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It’s Friday, and most of us are gearing up for the weekend.  I spend my entire week going to the gym so by Friday I’m ready for a vacation…LOL!  So, “everything simple,” is my motto.  When it comes to meals I like to cook tasty yet healthy dishes that won’t make me feel full or guilty for that matter…

One of my all time favorite recipes that I made up one day, which I do quite often, is a roasted pearl tomato and garlic pasta dish.  I have passed it along to several friends over the years and they too love it as much as I do!  The roasted tomatoes and garlic have such a sweet delicious flavor, your family will be drooling while they wait for you to serve it!  (You might not want to mention that it’s healthy and low cal…)

So, let’s get started. You will need 1 pound of pasta (I prefer spaghetti), 1-2 containers of fresh red pearl tomatoes, fresh garlic, a small yellow onion, olive oil, basil, salt & pepper, and sugar.

Te-see's Roasted Tomato and Garlic Pasta

Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Thinly slice 8 garlic cloves, finely chop your onion, and rinse off your tomatoes.  Place tomatoes, garlic, and onion into a large clay or pyrex baking pan.  Drizzle about 2 tablespoons of olive oil over ingredients.  Then sprinkle salt, pepper and 3 teaspoons of sugar.  Place on middle rack of oven and bake for 40 minutes.

While tomatoes are roasting, start to boil your water.  Add pasta to boiling water and cook so that pasta is al dente. Drain water and place in a large pasta bowl.  Remove roasted tomatoes and garlic, carefully pour over pasta.  Gently mix into pasta adding a little more olive oil if you’d like.  Add fresh chopped basil leaves on top and serve.  Add a nice garden salad or garlic bread.  Can be served hot or cold.  Makes a great side dish as well:)

happy weekend…

te-see

This year the hottest hair style was a “french twist,” that the likes of Salma Hayek, Helen Mirren, Evangeline Lilly, Cate Blanchette and even Eva Longoria-Parker, were sporting.  Whether it was tight, on top of the head, in the middle of the head or hanging loose, it was a hot, hot, hot, look.

At the 63 Annual Cannes Film Festival, all the celebs showed up dressed to the nines wearing the latest designs by Gucci, Emilio Pucci, Elie Saab, Alexander McQueen, just to name a few.  No star was out shined and the girls all seemed to get the “french twist memo” regarding the look for hair this year!

Deepika Padukone from "On Tour"

Salma Hayek

Eva Longoria-Parker

To create a French Twist at home follow these steps:

Comb or brush your hair well. We’re not talking your usual thirty-second job, but the kind of comb-through where you’re getting the snarls out, smoothing it down, and channeling Catherine Deneuve.

Create a loose ponytail with the hair framing your face in a way that you find flattering.  Create a ponytail with some built-in pouf at the top of your head if you like that look better. The way in which you frame your face now will be how it is framed when you’re finished so this step is one you want to get right.

Hold the ponytail with your hands and start twisting. I always twist in a clockwise direction and whether this has to do with the fact that I’m right-handed or not, I have no idea. I twist for approximately two full rotations. You’ll notice the bottom of the ponytail tightening against your head.

Hold your ponytail upright pointing to the sky.

Fold the end of your ponytail down. Basically you are tucking the end of your ponytail into the space between your head and the beginning part of your ponytail.

As you tuck the ends of the ponytail in, you’ll slowly roll your wadded-up ponytail to the left. I grip the seam between my ponytail and my head between my thumb and my four other fingers, and use my thumb to push the hair beneath in while rolling the hair on top in. You will feel the twist tightening against your scalp. Keep pushing and rolling your hair until it feels secure.

Use straight or bobby pins (depending on the thickness of your hair) to hold the hair in place and to separate the line that is created by your French twist.

Once you become practiced with these pins, you’ll find ways to conceal them through good placement, for example by hiding them just beneath the roll.  Just keep practicing.  If it’s not perfect it doesn’t matter.  Some of the sloppy ones look sexier in my opinion!

Now, get on a fabulous designer dress and go have a night to remember…

te-see:)

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