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Ceramics and Another Busy Weekend!

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

Yesterday I finally discovered a food bar that I actually love! Maybe because it’s main ingredient is peanut butter But it really reminds me of this dessert we used to make growing up, peanut butter balls, made with dry milk, peanut butter, and honey with rice crispies. I made Ryan go to the store to buy to more to try out tomorrow!

This weekend is jam packed again. I am just eating some leftover curry from lunch and then we are headed up for a weekend in Ventura. Visiting both Ryan’s fam and my fam in the same weekend. And tonight I am attempting to make it to a friend’s girl’s night (if traffic is good to us) fingers crossed. Tomorrow one of my cousins is graduating from college and there is a mini family reunion happening. I am so excited. It has been way way too long since I’ve seen most of my Dad’s side of the family. Anyways, I will attempt to take tons of pictures and share them next week. Maybe I’ll get some of the eclipse!! Doubt it but is anyone else excited about this? An 83% Solar Eclipse Sunday at 6:39 pm in San Diego. Yes I looked it up. Okay enough nerdiness check out my ceramics pieces I got back this week!

This one is my favorite, a little Love plaque

And my weird jar turned out pretty cool. I still think it looks kind of like a rose?

Oh and here is to functional art, a spoon rest. They turned out kind of funky shaped but hey its doing its job

Have an awesome weekend! And remember staring into the sun during an a eclipse is very stupid, even with sunglasses on. Now I gotta figure out how I am going to watch it…

Lauren

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Family and a WIAW

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

Last weekend was filled with fun and family. My sister and two friends came into town Wednesday night and it was non stop all weekend! We even managed to have a hearty family brunch at my cousin’s house with my parents and Grandma.

Friday night we even ventured out for some line dancing (I am the least country of the bunch if you can’t tell by the picture) and Ryan had us do a pre line dancing photo shoot. We ended up looking quite goofy, but hey we were having fun.

One highlight of the night, everyone in our party getting free drinks from a guy who racked up an bar tab over $2000 dollars. Madness I say! It was a lovely time, but I can’t tell you how nice it is to have some quiet time around here now! Anyways here are some WIAW eats, I am failing at getting back on track after a weekend of super unhealthy eating, but here it goes.

Breakfast- Bagel toasted and one side topped with honey almond cream cheese and the otherside with chive and herb cream cheese and avocado of course!

Lunch-Unpictured I ate it while in a meeting after bootcamp so couldn’t take a picture. It was a simple salad and a side of homemade egg salad (which I made with way too many onions it even grossed me out). Also a string cheese yummmmm.

Dinner- Sauteed Chard, served with some crockpotted beans, and 2 scrambled eggs.

Dessert- Didn’t eat any today, but it has been routinely been looking like this fresh fruit topped with whipped cream. Oh so good!

Thank goodness it is Wednesday! Happy Hump Day everyone!

Lauren

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Carlsbad Flower Fields

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

Since I am so behind in posting I thought I would take the time to share some photos from the Carlsbad Flower Fields. It is a beautiful place in the spring and definitely worth checking out! Also, the weather was absolutely wonderful when we went and I couldn’t have asked for anything more

Now I am going to get out there and enjoy the sunshine. My sister and two friends are in town and we went to breakfast while waiting for May grey to burn off and now it is time for the pool!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Lauren

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Watermelon

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

I think watermelon is one of my favorite foods, and not just because it reminds me of summer. Well it probably has a lot to do with it. We bought a 15 pound watermelon for $5 last week and I was beyond excited! Now I have declared that I want watermelon everyday, but Ryan only laughs at me, but I’m not really kidding…

Anyways Happy Wednesday! It’s time for WIAW once again

Breakfast- Toasted bagel with smoked salmon spread on one side and peanut butter on the other, served with an orange. The salmon spread was so so good, Ryan got it for me from whole foods.

Snacktime (pre boot camp workout)- Watermelon and celery with peanut butter.

Lunch (post bootcamp workout)- Cheese toast, celery, and lunch meat,

with a side of watermelon

and of course yogurt, blueberries, and honey for the main course.

Dinner- One chicken taco (with Ryan’s hand as a model)

and a plate of taco fillings.

Lots and lots of eats!

Have a great day!

Lauren

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Shell & Tell

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

Friday I decided to play show and tell at work with one of my ceramics pieces. It was a shell, so I called it shell and tell, get it? I thought it was amazing so I went with it! Thursday I got our shells back, my ceramics teacher low fired them so we could use awesome glazes. And they turned out quite amazing if I might say so

And I filled mine with candy!

Everybody loved my shell and tell, well at least I did! Also in ceramics this week I finished my plaque and made a bowl on the wheel. I also, and finally, trimmed that weird jar I made weeks ago. Productivity can be rewarding.

Hope everyone is ready for the week to start! I had a wonderful weekend and will post some beautiful pictures from checking out the Carlsbad flower fields.

Love

Lauren

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Rainstorm!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

I am seriously hoping I get to see some lightening tonight! We’ll see San Diego doesn’t produce nearly the same quality of thunderstorms that the desert does. Anyways it is Wednesday, and despite me feeling like it is Thursday, it is time for WIAW!! Also, I have to apologize to Jenn I think I have been failing at the April Challenge

Breakfast- Plain yogurt, a sliced banana, a mango, chex and some peanut butter. May sound weird but it was amazing!

Lunch- After boot camp yesterday I was super hungry so I ate a way too giant portion of enchiladas I made Monday night. The enchiladas are filled with cheese, refried beans, onions, and olives, and topped with greek yogurt.

Dinner- A peanut noodle stir fry with veggies and chicken with a side of spinach and sundried tomatoes. Yumm! Also served with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice from a bunch of grapefruits we picked from my tree at home.

The day was serious filled with some delicious eats and although unpictured dessert also happened! A little scoop of ice cream with a gluten free shortbread cookie.

Happy Hump day! Hopefully I’ll wake up and tomorrow will be Friday! Or at least maybe i’ll dream about the weekend

Lauren

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Getting Back to Reality

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

Oh how I wish I was back at Coachella! It was kind of rough last weekend knowing that the second weekend of Coachella was occurring and I wasn’t there!

Luckily we had a beautiful wedding to attend for our good friends Carlene and Davis. It was a marvelous ceremony and such an awesome reception! Unfortunately I forgot to bring a camera and my phone to most of the festivities so I don’t have any photos!! I am sad about it too.

Also, I would like to know where the spring weather went?? It went back to being in the low 60s and sunless all day. I think it really is discouraging me from doing any sort of activity besides curling up on the couch and sleeping. Which has really messed up my sleep schedule. I’ve had such a hard time getting back onto a normal schedule (including blogging) since coming back from Coachella. It is partially since I’ve been non stop busy, but mostly the weather makes me super lazy when I have any free time. Oh well, I’m going to dream of the desert sun until San Diego decides to act like spring again. Thanks Instagram for making the sky even bluer, I’m jealous.

Also, I haven’t gone through the hundreds of Coachella photos yet, so a full recap will happen later this week or over the weekend once I get my act together. Now that I have completed a completely random post I am going to go play draw something or words with friends to continue my lack of productivity…Hopefully tomorrow’s boot camp will whip me back into shape!

Lauren

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Swoooooooon

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

I have been non stop busy for over a week now! I was out of town in the desert from thursday night until Monday night and then was back at work this morning. Coachella was amazing and I will have a full recap of the festival at a later date, but I thought I would share one of the highlights of the weekend. Meeting the one and only Alcide! Yes, from True Blood! I cannot even explain how excited I was when I turned around and saw who I was standing next to while watching Gotye perform. And, while I never ever go star crazy, I could not help but ask him to take a picture with me! He was really nice and winked at me twice…still swoooooooning. I think Ryan is jealous, but hey who wouldn’t be swooning over this man??? Sorry Ryan!

Okay okay enough about Mr. Werewolf. It’s time for WIAW!!

Breakfast- Bananas, yogurt, hemp seeds, and raw honey!

Lunch- I totally forgot to take a picture at lunch today. My brain is scrambled and I was super busy at work! But I had a simple turkey and munster cheese sandwich which I microwaved so it’d be like a melt, even though microwaves make bread soggy. These things happen.

Snacks- chocolate covered almonds, dried pineapple, and some almond clusters

Dinner- A large helping of pasta! The pasta sauce has organic ground beef, marinara, garlic, onion, mushrooms, tomatoes, and zucchini, now how is that for some extra veggies! I served it with roasted brussel sprouts and a half of a mushroom pizza

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Lauren

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WIAW Passover Style

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

So far I have been surviving passover, kind of… Easter ham doesn’t count right? Too complicated for me, but I have been grain free at least! We are low on food and time this week so don’t judge

Breakfast- Yogurt topped with honey, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and charoset (from the seder, apples honey and cinnamon and walnuts)

Lunch- Egg and crab quiche thingy and a piece of ham. I also had a yogurt on the side since it was right after boot camp!Dinner- Small piece of chicken and some cauliflower. So much for eating any greens…

And I got my hair done!

It is a dark reddish brown. Wonderfullllllll! Now I best be getting to work!

Lauren

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Holiday Weekend

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Hugs Kisses 'N Dishes

Here are some of the photos from my double packed holiday weekend! Friday we had the Passover Seder which turned out lovely, and Saturday/Sunday we visited Ryan’s Fam in Ventura for some Easter fun! Jam Packed weekend and this week is going to be even crazier COACHELLLLLLLAAAA! Can’t wait.

Seder Table