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Love Erosion

Love is when being in love has washed away......
It is when you feel the overwhelming urge to care for someone even in thier weakest and vulnerable moments and still go on a journey you are unsure of....
You get to gradually know the person and you are entralled by the wonderful things around them....
You don't care about their imperfections,wart and all....
                                                                                         -Angela Matalda                     
When the surface of love has been washed away,imperfections are overlooked and are viewed as perfection.That point when you put someone over all that matters to you in the world,making them feel safe when they are around you.....that place is where we all want to be....to have someone to hold firm to our hearts with no doubts.
'Every little thing you do makes me fall in love with you' is a phrase in your heart...that phrase that expresses what your lover means to you....where real love exists and your heart belongs to just that person
We all long for this kind of love...where we can have someone to hold for real...someone who we can be ourselves with..that person who we can call the 'ONE'
In all we do,we should always have in mind that love requires willingness,hardwork and patience so be true to who you are and love right.

Naked Angel

Who is the naked angel?....she is that woman who offers endless support and comfort in her relationship and does around her,she is emotionally open in her deep spiritual nature...she is generous and open to those they care about and love.
Another name for her is 'hidden resources'..she has so much to give but still dosent give all away.She is talented and has so much to offer the world with her calm sensual nature.
She gains inner peace by giving to others, and in many respects this is the most generous and selfless quality. She is highly sympathetic, compassionate, self-sacrificing, intuitive and unassuming.She absorbs emotions from the environment around her.
In all she is very mysterious and can live in two worlds all at the time...her world of dreams where she gets all the space she needs to connect with her spirituality and the other world of reality where she gets to face the real world in all her uniqueness.....she is shy but fearless and is a saviour to the needy
There is a naked angel in all of us...that thing that makes us all stand out,that uniqueness that makes one woman the envy of another...that uniqueness that makes us all special in the eyes of men.

A PIECE OF ME

Being fabulous dosent just entail rocking that versace dress or hot louboutin pumps. It  is being able to marvel and astonish the world with what you have within you-------Your Diva-thang!...you can call me Miss fabulousity or Dorothy d'diva or whatever name you think spells out my fabulousness..! I am a woman with an attitude,I demand respect and nothing less.I am a woman of strength and cofidence...a CEO with finesse

Divas have been around for a long time,from the beginning of time.Examples of old time divas are Babara Streisand and Patty Labelle...modern day divaslike Beyonce and Alicia keys are women who have worked hard to be where they are today.'A diva is a perfectionist in all that she does'.....it is never late to embrase the diva in you.First step to being a diva is confidence,do not criticize yourself and never make others pull you down. A diva knows what she wants and goes out to get it no matter what.She puts herself first and treats treats herself as a goddess.She recognises her greatness and puts her many talents to use.She throws cautioon to the wind leaving the cares of the world behind because there is a whole lifetime of glamour and fabulousity awaiting her. So no matter who you are,what nationality,colour or race you belong....STAND UP!...embrace the inner you,dare to be different.....be a diva!

NAIJA KITCHEN

My day started on a very good note. woke up,took a shower and headed out with my best friend Rennie to North Legon.there we met up with my girl Angel and decided to visit the Nigerian market in madina...it was my first time there and i was fansinated by all the things i could find there,though at very ridiculous prices.
My girlfriends who were craving so much for a home cooked meal decided they were going to cook!..we bought a few things and headed back home to Westlegon where my friends were going to show me what good cooks they are...they decided to prepare Egusi soup!
It took a while to boil the meat and get the soup ready but they sure did a fantastic job.........Up Rennie,Up Angel..you girls would make good wives some day!*wink
Here is a recipe for Egusi soup for those who are aboard and are longing for 'home food'
Ingredients

• Egusi seed (Grounded, 1-2 cups)
• Palm oil ¾ - 1½ cup
• Bitter Leaf - freshly squeezed, or dried or spinach / ugwu / any other fresh vegetable as may be available
• Cray fish about ¼ cup grounded
• Dried pepper or chilli 1 table spoonful or to taste
• Maggi cubes or Knorr 1 – 2 cubes
• Thyme about ½ teaspoonful
• Curry Powder ½ - 1 teaspoonful
• Real African Red Onions - spicy. 1 – 3 (Chopped)
• Cooking salt
• Fresh or smoked fish or stock fish
• Goat meat (chopped to size)
• Assorted meat – beef, ox tail, cow tongue, chicken, as can be obtained, about ½ kg each
• Chopped tomatoes (blended)
• Fresh pepper with or substituted for grounded dried pepper.

Cooking Method

1. If you are using stock fish, be sure to have soaked the stock fish in water overnight to make it soft and cook faster.
2. Put your goat meat and or assorted meat into a pot. Add cooking salt, 1 bulb of onion, chopped to small sizes, ½ teaspoonful of thyme, curry powder, and a small amount of water (about 2cups), one or two maggi cubes and bring to boil for about 30 minutes until soft and tender to taste.
3. While that is cooking, put your chopped tomatoes (1-2 tins), fresh and or dried pepper, 1 bulb of real African red onions into a blender and blend to a smooth paste
4. Your egusi seeds must have come in blended (grounded). If they are not, this is the time to grind them in a blender dried (in the small bit of the blender for dried materials). Take 1-2 cups of grounded egusi and put in a bowl, add 2 parts of water to a part of grounded egusi in the bowl and stir to form a paste. Some people do not do it this way. They leave the grounded egusi dry and stir fry it instead in palm oil. You can do it either way. Here, the first method will be used
5. The meat should have finished cooking by now. Get a big pot. Place it on the cooker and allow it to be hot, with all residue of water drying out. Do not let it burn though. Pour about ¾ - 1½ cup (150 – 300mls) of red palm oil in the pot. Be careful here, it could smoke and splash around, with risk of you been burnt! Allow the oil to warm for about 1 minute. Pour the blended tomatoes, fresh/dried pepper, onion paste into the oil and stir fry for about another 10 -15 mutes.
6. Now add the cooked meat to this base of stew and cover the pot and allow to simmer for about 3 minutes. Stir intermittently to prevent burning.
7. The egusi paste (or fried) can now be added to the stew with meat in it. Add your vegetables here, salt and one or two cubes of maggi if still required to taste and bring to boil for about 10 minutes. Stir intermittently.

You should be greeted with some mouth watering aroma by now and look, your egusi soup is ready!
Egusi soup is best served with pounded yam . It could also be eaten with eba, made from garri , or even semolina, or ground rice