MARIETTE'S BACK TO BASICS

Monday, September 17, 2012

{USEFUL TIP: Peppermint Tea for Anti Bloating}

When living in The Netherlands, our back neighbors were from Turkey and I learned quite a lot from their culture.
They passed on age old remedies for certain ailments. One of them was, serving hot tea from fresh Mentha Piperita leaves.
Sure I learned about this USEFULL TIP as Peppermint Tea for Anti Bloating.
Since than, I've been drinking this soothing Peppermint Tea for decades, adding also some healthy Green Tea as well.
We always keep mint growing in our garden. So how do I brew this useful tea? Let me show you...

Freshly brewn inside our Mandalay Chartreuse by Mason's teapot.

With my Gardena Garden Scissors I did snip off a handful of Mentha Piperita leaves from our garden.

Rinsing them off in my Rösle Strainer...

Together with a bag of green tea they go inside the teapot while the water is boiling.
Pour the water over it and let it steep for a few minutes before pouring into your cups.

I used Trader Joe's Organic Green Tea...

Peppermint-Green-Tea with a healthy chocolate dessert, decorated with edible marzipan rosebuds...
Why don't you sit with me?

Closeup from the Peppermint-Green-Tea and my dessert...

Please sit down and join me...!
By the way, this amazing chocolate dessert came out of the freezer and works great for freezing it!
Below the post you find the recipe for this diabetes type 2 and heart healthy 0% cholesterol chocolate dessert.

This is a very soothing and relaxing tea, you ought to try it for yourself!

No, I did NOT add any sugar...
So what do you think? Are you going to try this out as well...?

Below are some links for more info.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

{1960s Vintage French Lampe Berger RV Molded Glass}

Another French treasure for you; a perfect 1960s Vintage Lampe Berger RV Molded Glass. It is listed in the book by Gérald Vilcocq - Lampes Berger A Century of History on page 203. As usual, this treasure and others is available at my on line: Spectrenoir.

Leaning onto the Fleur de Lys love seat...

On page 203 (at the top to the right) of Gérald Vilcocq's book you find it - RV Verre moulé (meaning Molded glass).

A view against a clear wall. Hard to capture this beautiful molded glass!

This one is with flash light, showing also the original stone and wick.

You can see the marking: Made in France...

It has a brass snuffer cap.

The Lampe Berger marking...

On the other side it reads: MADE IN FRANCE.

Again, under the molded glass it reads: MADE IN FRANCE.

This is a very rare lamp and I only found one at 1stdibs

They have listed it as being Baccarat... (?)

Sorry Sold out...

Saturday, September 15, 2012

{Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Orchid Cactus}

Finally on August 6, we got to see our: Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Orchid Cactus in full bloom around midnight! It was worth it for staying around and making these photos of a flower so exotic and spectacular. Above all, its fragrance is heavenly! My husband Pieter also did get to see its flowers, later in the night when he woke up. Both of us are so glad we got to see this. Taking photos in the dark is not easy. I had a flashlight for pointing at the blossoms but I did shoot some images for sharing with you. Below this post you also find the link to YouTube where I put more photos as a video presentation.