My all-time Love.

I love OPI nail polish. One of the reasons why I love their nail polishes is because of the brush. It's wide enough to finish off one nail at a time and because I'm an impatient person it works well for me! For sometime now OPI has an Indian collection out and one of the colors I love is called Keys to my Karma. It goes well with my skin tone and I get compliments on the color every time I paint my nails this color. As a child, I remember being on a long flight from London heading to India and there was a woman laying down sleeping with her feet exposed outside of the chair she was laying down on. I couldn't see her face but she had the most beautiful red nail polish I have ever seen on her toes. I sat in my chair admiring the red nail polish and realizing I have never seen such a sight in my life(I was barely 6 years old and never noticed anything!) Every since then I've had an obsession with the color red(for nail polish) that always stuck with me. Who ever that woman is, I want to say THANK YOU!

I honestly believe the color red goes with any skin tone and that's why red is a popular color like just the color Black. Even Valentino believes the color red suites all women in every skin tone, if he didn't then he wouldn't have created his own color red called Rosso Valentino.

And who says the color of Blood is disgusting? Tell that to me and my Yorkie...Arthur; King Arthur.

Current Hate: Fake Tans

Okay, so I'm brown but I'm not THAT brown. I was thinking of getting a nice tan this summer so I decided to try out this fake tanning stuff. Guess what? I hate it! Now I have two dark lines on my right leg from the cotton pad. I am never going to use fake tanning lotion or whatever you call it ever again. I realize now that I will go outside or use a tanning bed but not a fake tanning stain ever! The only reason why I used a fake tanning stain was because Marisa Miller told some magazine that if you use fake tanning stains then go to bed and wake up in the morning you will look more bronze. Yeah, right...maybe I didn't apply the fake stain correctly but all I did was read the directions. Note to self: Never use a fake tanning stain ever again and never listen to beautiful models who can never look Fugly.

I believe if you know the ABCs of applying a fake tan then go for this product if you do not know anything about fake tanning stains/lotions, etc then don't bother. Just go to the tanning bed or lay outside in your backyard.

Chocolate Truffles

I have something to confess. When I find a certain type of food I love I love it for awhile and obsess about it and forget about it till I find another type of food that I love. Sure, I have some things that I will always love such as sushi, hamburgers, steak , french toast, chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes(I didn't know that was a southern breakfast till Corillo pointed it out to me, thank you for educating me) and you know the list goes on but right now my current new obsession is the Mcguinness Chocolate Bon Bons at McNellies and I absolutely love these! Since I love the bon bons, I decided to make Chocolate truffles inspired from the Chocolate Bon Bons. For the Truffle coating I used brown sugar, chocolate sprinkles and cocoa powder.
I will deliever the Chocolate truffles this weekend to all of my friends and family, Hopefully they will love it. If not, I am going to delete them from my life. I'm kidding, I love them...no, really I do love them.

Yumm-O!

I Love the Japanese ginger salad dressing at the local sushi restaurant and this is one of my favorite dressings but I find it too expensive to buy it straight from the store(I'm a poor med student, please give me a break!) So, I decided to research the internet and figure out this recipe. Well guess what? I found a great recipe but I added more ginger, onions, ketchup and sugar. The more I added all of these ingredients, the more my dressing came out as the duplicate version of the dressing at the store.

I'm proud of myself, my first time creating this recipe and it came out just like the store-kind. After I made the dressing I decided to crab some Bible Bread and spread a spoon of tuna salad on top of it. with milk goat cheese. This was my lunch yesterday and it was Yumm-O!

Tuna Salad on top of the Bible Bread...

My salad with the home-made Japanese Ginger salad dressing...

Stuffed Zucchinis

Today, I made stuffed Zucchinis after viewing this blog. Instead of using old cheese I used the normal sand which cheese and it turned out great.

I also added salt to give it more of a taste and so far everyone has loved it. Including my 3 year old cousin Luke.

My new Favorite Item

Summer has arrived and as a Brown girl I try to avoid the sun because I do not want to get darker(It's an Indian thing, trust me it is.) Usually I wear sunblock during the summer but I found the Aveeno SPF 15 lotion at the local store and I am now in love. What I love about this lotion is that I can just put it on once and it moisturizers my body for the whole day! How fabulous is that?!

Red Cactus Cathy!

A couple of years ago I was at the Home Depot with my mother and left with a yellow cactus. I made up my mind that I was going to care for this cactus like no other. Well guess what? I killed the cactus. I watered it too much in the true style of the Brownster. Friends and family were not surprised to learn that I killed my yellow cactus but I'm sure they're going to believe I am one hec of a hoot for buying another cactus. My friend Emily told me I should name my cactus Cathy and I thought it fit perfect so let me introduce everyone to My Red Cactus Cathy.