Year: 2015

Did You Know? I Love Saying That

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Did you know there is a way to tell if eggs are old or not? Well did you know honey never goes bad, and if crystallizes you can microwave it for a few and enjoy the sweet guey mess? How can you make a boxed soup taste less salty? Have you considered making iced cubes from coffee? Did you know that if you check out the article here, you can actually learn the tricks of the kitchen trait?  

I do, I really do love burgers

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With a strict diet, mostly eating healthy and simpler meals, my body has adjusted to a regimented eating, seldom craving fatty, and high-calorie foods. Although once in a blue moon (which by the way is in full gear tonight) I crave burgers. The kind I want to load up with mushrooms, jalapeno, grilled onions, avocado, cheese, and anything else I can manage to stack in a sandwich, with that in mind I share with you one of my favorite blogs-Porn Burger. Check out just SOME of my favorites and for recipes go here:  

Boutique Hotel Picks from Rawsilkandsaffon

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I’ve been writing about boutique hotels for a while on this blog, listing all of the ones I’ve stayed in, or simply walked through, or even considered writing about in my novels. A few I have, and some I am saving for future storytelling. Either way here are some of my favorites. I apologize for all the travel posts lately, I just can’t get my mind off traveling.

Location Is Everything When Writing a Novel

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Like a film set, location in books are equally important, finding just the perfect house or apartment, cafe down the street, a restaurant, hotels, and cabins, beach scenes or inland, all of it play a major role while writing–enticing the imagination. What’s funny is that I’ll stumble upon a place while exploring the world, or even in the bay area, and I’ll stop and take a picture, and take it home, download it on my laptop and arrange it in the order I want to see a story pan out. In light of this style of writing if you will, I want to share with you the four significant hotels I used in my first novel – Piazza Navona – click here to read about them and here to order the book  

There Is This Show – Velvet – From Spain

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I am always fascinated withthe 1950s-1960s fashion. I think the whole pencil skirt, A-line dresses, form-fitting jackets, red lipstick, perfect colored stockings and the best shoes, most of the fashion to this day appreciated and  incorporated here and there. I love it when I see a period film perfectly detailing the fashion for  the period (50-60s) and  I think for me Mad Men was the best until just recently I discovered Velvet, a soap opera from Spain. The show is pretty cheesy, in a funny and cute sort of way, and I have grown to love all of the actors passing through, or staying on so far in Season 2 on Netflix. Also perks on brushing up on my Spanish of course. But what I love the most is the show is based on a department store in Spain competing with the likes of Dior and Chanel, introducing to us the best of fashion, haute couture anyone can wish for or imagine.  I love it when a show gets it right in costumes and in Velvet’s case, set decor as …