https://www.instagram.com/p/BHIYbcJBfYZ/?taken-by=lgemme_confidence_mentor How to skin a tomato! To blanch tomatoes, start by boiling some water Once boiling, turn off the stove, taking the pot off the heat, and put the tomatoes in After 10 minutes, or once the tomato skins start to split open, put them into some cool water. I used room temperature water (no such thing [...]
Tag: Diet
So unexpected (plus a recipe)
Me? Write a cookbook? Well, after deciding a meal my husband made was too pretty to eat and took out my new studio lights to take pictures - I was hooked. I have awakened a new passion the past few days to design recipes and artistically and visually capture the love I have for food, [...]
Think fast – and lose weight?
There's a new buzz word that I've been seeing popping up on the internet in the diet world lately: Intermittent fasting. It's everywhere. There is a website dedicated to fasting here, TED Talks on the subject, and event a BBC documentary - all touting the health benefits of this uncomfortable practice, including weight loss. Cultures around [...]
A narrative aside: Colliding of two worlds
Changing careers is like living a double life. As you can see, I find it difficult to find time to update this blog regularly. This is because I don’t like to blog while sitting at my desk at work (just seems like a conflict of interest, and I try not to mix any of these elements). [...]
Where’s the sense in a ‘Sensa’ diet?
There are fad diets, and then there are ridiculous diet schemes. Although it's apparently been around for about a year, I only recently saw this ad for a diet product called Sensa. It appeals to this country's 'quick-fix' mentality where just sprinkling your food with this product will magically help you shed pounds. How has [...]
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