Homemade Onion Pancake: Chinese Snack

I have a special additional post today.  I was asked to post the recipe for this scrumptious food that brings me back to when I was a little girl!  Onion Pancake can be found in the Asian Markets frozen food section and typically eaten when you have Jook or Congee soup.  I wanted some Jook but I didn't have anything to go with it but living in Texas who doesn't have tortillas and eggs? So here's what I did.
bowl big enough to fit a tortilla or a deep plate
frying pan
spatula
butter
3 eggs
2-3 stalks of green onions
dash of garlic powder
dash of seasalt
dash or few twists of pepper
Tortillas

Heat up pan and cut a pad of butter in pan,
In the bowl  mix eggs, chopped up green onion, garlic powder, seasalt, and pepper.
Then dip the tortilla  in the mixture and  once melted butter has glazed the pan put tortilla down
Put some of the egg and onion mixture on top and then take another tortilla and dip in egg mixture
place on top of the tortilla already in the pan and press on the edge of the tortilla til sealed and flip.
If it puffs up it's ok, once flipped it will deflate and grow again.
Once it's a golden brown place on paper towel and use scissors to cut them.
Enjoy!

Sun-Activation Polish and Stamping

It's summer and it's time for some nail color fun!  I discovered Blaze by Solar Active last year and enjoyed all the color changing fun.  I also discovered the idea of nail stamping by Konad, I loved the nail art you get and it's easy to do.  This year I also found that you can use xanthan gum (xg) to thicken your polishes if they are too runny but most importantly it's useful when you are stamping and don't want to pay for the "special" stamping polish.  Just to let you guys know this is not a tutorial on how these products work. If you are interested you can do a search on all these ideas and products on youtube or the companies.  This is just to show what I did and keep in mind you can do the same with different colors and stamps and the like.  I just already had these colors on my nails from a mani/pedi I  had done and it was ready to chip. So the companies:
Konad.com- stamping stuff ( amazon sells other companies too however Konad seems to be better than other brands.)
Essie.com- This is just polish
Xanthan gum - Thicken polish:  can go to a specialty health store ie: whole foods, or sun harvest, central market
Sally Hansen- nail polishes - combined to form one color
Blazenailpolish.com- uv (sun) changing polish

So here's what I got: one hand was in the sun the other hidden and this was a huge color difference of my nails: left was in the sun and the right was hidden from the sun.
Here's how I did it:

You know how I said I had a mani? Well I was playing with my stamping and messed up the polish so then I grabbed my own stuff and re-polished my nails.  Sally's double duty  and then essie fifth avenue, and then topped off with sally hansen's top coat. 

While it was semi drying I mixed Sally Hansen's polishes a version of silver :220, 22, 230 and mixed in some xanthan gum (to a thick consistency) for stamping (bottle with the blue lid).

Took the Konad stamper and stamped an image (put polish on image, scrape excess and roll motion over the image and then place on nail).

Then I covered with the blaze polish since it goes on clear and then turns black in the sun.  So in the end the nails will go from design to black out and it's just an interesting look.
Hope this finds you well.  Sorry it's not a tutorial but if you want let me know and I can go over steps if you like. Enjoy!

Water, Water, Quench the Hot Days of Summer!



 I appologize for errors in grammar and spelling. It's late night and stupid netbooks not responding well. I can't wait for my computer to come back.




So water is water and there's not really anything too interesting about it. When you need something cold nothing beats ice cold water. Lately, I've been making spa waters. I have been basically tossing all sorts of fruit and herbs to liven up the water and get some good vitamins and minerals and well it couldn't hurt after all almost everyone is adding lemons to their water. Lemons are great and all, but it kinda gets a bit old. Let's face it, if we infuse so many things why not with water? So without further a do here's two waters I've made:

 1st is something that's been online and is a clense: Spa Cleanse water or water to loose belly fat: ginger, lemon, cucumbers, mint.  This helps appearently with belly fat but I think if you look at each of the ingredients you will find that there's more benefits than just belly fat. I found after a day of drinking this, I wasn't really hungry, skin looked much better and overall it was not a bad drink. Looking online for health benefits I found that:

Cucumbers - cools blood, lowers blood pressure, cleanse kidney, improve skin and purifies bowels, helps

                      with digestion.

Lemon - High in vitamin C, B, phosphorus, helps with swollen gums, colds, fights rheumatism

Ginger - Fights colon cancer, helps with morning, and motion sickness, reduce pain and inflamation,

                heartburn relief, fight cold and flu, migraines, menstral cramp and helps prevent diabetic

                nephropathy (kidney damage)

Mint - brightens teeth, freshens breath, helps keep you awake, eliminates toxins, bacteria, fungus, rid

            headaches and migrains

Raspberry - antioxidant, anti microbial, potential to inhibit cancer cells

Blackberry - fights obesity, also antioxidant, reduces risk of intestinal disease, high fiber, fights heart

                     disease, improve eye sight and helps with diabetes.

2nd water was Spa water: raspberry, blackberry, mint, ginger, lemons.  This water was just one of those things you look at and think what would sound good together.  I also like that the berries give a different feel to the water.  I hope you enjoy the waters and take time to look up different fruits and herbs you can mix and get health benefits from it all.  Enjoy it all! I'll post more waters as I start making more.