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Lavender Syrup Recipe 🪻
Looking to liven up your morning matcha? Make your own homemade lavender simple syrup! You can use this easy lavender syrup recipe to cook up your own creations at home. ☕️ 🍵 Instructions A few tips and tricks when using this lavender syrup recipe: See what people are saying on TikTok about this lavender syrup recipe. Want more recipes? Check out more of my favorite recipes here.
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Red Lentil Soup Recipe (Vegetarian) 🌿
In effort to be healthier and eat out less, I’ve been cooking more at home. It’s easy to get in the rut of cooking the same things over and over, so I decided to tackle one of my all time restaurant favorites: lentil soup. I’ve never made this at home, so I wasn’t sure how it would go, but I’m excited to say it turned out great! This vegetarian recipe is packed with protein thanks to the red lentils. Below is the recipe I use for how to make lentil soup. Ingredients Instructions *2 cups of water gave me a soup with a thinner consistency than I wanted, so if…
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Choosing the Perfect Projector for Your Small Apartment
Living in a shoebox studio apartment presents endless challenges, particularly when it comes to entertainment. Forget sprawling home cinemas; my 19-inch TV often felt like a miniature peephole into the world of movies and shows. Craving an upgrade, I set my sights on projectors, inspired by those dreamy Instagram walls with cinematic landscapes splashed across them. But hold on, getting to big-screen heaven wasn’t as smooth as scrolling through Instagram. I ended up trying 3 different projectors. My first projector lacked a zoom feature, transforming my wall into a comically oversized screen that ate into my meager living space. The next projector I tried was a blurry mess, refusing to…
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Simple spiced caffe mocha recipe
If you’re anything like millions of other people around the world, you love coffee and drink it every morning. While I do enjoy a good specialty drink from Peet’s or Starbucks, oftentimes they are too sweet for my liking or not strong enough. I’ve always found I enjoy my coffee much more at home because I have more of a choice as to what ingredients are used. This super easy spiced caffe mocha recipe allows you to add as much (or as little!) sweetener and spice as you like. Spiced Caffe Mocha Recipe ingredients: I’ve found it’s easiest to sprinkle the cinnamon and nutmeg into the bottom of my coffee mug and then add the almond milk.…
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Henry Cowell Redwoods: Why You Should Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Every summer I like to do at least one camping trip. Over the years I’ve fallen in love with two California State Parks: Henry Cowell Redwoods and New Brighten Beach. If you’ve never been to Santa Cruz county, I highly recommend it. Both parks offer beautiful views–Henry Cowell is in the redwood forests of Felton and New Brighten Beach is along the coast in Capitola. Aside from the views, I really like that you’re never really roughing it–both campgrounds have running water, restrooms and coin-operated showers. They’re also not far from civilization if you forget to pack something. This year I camped at Henry Cowell. Usually my camping trips happen during the 4th…