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Disclaimer: This information is in no way intended to be a substitute for modern medical care. Do not self-treat any medical complaint without the guidance of a licensed health care provider . August 7, 2000 The word perfume derives from Latin meaning “through smoke”, and indeed, the first perfumes were incenses used to sweeten one’s prayers for the gods
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Home-made Perfumes
Here is a new instructional video from Soap Queen TV for Massage Candles which appears on Vimeo. Massage candles are a wonderfully luxurious treat to make for yourself or that special someone. A massage candle is a blend of skin safe waxes, oils and essential oils that melt at a low temperature, perfect for a warm and soothing massage
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Massage Candles From Soap Queen TV
Chef Reggie Aspiras’ Summer Cooking Class Schedule March 10 (Wednesday) – My Version of the Famous “Panizza” – All New! – 6 Flavors of Paper Thin Pizza – Seafood, Mixed Cured Meats, Prawn and Sun dried Tomatoes, Paper Thin Angus Beef, Spring Vegetables, Roasted Garlic with Cheese and Herbs – Rolled &Served with Fresh Arugula, Parmesan Dip and Garlic Oil March 12 (Friday) – Lenten Specials 1 – 2010 – All New! Alasakan King Crab Paella, Chipirones – “Baby Squid Adobo, Spanish Fried Baby Squid Calamares 2 Ways with Dipping Sauces, Japanese Carbonara of Soba with Kani & Crab Roe, Shrimp Cakes – Thai & Vietname Style. Bonus: Bacalao – Special Class 2,000 Excluding Ingredients March 13 (Saturday) – Lumpia – All New! – Lumpiang Shanghai – 3 Way Shanghai (Smoked Pork, Pork and Shrimp, Hamonado), Fried Lumpiang Ubod, Mushroom Lumpia, Sweet Potato with Shrimp and Pork Asado, Roast Chicken Lumpia, Lumpiang Salmon
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Chef Reggie Aspiras March 2010 Summer Cooking Class Schedule
From Wholesomebabyfood.com – How absolutely sad and depressing! Another reason to start fresh wholesome foods early on! 3 to 5-year-olds [in this study] generally thought of fast food, for example, as “fun, exciting, and tasty”, and thought of cola brands as fun for reasons such as “the bubbles are fun,” and “lots
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3 – 5 year old kids have brand recognition “fast food is “fun”
Anne Marie (aka The Soap Queen ) was experimenting with some shea butter and came up with this really easy Whipped Shea Butter recipe: Ingredients 14 oz Shea Butter 5 oz Coconut Oil 6 ml Cranberry Fig Fragrance Oil (or your choice) Electric Mixer 4 ounce jars Instructions Combine all ingredients and whip for 6-7 minutes in an electric mixer on medium/high. Spoon into jars. That’s it
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Easy Whipped Shea Butter
From Wholesomebabyfood.com – Last week I was contacted by “jane” whose daycare center told her she would not be able to bring in her homemade baby food any longer. The National Association for the Education of Young Children is a body that daycare centers in the U.S. seek accreditation from. The NAEYC has proposed
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Comment on NAEYC’s Emerging Standard for Daycare Centers and Homemade Baby Food
Just like my friend The Amateur Gourmet Adam, who posted about his recipe-tweaking habit recently, I’m not one to leave a perfect good recipe alone. Even when it comes to something so simple, and so seemingly perfect, I rarely could stop myself from tweaking it a little. At times the results my tinkering are disastrous – Dorie Greenspan’s perfectly innocent French Yogurt Cake recipe I played with yesterday was one, but that story’s for another time. At other times, however, I ended up with something like this Banana Bread, which I think – rather ungrammatically I might add – is a more perfect version of an already perfect recipe.
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The Morning-after Banana Bread – or how I can’t leave a perfectly good recipe alone
For your next Easter Egg Hunt instead of boiling eggs and hiding them, why make these cute glitter egg soaps for the kids to find? Or decorate your holiday with them. If you do not celebrate Easter, then maybe you can make them for some other reason
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Glitter Egg Soap Making Project
by Allison B. Kontur ( http://www.bathbodysupply.com/ ) You will need : 3 oz Epsom Salts 2 oz Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) 1 oz Citric Acid 2 oz Lathanol LAL 0.50 oz Dendritic Salt 2.5 ml (1/2 tsp) Rain Fragrance Oil 1.25 ml (1/4 tsp) Peppermint Fragrance Oil 20 drops D&C Green #5, Liquid Colorant 8 drops FD&C Yellow #5, Liquid Colorant Face Mask Rubber Gloves Zipper Style Plastic Baggies (Gallon Size) Phase 1: Combine Epsom Salts, Baking Soda, Citric Acid & Lathanol in a zipper style plastic baggie
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Irish Rain Fizzing Salts
Are you a melt and pour soapmaker and you are having problems in getting an even distribution of suspended ingridents like oatmeal, etc.; here are some tips from Squidoo : Ingredients like oatmeal, herbs, spices and dried flowers add texture and decoration to soap. One common problem is that they naturally float up to the top and do not stay distributed throughout the whole bar. There are two options to keep ingredients suspended evenly.
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Tip: Even Distribution of Suspended Ingredients
From Wholesales Supplies Plus Blog . Make sure to also check out Wholesales Supplies Plus website for other useful info, supplies, etc. Dee in customer service made this ADORABLE set of bath salts
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Spring Time Colored Bath Salts
By eHow Hobbies, Games & Toys Editor This raffia braid makes a great housewarming gift . Instructions Difficulty: Easy Things You’ll Need : Colored Raffia Dried Wheat Sheaves Raffia Braids Fall Picks Floral Tape Glue Guns Hot Glue Sticks Potpourri Preserved Italian Oak Leaves White Glues Scissors Acorns Wire Cutters Directions : Step 1 Use a preformed raffia braid – it’s easier than trying to make your own.
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How to Make a Decorative Scented Braid
Stagiaires are young, often unpaid cooks-in-training. Those working at Mugaritz lost their valuable knives in the devastating fire recently. Replacing their costly tools of the trade will be difficult for these young cooks, yet not having them is not an option. Their plight is surely insignificant in the face of the disasters in Haiti and Chile. But what price a dream
Every month, Foodbuzz hosts a special dinner series Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24 , featuring twenty-four Foodbuzz Featured Publisher bloggers, creating, eating, partaking in twenty-four unique meals occurring around the world during a 24-hour period. What a fascinating idea, isn’t it? A glimpse into dining rooms and kitchens of home cooks just like us the world over. Look at this sweet cooking party to stock the pantry for a mom-to-be friend , or this fun make-your-own-Mac&Cheese party . How awesome are they? I’ve been wanting the play along for a while, the only problem for me has been timing. The 24 meals are all supposed to happen during the same 24-hr period, and on the most convivial night of the week for most people, a Saturday night. Well, suffice to say we are not “most people” around here. David spends his Saturday nights creating convivial meals for his guests at Manresa. I spend my Saturday nights watching Syfy. (No, really.) Around here, the night we let loose and have a little fun is on a Tuesday – Monday and Tuesday being the two days a week Manresa is closed, and after spending Monday night catching up on sleep, Tuesday night is the one in which we get to play. How, you asked? Usually with a gathering of also-non-Saturday-night-people that is to say restaurant-industry friends, eating simple food and drinking not-so-simple wines. Once informed of this, the power-that-be at Foodbuzz graciously agreed to stretch out the 24-hr period a little, just enough to cover our usual Tuesday night chez nous. How sweet of them, yeah
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Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: just another Tuesday night chez nous
I’ve admitted to not being much of a jam eater. This can make the process of putting up jars and jars of jam in the summer a bit silly feeling. That is until these cold crisp sunny wintry mornings when one of those jars gets snapped open.
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back from hibernation with chocolate summer jam
I guess I should just come out and admit it. My name is Pim, and I just made a vegan an almost-vegan dessert – peanuts/sesame/rice puffs/palm sugar caramel bars, to be precise. And I dipped them in chocolate – Valrhona Araguani 72%, because there’s nothing good that’s not made better by a dip in Valrhona Chocolate. The results? They are totally crack. I tell you, they are. Like many great discoveries in this world – Columbus discovering “India” par example – I came upon these morsels of unworldly deliciousness entirely by accident. Last weekend being Chinese New Year and Valentines day all rolled into one, I was looking some kind of traditional, celebratory sweets to make for the parties I was attending. For the New Year celebration in Thailand, we make a sort of caramel we learned from the Portuguese, probably in the 16th century. We call it ga-la-mae, a telling bastardization of the word caramel. Galamae was, however, not my favorite dessert, but it got me thinking about another celebratory sweets that is also a caramel base, but this one, called Grayasat in Thai, has added nuts, puffed rices, and sesame seeds. Crisp, chewy, nutty, darkly sweet, and ever-so-slightly salty, all at the same time, now this would be the perfect dessert to celebrate with this weekend. Well, I probably should admit that I’d never once made Grayasat. I’ve never even seen it done. It’s one of those things that we would always buy, and usually from merchants that make and sell them in giant quantities. Recipes I’ve managed to find on the interwebs have the same problem, they’re mostly in massive quantities entirely infeasible in a modern kitchen. Plus, being a traditional Thai recipe, an imprecise record at the best of times – Thai cooks are notorious for not writing things down – then haphazardly translated into English, the results, shall I say, are as precise as the recipe booklet that came with your EasyBakeOven tm when you were a kid. No matter, I found enough information to go by, and it’s basically nuts, puffed rice, and sesame, bind together by caramel made with palm sugar in place of white sugar, and coconut cream as the matériel gras instead of butter. That sounds easy enough to do. It also happens to be Vegan and rather “healthy” – with no refined sugar and not even dairy. The recipes I found also called for glucose syrup, which, oddly enough, is more readily available in Thailand than it is here. The glucose syrup, which we call Bae-sae, is there to prevent sugar crystals from forming just like in any other caramel. Frankly, I didn’t like the sound of it. I usually avoid corn syrup or glucose syrup in my recipes anyway, preferring to substitute with honey or other more palatable ingredients such as Lyle’s Golden Syrup. In this case honey would do.
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Chocolate-covered peanut & sesame caramel bars
If you loved the Miss O Princess Soapsicle Soaps from Denise at GoPlanetEarth , then here is an instructional video clip to make the Heart Soaps . http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/01/melt-pour-soap-making-miss-o-princess.html . Both of these projeccts would be great to give out as gifts for Valentine’s Day!
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Melt & Pour Soap Making: Miss O Princess Heart Soaps
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If you are a cold process soapmaker, I found this cute Valentine’s Cold Process from Anne Marie ( The Soap Queen and Brambleberry fame) that would be great to make for Valentine’s Day Gifts. Check out this step by step tutorial. http://soap-queen.blogspot.com/2010/01/valentine-cold-process-soap.html Ever since I took Ruth Esteves’s Advanced CP class at The Nova Studio, I have been intrigued on what kinds of techniques I could do with this process of soap making
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Valentine Cold Process Soap
Direct link to the class on our website: http://www.thenovastudio.com/description_alice_faceserums.html Date : Saturday, June 26, 2010 9 am – 12:30 pm (3.5 hours) Cost : $75 (plus $30 materials fee) Where : The Nova Studio, 24 W. Richmond Avenue, Point Richmond, CA 94801 Sign-up or more info online at: http://thenovastudio.com or phone: 510-234-5700 Class Description : In this unique hands-on and demo class, learn how to create your own luxury facial serums. Serums are a very popular product in the cosmetic industry today
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Luxury Facial Serums ~with Alice Duvernell~