Quick! I need your help!
What are your favorite summertime recipes? What's a dish you'd stand by till death do you part? (Because this is a life or death situation)
Send me links/pictures/ideas in the comments below!
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Quick! I need your help!Saturday is dinner at my aunt's house and I'm helping to contribute to the menu. Unfortunately at present I am regretfully out of ideas. The criteria is "fun and fabulous food that can be prepared the night before".
What are your favorite summertime recipes? What's a dish you'd stand by till death do you part? (Because this is a life or death situation) Send me links/pictures/ideas in the comments below! You have the next 12 hours to show me your best recipes! Ready, set, GO!
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I found this article today on the wonderful interweb. I thought you lovelies would enjoy it. "Most of the time, most people are not crying in public, but everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs. There are as many ways to do this as there are kinds of loneliness, but all of them require attentiveness, all of them require the hard work of emotional computation and corporeal compassion. All of them require the human processing of the only animal who risks “getting it wrong” and whose dreams provide shelters and vaccines and words to crying strangers." Click on the quote, brave ones.
Be present today! xoxox Yogis say if you want to practice optimism in misfortune practice balancing poses. Poses that require balance teach all of us that when we fall (because we all do), or stumble, or lose sight of the goal ahead and veer a little all we need to do is laugh off the mistake, refocus, rebalance, and work again--a little wiser--towards the challenges in front of us. I haven't been practicing Tree Pose lately. Instead I've been running. Sure yeah I've been doing things, lots of important things, but I've forgotten to strike that balance: to do the things I have to do while still leaving time for things I like to do. I've worn myself out and I'm tired of it, not to mention not very happy.
So within this next month I'm going to make a bigger effort to do the following: Devotions: I'm embarrassingly bad at this. If I don't do it in the morning it will never be done. And ya know I really like diving into the word--it boosts my mood, strengthens me, and helps me with the challenges of the day. That's the first thing to change. More yoga: I can do yoga at anytime of day. I feel like I can never get enough of the stuff, but it's typically one of the first things to get pushed out of the way when I get busy. Reading: I really do love a good book, but I can't remember the last time I read one. Journaling: so much good comes from self reflection. Blogging: Neglecting my little corner of the world wide web always makes me feel a little guilty. I have over 35 saved drafts. All posts I started and wanted to post and then never came back to--I hate that. Blogging is hard for me because I find my thoughts rarely being cohesive and I have trouble deciding what too share--balancing inspiration in my daily life has always been a challenge because let's be honest: sometimes optimism just deserves a slap in the face and permission to go fornicate alone. Cooking: In high school for a few years I baked my own bread. It took some experimenting but I finally got it right: old-fashioned oats sandwich bread (sooooo yummy). I also would make a killer Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal bread that was to die for warm right out of the oven. Over half the books in my room are recipe books in fact, I used to make almost everything I ate from scratch and I really miss that. I was happier and healthier in those days when I knew what was going in my food. Volunteering: There's something en entirely rejuvenating about giving back. Outdoor fun: Hiking, biking, swimming--all of it. I love being at Fair Hill or laying in my back yard in the sun reading. I work most days during prime sun hours but the days are long enough now to be outside in the evenings doing whatever. What do you need to do more of to strike a balance? Let me know in the comments below! I forgot: to eat more chocolate. But really, I thought that was obvious. ciao xoxox Last Saturday Adam and I took a train to Philadelphia for the day, for no particular reason except that I wanted to go and Adam wanted a cheese steak. Our first order of business was JFK Plaza, famous for the LOVE sculpture. Along the way I got us lost, but that's okay. We stumbled upon Logan Square first which was a pretty surprise. We visited the Masonic Temple, passed the planetarium and added that to our Philly to do list, and saw the flags of the world (well most of them). By the time we made it to JFK PLaza I was ready to take a swim in the fountain but Adam wouldn't let me. (There was a guy with his feet in the water. He was just chillin' on the edge of the fountain in normal clothes with a huge Starbucks drink. I was completely fascinated by him. He was perhaps one of the nerdiest persons I've ever seen, but he was being a total bad ass and he was totally aware of this juxtaposition of actions against his appearance and personality. The entire time he was sitting there he was looking around like "Hey look at me being my bad ass self". I was jealous.) After JFK Plaza Adam and I decided it was time for him to eat. Commence our 40 minute walk downtown to Pat's. Why didn't you take the Metro you might ask? Simply because it did not occur to us until our trip back that we could. But I enjoyed the walk. Philadelphia is a beautiful place to see on foot and that made the time pass quickly. The Metro ride back landed us back at City Hall across the street from JFK Plaza. I decided I wanted to see Rittenhouse Square so we started up Market St. Adam decided he was hungry again when he saw Cosi. We sat down to eat his second and my first lunch. After that Adam decided he had enough fuel to make it the next three blocks to Rittenhouse Square until we passed a gelato shop. I made him go to the square with before getting more food, he begrudgingly complied. A surprise met us at the square by way of an art festival. I had a great time walking through all the tents looking at the art and talking to the artists. Adam really enjoys oil paintings and I like the abstract works. We're about as opposite as they come. We made it back to the gelato shop where we both subconsciously decided to spend the next hour and a half. Adam got to cups of gelato and I ordered an espresso. This cafe is definitely a place I want to visit again. It was a little pricey but the staff was fun and upbeat the gelato superb (I stole some of Adam's). After that we walked up and down Chesnut and Market Streets for a while before going back to 30th St Station. Adam slept some a little on the ride back while I talked his ear off about the day and how much I want to go back. Philadelphia is so cool! Ciao!
"Here's to gratitude and how it turns everything into enough." Focus on the present. Be still and know that God is all you need, everything else is a blessing and more than enough. What I'm loving lately: Miscellaneous: (That ^ is a word I've been able to spell since elementary school but I regularly stumble over words like "use", all of the "theres", all of the "yours", the million ways to say "two" in the English language and I'm never quite confident if "chicken" is spelled without a "c" or not) Moving on. Chocolate, specifically Dove Dark Chocolate--the kind that comes in individually wrapped squares with adorable messages on the inside of the wrapper. I'M GOING TO FREAKING COLLEGE! (In case you forgot)
Jessica is back in America! We are going to the movies and out for ice cream soon. I'm so grateful to be able to call her seester. What's okay: It's okay jam in the car to One Direction and Carly Rae Jepsen. To quote Jessica "It you feel it and it moves you, don't question it." It's okay to ask questions. Almost everything you can do today, as an adult (excluding breathing and all of your internal organ/involuntary muscle stuff), is a learned skill. Even listening! Your brain has to learn how to differentiate sound at an early age so you can learn your parent's voices from strangers and outside noises and learn to speak/communicate in your native tongue and others (because language is just the application of meaning to sound--when someone says of another speaking a different language "It just sounds like noises!" They're absolutely right! The difference being that, that person and others know what those noises mean to them because they have the ability to hear!! How miraculous!) That's not the point though. The point is when you're learning a new task, or doing something you haven't done in a long time don't let external scenarios or people make you feel stupid. Everyone at some point had to learn that task or skill set too. So give yourself a break and take your time. It's okay to not buy into the idea that dumb is cute because it's not. Intelligent is cute. Capable is cute. Knowing who you are, what you believe in, and what you want is cute. Not pretending otherwise. It's okay to take time off, to slow down, and admit that your human--which means you're awesome and capable of really great stuff, but which also means you can't carry the world on your own shoulders. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to be really passionate about nerdy topics/issues. Right now you may not be surrounded by people who "get it" like you do, but if you stick with it you're guaranteed to meet people like you and land your life doing the work you love. So stick with it, brave ones. xoxox Hello, hello! To catch you up on my past three weeks (almost one whole month!) at home let me dive into my typical routine: eat, work, pretend to workout, sleep, repeat. It's been busy, but fun. I finally snagged a few hours this morning to upload Italy and Prague pictures (talk about late, late, late) and some pictures from my trip to PA last weekend! So without further ado, here we go! Jessica, Stephen, and I went to Prague from April 3rd to the 7th. Stephen wanted to take me to France, because I studied French through all of high school, but Lyon is a very tricky city to travel to, so we opted for Eastern Europe. We went the week after Easter. The Easter Markets were still set up which meant most the main squares and streets were set up with vendors from Moravia predominantly but also other parts of the Czech Republic. The city was cold and snowed the last day we were there, but the food was good and warm and the company was top notch. Prague isn't my favorite European city that I've visited--that's a tie between Krakow and Florence--but I liked exploring it's history and culture. I love Montichiari. Like a lot. I don't remember ever posting pictures from my first trip, but I took a lot of pictures of the town on both trips. Get ready to fall in love. Last Friday and Saturday I went to PA for my grandfather's 90th birthday. Family from all over traveled to the Ranch for the celebration on Saturday afternoon. My Aunt Brenda through a stellar party, like always, and we all had a great time celebrating our pop's life. On the way back my mom and I had a little too much fun with the camera. And this video happened: See you later this week, brave ones!
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