Just for Mom: Mayan Hair Treatment, Mexican Lunch and more
Sometime this weekend send Dad and the Kids to the park and endulge in this mayan hair mask.
Since the hair mask uses avocado (see below), why not indulge your family in a quick mexican style lunch.
Here are a few quick ideas:
Mexican Lunch
Cheese Quesadilla
Put some cheese between two flour tortillas, bake on a pizza pan at 400 until cheese is melted
Sever with Salsa, Sour Cream and Guacamole
Chicken, Rice and Black Bean Burritos
Shread some cocked chicken, place it on a flour tortilla, add some cooked rice and some drained canned black beans. Season with salt, pepper and cummin if desired. You can also add some salsa or hot sauce for more flavor. Sprinkle some cheese on top. Roll into a burrito (tucking in the sides as you go). Microwave for a few minutes or for a crunchy burrito, bake at 350 until hot (about 20 min).
Guacamole
Mash some avocados with a little lime juice and plenty of garlic.
Quick Salsa
1 can of diced tomatoe
1 small can of jalapeno chilies
1 small onion
4 cloved of garlic
1/4 cup of chopped cillantro
1 lime
Salt & Pepper
Drain tomatoes and chilies. Dice chilies, onion and garlic. Combine tomatoes, chilies, onion, garlic and cillantro. Add the juice of the lime. Salt & Pepper to taste.
Mayan Hair Mask
Ancient Mayans used avocado to nurish their hair.
1/2 ripe avocado
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 banana
1 egg yolk
Mash avocado and banana and mix with olivie oil and egg yolk. Massage into hair and scalp and cover with a shower cap. Leave on for about 1 hour and rise thoroughly with warm water.
Shampoo as usual.
While your hair mask is soaking in, curl up in you favorite chair and enjoy a good book.
Book Review
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)
by Anne Rice
Available in the Bargain Section of Barnes & Noble, both online(see link above) and offline.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, a spirit known as Goblin, a spirit from a dreamworld that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself." As the novel moves backward and forward in time, from Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present-day New Orleans, from ancient Pompeii to nineteenth-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the specter that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
MY OPINION
This is the first Anne Rice book I read and it is still my favorite. Her discriptive style of writing makes you taste the humid night air in the south, smell the fragrance of magnolia and other blooms in the air and you swear you can hear some crickets in the distance. The book completely sucks you into the Blackwood Farm Plantation and you can't help but become part of Quinn's extravagant family.
Anne Rice has created a wonderful plot with plenty of twists and turns that manage to unite the world of the vampires of the likes of the famous Lestat with the that of the Mayfair witches.
Plan in a couple of sleepless nights because you won't be able to put this one down.
Susanne
Founder of Kinderinfo.com
Since the hair mask uses avocado (see below), why not indulge your family in a quick mexican style lunch.
Here are a few quick ideas:
Mexican Lunch
Cheese Quesadilla
Put some cheese between two flour tortillas, bake on a pizza pan at 400 until cheese is melted
Sever with Salsa, Sour Cream and Guacamole
Chicken, Rice and Black Bean Burritos
Shread some cocked chicken, place it on a flour tortilla, add some cooked rice and some drained canned black beans. Season with salt, pepper and cummin if desired. You can also add some salsa or hot sauce for more flavor. Sprinkle some cheese on top. Roll into a burrito (tucking in the sides as you go). Microwave for a few minutes or for a crunchy burrito, bake at 350 until hot (about 20 min).
Guacamole
Mash some avocados with a little lime juice and plenty of garlic.
Quick Salsa
1 can of diced tomatoe
1 small can of jalapeno chilies
1 small onion
4 cloved of garlic
1/4 cup of chopped cillantro
1 lime
Salt & Pepper
Drain tomatoes and chilies. Dice chilies, onion and garlic. Combine tomatoes, chilies, onion, garlic and cillantro. Add the juice of the lime. Salt & Pepper to taste.
Mayan Hair Mask
Ancient Mayans used avocado to nurish their hair.
1/2 ripe avocado
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 banana
1 egg yolk
Mash avocado and banana and mix with olivie oil and egg yolk. Massage into hair and scalp and cover with a shower cap. Leave on for about 1 hour and rise thoroughly with warm water.
Shampoo as usual.
While your hair mask is soaking in, curl up in you favorite chair and enjoy a good book.
Book Review
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)
by Anne Rice
Available in the Bargain Section of Barnes & Noble, both online(see link above) and offline.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, a spirit known as Goblin, a spirit from a dreamworld that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself." As the novel moves backward and forward in time, from Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present-day New Orleans, from ancient Pompeii to nineteenth-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the specter that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
MY OPINION
This is the first Anne Rice book I read and it is still my favorite. Her discriptive style of writing makes you taste the humid night air in the south, smell the fragrance of magnolia and other blooms in the air and you swear you can hear some crickets in the distance. The book completely sucks you into the Blackwood Farm Plantation and you can't help but become part of Quinn's extravagant family.
Anne Rice has created a wonderful plot with plenty of twists and turns that manage to unite the world of the vampires of the likes of the famous Lestat with the that of the Mayfair witches.
Plan in a couple of sleepless nights because you won't be able to put this one down.
Susanne
Founder of Kinderinfo.com
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