October 2007

Portland’s Green Fashion Week [Chic By Nature]

Portland Fashion Week is from October 19th-24th. This year, it will have a distinct “green theme” with events being promoted on recycled paper, and the actual shows will include a sustainable runway, sustainable makeup and hair, and sustainable hotels for guests.

Their vision is to “emphasize eco-responsible fashion, stage independent designers, and draw national attention to Portland’s unique intersection of Art, Commerce, and Sustainability.” They promise a great show with an abundance of innovation and creativity.

Featured designers include Alula, Anna Cohen, Kate Towers, Lara Miller and many more!

To find out more, check out their website.

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Annick Goutal - Eau Splendide [The Scented Life: All about fragrance]

A special thanks to my pal Teri over at AgingFabulous for the info about yet another Breast Cancer Awareness month product. I had no idea Annick Goutal battled breast cancer.   And the product itself sounds like a nice gift for someone you know who might be fighting breast cancer.   I’ve got a few more years before I’m supposed to have a mammogram but I’ll be sure to remind my mom and all the other women of age that I know to get checked up!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Annick Goutal Parfums will donate 30% of the proceeds from the sale of Eau Splendide during the month of October to the American Breast Cancer Foundation.

Annick Goutal Parfum’s continued participation in Breast Cancer Awareness Month is in loving honor of the company’s founder who was diagnosed with breast cancer and bravely battled the disease until her passing in 1999.

Eau Splendide is an all-over body spray. The spray will not only have you smelling beautiful, you will benefit from the ingredients in the formula. Some of them are Vitamin E and Active Rose Serum, an ingredient exclusive to Annick Goutal Parfums. Active Rose Serum contains a very high concentration of Vitamins A, B5, C, E and F, that combine together to promote healthy cellular growth and tissue repair. This exclusive serum also contains the trace minerals Magnesium and Calcium to reinforce the lipid barrier and transport nutrients to the cells.

Annick Goutal Eau Splendide sells for $89 at saks.com.

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Snap Judgment: Amy Winehouse Works Out, Feels Weak, Revives With Fast Food

[Berlin, Germany; October 14. Images via FilmMagic.]

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Red Hot Tadashi Jersey Gown Under $100 [Style It Less]

Oh My Tadashi. *sigh* Looking for a red hot gown in time for upcoming Holiday parties? Hey, it won’t be long now and those office parties or family holiday parties are in season. How about a Tadashi Jersey Gown? On sale for $88 from it’s original price of $350. Oh My Gosh! If you are size Large/12-14, then this red gown is perfect for you. Holy crap, I can’t get over the sale price. I am seriously hyperventilating over here. Whewwww. Hot, Hot Hot! And I’m not talking about the color. Surplice v-neckline, and V back as well. Wrap front style and tie-waist tassels and that sexy side slit. $88 out of $350, c’mon, what are you waiting for? Whip those card out ladies .

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A Beautiful DKNY Tie Dress On Sale [Style It Less]

I Love Donna Karan. She knows how to dress Women. As soon as I saw this tie-dress with cap sleeves dress in jaipur color I was smiling form ear to ear..hehehe. Oh btw, jaipur is supposed to be pink, but it almost looks purple-ish. Light tone I guess. Anyway, it used to be $245 but is not on sale for $61. NIIIIIIIIICE! It comes in size Large/12-14 but I’m thinking since it’s in jersey fabric it will comfortably fit me. Well if I buy it anyway..LOL. I would but I think I’ve done enough shopping this weekend that if buy another one, albeit it’s DKNY on sale, my husband would go totally ape sh!t on me. Especially when I was complaining at 5am today about getting a new sneakers for my work-out and he said he’d buy me one. So a much needed pair of sneakers or DKNY Tie Dress on sale?. Damn, the dilemma I find myself in. While I ponder my future if I decide to get this dress, why don’t you go check it out yourself. Maybe be nice enough to let me know you bought it and turn me green with envy.

One more thing, if you live in Sunny California or Florida or wherever temperature doesn’t drop below 50 degrees, you can probably get away with wearing it this Fall. But if you reside in the east coast like Moi, save it for Spring/Summer or sneak a one time wear just before it gets 30 degrees.

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Food Fight: Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious”: Kinda Deceptive, Not So Delicious

We were wary when we first saw Jessica “Mrs. Jerry” Seinfeld on Oprah last week, heralding the benefits of steaming and pureeing the shit out of vegetables and then “hiding” them in kid-friendly foods so that kids will stop throwing temper tantrums at the dinner table and actually eat their vegetables. Because if you steam and puree the shit out of a vegetable, does it have any nutritious value left in it? Especially when it’s hidden in a brownie? We turned to Sarah Sliwa, a graduate student at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and all-around sassy chick, to help us unravel Seinfeld’s “deception” and its potential for any and all deliciousness.

In the tepid throes of veganism, a friend of mine once tried to tell me that avocados were the same as cheese. I like avocado and I like cheese, but the two are not equivalent. Apparently, one man’s bullshit is another’s inspiration: Jessica Seinfeld has anchored her new cookbook Deceptively Delicious in precisely this school of culinary trickery: Broccoli puree and flaxmeal-coated chicken nuggets. Beet puree enriches chocolate cake. Spinach and chocolate get it on. Gross.

Picky eating is not unusual. Food jags — children’s desire to eat only a few types of food — often set in around age two and can continue until a child is four or five. For this reason, experts recommend that parents introduce, and reintroduce and reintroduce, as many foods as possible when children are young, so that when the jags set in, odds are higher that children will fixate on at least some of the foods that parents want to be serving, which is why Seinfeld’s approach of sneaking veggies into brownies doesn’t sound quite right. Green, broccoli-coated chicken nuggets don’t help kids like broccoli. They help kids eat green nuggets. This is exactly the point raised in a recent New York Times article about picky eaters.

Making healthier versions of popular foods isn’t a bad idea. Substituting homemade foods for fast foods is appealing when the recipe is quick, involves few ingredients, and tastes good. But cooking vegetables to puree them in order to trick kids is less convenient. And there’s something even more troublesome about using dessert, a meal accessory, as a vehicle for vegetables, a diet staple. If this is the point, Seinfeld’s brownies are a Yugo at best: the half-cup of spinach and half-cup of carrots required for the recipe amount to a whopping 1/12 of a cup of vegetables per serving. When the recipe was analyzed using NutriCalc 2.0 it appears that each brownie yields 156 calories, 57% of which came from carbohydrates, 9% from protein, and 34% from fat. This is lower in fat and calories than a traditional brownie, but higher in both than most methods of preparing carrots or spinach. But does it taste like a brownie?

I had every intention of becoming an informed hater and make these terrifying brownies in the comfort of my own kitchen, but found myself without the time or energy to cook and puree. And I don’t even have kids. God bless Oprah fans for having the time to roast, puree, bake, watch Oprah and post the results of their experiments in delicious deception on Oprah’s website:

My 4yrold said the Brownies tasted like Dirt!

Brownies were awful… My family spit them out.

My brother (31) took one bite and practically gagged.

There is NO WAY these are the same brownies Oprah was eating on the show

. If the little Oprahs of tomorrow wouldn’t eat them, why should we? Seinfeld herself recommends that we wait before we eat our brownies when they come out of the oven so that they don’t taste like spinach. Why bother making them if you have to wait until they’re cold? Isn’t the whole point of baking burning your tongue and then not tasting anything for days? Furthermore, if you’re progressive enough to think beet chocolate cake sounds like a good idea, consider the time it takes to
1) PREP
Leave the beets whole (trim any stems to 1 inch) and unpeeled.
2) COOK
Wrap in aluminum foil and roast at 400° for about 1 hour (they’re done when they can be pierced with the tip of a sharp knife).
3) PUREE
After peeling, place in a food processor or blender for about 2 minutes.
4) START MAKING THE STUPID CAKE, which I promise you, will taste, at best, a close approximation of a late-early 90s Snackwell.

The book’s official website boasts that “Deceptively Delicious is a godsend for all parents who want healthy kids, peaceful family meals, and never again having to say, ‘Eat your vegetables!’” Actually, the best way to get kids to hate beets is to keep telling them to eat them. I’m Polish. I heart beets. Beets are good. In soup. In a salad. With some goat cheese. Just keep them out of my cake.

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Butternut Squash Recipe [Burning The Scale]

Well, it’s fall and that means different foods are in season. It’s time for baked apples and apple cider (actually, all things apples), pears, pumpkin pie and other various squashes - including my favorite, butternut squash.
Butternut squash indeed has a nutty flavor, and is very soft and flavorful when cooked properly. You can find a variety of recipes from sweet to savory, although my favorite is quite simple:

What you need:
1 large butternut squash
Black pepper
Salt
Butter (or oil of your choice)

Cut squash in half and remove seeds. Put a tablespoon of butter in each cavity, as well as salt and pepper to taste. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Let cool, serve and enjoy!

(Makes 2 servings)

Here’s the calorie breakdown for 1 cup of butternut squash:

Calories - 60
Total fat - 0g
Sodium - 5mg
Net carbs - 14g
Protein - 1g

Let me know if you’ve made something similar to this, and how it turned out.

Claire

(image from Melissa’s)

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Mammograms: Their Importance and a Reminder. [Aging Fabulous]

With all the talk of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, I seem to hear - as I do promote this myself - all about the pink products. Yes, pink products do a great job of helping us all give back to various breast cancer charities, and remind us how much help is needed. And hey, pink is pretty, and who doesn’t want another excuse to go shopping. But what I am constantly disappointed in, is the amount of times that mammograms get mentioned during the month of October.

Mammograms are so important to women as they are one of the most important tool that the medical community offers to diagnose and evaluate  breast cancer. Leading experts, the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the American College of Radiology now recommend annual mammograms for women over 40.

Now, while mammograms can not prevent breast cancer, they play such an important part by finding breast cancer as early as possible.

Mammograms have been shown to lower the risk of dying from breast cancer by 35% in women over the age of 50; studies suggest for women between 40 and 50 they may lower the risk of dying from breast cancer by 25–35%.

My appointment for my mammogram is next month. I am just 40, but it won’t be the first one for me. I had one just a over two years ago when I found two lumps in my right breast - more on that later this month. Anyway, while I am not looking forward to having my breasts squished and tortured (poor boobies!) I know it’s importance and will be there as planned.

Have you had your mammogram yet this year?

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Shop @ Blackbird In Seattle [She Knows Best - Lifestyle Tips for Guys]

If you live in Seattle and is looking for a boutique that has something for everyone, visit Blackbird. A.P.C. for Euro types, Cheap Monday for hipsters, and Wings and Horn for the guy hoping for a grunge revival (albeit a tailored one). Get 10% off all purchases when you mention “Details Privileges”

Blackbird is located at : 5410 22nd Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98107
206-547-2524

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