Sometimes when I go to restaurants I eat a meal so good that I want to try to replicate it at home, sometimes with success and other times…not so much. Usually they’re main courses or appetizers and never a dessert. But last night I had a dessert that has inspired me to give it a…
Back in October I wrote about the overabundance of modern kitchen gadgets and my committment to more basic cooking. Well a friend of mine posted an article on Facebook that’s made me slightly re-state this committment. Today’s commentary by Megan McCardle on The Atlantic website, Reasons Not to Buy the Most Expensive Kitchen Gadgets, had me…
Today I’ve hijacked Jasmine’s “Adventures in Food and Family” to share with you the easiest, but tastiest recipe I know. I don’t think we’re going to be posting too many recipes, but This and That… is all about information and this is one of those dishes that will make people think you REALLY know how…
Early in the summer, I declared a moratorium on new makeup purchases. Not that I had been buying so much, but now that I was much more comfortable in makeup application and had amassed a fairly diverse palette of shadows and blushes, I decided to focus solely on using what I had. The last major…
About a month ago, I received a package from Christine Gant, owner of Brown Butter Beauty™. A few weeks earlier, I had signed up to test her products. As a new natural, I was excited to try out new products. For the past month, I have been using the Babassu Cream Deep Conditioner (retails $15…
No, I’m not doing like the department stores and skipping Thanksgiving to go straight to Christmas. But my original cooking plan was slightly thwarted, so the new dish will be attempted in December. Yesterday I was talking to co-workers about the Thanksgiving meal and everyone around the table agreed that this is not the holiday…
I have never been one to make New Year’s Resolutions. If there is a goal I need to reach, or some affirmation I need to make, I can do that 365 days of the year. In the same way, I can’t afford to wait until Thanksgiving week to “be thankful.” I have been blessed beyond…
If you’ve spent M-F sustaining someone else’s dream then use Saturday’s to build yours! You can rest on Sunday! I read this tweet this afternoon from @TonyGaskins, as retweeted by my friend @MrFresh. I also read it as I spent another Saturday afternoon multi-tasking – between spending time engaged with my 3- and 5-year olds,…
WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes – Paul Lawrence Dunbar Last week my best friend and I hosted our first mini-makeup party. We invited women who had been asking me about helping them with makeup, along with a few other women who dropped by. But…
Yesterday I attended my first makeup party, hosted by our very own Calandra Branch. About a dozen women gathered in a Brooklyn church to share our own makeup fears and frustrations and get tips on how to overcome them. Calandra got things going by reaffirming what most of us believed but needed to hear every…
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