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Monday, July 12, 2010

Mr.Hubba Hubba of the Moment

LANGSTON HUGHES
He was a prolific poet who was apart of the Halem Reienassance; good looking and could  write things that could make you laugh,
cry get mad , get glad or get sad.. Oh Langston you slay me kid (in a good livelely way!)!

DAPPA DONS AND FLAPPERLICIOUS

So sharp they should have been declared a lethal weapon!.



Friday, July 9, 2010

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL BEAUTY TREATMENT #8


JOSEPHINE BAKERS BANANA DANCE SCRUB

1 Over-ripe Banana
1/3 cup of grapeseed oil (for dry skin)
OR
1/3 cup of honey and aloe vera gel blend (for oily skin)
2/3 cup of brown sugar or medium coarse grind sea salt
1/2 teaspoon of gound cinanamon (optional)

In a bowl, mash up the banana,
add the oil or honey mixture, mixing thouroughly.
Add sugar or salt  (not both). Mix til slushy. Add cinamon (optional)

How to use:
Inside your tub with a bath brush or wash cloth
massage the scub on to wet skin.
Rinse well with lukewarm water and finish with your moisturizer.



........A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana

(Daylight come and me wan' go home)

Hide thee deadly black tarantula

(Daylight come and me wan' go home)

It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!

(Daylight come and me wan' go home)

Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!

(Daylight come and me wan' go home)

Day, me say day-ay-ay-o

(Daylight come and me wan' go home)......

Banana Boat Song- by Harry Belafonte

GIGGLE WATER RECIPIE


BLONDE BOMBSHELL


1 1/2 cubes of Crushed Ice
3 oz of pear nectar or juice
3 oz Pear Brandy
2 Tablesspoons of Frangelico (Hazelnut Liqueur) 
2 oz of Half and Half

GARNISHES:
2 thin pear slices
2 pinches of cinamon

Chill 2 6 oz Cocktail Glasses
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the reamining
ingredients except the garnishes. Shake vigorously to blend and chill.
Strain the mixture evenly between the chilled  glasses.
Cut a slit deep in the centet of each pear slice and place one on
each rim. Finish the drinks with a pinch of cinnamon on top.

Serves 2

VARIATION: Rim each glass with sugar and substitute Amaretto for
Frangelico

Thursday, July 8, 2010

VINTAGE RECIPIE




Queen Cake (Circa 1896)


Ingredients

•2/3 cup butter

•2 cups flour (scant)

•1/4 teaspoon soda

•whites 6 eggs

•1 1/4 cups powdered sugar

•1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice

Instructions

Cream the butter, add flour gradually, mixed and sifted with soda, then add lemon juice. Beat whites of eggs until stiff; add sugar gradually, and combine the mixtures. Bake fifty minutes in a long shallow pan. Cover with Opera Caramel Frosting


Opera Caramel Frosting

Ingredients


•1 1/2 cups brown sugar

•3/4 cup thin cream

•1/2 tablespoon butter

Instructions

Boil ingredients together until a ball can be formed when mixture is tried in cold water. It takes about forty minutes for boiling. Beat until of right consistency to spread


Saturday, July 3, 2010

Simply Beautiful Beauty Treatment #7



 
PAMPER ME BATH SALTS

This is a simple recipe you can whip up  in a matter of minutes but enjoy for an hour!

1 Cup of  Sea Salt (Preferably organic)
1/2 Cup of Epsom Salt
1 Cup of Baking Soda
Essential Oil (Optional)

Combine all the ingredients together and add a few drops of your favorite essential oil. Keep in an airtight glass container and enjoy!

Good for 4 baths (1/4 cup of salt for each)


Pamper Me, Pamper Me
Please be gentle from the very start
Pamper Me, Pamper Me
That's the way to be a real sweetheart!
Pamper Me, Pamper Me
Say that you will give me everything
Pamper Me,Pamper Me
Then we will talk about a wedding ring
The only way for a boy to win a girl
Is to treat her like a queen until her head begins to whirl
Pamper Me, Pamper Me
We''l be married and I promise to
Everyday, every way, turn around and pamper YOU!

"Pamper Me",  Jayne Russell 


GIGGLE WATER RECIPIE

SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S EVIL TWIN
(If you are lookin' for a Goody Good Ship Lollipop Drink , beat it kid, this drink a'int for ya!)

6 Cherry Ice cubes (In an ice tray a few hours before making this drink place
1 cherry; fresh bing or canned in each slot of an ice
tray, fill with distilled water and freeze solid)
1 1/2 ounces of Kirschwasser or Cherry Brandy
Splash of Grenadine
4 to 5 oz of Ginger Ale or 7up
Chill a 10 oz glass, then fill the chilled glass with the ice cubes add
 the Kirschwasser or Cherry Brandy.Top off with the Ginger Ale or 7up
and serve with a long straw

Serves 1