If you're working to lose a few pounds, swap those rice cakes and celery sticks for some unusual diet foods that up the ante with surprising fat busting benefits.
Hot Peppers - The "heat" in hot peppers comes from the ingredient capsaicin, a natural appetite suppressant that also reduces the body's ability to store fat as efficiently. Just sprinkle on the heat and make the burn work for you.
Five Surprising Diet Herbs and Other Foods
Theme Inspiration: Gothic Decoration!
Surely Halloween has put me in the mood to explore Gothic too, but my understanding is very limited. Enjoy these unusual delights!
Fall Special: Autumn decor inspiration!
Make Rose Water in Your Crock-pot
Mama Peck (a recent visitor) had great idea I want to share. Scented water requires an approximate two hour cooking time at a slight simmer. It's important not to boil the flower petals. I've made the recipe so many times on the stove that the idea of using a crock-pot (slow cooker) never occurred to me. Thanks to Mama Peck's suggestion, I made a quick batch -- very successfully.
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Scented Water
If you've had a disappointing summer in the garden, you're not alone. Brutal heat, patchy rain and insects of all descriptions descending on backyard gardens in record numbers have conspired to make this season one for the record books. If you stuck it out, (water hose in one hand and organic pesticide in the other) you deserve a T-shirt that reads: "Garden Guru - My landscape survived the