New Blog!

 

I have a new blog. It is called Peaceful Vitality and focuses on yoga, meditation, simplicity, and the journey. Check it out here.

I've been wanting the perfect recipe card box and saw this one and fell in love. Too bad they're outrageously priced.

How much are swimsuit models airbrushed? This is a mild example.

Just Hemingway kicking a can. + beautiful photography.

Have a wonderful weekend

Summer is here... sort of?

 

 

 

Summer is SUPPOSED to be here but it's been cloudy and misty in LA. No worries! I am going up to Northern California for the weekend to visit my family where it will be mid 80s - perfect for the fourth of July. Doesn't that blueberry cheesecake look amazing?? I'm going to have to make it... maybe this weekend? Living in an apartment, I can bake and cook whatever I want! What is it about getting older and living on your own that's so great? I guess it's particularly nice because my generous parents are still paying rent and tuition. But anyway, it's a great feeling to get to truly do whatever you want without RA's or sorority house moms, or your parents telling you what to do! I was made for adulthood (well obviously...but more so than many people I know). Not to say that it's easy. You start to realize that adults DON'T know everything like you once thought and that you probably know a lot more than many older adults on the planet. And that society isn't perfect (because you were once severly sheltered, which is actually quite nice but also quite the shock when you go to a place like UCLA) and that people can run companies and simultaneously make the earth bleed (Gulf Spill). You really start to realize how scary it is to be THE generation of the moment, expected to heal the earth, and save all people, completely unrealistic and tall requests. So, to distract me from mourning society, I think about summer, photography, high top chucks, cheesecakes, running, the ocean, and Hawaii (among other things). Namaste.

Eggs in a Blanket

 

As I study for finals, I have to just take little breaks and blog! I'm hungry because my brain is working hard. I would make this (minus the french toast part) because your brain works better with protein!!! yum yum yum yum yum.

Summer means berries!

 

 

 

 

The great thing about summer is that berries (which are so good and so good for you) are cheaper. That means more cereal, oatmeal, and ice cream with berries on it. I plan on making that pinata pavlova at some point.

Summer time.. almost!

 

 

 

 

Can I just say I'm looking foward to the summer? It's going to be graaaand.
Going to cook this bbq chicken (homemade sauce)
I'm digging the Parsely Thief Blog right now.
yay for peonies. They're a bigger, more expensive version of my favorite flower, the ranunculus.
Hibiscus cooler? I think so....
Funny cartoons that make you laugh when you need to...
and my brother graduated from high school this weekend! Awesome! My mom almost cried when she saw he graduated with honors. Proud.
want to get a dog when I go to grad school. Australian shephard?

and lots of yoga, half ironman training, independent study with my favorite professor, movie watching with my roommate Julie (!!!, love her), Baha'i devotionals, and photography with the camera I'm saving for. Not to mention Hawaii in August. stoked? yea.

Is it so wrong to dream about things I want to cook and eat?

 

...as a little study break?

After my half ironman in october, Bri said she'd make me a really yummy but fatty pasta that she loves. And I think I'll make myself and my roommates a german chocolate cake afterwards. For a celebration!

Tea poached salmon with fennel salad?

homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream?

French women don't get fat. Maybe we should all bring out the French in us (do I have any in me, is the question?) and enjoy our food more! It's such a treat but sometimes so hard to tell ourselves that there WILL be more tomorrow.

and speaking of French...one of my favorite movies, Julie and Julia. Still need to read the book.