Thursday, September 27, 2012

Prickly Pear

I joined weight watchers this past June. I had gained quite a bit of weight and was just so tired of being unhealthy. I was struggling to bend down, and just had no energy or self worth anymore. It was the best gift I could have given to myself. I am still plugging at it, 1 pound at a time. I am currently .4 away from a 25 pounds lost. I think I have about 20 more to goal according to WW.
I have been trying  new fruits and vegetables when ever I can. I must say I have tried a lot. Last week I ran into prickly pears and wanted to try it. I had to log onto the Internet to see how to peel it. I must say I found another fruit I like. I think it would add a splash of color to a fruit salad. The only downfall is the seeds are hard, almost like pomegranate but not as many or as large.
I went back to buy some more. I had one today for lunch to go along with my cottage cheese.
 
Cut of a little on each end, and then slice from top to bottom.

At the slice you just peel across and the skin comes right off.

Then I sliced in.
 

Added 1/2 cup of cottage cheese.

I then proceeded to cut it in smaller pieces, and stir into the cottage cheese.
Added a pretty color. The red pear I ate later in the evening.

I am so glad that I decided to get healthy. And this time when I get the weight off, I will still have weight watchers to help me maintain it. It helps I have a good friend to share this journey with    thank you Charlene.
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Hedda Hopper


Birth:

May 2, 1890
Death:

Feb. 1, 1966
Actress, Journalist. Despite a 23 year career that encompassed over 120 motion picture appearances and chorus girl roles on Broadway to motion pictures, she is best remembered for her newspaper column and radio show that focused exclusively on Hollywood gossip, a subject she was able to tell more about to her audience due to her Hollywood insider status. Born Elda Furry in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, she left school to act on Broadway. In 1913 she married marquee star William DeWolfe, a man who was 32 years her senior. They had one son, and divorced in 1922, but she kept his name for the rest of her life (and changed her name to Hedda on the advice of a numerologist). In 1931 she began “The Hedda Hopper Show”, which initially ran as a 15 minute gossip show mostly devoted to Hollywood marriages and divorces. Enormously popular, it ran until 1951, and on the strength of its popularity she started the “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood” column in the Los Angeles Times in 1938. She steadily gained a reputation for exposing tidbits about the lives of Hollywood figures, and created a character of herself in her own right, especially in regard to her vast collection of sometimes outrageous hats, and a long standing feud with rival gossip columnist Louella Parsons. With the advent of television’s popularity in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he radio show waned, but she herself became a staple of television programs and game shows, being a frequent panelist on “What’s My Line?’, and appear on shows like “I Love Lucy”, “The Colgate Variety Hour” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”. In 1960 she received the Journalistic Merit award, and published her autobiography “The Whole Truth and Nothing But!”, which recapped her over 20 years or being an Hollywood insider. She died in Los Angeles of double pneumonia in 1966, working right up until her passing. As a Hollywood icon, she created a number of friends and enemies; she gave harsh advice to actress Ida Lupino, which helped her gain recognizable part, but was despised by actress Joan Bennett, who once sent her a skunk. In 1985 a movie about the feud between her and Parsons was released as “Malice in Wonderland”, which Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper and Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons