For the Javanese wedding, the Jasmine “melati” flower is essential, and adorns both bride and groom as a symbol of love and fertility. “Jepun”, the Frangipani flower, placed on prayer temples and in the home, is an essential flower of the Balinese culture and spirituality.

TRADITION:
This ancient palace custom, dating back to the 17th century, was performed for 40 days, every day prior to the royal wedding ceremony. The Javanese Lulur® Ritual would be given to the bride-to-be by the other women in the family during which time they would pass down their wisdom.

The perfumes of romance. Aphrodisiac Jasmine and Frangipani blossoms are blended with organic botanicals and healing ingredients.

Adapted from The South Beach Diet, by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale Press, 2003).

For a high-protein salad, this is delicious.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: Edamame are vibrant, tasty green soybeans in the shells, and are readily available in most frozen sections of supermarkets and health food stores. This salad has a whopping 15 grams of protein to 18 grams of carbs an unusual ratio. If edamame is not readily available, you can substitute chick peas.

INGREDIENTS

1 bag (16 ounces) frozen shelled edamame (green soybeans)

1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 bunch radishes (8 ounces), cut in half and thinly sliced

1 cup loosely packed chopped fresh cilantro leaves

Toss the edamame, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, radishes, and cilantro together in a large bowl.

Serve chilled or at room temperature.

Serves 4.

Adapted from The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger, et al (The Harvard Common Press, 2002).

This satisfying one-dish meal comes from one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s favorite food writers, Renee Shepherd. The popular peanut sauce and the version in this recipe is perfect is one of the definitive tastes of the Southeast Asian and Thai cuisines. It all settles beautifully with Thai jasmine rice.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: This simplified version of the rijsttafel table, a popular full rice meal in Indonesia, looks incredibly festive served with all the condiments.

Rice

1 cup Thai jasmine rice

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons water

2½ cups fresh or frozen petite peas (2 pounds fresh unshelled)

2½ cups shredded, sautéed tofu (or organic chicken)

½ cup hot vegetable stock

Sauce

1/3 cup creamy peanut butter

½ cup chicken broth or water

1 tablespoon dry sherry

2 tablespoons rice vinegar

2 teaspoons peeled and grated fresh ginger

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

½ teaspoon sugar

1 clove garlic, minced

2 green onions, white parts only, minced (chop the green tops for garnish)

½ cup chopped roasted peanuts, for garnish

Condiments

Separate small bowls of chutney, sliced bananas, raisins, unsweetened shredded coconut, minced fresh cilantro leaves, mandarin orange segments, chopped applies, plain yogurt.

1. Make the rice. If using a rice cooker, coat the rice cooker bowl with non-stick cooking spray or a film of vegetable oil. Place the rice in the rice bowl. Add the water; swirl to combine. Close the cover and set for the regular cycle. If cooking in a pan, follow the cooking directions on the package.

2. Make the sauce. In a medium-size saucepan, combine all the sauce ingredients. Cook over low heat, stirring a few times, until the mixture achieves a sauce-like consistency. Cover and keep warm.

3. When the rice is ready (if using a rice cooker, when it switches to the Keep Warm cycle), sprinkle the peas and tofu on top of the rice. Close the cover and let set for 20 minutes.

4. Transfer the rice mixture to a warmed serving platter with sloped sides. Pour the hot stock and peanut sauce over the rice. Stir gently to combine the peas and tofu with the stock and peanut sauce. Sprinkle with the green onion tops and peanuts. Serve immediately with a choice of condiments.

Serves 4.

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For 6 people

Preparation time: 15 min

Cooking time: 10 min

Rest Time: 2 hours

Ingredients:

* 1 large head broccoli

* 1 clove garlic

* Salt and pepper

* Olive oil

* 1 C. Coffee shave lemon juice

* 1 small handful of fresh basil leaves

Summary:

This recipe is ideal with grissini, raw vegetable sticks, or on bread campaign. The taste of garlic is strong enough, so you can save only 1 / 2 clove.

Preparation:

Separate bunches of broccoli, rinse them and let them steam or boiling water very saline 5 to 10 min. Drain them.

Peel the garlic.

Mix broccoli with garlic, basil, lemon juice and 1 c. Tablespoon of olive oil. Then add the oil until a good consistency.

Correct seasoning with salt and pepper. Set aside in refrigerator 2 hours.

Stone therapy or hot stone massage comes from South Seas and more precisely from Oceania.

This technique uses basalt stones, smooth and soft volcanic stones which can easily retain the warmth.

The stones are heated beforehand in a hot water at a constant temperature.

They are than laid on various parts of the body and are used to massage the body by diffusing heat.

Fresh stones are also introduced in the middle of the hot stones sequences, leaving the body to discover amazing and pleasant feelings.

This slow and soft massage allows the stones to act deeply on the muscles bringing the body to a feeling of full relaxation.

The muscles are relaxed leaving the skin elastic and hydrated.

This massage has detoxifying effects, it relieves major muscular tensions and stimulates blood circulation.

Claire’s Advices:

For those who like heat, this massage is a pure delight !Loose yourself in this soft and warm moment, you will never want to leave it again !

It is even more appreciated in autumn or winter when outside temperatures are cooler.

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The bathroom became one of the most important rooms for Europeans. In Scandinavia it very often includes a sauna, thus transforming the place into true home spa.

The showers were the first to undergo this work clearance or one washes oneself at piece-rates or one deals with oneself. Today they offer, by the addition of removable or interchangeable tubes, the possibility of making a true care of the body and feet. They become even showers with feeling, with programs, scents, and even of the integrated musical programs.

The offer of the bath-tubs, it also exploded. Color, form, size, all are possible. The bath-tubs standards generally measure 175 cm length and 70 to 75 cm broad. The rule want that when you are in your bath, your knees and your shoulders are in the water. It is seldom the case. The true good being consists in floating in hot water, the bath-tub must thus have generous volumes. Certain models comprise even supports heads.

The bath-tub with two places is very in vogue. All the forms are possible, certain are true works of designer which one can pose without sealing. The roof of the luxury is to equip its bath-tub with an hydrotherapy system. There are two systems of massages by water: the first aspires water and returns it by tubes in the bath-tub; the other consists in sending air, to sometimes even heat it, in the bath-tub.

Perhaps you have dreamt of a sauna or a hammam for really slackening you! The manufacturers propose modules easy to establish at home.

Finally thus equipped, all that you will have to find, it is the time to plunge there! Because the first stage of home spa is to find time.

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Ingredients :

Papaya : ½ (cut to pieces)
Orange : 1
Lemon : 1
Mint : 1 sprig
Sugar : 2 tsp
Black salt : ¼ tsp

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Peel and separate the segments of orange. Mix together with papaya, lemon juice, sugar and salt. Blend with crushed ice. Pour into glasses and garnish with mint leaves. Serve chilled.

Nutritional Info : (per glass)

Energy : 114 calories

Carbohydrates : 18.1 gm

Protein : 1.3 gm

Fat : 0.3 gm

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