Welcome to my little corner on BVO’s Blog! My name is Manuela Valenti and I’m the CEO, Founder and Brains of BVOrganics. Here you will find my beauty tips, my family’s cooking recipes, my opinions, my travels, my stories and so much more. Enjoy.
The Focaccia, (pronounced fo·cac·cia | fō-ˈkä-ch(ē-)ə) feminine form of focacius from the latin focus (fire) – is a flat, rustic, but delicious bread originally from Genoa, in the region of Liguria northern Italy, made with very simple ingredients – flour,
It’s been 3 months…. 6 months… 8 months…. 1 year and 1 day… 1 year and 3 days today since my almost 17 year old special needs daughter Daniela Cristina, passed away. That’s how long it has taken me to
By now, chances are at least, you’re familiar with the Paczki, the sweet fried doughnut filed with marmalade, sold by many Polish bakeries in Michigan and other states. The Polish claim the Paczki is their traditional dessert, the fact is
My mother in law, a northern Spaniard from Asturias, was a really good cook, not as good as my Tuscan mother, but good. Most of her traditional recipes are treasures to the family still to this day, passed down generation
My mom’s simple and nutritious recipe, perfect for those cold fall and winter days, or for when you just want to crawl up in bed and bundle up.
At By Valenti Organics we’re deeply committed to offer safe, ethically manufactured, high performance, natural cosmetics, made with the best ingredients our bountiful planet has to offer, always backed up by science, and always with one mayor goal in mind,
We got a… well, let’s say an “interesting”, question on our live chat yesterday, that sparked a heated argument with our visitor and among us here at the office, including some tears of frustration from our sweet Carol, one of
Thousands of articles written by qualified – and unqualified – experts flood the internet warning us against cosmetic products containing Parabens, EDTA, Phenoxyethanol and almost every preservative for water based cosmetics there is. In most cases is all quack science,
I remember getting all excited as a kid when my mom made this soup. Just the whiff of those lentils cooking was enough to make my mouth water. Mom always used brown lentils, and as a rambunctious three year old
Watercress (Spanish – Berro; Italian – Crescione d’Acqua) is one of those veggies we barely hear about, but that is so much nutritious than kale as found in the Powerhouse Fruits and Vegetables by Ranking of Nutrient Density Scores, 2014
Organic is a word controlled by the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), the government organization that sets the standards for Certified Organic production in the US, – and the same organization some of our products are were Certified Organic under
