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Clean and Green: Natural Homemade Household Cleaners
Clean & Green Here's a collection of my favorite natural cleaning formulas, concoctions and witches brews. MOST are safe and nontoxic, with a few exceptions which are clearly noted. Use the ingredients listed below when making your own alternative cleaners, most are inexpensive and you probably already have many of them in your kitchen cupboards.Reducing our ecological footprint
Clever tricks to help you reduce your ecological footprint. SAVING ELECTRICITY (and money) Switch over to compact fluorescent light bulbs - those funky spiral-shaped ones. They use only 25% as much energy as incandescents.Seared Scallops Over Buckwheat Noodles With Honey Yuzu
Cat Cora creates a delicious dinner with under 500 calories Cat Cora Iron Chef and author of Cooking from the Hip. The only chick on Food Network's Iron Chef America knows how to put up a fight. She's won 10 of her first 14 smackdowns.DIY Beauty: Sunburn Soothers
Today I’m participating in one of those staples of summertime: a Yard Sale. Which, pretty much means that I’m spending the entire morning outside with nothing to guard my skin other than a Boston Red Sox hat and the sunscreen that I slather on before I head out the door.
That's how they say it in Boston...:)
Let’s try this equation again: Me + Sun = Sunburn.
Useful (But Crazy) Beauty Tips That Work
(From Cosmopolitan.com) "1. Powder Your Roots If your hairline starts to look greasy, dig up a big, fluffy makeup brush, and dip into a pot of loose powder. Tap it once on the back of your hand to remove excess, then dust it over your roots.Working green: 50 tips to reduce your office's waste
Found this on Science Alert: http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20071608-16209.html Working green: 50 tips to reduce your office's waste Thursday, 16 August 2007 By Jessica Hupp From daily smog to the rising threat of global warming, it’s pretty obvious that we all need to clean up our act a little. Much has been said about how to go about doing this at home, but what about in the workplace? Copiers, computers, even old floppy disks, can make a huge impact on the environment.Chinese tea eggs: These are so easy and simple to make!
Boiled eggs cracked and steeped in a hot mixture of black tea leaves, soy sauce, and cinnamon stick.
Can you believe those eggs had white shells before i cooked them? lol
My boyfriend's parents made me some Tea eggs before just because they heard I liked them and my college roommate's dad would make these and send her home with them and I'd gobble them up!
Wacky Beauty Tips That Work
I just saw this on MSN, and I am wondering..... Has anyone heard of these tips before? Do they work?Throw a Spa Party!
I found this article today on http://www.ladiesblend.com and I just had to share it!
So you want to host a Spa Party?
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Strawberry Cream Roll
INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar for dusting
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
1 tablespoon white sugar
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Butter a jelly roll pan. Line it with buttered foil or buttered parchment paper.
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