You only live once!!
So, I’m defs not going to be documenting the YOLO Project everyyyy day, but I’ll be updating about it every once in awhile. Keep your eyeballs peeled for fresh reports, yo!
Today’s YOLO: Use a tilt-shift lens.
Allegra and I decided to bust out the Edge 80 lens that Lensbaby offered her a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun and a big challenge for both of us!
Here are a few of the results!
Upon examining my life as of late, I decided it was extremely boring. Allegra agreed. We decided it was time for a change and that change came in the form of a ridiculous acronym.
The YOLO (You Only Live Once) Project: Try one new thing every day, all summer, no exceptions.
Go somewhere you’ve never been.
Eat something you’ve never eaten.
Do something you’ve never done.
ETC.
The point is: mix it up, try new things, complete your bucket list, find new passions, create new stories.
It would be lovely to have some fellow adventurers. Any takers?
It was time to try something a little different for dinner last night. Allegra is obsessed with burgers, and we both like falafels, so we decided to combine the two for maximum delicious (and nutritious) results!
We’ve made falafels in the past, so it wasn’t too difficult to conjure up the taste we loved. We started with this base recipe from Chef In You.
The inventory for our recipe ended up being:
15 0z. can chickpeas
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp lemon zest
5 leaves of basil
5 leaves of mint
Dash of cayenne pepper
Dash of pepper
1.5 dash of salt
0.5 cup garbanzo/fava flour (I’m sure you could use whatever flour you’d like)
Step Zero:
Pre-heat the frickin’ oven to around 350 degrees of the Fahrenheit.
Step Uno:
Drain the chickpeas, rinse ‘em good.
Step Dos:
Put everything except the flour into a good quality blender or food processor. BLEND until it looks like moist cookie dough. (Note: It will not taste like cookie dough)
Step Tres:
Scoop it out. Add flour until it’s drier and moldable, sort of Play-Doh consistency. It’s okay if you don’t use all the flour, or if you use even more!
Step Quatro:
Grease a baking sheet, grease it good. Or use parchment with a light spritz of oil. YOUR CHOICE.
Step Cinco:
Pat the falafel dough into patties like any ol’ hamburger sorta thing and slap ‘em on the sheet. (Note: These are best fresh outta the oven. We decided to just make two patties and save the rest for latter. We covered the bowl with foil and had some for lunch today and it was totally still delicious, possibly even more so. We also popped some remaining patties into Ziplocs and locked ‘em in the freezer for a rainy day.)
Step 6 (translation necessary):
Cook until the top side starts to look a little dry, probably 8-10 minutes, then flip ‘em. They should be goldeny brown on the bottom (now top). Cook for another 7-9 minutes and then take ‘em out and eat them however you want!!
I’m allergic to wheat, corn, eggs, milk, and tomatoes so my burger toppings are probably going to look a little different than a lot of people. Allegra settled for the norm when it came to toppings: a toasted bun from our local New Seasons grocers, vegan mayo, mustard, ketchup, lettuce, onions, and pickles. I went for a more avant garde combination: lettuce-wrapped with Wholly Guacamole, Karam’s (of Seattle) Garlic Sauce, onions, salt and pepper with a side of Pop Chips (OMG, I love Pop Chips).
We both agreed it was a fantastic dinner which will be put into the vegan vault of meals we are slowly accruing.
Whether you’re a staunchy meatball consumer, or someone who only enjoys eating things without a mother and a face (think about it), this is a recipe for anyone.
Three words for you: CHOMP. ON. THIS.
Here’s some cool Do-It-Yourself house stuff. Defs gunna make some o’ this shiz when I have a proper place. As opposed to the cardboard box I’m currently living in…. *cricket cricket*….feed me?
Honest question of the day: Why do I keep getting creepers following me on Twitter? Namely, Peter and CeeDee.
An another awkward note, for more DIY shtuff, link yourself to my Pinterest so you can steal other people’s ideas with me!!
Planning a wedding is hard work, but trying to choose the perfect location for the honeymoon is also pretty ridiculously difficult too!
Who knew planning for a relaxing getaway was so… so… unrelaxing!
Finding the perfect hotel/condo/bungalow is similar, if not totally congruent with, finding a marshmallow in a pillow factory.
And yah, that’s an awesome metaphor. And yah, I just made it up. And yah, it doesn’t really make sense. #sowhat
Any advice for booking a super awesome honeymoon? Have any hilarious honeymoon mishaps? (Please keep ‘em PG-ish.)
Our best lead so far has a “black sand, clothing optional” beach within a 5 minute walk. NBD.
SO. Allegra and I are soon to wed in May-ish. And with this comes innumerable possibilities, including wee children in the DISTANT future. We were thinking about what we could do to prepare ourselves and our taking-care-of skillz in order to become better parents before we even were parents. Woof!
Wee animals came to mind. Now, here’s the thing. I’m a cat person. Allegra is…shall we say…not. But there happens to be a kind of pup we both can agree upons is absolutely adorable:
However. We found out that pugs are ridiculously difficult to care for, and we are, shall we say, kinda lazy. Also, apparently pugs shed a heckuvalot. Which is gross. So, we were looking around and the infamous and hilarious Boo soon arrived on our browser’s doorstep:
If we can find some sort of animal as adorable as Boo, who knows, maybe I’d give in and come to the canine side. Who knows what will happen between now and whenever our need for parental-ness kicks in, but we’re going to try to hold off on getting a pup, OR CAT, for as long as possible. They seem like they’d be pretty expen$ive. But hopefully whenever we do concede and get a household beast, we will get a CAT (don’t tell Allegra). How could we not???
What have been your experiences with new pets?? Is it really as expensive as they say it is?
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There will be movie trailers, products I enjoy/WANT, & adventures I have had, etc.
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