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VOL. 19 NO. 4 JULY | AUGUST 2014 OMEN W The F O E R C N EX LE PINNACLE CEL THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF WOMEN FOR EXCELLENCE www.womenforexcellence.org “Women For Excellence, Inc. is a not-for-profit professional Message From the President women’s organization dedicated to providing resources for women Elaine Weinberg to continue to achieve economic prosperity, promoting leadership My Greatest Pleasure And yes, I am still working; but from this and professionalism, fostering summer friendly location. The difference networking opportunities and is that my home is open to fresh air all the being of service to our community.” Yeah, it’s summer! Yes, time with a great breeze most of the time. WOMEN FOR I know I live in Florida EXCELLENCE 2014 where there is almost I even have fresh air for sleeping, which constant sunshine, and is the best! The effect is that I feel much Elaine Weinberg lighter and more open and more free. President it’s green all the time. But I also work in Dr. Billie Eizenberg an office that is usually freezing 5 days a Vice-President week - and I live in a home where 99% of For example, during yesterday’s 8:00 a.m. yoga class on the beach, there wasn’t a Barbara Manus, DS the time the windows are closed and I’m Vice-President breathing air conditioned air. I mostly cloud in the sky, and the air was sweet Membership/Bulletin Editor feel like my Florida life is lived in a and fragrant. It was truly nature at it’s Jenny Shane hermetically sealed tuna fish can. best! The beach is different in the early Recording Secretary morning when it’s fresh and natural and Joyce Wyman But in summer my life changes...I feel not crowded with people. It is truly my Corresponding Secretary like I can breathe again. My weekends greatest pleasure. Katherine Van Brocklin become more about what weekends are Treasurer supposed to be. I’m outdoors more and My instructor talked about “keeping it DIRECTORS loving every minute of it. simple” and maybe that’s why I feel better Dawn Burke in the summer. The simple truth is that Media Specialist You may or may not know that I am very life feels simpler. Although I can’t quite figure it out, being outside with fresh air Laurie Dubow lucky to be spending my summer at the Special Events Jersey Shore, with some Big Apple & and less structured clothing is a big part of what it’s about for me. Stephanie Pereira upstate NY state country time thrown in. Programs continued on page 2 Jackie Qualters Special Events Dr. Tonia Turner Save The Date! Scholarship Fund/ Endowment Luncheon Meetings • Mark your Calendar Cindy Winters Programs rd Happy Independence Day! Program: Fun with Networking Monique Force July 3 This is the member’s meeting! Member-At-Large Chadia Ghanem Member-At-Large Penny Morey, Founder and Managing Director of Immediate Past President August 7th RemarkAble HR Solutions Susan J. Brotman TOPIC: Managing a Diverse Workforce – Generational Differences Past Presidents Stephanie Pereira Deborah Bacarella, Author, Facilitator, Speaker Katherine Van Brocklin Sept. 4th Elaine Russell TOPIC: 7F Words for Living a Balanced Life Tammy B. Saltzman Founder Please mark your calendars for the FIRST Thursday of every month. Rep. Maria Sachs continued from cover Keeping it simple has never been my forte. A friend of mine often says, Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” I think I’ve sort of lived my life that way. I don’t know any other way, but I want to learn how to live all year round like it’s summer. For me, this is Milestone Events quite the challenge. Not wanting to miss a happy, well- What’s your greatest pleasure and what does summer mean to wishing occasion or the opportunity you? Whatever your pleasure, I wish you more of it on a daily basis, to express our condolences, we need and I wish you all a very playful, simpler, fun summer as well! your input. If you know of a life cycle event we should print, please contact Barbara Manus at 997-4073, or preferably by e-mail: [email protected] Congratulations To: Lisa Jensen on her new position at Stonegate Bank. Susan Brotman on the birth of her 8 new grandchildren (Labradoodles) Condolences To: Donna Whalen and family on the loss of her beloved niece on May 1st. Get Well: Bring A Guest To The Next Meeting! Dr. Tonia Turner-Lillie All Guests Will Pay The Member Rate At Their First Guest Lunch In Order Enjoy The Privileges Of We Membership. For each new member that you bring to WE, Member To Member you will receive one drawing ticket. All tickets will be entered into the grand prize drawing at To JOYCE WYMAN - the December holiday party- a weekend hotel stay for 2!!! Take that special someone for a a special thank you to Tri-County weekend of relaxation on WE! Restoration for all of their help in my residential flooding event. For more details go to www.womenforexcellence.org/2014/03/24/ Their help and professionalism membership-drive/ was much appreciated. Gratefully, Jenny Shane. 2 Do You Know How To Store Your Foods?? Barbara Converse Dining By Design Definitely Don’t Refrigerate -- Bananas outside the fridge, and it’s true they won’t There are some foods that are actively “I’m Chiquita banana and I’ve come to last quite as long, but refrigeration causes made worse by refrigeration. These are say, bananas have to ripen in a certain baked goods to go stale faster. Keep your the items you should absolutely keep way.” So went the original Chiquita cannolis on the countertop where they away from cold. commercial from the 1940s. Now, belong. we’re not saying you should go and buy Potatoes brand bananas, but their refrigeration Hot Sauce Refrigeration causes the starch in advice is solid. Not all hot sauces are created equal, potatoes to turn to sugar, and while this but if it’s a vinegar-based hot sauce like might sound like a good thing, it gives Allow bananas to ripen at room Tabasco, you can almost always safely them the wrong flavor. The skins will temperature, and use your store it in the pantry for months on end. also darken prematurely while cooking, refrigerator when you want to slow Cold weakens the flavor and changes the making them look less appetizing. the ripening process. Just be aware viscosity of the sauce, affecting the pour. that refrigeration also happens to turn Onions banana peels brown (though the interior Spices Here’s a weird one. You don’t have to is still unspoiled). Frozen bananas also Once again the humid environment of a refrigerate onions, but you do need to make a great ice cream replacement refrigerator is detrimental to the flavor keep them physically separated from the for dieters. of spices, and since most can be safely potatoes. Spuds emit moisture and gases stored for years without refrigeration, that will make your onions rot. Your best Melon there’s no benefit to cold storage at all. bet is to keep onions in the mesh bag Fresh melon—uncut, we should they came in—they like air circulation. specify—is best stored on the kitchen Honey counter where it can properly ripen Ugh. My family refrigerates honey and Garlic and sweeten. Only after you cut up your I’ll never understand why. Honey is one Again, air circulation is key. Garlic cantaloupe (or whatever) into bite-sized of the world’s earliest preservatives. It bulbs will keep for two months without bits should the flesh be refrigerated (but has a practically indefinite shelf life, refrigeration, and if you keep them out never frozen). and we’ve heard tales of archaeologists of the damp air of the fridge you’ll avoid uncovering ancient Egyptian tombs with making all your other nearby produce Stone Fruits edible honey inside. smell like garlic. Some even say that Peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, refrigeration will make garlic sprout cherries, and so on should be ripened Don’t refrigerate honey. It’ll crystallize, prematurely. at room temperature, stem-end down. and you’ll have to squeeze that stupid Only after the fruits start softening teddy bear even harder to get it out. Avocado slightly to the touch and begin to smell Is there anything more delicious and sweet should they be moved to the re- Peanut Butter healthy than a ripe avocado? Avocado frigerator. Shelf life is three to five All-natural peanut butter does have to won’t ripen in cold conditions, so unless days after that. be refrigerated, because the peanut oil you need them to keep for awhile, can rise, separate from the mash, and go you should let yours live outside the Bread rancid. Commercially processed peanut refrigerator until they’re ready to eat. Try to eat your bread before it gets to butter, on the other hand (like JIF and There’s a popular legend suggesting the the point where you need to chill it to Skippy), can be stored for months with- presence of the pit prevents browning, stave off mold, because if you end up out issue—even if the jar’s been opened so if you only use half of an avocado, be refrigerating, the loaf will get tough already. But really, who can’t eat a jar of sure to reserve the side with the pit. and less tasty. For this reason, a lot of peanut butter in a month? It’s delicious, people freeze bread.