Food Lifestyle

Cheesy sweet potato nachos: an amazing amalgam of flavors!

Hi readers! Hope your summer is going well! I’m back with another quick post today, to share a newly discovered appetizer from a recent HelloFresh delivery. If you don’t know what HelloFresh is, it’s a meal subscription delivery service – how it works is they give you a number of recipe selections for the week …

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Lifestyle Seasonal

Starbuck’s Spicy Pineapple 🌶️🍍should you try it? + other summer beverages

Hello hello, it’s July & it’s officially summertime! What’s summer without icy sweaty beverages? Just quickly, I wanted to report on one of Starbuck’s newest summer beverage, the Spicy Pineapple! I ordered it a day or so after it was announced and I love pineapple and I love spice, but I did not love this …

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Food Lifestyle

Yummy homemade hummus: did I just turn into a true Millenial?

Hi hi! It’s been a while 🙂 My Christmas vacation has officially started so I figured I’ll drop by for a quick post. A week or so ago, I made homemade hummus for the very first time, and it came out delicious. If you’re curious, here’s the recipe I used as a guide. I did …

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Food Lifestyle

New delicious appetizer: blistered cherry tomato toast

Hi! Happy Tuesday, lovely reader! I realized it is the 21st today and we are almost at the halfway point of the year. Time flies when you’re having fun 🙂 Last night, I volunteered to make dinner – I saw two recipes the other night (Monday?) and shopped so I was ready to go. I …

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Food Lifestyle

Breaking the routine: solo Sunday brunch at a local restaurant

I woke up lazy and wanting to stay in bed as usual… but I was also hungry. I didn’t feel like making myself anything so I decided to break my usual Sunday routine of staying home and decided to enjoy a pleasant drive in the 70s degree weather. I was delighted to find out that …

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Food Lifestyle

Your next favorite healthy summer drink: the Green Goddess smoothie

Hi! I know it’s been forever, but this will be a very short one. I just wanted to quickly drop and share this new smoothie recipe (perfect for months of summer heat!!!). This was inspired by the smoothie from one of my (new!) favorite local restaurants, Hudson Botanical. It’s refreshing and delicious and super healthy! …

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Food Lifestyle

Dinner duty: the best baked salmon ever!

I was such a grown-up and actually went grocery shopping and meal-planned. One of the recipes I shopped for was from Food Network, dubbed “The Best Baked Salmon.” I kid you not, that was the name of the recipe. And indeed, it was. Whole Foods is absolutely one of my favorite places. I go there …

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Lifestyle Unboxing

Alltrue Fall 2021 Unboxing: skin balm, heated mug, and more!

Hi! As you may have noticed, I love unboxing! The process just helps me remember each item that I receive and I just enjoy talking about the products, learning about the companies that put out these products, and the photography aspect is something I love. This season’s Alltrue box is full of useful goodies! If …

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Lifestyle Unboxing

AllTrue Summer 2021 Unboxing!

Hi! It’s been a while, I know. We are almost at the end of summer 2021 and it’s been an eventful year. Every year, my parents and I take a big trip for the summer and this year over 4th of July weekend, we flew all the way from PA to Seattle. It was an …

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Lifestyle Skincare

10-step Korean skincare routine: my attempts at being forever 21

When we’re young, we want to be older. When we’re older, we want to be younger. We are never satisfied, always wanting what’s seemingly out of reach. And if it’s there, we don’t want it anymore. As they say, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. I never really thought …

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