eve and cooking: CHICKEN WITH TOMATOES AND

1 pkg chicken (3 or 4 boneless breasts or a selection of bone-in breasts and/or thighs)3-4 baking potatoes, peeled and cubed1 can diced tomatoes (or 2-3 large fresh tomatoes, diced3-5 carrots or parsnips, quartered1 large onion, diced1-2 cloves garlic, diced1/2-1 red bell pepper, diced1 cup peas (if desired)1/4 cup olive oilparsley (1/4 cup fresh or 2 tbs. dried)1 1/2 tsp. paprikaa few pinches of saffron, if you've got itsalt and pepper to taste
In a large pot, heat oil and sauté onion and garlic. Add chicken, tomatoes, red pepper, parsley, paprika, saffron, and 1/2 cup water. Cover and cook about an hour (until chicken is thoroughly cooked and just beginning to shred when handled much), stirring occasionally.


Add water as necessary to keep mixture wet and saucy (maybe 2 cups total by the end of the process). Add potatoes, carrots/parsnips, and peas and cook for another 20-30 minutes, or until potatoes and carrots are completely cooked. Salt and pepper as you like.
Now, if you want to eat in authentic Moroccan style, dish onto a large plate and serve with lots of bread (something crusty like French works well).
Using the bread as the only untensil, everyone eats out of their section of the plate (using the right hand only). Wow, a culture where playing in your food is the norm!

eve and make up:lip make up tricks

Lip Care
Moist, smooth lips hold color best. Stay pucker-pretty by following these basic tips for healthy lips:
Give dry, flaky lips the brush-off; add "brushing your lips" to your morning ritual using a soft toothbrush or terry washcloth. Now add some lip balm to smooth the way for lipstick-worthy lips!
Sexier Looking Lips
To make your lips look fuller and sexier, especially if you have thin lips, line lips first with lipliner then use light-coloured or neutral-shade lipsticks. Pale shades make lips look fuller.
Finish with a shimmer-gloss for Party-wear. To enhance a pout, dab a silver/shiny lip-gloss onto the centre of your lower lip.
Altering Lip Contours
Want lips that pout? Apply lipstick except in the centre of the mouth. Apply a lighter shade in the centre of the mouth and touch it up with lip gloss.
For thinner lips apply foundation on the lips and outline lips with a lip pencil (within the natural lip line). Fill in lipstick with a lip brush. To make thin lips look fuller, apply foundation on mouth area. Use a lip pencil to outline the lips just beyond the natural lip line and fill in with desired colour
Longer Lasting Lipstick
Here is a Hollywood trade secret used by myself and many celebrity make up artists:
Apply foundation over lips first
Apply lip liner to lips and fill in lipstick with a lip brush
Bite onto a piece of tissue and blot lips
Dust lips lightly with translucent powder
Apply final coat of lipstick

eves and make up:eye make up tricks

bigger eyes

If you want to make your eyes look bigger and more open then you will want to use this trick. First of all you will want to line your top lash line with an eye liner. Then you will want to only line half of your lower lash line. Start at the outside edge of your lower lash line and sweep the line to the center of your lash line.
Close-set Eyes
You can’t literally make your eyes closer if they’re set wider apart than you’d like, but you can create the illusion. Here’s how:
Color your lids with a light eyeshadow.
Apply a medium tone shadow to the inner corner of your eyelids and blend the color all the way to the outer lid.
Apply eyeliner all the way
Highlight
When you are creating a fresh natural look, or when you are trying for a smoky eye, you will want to use a light tone to highlight the area of your eye right below your eye brow. If you are trying for a natural look then you will want to use a soft eye color shade like pink, peach, or beige depending on your skin tone. If you are trying for a smoky look then you will want to use a light shade eye shadow that compliments the darker tones that you are using.ross your lids and follow with mascara.
ROUND EYES
To make round eyes look less round, extend shadow/liner at the outer edge of the eye to lengthen. Line the entire eye with the thickness being at the outer edge of the eye. Highlight under the eyebrows and the top of cheekbone by the eye to sharpen this effect. An arched brow shape increases the effect. Example: Star Jones, Oprah Winfrey

eve and fitness:relax help you to lose weight

Relax help you to lose weight
We briefly noted yoga in the list of Things to Do above, and that brings us to another key influence of your metabolism: stress.
Believe it or not, but experts are now telling us that stress can send unwanted signals to our body; signals that lead to slower metabolism.
Essentially, what happens is that when the body is under constant stress, it releases stress hormones that flood the system.
These stress-related hormones actually tell the body to create larger fat cells in the abdomen. The result can be both increased weight (through increased fat cells), and a slower metabolism.
Obviously, these are two very negative factors in the quest to boost metabolism and lose weight. The last thing that we want is more and bigger fat cells in our abdomen, coupled with a diminished metabolism!
Yet this is, tragically, what happens to many people who experience constant, continuous stress. And, alas, this is many people; especially those of us who have to balance so many competing objectives, such as work, family, and other vital tasks.
So the advice here is indeed to “relax and chill out”, and there are some simple techniques that can, and should, be added to your life.
These include walking more, listening to relaxing music, meditation, yoga, eating non-stimulating foods.
as you’ll soon learn, it’s not merely what you eat that matters; it’s when, and how, too.

moroccan hammam(shower)

Create the Moroccan hammam experience in your own home

While I can't whisk you away for a hammam in Morocco, I have put together a few simple steps that you can follow in your own bathroom so you can enjoy some of the beauty benefits of the hammam ritual and feel thoroughly pampered.

This is probably best done in the shower or stood in the bath, as lots of water is used in the hammam ritual.

You will need

• Moroccan black soap – this soap is made from the kernel of the olive nut and has wonderful exfoliating properties
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• A Moroccan scrubbing mitt called a gome - this course mitt will effectively remove all your dead skin cells, and increase the circulation in your arms and legs, helping to reduce cellulite. A very handy glove
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• A Moroccan foot scrub (optional) - this little terracotta foot scrub will remove hard skin from your heels faster than anything I know.
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• Rhassoul - this wonder clay, mined from deep within the Atlas Mountains, has a list of benefits as long as your arm
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• Rose water (optional) - will make you feel like a Moroccan princess.
• Mint tea
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Your step-by-step guide

• Start by making sure your bathroom is warm and have several large fluffy towels to hand and a glass of cold mineral water.
• Wet your skin with warm water and, starting on your legs, apply the black soap working into your skin in circular motions. Move from your legs to arms and then your middle.
• Rinse your skin with lots of warm water.
• Re-apply black soap and rub your skin with the mitt, working more vigorously on the area where cellulite may gather.
• Rinse your skin with lots of warm water.
• Sitting on the edge of the bath, generously apply black soap to your feet and run the foot scrub over your heels.
• Rinse with warm water.
• Make the rhassoul into a thick clay pack and apply to your body and face, you can even apply it to your hair.
• Wait for 5 minutes as the clay works its magic on your
  
  
  skin.
• Rinse off with lots of warm water.
• Drink some cool mineral water.
• Drizzle some diluted rose water over your skin and pat dry.
• Wrap yourself in the largest fluffiest towel you own and sit down and enjoy a glass of Moroccan mint tea!

eve and fitness:calories

Calories

Calories are simply units of measure. They aren’t actually things in and of themselves; they are labels for other things, just like how an inch really isn’t anything, but it measures the distance between two points.

So what do calories measure?

Easy: they measure energy.

Food Weight (g) Common Measure Calories (kcal) Alcoholic beverage, beer, light 354 12 fl oz 103 Alcoholic beverage, beer, regular 355 12 fl oz 138 Alcoholic beverage, wine, dessert, sweet 103 3.5 fl oz 157 Apple juice, unsweetened 248 1 cup 117 Bananas, raw 118 1 banana 105 Beans, baked, canned, plain or vegetarian 254 1 cup 239 Beets, canned, drained solids 170 1 cup 53 Bread, rye 32 1 slice 83 Bread, wheat 25 1 slice 65 Bread, white 25 1 slice 67 Broccoli, raw 88 1 cup 30 Butter 14.2 tablespoon 102 Cabbage, raw 70 1 cup 17 Cake, chocolate 64 1 piece 235 Carbonated beverage, cola, with caffeine 370 12 fl oz 155 Carrots, raw 72 1 Carrot 30 Cheese, cottage, creamed 210 1 cup 216 Cheese, provolone 28.35 1 oz 100 Chicken, broilers/fryers, breast, meat only 86 1/2 breast 142 Coffee, instant, regular, prep. with water 179 6 fl oz 4 Crustaceans, crab, blue, canned 135 1 cup 134 Crust., lobster, cooked, moist heat 85 3 oz 83 Crustaceans, shrimp, canned 85.05 3 oz 102 Egg, whole, cooked, fried 46 1 large 92 Fast foods, cheeseburger, double patty 155 1 medium 457 Fast foods, hamburger, double patty 215 1 medium 576 Fast foods, hotdog, 98 1 hotdog 242 Fish, haddock, cooked, dry heat 150 1 fillet 168 Fish, halibut, cooked, dry heat 159 1/2 fillet 223 Fish, salmon, pink, canned 85 3 oz 118 Fish, tuna salad 205 1 cup 383 Grapefruit juice, pink, raw 247 1 cup 96 Ham, sliced, regular (+/- 11% fat) 56.7 2 slices 92 Honey 21 1 tbsp 64 Ice creams, vanilla 66 1/2 cup 133 Lemon juice, canned or bottled 244 1 cup 51 Lettuce, green leaf, raw 10 1 leaf 2 Margarine, regular, tub, 80% fat, with salt 14.2 1 tbsp 102 Milk shakes, thick chocolate 300 10.6 fl oz 357 Milk, whole, 3.25% milk fat 244 1 cup 146 Nuts, almonds 28.35 24 nuts 164 Oil, olive, salad or cooking 13.5 1 tbsp 119 Onions, raw 110 1 onion 46 Oranges, raw, all commercial varieties 131 1 orange 62 Pears, raw 166 1 pear 96 Potato salad 250 1 cup 358 Potatoes, baked, flesh, without salt 156 1 potato 145 Rice, white, parboiled, enriched, cooked 175 1 cup 200 Tea, herb, chamomile, brewed 178 6 fl oz 2