·
Do it! You'll
burn more calories!
·
Bundle up, but dress in layers so
that you can remove clothing as you warm up,
then put layers back on as you cool
down.
·
Drink a LOT of water. You dehydrate
as fast, or faster in the cold as you do during
the heat of the summer.
·
Don't sweat. You do
not need to work so hard that you work up a
sweat.
Sweating can also lead to
hypothermia.
·
Try to exercise during daylight
hours to take advantage of the sunlight during
the short winter
days. |
Donate a Coat To People In Need and
Receive $10 Off on your personal
clothes brought with
donation.
The cold
weather is coming and the people need your help.
Give me a coat, I'll clean it and give it to a
person in need.
I
participate in14th Annual Jersey Cares Coat
Drive. Just mark the
coat clearly that you want to give away and
leave it out on your pick-up day. Thanks for
using Go Green Organic Cleaners. I do appreciate
it-and my dog Bianca does too!! And that
people thanks you
too!!
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Your Goose is
Cooked!
Many people choose not to eat
roast goose during the holidays because they
believe it is too fatty. Here's a
suggestion that will reduce the fat, but still
give you the gastronomic delight of roast goose.
Before stuffing the goose, prick it all over the
skin, place it on a rack in a roasting pan and
cook at 350 for one hour. Remove from oven, pat
all over with paper towels to soak up as much of
the grease as possible. Now
stuff your goose, place it back in the oven, and
bake.
Plan on 25 minutes per pound, minus the
one hour degreasing cooking time. Baste every 30
minutes and enjoy delicious goose with no
guilt!
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Wine and
Cheese
Demystified
There was a time when
pairing wine with anything required an advanced
degree in both chemistry and the culinary
arts.
Thankfully, with the greater numbers of
fine wines available to us and the ever
increasing number of wonderful cheeses, having a
hard and fast standard for pairings has become
an impossible task.
This means the rules
really are much more relaxed! We have as much
freedom as we like to pair wine with
cheese.
Here are a few tips that will help you to
make the most of your wine and cheese choices
and perhaps you'll even be interested in hosting
some wine and cheese events during this busy
holiday season. It's
much simpler than hosting a sit-down dinner, and
the great advantage is that most people enjoy
the sophistication of wine and cheese without
worrying about pretension.
Keep this in mind,
milder cheeses go best with milder wines. For
cheeses such as mozzarella, feta, Jarlsberg, or
Chevre, look at pairing them with a white wine
that is crisp and has less than 12% alcohol like
a Riesling, a Sauvignon Blanc, Gewurztraminer,
or a Pinot Gris.
More medium flavored
cheeses like Brie and Camembert do well with a
more robust white wine like an oak aged
Chardonnay or the lighter and fruiter red wines
like a Pinot Noir or a Malbec.
Your stronger cheeses
such as cheddar, Roquefort, blue, or
Parmigiano-Reggiano can stand up to a really
solid red.
Consider pairing such cheeses with a
Bordeaux, a Cabernet, or
Merlot.
When
hosting a wine and cheese gathering,
have plenty of wine glasses, lots of crisp
cracker choices, or great crusty French or
Italian bread, and small plates. You may wish to
offer gourmet olives, and some good quality
olive oil for dipping the bread. Some plates of
grapes or other fresh fruit will round out your
food offerings. What's nice about having a
variety of wines available is that your guests
can then enjoy a taste of a wine that they might
never have considered trying
before. |
How to Fight
Back
Here are a few tips to fight this
year's double flu season:
·
Get
more good, restful sleep. Chronic sleep loss
compromises your immune system. Studies show
those who sleep fewer than 7 hours increase
their risk of coming down with the flu by 3
times! For those of you who toss and turn, your
risk goes up 5 times!
·
Exercise
helps to boost immunity. Do a
little bit every day.
·
Wash
your hands. If no soap and water is available,
use the alcohol based hand
cleaners.
·
Use
saline nose sprays to help minimize the effects
of the dry winter air. They can help if you're
congested without resorting to
drugs.
·
If
you do get sick, try to only take medication for
the symptoms you
have. | |
Celebrate
all Wins!
I'm
not sure if it is how we were raised, but many
of us believe we should be humble about any
successes we have, especially the small
ones.
That might actually be hurting your
chances of greater success.
Did
you know that by acknowledging even your
smallest accomplishments, you boost the
chemicals in your body that relate directly to
your self-confidence, your self-esteem, and your
feelings of happiness?
By
focusing on this done well, thoughts that once
made you feel anxious and insecure will
recede.
Some personal coaches suggest that your
small wins are equally important to your
greatest accomplishments. A win is
a win.
Put
this into effect today! Some
people use that Easy Button seen on the Staple's
commercials that audibly congratulates you,
"That was easy!" Try
it! |
Winter is the time for comfort,
for good food and warmth, for the touch of a
friendly hand and for a talk beside the
fire:
it is the time for
home.
~Edith
Sitwell |
This
month's quotes:
Goodness is the only investment that
never fails. -Henry David
Thoreau
You can have it all. You just can't have
it all at once. -Oprah
Winfrey
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone
else can. -Elsa
Maxwell | | |