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Monday, June 28, 2010

Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida

In our hometown of Lake Wales, Florida you will find many well known established businesses that bring in wealthy people that live in Mountain Lake Estates such as the Corning's(CorningWare)and bring in Actors such as Burt Reynolds, Dinah Shore to name a few.

Our Honeybee Soaps and Soap Saver Bags are now being sold in Bok Tower Gardens Gift Shop. We are so proud to be a part of a little bit of history.

Here is a video for your enjoyment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9EAFewazPc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Bok Tower Gardens, a National Historic Landmark on one of peninsular Florida’s highest points at 298 feet above sea level, offers serene Olmsted-designed gardens, majestic 205-foot-tall bell tower and 60-bell carillon, Mediterranean Revival mansion, nature preserve trail, museum exhibits, educational programs, special events, endangered plant program, Tower & Garden Gift Shop and Blue Palmetto CafĂ©.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Got Ash? CP Soap Tip

Got Ash? Let's Get Rid Of It.
With CP soap making, sometimes you get white ash on top of your soaps. We believe it gets this way by air hitting the top of your soaps that are not properly covered. It just happens sometimes, no big deal. It doesn't mean your can't use your soap, it is just aesthetically unpleasing to the eye to some.
Lets get rid of it! Easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. You will need Isopropyl Alcohol 91% (Rubbing Alcohol)
2. Old Rag
3. Pour a little (use your own judgement) of the rubbing alcohol on your old rag and wipe it across the top of your soap. It's gone!

Hope you enjoyed this little tip. Let me know if this helped you.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Pocket Positives

" The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions! "

Favorite Food In Ghana, Africa


A little about FuFu with Soup by My Neice.

the bowl is fufu with soup it's made with a very hot spice we all ate out of the same bowl with our right hand and we pinch the fufu to break off a piece and dent it with our thumb to let some of the juice from the soup in than we swallow the fufu without chewing. One of my favorite dishes there. The fufu tastes plain the soup is what has the flavoring. Everymorning you will hear pounding which means someone nearby is making fufu. They boil casava and plantain than when mushy texture they pound it and turn it so till it's like a big ball of dough. They have a couple diff traditional soups that go along with it. Normally every family will eat this at least once a day.

Recipe: Chicken Jollof Rice Ghana



Chicken Jollof Rice Ghana

Ingredients:

2 cups long grain white rice (not parboiled)
4 cups water or broth or a combination (including up to a cup of drained juice from tomatoes)
3 good-sized cloves of garlic (about 1 Tablespoon), minced or crushed
2 cups fresh grated tomatoes, seeded (discard peelings) (OR 2 cups well-drained well-chopped tomatoes, OR 2 cups pureed tomatoes)
1 medium onion, finely chopped (a good cup)
fresh vegetables, about 2-3 cups, such as 1 carrot peeled and diced, frozen green peas, and other vegetables such as bell peppers or green beans (OR substitute frozen mixed vegetables) 1 bay leaf (optional)
1/2 teaspoon black or white pepper (optional)
1 Tablespoon freshly peeled, grated ginger
5 Tablespoons (1/3 cup) of tomato paste
about 1/2 teaspoon of dried ground cayenne pepper (or chopped fresh chili peppers, but be careful because the hotness may vary)
1/3 - 1/2 cup (5 - 8 Tablespoons) peanut or other vegetable oil
2 teaspoons salt or to taste (plain or Adobo or other seasoning salt)
1 teaspoon curry powder (OR thyme, about 1/2 teaspoon)
2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken cubed, or 3 pounds with bones and cut into small pieces, breaking the bones with a heavy cleaver (for example, cut a thigh or drumstick into 2 pieces)
Realistically, you'll probably use frying chicken, but free-range or roasting chicken would be
better.

This version is easily doubled or tripled.

1. First prepare all the ingredients: remove the skin and fat from the chicken and cut it into pieces, gather the spices, chop the onion, grate the ginger, drain and prepare the tomatoes, etc.
2. In a bowl, mix about 1/4 cup of the chopped onions with a little (maybe 1/4 of the garlic and ginger, about 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon black (or white) pepper and 1/8 teaspoon red pepper and stir well. Allow it to marinate for a few minutes.
2. Heat 3 or 4 Tablespoons of oil in a heavy skillet, add a couple of tablespoons of onion and brown the chicken on medium high heat in 2 batches (so you don't crowd them), adding another 1/4 cup of chopped onions and another Tablespoon of oil if necessary with the second batch. As the chicken browns put the pieces into a large roaster or casserole dish (I usually make this in quantity and you may notice that in the first picture above I started with small enameled roasting pan, but had to switch to a larger one before I added the liquid. Make sure your pan will hold all of the chicken, rice, liquid and vegetables!)
3. While you're browning the chicken, put the 4 cups of broth/water/tomato juice into a saucepan with a bay leaf if you're using it and heat to a boil, then keep warm until you need it. Turn the oven on to 350 degrees Farenheit to preheat, and make sure your oven rack is low enough to place your covered roasting pan on it.
4. After all the chicken is browned, add another 3 - 4 Tablespoon of oil, the remaining onion, garlic, ginger, and curry powder or thyme (if using either), and stir fry together for a few minutes, then stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste and pepper, and salt.
5. Add the 2 cups of rice to the roasting pan with the chicken.
6. Pour the heated liquid (broth/water/tomato juice mixture) into the skillet with the tomato paste and tomato and stir to loosen the onion from the pan, then pour then liquid from the pan into the roasting pan, stir well, cover and place in the oven.
7. Cook covered for 15-20 minutes. Remove from the oven once to check rice for doneness and to see if a little more liquid is needed. If so, add a little water or broth. Stir the rice from the outside in as the outside edges will brown faster than the inside. Return to the oven for another 10-15 minutes while you prepare the vegetables.
8. Peel and dice the vegetables and cook separately, either in a microwave or on the stove top.
9. Remove the rice and stir in the vegetables.
10. Garnish as desired.

NOTES: Alternatively, this may all be cooked in a large pot on the stovetop, but beware of burning the rice on the bottom and/or stirring too often and making the rice mushy. Also, the vegetables may be added directly to the rice while it is cooking, or stirred in during the final minutes before it is done.

This is one of those wonderful recipes that tastes even better the day after it was made, and also freezes nicely. In Ghana it is often served with braised cabbage on the side and/or Ghana-style gravy, or shito (hot pepper sauce).

Friday, June 18, 2010

Baby Shower Cupcake Soaps

http://scentsationalsoapsskincare.com/Baby-Shower-Favors-Boy-or-Girl-Cupcake-Soaps-P1127597.aspx

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ghana, Africa


This is my beautiful neice in Ghana, Africa in the ministy work. She brings us back "goodies" from Ghana, like unrefined shea butter, handmade bongo for our son who loves music, handmade Bible covers and more. She visits over there for 6 months and comes back to USA for a few months and back again to Ghana for a few months. She has been doing this for over 3 years now. In Ghana they walk for many miles, some don't have good shoes for walking, so my neice will bring them some over from the USA. It is nice to share things from our country since they share things from thier country. The dress she is wearing was handmade by a woman from Ghana. Look how beautiful it is! My neice has made many friends from Ghana and surrounding areas. The food they prepare is delicious and different. I will post a recipe soon. So keep watching and follow our blogspot. More to come! Oh- have mention alot of our products are made with unrefined shea butter!!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Blueberry Pickin


My Nephew Blueberry Picking. He knew to pick the ripe ones. I love my nephew! Children are so smart, creative, expressive and can teach us life lessons.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Pocket Positives

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910 American Wrighter & Humorist

Body Butters


Hi Everyone, 2 weeks ago we had a request from a friend to make body butter for her sunburn and she was peeling already. That can happen in Sunny Florida. So we whipped up a special recipe for her using our body butter. She thanked us so much, it helped her peeling, no scars left and relieved her sunburn pain and healed her skin. We love to hear good feedback, then you know you have a great product. Now she came to us and wanted our company to make a stretch mark body butter for a close friend of hers who is pregnant. So of course we did with excitement. Her friend says she loves it so much and it feels great on her growing belly. The friend also said she tried other stretch mark products that smelled funny, but loves our wonderful smelling stretch mark belly rub body butter.

Here are a few tips to enjoy: Home Remedies for Stretch Marks #1: It is very important to exercise in order to get rid of stretch marks; toning your muscles helps your skin to firm thus preventing stretch marks.

Home Remedies for Stretch Marks #2: Make sure in your diet you are getting plenty of protein and foods rich in Vitamin C and Vitamin E, they promote good tissue growth.

Home Remedies for Stretch Marks #3: Apply SCENTSational Soaps skin care Body Butter Belly Rub for stretch marks. (stretch marks for any part of the body, whether the belly, thighs, buttocks, breast, and arms.)

Monday, June 7, 2010

Pocket Positives

The secret in happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

J.M. Barrie, 1860-1937 Scottish Writer and Dramatist

Home Town/ Family News


I love visiting my hometown of Long Island, New York. It is so beautiful on Long Island. I miss visiting my family and friends in the Hampton's. We took Chad to see his first snow in New York 3 years ago. We had so much fun together that year. We also visited my sister who lives in Brooklyn, New York. We went to Soho, Chinatown, Empire State Building, etc. Please keep watching our blog, I will be adding more pictures, recipes, inpirational thoughts and what we are up to.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Our Apron

My daughter made this apron for us.  We try to wear it to all our craft shows.  My daughter is so articulate!

BELIEVE Soap Bar


We have a BELIEVE soap bar on our site that for everyone sold $1 dollar goes to IDEAS for research for Chromosome 15. The BELIEVE soap bar comes wrapped in a cello-bag with a beautiful matching ribbon and hang tag ready for gift giving or for yourself.

IDIC15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Qjp7Sth6Q
Our children are a blessing to us! BELIEVE in them!