3 1/2 to 4 lb. stewing chicken, cut up (I used 2 lbs. chicken breasts) Flour 3 Tbsp. fat 2 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. pepper 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning 1 1/2 cups diluted canned condensed cream of chicken soup 1 large onion, diced 1/2 cup celery, diced 1 can (4 oz.) sliced mushrooms
Dip
cut up chicken in flour. Heat oil in electric frying pan (or large
skillet) Add fat. Brown chicken, turning as necessary and remove
browned pieces. When all is browned, spoon off fat. Place chicken in
frying pan and sprinkle with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Add
soup slowly, together with remaining ingredients. When liquid is
boiling, turn heat, cover and simmer 3-4 hours or until pieces are
tender. Add more seasoning if necessary.
Martha: This
recipe was in one of my older cookbooks and was created to use with an
electric frying pan. I did it just a little different by using a frying
pan with fitting lid. The recipe called for 1 1/2 cups diluted canned
soup but didn't say how much it was to be diluted. I used the full can
of soup and 1 can of water. My chicken pieces were bite size so they
cooked up quicker than the 3-4 hours and the extra liquid allowed me to
add a boiling bag of brown rice to take up some of the liquid as well as
add to the dish. This is a delicious recipe to make with your electric
frying pan or as I did using the skillet. Either way, you can't go
wrong.
Is there anything more
comforting than a big plate of pasta? Oh, man. I have not met a plate of
pasta that I didn't love, but I must admit that I am a bit partial to
fettuccine Alfredo. It's just the bee's knees. When I first learned how
easy Alfredo sauce is to make a few years ago, I was absolutely amazed!
If you've never made your own homemade
Alfredo sauce before, then you are in for a treat. This whole meal can
easily be put together in around thirty minutes or less, and whoever you
make it for will be impressed. And if they are not, promptly take their
plate away and call me up so I can come over. Delicious pasta should
not be wasted on Alfredo haters.
Creamy Pea & Fresh Herb Fettuccine, serves four (you can easily cut this recipe in half if needed).
16 ounces fettuccine noodles 1 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup Greek yogurt (or sour cream; I just usually have Greek yogurt on hand) 2 egg yolks 3 tablespoons butter 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 2 tablespoons chopped basil 2 tablespoons chopped mint 1 cup peas (I like to use frozen, thawed peas, as they are already cooked)
Begin by boiling enough water for your pasta. While that boils,
you can mince the garlic and chop the herbs. When the water is ready,
cook the pasta according to the directions for al dente.
In a bowl or glass measuring cup, combine the cream, yogurt, and egg yolks. Stir to combine well.
In a large saucepan, heat the butter over
medium heat. Toss in the garlic once the butter has melted. Let that
cook for about 30 seconds, then pour in the cream mixture. Add a
generous sprinkle of salt and pepper and give that a stir (I like to use
a whisk here).
Once it begins to bubble, turn the heat down a little and toss in the cheese. Keep stirring as the cheese melts into the sauce.
By now your pasta is probably ready. Drain and toss the pasta in with the sauce.
Add in the peas and chopped herbs,
and continue to cook just until everything is hot. I like to use kitchen
tongs here, as it makes the tossing much easier.
Taste and add a little more pepper if you think it needs it. Serve hot and enjoy! xo. Emma
Credits // Author: Emma Chapman. Photography: Sarah Rhodes. Photos edited with A Beautiful Mess actions.
This is an authentic Italian spaghetti sauce
with meat balls recipe given to me by an Italian friend. It is cooked
slowly during 6 to 8 hours but the result is well worth the time and
effort.
Place all the ingredients for the meatballs in
a large bowl. Mix well and make small meatballs about 1 to 1 1/2 inch
diameter. Once the meatballs are made, keep them refrigerated for 2
hours. You will be a adding the raw meatballs to the sauce after the
first 2 hours of cooking.
SAUCE:
Now, cover the bottom of a large pot with
cooking oil. Add the garlic cloves and cook slightly (do not brown) on
medium heat. Add the 4 cans of tomato juice, green pepper (opt) and all
the SPICES indicated in the ingredient list for the sauce. Mix all
ingredients well and bring to a boil. Once it starts boiling,
immediately turn down the heat and simmer between 6 to 8 hours.
Once the sauce has simmered for 2 hours, add
the refrigerated raw meatballs and continue the cooking time between 6
to 8 hours. The longer you simmer the sauce the thicker it will become.
Stir often and GENTLY during the cooking time so you do not break down
the meatballs and to prevent burning the meatballs.
DO NOT PLACE A COVER ON THE POT, to let the water evaporate and thicken the sauce.
You can serve the meatballs over spaghetti or
spaghettini with a salad and garlic bread OR as they do in Italy, serve
the meatballs with a baguette and spaghetti and tomato sauce separately.
It is up to you. Either way, it is delicious.
NOTE: Handle meatballs with care before and
after they are cooked as they will break more easily than ordinary
meatballs due to the added eggs, but they will be more airy, tender and
tastier than store bought pre-cooked meatballs). Enjoy!
Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic method essential for oral hygiene
and detoxification. The practice includes use of different kinds of oil
to pull dangerous bacteria, fungus, and other microorganisms out of the
mouth, teeth, gums, and throat.
How does the method work? It is not hard at all – you just need some
coconut oil or sesame seed oil. Swish the oil around your mouth for a
short time.
Do this every day in order to improve your oral health. Oil is able
to cut through the plaque and it can eliminate toxins safely and
effectively without any side-effects. There is no way this practice can
harm your teeth or gums.
Oil pulling provides amazing health benefits!
On the Internet you can find different experiences of people who have
tried this method and documented their success. We give you a list of 10
amazing benefits of oil pulling that will help you improve the overall
health:
1. Reduces Bad Breath (Halitosis)
Bad breath is often caused by the by-products of the chemicals and
gases produced by the bacteria and microorganisms in the oral cavity,
and halitosis can really be an embarrassing social problem. Oil pulling
can help you get rid of the bacteria in your mouth, and thus reduce bad
breath.
A study involved a group of 20 adolescents, and it found that the oil
pulling therapy significantly reduced bad breath, and that this
practice is as effective as all those synthetic drug -store mouthwash.
2. Prevents Diseases of The Gums And The Mouth
Oil pulling can help you treat cavities, gingivitis and bleeding
gums. Gingivitis is actually an inflammation of the gums, and it occurs
when the bacteria attack the plaque. Coconut oil has anti-inflammatory
properties, so it is extremely useful in treating this health condition.
Cavities are caused by the harmful bacteria, and oil pulling is also
effective in alleviating this oral problem.
3. Helps in Treating TMJ and Jaw Soreness
Oil pulling strengthens the jaw, and it can alleviate TMJ and other
soreness problems in the jaw area. At the beginning of the treatment,
your jaw may be slightly sore because of the swishing, but in a short
period of time it will get stronger, and the pain will completely
disappear!
4. Whitens Your Teeth
Keep those chemical-laden white strips away from you! Oil pulling is a
much better solution! You probably did not know that the conventional
white strips contain bleach, fluoride, tar, aspartame, aluminum and
benzene. In other words, it is a toxic nightmare just about to happen.
Almost every oil pulling treatment has proven to be effective in
whitening the teeth instantly! In just two weeks, your teeth will be
much brighter, you will have that Hollywood smile, healthier gums and a
nice pink tongue.
When I was young, and
my little sister a bit younger, we went on a trip to China. We were
visiting its famous Great Wall when, to our puzzlement, Chinese tourists
began queuing up — ignoring the thousands-miles-long wonder of the
world to photograph two arguably lesser wonders of the world: my sister
and me.
We’re redheads.
We were amused by the
gathering crush around us until they began to get rowdy, fighting each
other for a spot in line to take our picture. People got pushy and we
got jostled. All of a sudden, we were trapped in a terrible buttressed
mosh pit photo op. Our mother grabbed us and ran.
It was an early yet
enduring lesson about the perceived exoticism of our red hair. But our
other traits are not to be overlooked. Perhaps you knew these facts
about us reds: We are impervious to the effects of general anesthesia.
We boost hair dye sales when we become famous. We are the canary in the
coal mine for ultraviolet rays, burning in the presence of sunlight,
cuing our melanin-replete brethren to apply the sunscreen.
We are gingers. (Hear
us roar, I’d add, only I’m hesitant to perpetuate a stereotype of the
tribe — that we’re fiery of temper. We don’t, as a rule, roar.)
Photo
Credit Marina RossoA selection of redheads, categorized, from left, as 34, 16 and 13.
Photo
Credit Marina RossoA selection of redheads, categorized, from left, as 33, 36 and 3.
Yet despite these and
other genetic advantages, the world’s largest sperm bank, Cryos
International, shuttered itself to red-haired donors in 2011. It cited a
surfeit of “product” from redheads, at odds with its mission to offer a
diversity of traits to its global clientele (although the company
itself is in Denmark). Nevertheless, the move piqued the redhead
community and its allies, who feared this is one step toward a ghastly
future where eugenics would wipe the earth clean of its Prince Harrys,
Julianne Moores and Geri Halliwells.
The Cryos decision also piqued the interest of the Italian photographer Marina Rosso,
who was fascinated by the commercialization of sperm donation and
artificial insemination and the idea that one might shop for an
offspring’s phenotype.
“Basically, I wanted
to work on a project on artificial insemination,” said Ms. Rosso, 28. “I
wanted to do a project that would touch on themes of morality and its
boundaries.”
Besides, she’s one of us, in a way: Though her hair is light brown, her surname, Rosso, is Italian for — yes — red.
She imagined herself
as a “conservation geneticist” and created her own map of some four
dozen varieties of redheadedness and photographed a specimen that
expressed the traits of each combination — a green-eyed, curly-haired,
short man of medium build occupies spot No. 39, for example. The result
is “The Beautiful Gene,”
a catalog of reds published by Fabrica, where people of the MC1R gene
gaze directly back at you, almost in indictment, as though they know
they’re being regarded like creatures in a zoo or steaks in a
supermarket, and know that, given a choice, you would take a pass on
their genetic schema for a more conventional sort — a blond, a brunette;
brown eyes, tall and dark.
Photo
Credit Graphic Courtesy of Marina RossoMs.
Rosso created a matrix that would represent the red hair gene through
48 categories, each combining this feature with five more physical
traits (gender, height, build, eye color and hair type).
To find her subjects,
Ms. Rosso made phone calls and conducted interviews. Facebook proved
useful: “Red-haired people have more red-haired people as friends than
normal people,” she said. She followed gatherings
and meetings of redheads. She also browsed the Internet’s sperm markets
to get a feel for how one might go about making a purchase. The idea of
making a few clicks and then being sent a take-home “designer baby” kit
stoked Ms. Rosso’s sense of curiosity.
On the phone from her
home in Udine last week, she described how the demand for artificial
insemination had changed since the 1990s, when it was dominated by
heterosexual couples. Now, buyers are increasingly single women, who,
Ms. Rosso said, are looking for sperm that would yield the traits of a
“dream mate.” These days, everyone wants to rear a George Clooney or
Adrien Brody.
Ms. Rosso said that
she didn’t have any special redheads in her life, nor was she close to
any. Her surname aside, she’s a brunette. I was unable to read her
thoughts, even if in the past I have gleefully persuaded more than one
gullible soul that redheaded people can communicate telepathically.
Thinking back on the throng at the Great Wall, where the interest in two
small, florid-faced pudgy redheads couldn’t be satisfied, our
frightening heyday seemed a long way away. The Cryos International news
was troublesome to me, and I needed to know what Marina Rosso, genetic
conservationist, saw in the future. Was it a post-apocalyptic wasteland
of genetic modification, barren of freckles and green eyes?
“I don’t know. It’s
complicated,” she said. She was more interested in provoking thought
than providing answers. “I’m not a scientist,” she said, only a
photographer. “Pictures should give people the possibility to think
about things that they wouldn’t usually.”
“I’m not worried about modification,” she went on. “I’m just worried to be not aware of what’s happening.”
I
find that the pictures tend to have a carnival freak show feeling about
them - probably in an attempt to be "artistic". The subjects are made
to look their worse, against a pale blue background - really? As a
red-head I find it offensive. I am sure if this person did the same to
another more prominent minority group the NY Times would never publish
it. I don't care for the pictures and find them in poor taste.
Why
only Mug shots of beautiful redhaired amongst us? A better
photographic portrayal of the red haired activities of the day would
have been more accurate. At least flash should have not been used..it
is the most unflattering way to portray human face.
As an art piece that makes you stare at the subjects while they stare at you -- in their unity, I like it.
Folks commenting here are trying to hard to personalize the work as
"all about me and I am a redhead too." And the work went kinda zoom,
right over their heads.
The
hairy arms business is true in Africa too. The red hair on my head
didn't seem to make much of an impression, but in markets little kids
would come up to stroke the red fur on my forearms.
The first
time I was in Asia I thought my red hair would stand out, but I found
that lots of young folks in both Singapore and Shanghai were bleaching
their hair to a colour not unlike mine
Now that I have far more
white than red hair, it's faded to what a friend calls "Arctic blonde"
which isn't too bad, particularly since I can now wear red which my
mother always said was terrible on red-heads.:)
Have
hairy fore-arms in China or Japan & wear a short-sleeve shirt &
count how many people come up and rub your arm to feel the hair. There
just are no people with hairy arms in the population group.
We
had the same thing happen to us in China, although not as bad when we
visited many years ago. My daughter has red curly hair and everywhere we
went she attracted a crowd. They were very friendly though and she is
very outgoing so it didn't bother her. At the Forbidden City the Chinese
tourists seemed to take more pictures of her! Especially if they had
another child with them. We joked that they would show all their
neighbors "look what we saw in Peking!".
The funny thing is I DO NOT have red hair. Never have had red hair or reddish hair. I know of no redheads in my genetic family. However, there are some people I know who say that I have red hair. (I mean what remains of my hair that is) People
who don't know me sometimes call me "Red" and others have said that I
am a redhead like themselves--although some of these people in my
opinion are not redheads. I am decidedly blond. Not even reddish blond. But
I am beginning to understand that I have other facial and body
characteristics that might, only might, suggest redheadedness (think
Esau). I am not a redhead, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Yeah,
I can plausibly deny it, too. But after waking up in the middle of
open-heart surgery, and undergoing root canals for which numerous
injections did not numb the tooth, I admit it to doctors and dentists at
least!
Mass
immigration of people who invariably have black hair into countries
were redheads and blonds exist will, eventually, wipe those phenotypes
out.
Already that famous propaganda stunt, where the teacher
divided her students into brown and blue-eyed kids and treated one group
badly, would make no sense in great swaths of America. Everyone has
brown eyes.
Sounds
like you're worried that the "purity" of blond and redhead gene lines
are being "polluted" by dark-haired "others." Hmmmm.... where have we
heard that before?
Fear not, zippy - take a trip to Sicily or
southern Spain, and despite centuries of rule by dark-haired and even
dark-skinned people, you will find plenty of redheads. Considering the
red hair gene is recessive, it seems remarkably tenacious.
In any
case, no one's forcing YOU to procreate with dark-haired people - and
no one's preventing blonds or redheads from procreating with similarly
pigmented partners.
But a specious racist argument against immigration? Huge FAIL.
Many
interesting things in the article, and in the photos. I agree that the
"mug-shot" photos seem to drain the humanity out of the subjects. Why
couldn't they all have been photographed smiling, or laughing? And
where are the golden reds? Are we not "true" gingers as well? My Mom
had gorgeous dark red hair, while her sister had more of a golden red,
and both of them were beautiful women. My brother and I were both born
with golden red hair, but it turned white very early. The natural red
faded out of my hair in my mid-30's. Now in my 50's, I find myself
captivated when I see children with red hair. I want to tell them it is
beautiful, and that they should enjoy it - it doesn't always last!
I
was frightened of having red hair when I was a kid. I have both men and
women reds from my mother's family. Today, it's fun and interesting to
be really RED!
my
mother was the only non redhead in her family. I married a redhead (of
a red haired mother) and my three older children had bright red curly
hair.(faded now) I am of Irish and English descent and my husband is a
mix of Scotch and German. Red hair abounds. When my reddish blonde
curly haired granddaughters visited Japan they were followed as though
they were movie stars (aged 3 and 1). They even wore glasses, not a fashion statement. ( I passed on eye defects as well as red hair.) Redheads
abound but always seem unusual because they are noticeable. They
often have curly hair. Besides Irish and Scotch, many Jews have red
hair.(Think Danny Kaye).The perfect creamy skin sometimes found in
redheads is rarer than freckles, and truly gorgeous. My hairdresser found that when he lightened my hair, it was red.
Redheads
always catch my eye, and I've dated a few. They were all a lot more
attractive than the ones depicted. It's like the photographer went out
of her way to find plain or unattractive redheads. And her hair matrix
reminds me of when people's intellect used to be determined by the shape
of their head, pseudoscience for sure. What purpose did the author
have for all this? To demonstrate the "otherness" of redheads? Sell
more books? Kinda ridiculous. Personally, I'd rather see more photos
of redheads like Kitty! ;)
I'm
very surprised, and somewhat perplexed, that there are no photos of
people of African American descent. Though I am Irish and come from a
large Irish family, the vast majority of natural redheads I have known
in my life were of African American lineage. Hmmm...what's up with that?
Perhaps when Ms. Russo was searching for participants, African
Americans did not respond because they identify as African Americans
instead of "gingers?" It is a puzzlement....
???
Apart from the late Denis Johnson (of the Celtics), and some bad dye
jobs -- Ms. Rosso is clearly focusing on natural redheads -- I've never
seen any black person with red hair.
We
figured out quite late in her teenage years that my daughter (now
mid-40s) has redheaded coloring. We learned much then from Color Me
Beautiful about more flattering clothes colors for her. Pale blue was
not one of them. Wouldn't these people look better without the pale blue
background? Picture tan, gold, brown.
Sheesh,
the comments complaining that the subjects are "unattractive"..? They
look pretty normal to me. Maybe you're confusing "plain presentation"
with "unattractive"? They were simply photographed, sans makeup, and
presumably requested to display a neutral expression. I'm sorry, but the
people expressing these views seem, um.. shallow. That's the only way i
can put it.
Sorry,
I don't think many of the people in this story are natural redheads.
Most of them all have the same dark shade of red which looks straight
from the bottle. Totally fake.
I'm
inclined to agree with the comments about these people looking odd. Not
necessarily "unattractive" but it looks as though these people were
taken off the street and had the life zapped out of them to pose for a
mugshot photo. Why not take pictures of what they normally look like
show that they have life. Instead there's a weird filter photo of
someone with a stern unhappy face.
Hello fellow Reds or red lovers, Check
this out and the comments as well. One of them refers to Tim Minchen
"Only a Ginger can call another Ginger ginger". That's worth googling.
Very funny!
All
of the people who were photographed would have looked attractive and
interesting if they had been in a natural setting and smiling. Surely
the photographer must have been looking for the "mug shot" effect and
told them not to smile. An odd artistic choice, but one shouldn't label
the photographed people "unattractive" as people.....they presumably
did what they were asked to do.
I'm
a ginger through and through and I question the authenticity of some of
these folk's hair color! Some of the colors seem unreal (too uniform,
for example) and out of a box. If so, shame on you! Or, perhaps,
shame on some of the fake gingers for pretending they are.
I
love being a redhead. Now, as I age, I find I mourn the loss of my most
obvious and striking physical characteristic. My almost-unique
identity of gingerness. And It was beautiful.! No one ever thought
otherwise.
While
mine's from a bottle, my grandson's is the real thing! He wears it long
and with pride! There are no redheads in our families as far as I know
and his sister is a blond. Ain't life and nature grand
My
mother is a ginger. My first girl friend was a ginger (several issues
going on there I bet!). I find myself counting gingers at any public
gathering.
Go to the school band conference at Gorham, NY and behold the power of the ginger-gene.
There is scarcely an opportunity to be had when
photographers are in the Oval Office, as Stephen Crowley shows in this
video of President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Before Photoshop allowed image makers to bend
reality to their will with a single keystroke there was Jerry Uelsmann.
His layered images came from seven enlargers, multiple negatives and his
own hands.
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