frequently, etc. When I heard, I couldn't sleep at night. The Guy never wanted to marry her in the first place, but his father told him too and he told her after they got married that he'll make her life a living 'hell' until she leaves because he wanted to marry someone else. He kicked her once while she was pregnant and he hits her. Her mother-in-law abuses her too.

Sad world we live in.

maybe in her situation she wasn't able to.

a lot of times I see girls who are in the position in life to choose anything they want. it's idiotic when girl go and major in something fluffy. sure, it's fun..sure, it's interesting..sure, you're planning on being a housewife..but will it bring in enough money to support you and your family if need be?

if the answer is no, it's a poor choice.