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If you ever have plans of visiting New York, make sure you plan a trip to the Village and stock up on these Marc Jacobs keychains to give away to family and friends back home!
Super cute huh? I am actually contemplating on going back and buying everything in all colors available! But then again, what will I do with all these keychains?!
I didn’t have a basting brush for grilling and baking. So when I went to Binondo with The Baghag two months ago, I couldn’t resist buying this!
See that Hello Kitty detail on the handle?
It sticks out from all my “serious” kitchen utensils made of wood, teflon and silicone, but I think this HK basting brush is a lot of fun! Hehehe!
A guacamole dip won’t be complete without some honest to goodness homestyle tortilla chips!
This is so good! Very authentic and nothing like those mass produced chips that initially, tasted pretty good to me!
Darn, Union Market is such a treasure trove of tempting treats!!!
Ok, this has got to be the best tasting guacamole ever!!!
I super love this fresh guacamole from Union Market in Brooklyn! It is made with no preservatives and is so light and fluffy, but with a kick to it! I make it a point to buy a tub or two whenever I visit my friend Tet in Brooklyn!
Even Dear Hubby loves it! We’ve tried other guacamoles before, but nothing comes close to this one here!
My sister and her friends, for some reason, love Sharpies! I really didn’t know why until I saw this, and my heart started beating…
I have to say, I am tempted to buy! About $25 from Costco.
I love drinking Chamomile tea, more so now because I discovered that it is such a pretty plant!
The Chamomile plant is actually a part of the sunflower family (but oh so much daintier than the usual sunflowers we see around!)
According to botanical.com, it has a very sound reputation as a medicinal plant, and has quite a number of uses:
The infusion, made from 1 OZ. of the flowers to 1 pint of boiling water and taken in doses of a tablespoonful to a wineglass, known popularly as Chamomile Tea, is an old-fashioned but extremely efficacious remedy for hysterical and nervous affections in women and is used also as an emmenagogue. It has a wonderfully soothing, sedative and absolutely harmless effect. It is considered a preventive and the sole certain remedy for nightmare. It will cut short an attack of delirium tremens in the early stage. It has sometimes been employed in intermittent fevers.
Chamomile Tea should in all cases be prepared in a covered vessel, in order to prevent the escape of steam, as the medicinal value of the flowers is to a considerable extent impaired by any evaporation, and the infusion should be allowed to stand on the flowers for 10 minutes at least before straining off.
Combined with ginger and alkalies, the cold infusion (made with 1/2 oz. of flowers to 1 pint of water) proves an excellent stomachic in cases of ordinary indigestion, such as flatulent colic, heartburn, loss of appetite, sluggish state of the intestinal canal, and also in gout and periodic headache, and is an appetizing tonic, especially for aged persons, taken an hour or more before a principal meal. A strong, warm infusion is a useful emetic. A concentrated infusion, made eight times as strong as the ordinary infusion, is made from the powdered flowers with oil of chamomile and alcohol and given as a stomachic in doses of 1/2 to 2 drachms, three times daily.
Chamomile flowers are recommended as a tonic in dropsical complaints for their diuretic and tonic properties, and are also combined with diaphoretics and other stimulants with advantage.
An official tincture is employed to correct summer diarrhoea in children. Chamomile is used with purgatives to prevent griping, carminative pills being made from the essential essence of the flowers. The extract, in doses of 10 to 15 grains, combined with myrrh and preparations of iron, also affords a powerful and convenient tonic in the form of a pill. The fluid extract of flowers is taken in doses of from 1/2 to 1 drachm; the oil, B.P. dose, 1/2 to 3 drops.
Apart from their employment internally, Chamomile flowers are also extensively used by themselves, or combined with an equal quantity of crushed poppy-heads, as a poultice and fomentation for external swelling, inflammatory pain or congested neuralgia, and will relieve where other remedies have failed, proving invaluable for reducing swellings of the face caused through abscesses. Bags may be loosely stuffed withflowers and steeped well in boiling water before being applied as a fomentation. The antiseptic powers of Chamomile are stated to be 120 times stronger than sea-water. A decoction of Chamomile flowers and poppyheads is used hot as fomentation to abscesses - 10 parts of Chamomile flowers to 5 of poppy capsules, to 100 of distilled water.
The whole herb is used chiefly for making herb beers, but also for a lotion, for external application in toothache, earache, neuralgia, etc. One ounce of the dried herb is infused in 1 pint of boiling water and allowed to cool. The herb has also been employed in hot fomentations in cases of local and intestinal inflammation.
For a plant so pretty and so useful, I would love to grow a field of chamomiles!
Many of you, especially Project Runway fans, may have heard of Parsons, but have never seen it up close, except on TV!
For your benefit, I’ve taken a photo of Parsons for you! Guess which building!
You got it right!
While Dear Hubby and I were crossing 7th Avenue, right where Parsons is, we saw a huge crate with the TRESemmé logo! Hmmm, does that mean Project Runway is preparing for the big reveal! After all, Fashion Week for S/S 2009 is this coming August! Woohoo!
From centralpark.com by Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig of “The Park and the People”
“Central Park was the first landscaped public park in the United States. Advocates of creating the park–primarily wealthy merchants and landowners–admired the public grounds of London and Paris and urged that New York needed a comparable facility to establish its international reputation. A public park, they argued, would offer their own families an attractive setting for carriage rides and provide working-class New Yorkers with a healthy alternative to the saloon. After three years of debate over the park site and cost, in 1853 the state legislature authorized the City of New York to use the power of eminent domain to acquire more than 700 acres of land in the center of Manhattan.”
155 years later, it is still a popular place for New Yorkers and tourists to relax and unwind! Just check out these photos I took of families and friends enjoying the summer scene in Central Park!
Look at what I found at the Korean section of Metro Gaisano supermarket in Fort Bonifacio!
Yes, it’s Hello Kitty fried rice! And hmmm, its comes free with something too!
I wonder how this tastes though!
Remember that pillow I posted a couple days ago? Well, I found a bigger HK body pillow! While it isn’t shaped like Hello Kitty, it’s pink and fluffy and oh so huggable still!
I can hug this all night! Sorry Dear Hubby! Hehehe! Just kidding!
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