design a life you love
The takeaway from this past weekend was that it was entirely too hot! We spent the majority of the 95 degree days sitting in our pool on our roof, then escaped to air conditioned bars and clubs at night. Because really, what else were we to do?
Puggle was not amused by the heatwave.
I basically didn’t leave this post all weekend.
It was too hot for this bar/club! But we had fun anyway.
It has come to my attention that I have started treating the Hollywood Bowl as my living room. Guess who’s back, back again…
These people believe in flying their patriotic Pomeranian flag year round.
Things get real when this reminder is staring back at you from the pages of your planner every day.
Do we call this bad lighting or “artsy”? Regardless, here is the grin I get from Puggle when I come home from work every day.
Martial Arts Trilogy at the Hollywood Bowl – a viewing of portions of Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Banquet conducted by the composer himself, Tan Dun. It was pretty epic.
When looking for recipes I search out those that are healthy, don’t use too many ingredients and are simple to make. I’d love to have the time and budget to prepare extravagant meals every night, but since that isn’t possible at the moment I try to make sure what we eat is great tasting and good for us. This veggie quinoa bowl checks all the boxes. It is comprised of just four healthy base ingredients and I can prepare it quickly after a long day at work.
I found the basis of this recipe at Reclaiming Provincial and made a few modifications. The original recipe was geared towards more of a meal you would eat for breakfast and we generally eat my version for dinner. To make it more dinner friendly and heartier, I added in extra eggs as well as additional broccoli and mushrooms so it is more filling.
It may not be the prettiest to look at, but it always hits the spot and, as you will see, is one of Puggle Chef’s favorite meals to help prepare because she loves to snack on broccoli! She has become quite the little sous chef and hangs out in the kitchen with every night me while I cook dinner. She’s quite helpful, in fact if water is about to boil over and I’m looking away she alerts me to it. She’s too cute!
Veggie quinoa bowl ingredients
Plus some cheese which deserves its own photo.
Puggle Chef stir-frying the broccoli.
Stir-fried veggies
Veggie quinoa bowl ready to eat.
The grumpiest Puggle that has ever been.
Neighborhood flowers at Wattles Mansion
When you ask your photographer fiance to take food photos and he goes all film noir on you.
An evening spent on the rooftop blowing off a workout, blogging and a million other pursuits.
I’m terribly sorry Lola, but Puggles are not permitted inside.
Studs and Paris…these are a few of my favorite things.
No caption needed.
Clouds rolling in with a vengeance
There is so much love in those eyes. This little girl captured my heart from day one.
“In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”
