More about Juicing

1. It's worth getting organic fresh vegetables and fruit

I have tried various brands of organic and non-organic veg from a variety of stores and really the best are the organic ones, regardless of shop. I usually buy mine from either Tesco or Dunnes. Yes, organic costs more but cheapies taste of nothing, have no nutritional value and you may as well just drink water in my opinion.

2. Keep your pulp. It's great for thickening sauces.

I separate mine, for example if I'm making my favourite as I did this morning of celery, carrot, apple and lemon I do each individually and keep the pulp somewhat separate. I made a pasta sauce and a curry which I'll later freeze to save myself from cooking everyday over the weekend and over Christmas. I added the carrot pulp to the pasta sauce but really only put a little bit in unless you want your sauce to look more grainy than velvety. I then put my celery and apple pulp (minus the pips and stalk) into my thai yellow curry sauce and it has thickened it up beautifully considering I could have done with a bit more coconut milk and a touch less water.

3. Keep on juicing. Even if you do eat to excess, balance it out and clear out the heavy meals with a juice during the Christmas holidays. I advise this while sipping my juice after eating Madeira cake for dinner yesterday and breakfast this morning.

I've decided

I will be pregnant by the time the new Sex and the City movie comes out.
Christmas is here and I wont be pregnant by yet another holiday season. This is hard but I'm not going to do my annual moan at the end of my 4th year trying for a baby like I did for the 3rd and 2nd year. Instead, I'm extending my deadline and the SATC movie seems like a good choice to me. Sure why not?
Just a random rambling but one I hope comes true.
In the mean time I'll try and be a business woman.

Seeing as the cat doesn't want to go in the bag....

.....we've started a business!

Eastern Harvest Wines Ltd. is now an official entity and we hope to start trading once all the licences and such have been granted (please wish us luck for this to all go smoothly) in early 2010!

I accidentally published our Facebook page but hey seeing as the company exists we're delighted to announce it. We have a BLOG and a WEBSITE but both are still relatively immature so please visit in early 2010.

We will be importing the finest Romanian wines from the Murfatlar Vineyards. They are D.I.V.I.N.E.!

More to come soon.

Christmas and the associated merriment!

I enjoyed a wondeful afternoon and evening with the Dublin Nesties and a lot of wine was consumed (by me and apparently a couple of others). It was lovely catching up with everyone and to see our two blooming members. After a little dinner, 750ml of organic celery, carrot, lemon and apple juice I'm glad to say there was no hangover. Here's a pic while still relatively sober but unfortunately my camera aiming skills meant I cut out the lovely Joanne so I'm also trying to copy and paste her from Liz's pic.
Happy Festivities everyone! Thanks for a lovely day and a big thank you to Beth for the thoughtful and perfect Kris Kindle gift.

How to make your own Christmas Wreath

If you're like me and feel inclined to sculpt your tree and have lots of leftover bits here's how I make my own free Christmas wreath for the front door which if stolen doesn't bother me. It takes less than 10 minutes.

Step one, get an old wire clothes hanger and pull into a round shape, then bend down the hook bit and bend just the hooked bit back up again so it will be hidden behind the wreath once completed.

Step Two is to lay out your bits of tree with the top of one overlapping with the one before.

Step Three is to use any sort of dark string and bind them together. If you have any ribbon left over this is a great place to use it.

Step four is to attach/hang some of those decorations you never use for your tree and ones you don't mind being exposed to the element.

And Ta-Da.......you are done. Hang it up using the hook part of the hanger on the back and enjoy!

A little bit of artwork done!

a possible logo for the Dublin Roller Derby Girls.

The Perfect Saturday Night

Clean house, fragrant candles, hot bath with essential oils and a quick trip to the off-licence for a bottle of nice red.

Perfect!