Genuinely Diverse Barbie That would Look GOOD in my Home !!

I LOVE dolls, but It is difficult to find cute ones that Look like our family. I Can not wait to get my hands on one of these Beautiful Barbies !!!

Artist+Loanne+Hizo+Ostlie+Creates+Genuinely+Diverse+Barbie+Mods

Vietnamese chicken noodle soup recipe !!! We Love " Pho Ga' "

Pho ga is , As all my friends know is my absolute favorite food ! So when my friend in NYC asked me to post My Pho Ga recipe... well, how can I resist.
It is cold here in Texas & time to bring out the immune boosting foods. This is how we do it in our household. Our flu shot is good old fashion nutritional foods. A friend actually taught me how to make this soup, so when I make it I compile different recipes. The correct pronunciation for pho ga is "fuh-gah"

This soup is a labor of Love, but so well worth it !!!

First Your Broth ingredients...
2 Lrg yellow onions, unpeeled
4 inch fresh ginger, unpeeled
1 Whole Chicken 3 1/2- 4 lbs, Naturally raised. Remove fat & tail
3-4 lbs chicken bony chicken parts + wings from whole chicken
5 star anise
1 tbsp. fennel seeds
1 whole cinnamon stick
4 cloves
2 tbsp coriander seeds
5 qts water
1 whole clove of Garlic, top cut off
1 1/2 Tbsp salt
3 Tbsp fish sauce
1 1/2 inch chunk rock sugar ( buy at your favorite Asian Market)
1 small or 1/2 large bunch cilantro (bound stems about 1 inch in diameter)

1. Grill for flavor
Char grill your onions and ginger. Place directly on the cooking surface of a medium-hot grill or a gas stove with a medium flame, or on a medium-hot burner of an electric stove. Let the skin burn. Rotate onion and ginger occasionally to char each side.If indoors use vent !!! Grill for about 10-15 minutes. Til soft & fragrant. Do not have to completely blacken it.Then remove from the heat and let cool.

Rinse the cooled onions under warm running water, rubbing off the charred skin. Trim off the blackened ginger root. Use a vegetable peeler, paring knife, or the edge of a teaspoon to remove the ginger skin. Wash off any blackened bits. Halve the ginger lengthwise and smash. Set the onions and ginger aside.

2. Clean & wash chicken
Rinse & wash the chicken under cool water. Detach each wing then add the wings and neck to the chicken parts. Remove any loose pieces of fat from the chicken parts. Break bones to enrich the broth.

3.Ahhh Fragrant Spices
Add star anise, fennel seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves to a dry pan. Toast these in the dry pan on low heat for 2-3 minutes, be careful not to burn the spices. When the aroma is apparent, turn off the heat and remove the spices from the pan. Tie up the spices in some cheesecloth and string.

4. Clear Broth is a Must
For a clear broth, parboil and rinse the chicken parts. Put them in a stockpot and add cold water just to cover. Bring to a boil over high heat and boil vigorously for 2 to 3 minutes to release the impurities. Dump the chicken parts and water into a clean sink and then rinse the parts with water to wash off any clinging residue. Quickly scrub the stockpot clean and return the chicken parts to the pot.

Pour in the water and add the whole chicken to the pot, breast side up.
Bring to a boil over high heat and then lower the heat to a gentle simmer. Skim off any scum that rises to the top. Add the onions, ginger, salt, fish sauce, rock sugar, Spice pouch and cilantro. Cook, uncovered, for 25 minutes, adjusting the heat if needed to maintain a gentle simmer.

5. Chicken is Cooked
After 25 min the chicken is cooked. Remove the chicken and put in a bowl. Rinse the chicken with cold water and drain well, then it set aside for 15 to 20 minutes until it is cool enough to handle. Meanwhile, keep the broth at a steady simmer.

When chicken is cooled, use a knife to remove each breast half and the whole legs (thigh and drumstick). Do not cut the pieces. Set aside on a plate to cool completely. Once cooled shred in nice size pieces. Then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before assembling the bowls.

Return the leftover carcass to the stockpot and adjust the heat to simmer the broth gently for another 1 1/2 hours. Avoid a hard boil, or the broth will turn cloudy.

6. Strain the yucky stuff
Strain the broth through a fine-mesh sieve or a cheesecloth positioned over a pot. Throw away the solids. Use a ladle to skim as much fat from the top of the broth as you can. Taste and adjust the flavor with additional salt, fish sauce, and rock sugar. Your broth should be VERY flavorful, because there is no salt in your noodles & other garnishes. There should be about 4 quarts (16 cups) broth.

7. Build your Bowl
To cook the noodles, bring some water to a boil and drop the noodles in for no more than FIVE SECONDS . Add Noodles, Broth & shredded chicken to your bowls.

Garnish Time
Very important that you use Fresh Herbs !

Garnish Ingredients include..
Green Scallions
Thinly sliced White onions
Long coriander ( culantro ), similar to cilantro
Wedges of Lime
Slices of Jalapeno
Basil Leaves
Bean Sprouts
Hoisin sauce (optional)
Red hot sauce (optional)

Enjoy !!

Ghost pepper will make you want to die !!!

Our Entire family Loves Hot peppers. The Bhut Jolokia or Ghost pepper is one that I have not tried yet & not sure I ever will. It is the Worlds Hottest Pepper.

Bhut Jolokia Pepper, (Ghost Pepper)was recognized by Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 as the Worlds hottest Pepper. This Chili pepper is grown in North Eastern India state of Assam. This is no regular hot pepper measuring at a rating of 1,041,427 Scoville heat units, the Bhut Jolokia is deadly hot. It is said to be hotter than you can imagine.

The Ghost Pepper is used as a spice in food or eaten alone. One seed from a Bhut Jolokia can cause intense pain sensations in the mouth for up to 30 minutes. It is sometimes used as a cure for stomach ailments. The Peppers are even used to keep wild elephants way from villages. In 2009 scientists at India's Defense Research and Development Organization found that they could make hand grenades with the Ghost Pepper. The chiles are a non-lethal way to control rioters.


This is good news for this remote region of India. The export possibilities are tremendous. I first saw this pepper mentioned on a television show called "Man vs Food". I was curious as to why the challenger could only eat 2 of his 6 ghost pepper hot wings. So I goggled the ghost pepper & Wow what a cool Plant.

You can check out this video to view someone enduring his own challenge of eating a raw Bhut Jolokia pepper. He proclaims that it kicked his butt..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tRq8ExAHzk

Reclaim Your Home & Your Health with Natural Cleaning Products

About 10 years ago I came home to find My Husband looking really peaked and telling me "Honey, I really don't feel well". What have you been doing I asked. Cleaning the Bathroom he states... After my investigation I found that he mixed a small amount of Bleach & Ammonia together. He just grabbed all the cleaning stuff we had and got to work. He grew up with a very wonderful mother who did ALL the cleaning and never shared her tricks about what to do & what NOT to do when cleaning. Guess I was going a great deal of the cleaning too not to have noticed that he really did not know what he was doing. Thank Goddess he did not die from that possibly fatal mistake.

I share all this to say, since that point I have been slowly changing my ways with the products I buy & use in the house.

Check in often because I will share How you too can reclaim your home with out major chemicals.We need to think about what we are using. The pollution to our Planet & Our bodies is greatly overlooked by some. Most of us are thinking about how we can do better. It is possible.

Happy Safe Cleaning
LOVE...
Ladyeagle

Lego Magazine was a big Hit in our house !!

FREE 2 Year Subscription to Lego Club Magazine

Our family loves to find a good deal and you can't get any better than FREE. I ordered these some time ago and We received it in the mail recently and my sons were so happy.

Low and behold it was a magazine full of the coolest Lego stuff possible. My Bionicle obsessed little guys, enjoyed this magazine for over an hour, while their sister commandeered the TV to watch Hello Kitty. Go to Lego website and order one for your family !!!

Order @ the Lego site
http://club1.lego.com/en-us/LEGOMagazine/default.aspx

Or Call Toll Free 1-866-534-6258

Free 2 yr. subscription to the Lego Club magazine. This is a magazine for Lego fans. It has information about upcoming kits and current Lego builds as well as comics. Available to US residents and several other countries.

Innovated ideas for Clean water to help less advantaged countries

There are many that are sitting on both sides of the fence when it comes to understanding the Innovative idea of the "Aquaduct" . This is a bike that filters and stores water. You bike to the water source, fillup the tank, bike back home and when you arrive the water has been filtered and is ready to drink.

I first saw this filtration bike on " G " Word, a Green Planet show. The bike was an entry in a contest called Innovate or Die. The contestants were challenged to build a pedal powered machine that would impact the environment. This really cool idea won the contest because there are those that were not afraid to try. We need more people that think like this to propel us forward into the future..

The comments on You Tude were varied.. Most thought, wow this is great and others complained about all the small issues with this cool concept bike. They will have to get over it, because we can think and move the world forward or we can complain about all the small things and put up barriers.

I choose moving forward with new thought

Thank you Team Aquaduct for at least trying !!!

Check out their bolg.
Team Aquaducts blog. http://theaquaduct.blogspot.com/

Change is here. We have climbed another rung in our ladder of Enlightenment

Change has come to America... Check out the white Houses website.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

With tears flowing I Post this with a happy heart.
A Person of Color on the opening page of the White House is Overwhelming, yet Divine.