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New Year, New Bagelmania Obsession

January 26, 2021 // Posted in Bread & Pastries, Food I Made, Photo Journal, Recipes

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My last & final semester in my public health program begins TODAY & I’m honestly beside myself. How did this break go by so quickly?! What have I even been doing? This time last year I was still high off my solo-Euro trip to Edinburgh & Paris…you know, doing my whole eat, laugh, eat journey, mask-less without a care in the world. How did 2020 manage to feel like it was 3 years long, but 2021 seems to be going by exponentially faster? Can the person taking earth on a joy ride please slow down? Why are we going so fast, fam? We’re approaching our first pandemic anniversary way too quickly.

Those of us with the luxury & privilege to work safely from home are far too familiar with the flour shortage/PANIK in April 2020. Some of us dabbled in making bread or baking cookies, and some of us gave up on trying to perfect sourdough. If you didn’t go through a bready phase in lockdown, now’s your chance. The pandemic isn’t over yet, y’all! I’ve been stress baking a lot, so here’s hoping my productivity can inspire you to get back in the kitchen & bake! May I introduce you to my latest baking obsession or shall I say, my bagelmania?

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The Ultimate 2020 Christmas Playlist to Bless Your Holiday in Quarantine

December 25, 2020 // Posted in Bread & Pastries, Musical Mondays, Recipes

December 25, 2020 | Posted in [post_category]

Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is for everyone to be gifted the vaccine so we can have herd immunity & this dumpster fire, train wreck of a year can finally be over. Please send extra goodies to all the scientists for their brilliant work on the COVID-19 vaccine. K thanks, bye.
With Love,
Tiffany

Seasons greetings, y’all! Does anyone remember when I used to do Musical Mondays? Unfortunately, 8Tracks has changed to a premium service & it’s not exactly Monday, but just pretend for a moment it is so that this post has a point.

If you haven’t annoyed your earholes with Christmas songs yet, I’ve got a playlist for you. I curated an 8-hour playlist of Christmas songs for you to blast while you’re cooking, eating, opening your presents, browsing Instagram, avoiding the news, Zooming with your relatives, or whatever it is you’re doing this holiday season.

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Chasing Waterfalls: An Icelandic Journey

July 30, 2020 // Posted in Gallery, Photo Journal, Travel

July 30, 2020 | Posted in [post_category]

Chasing Waterfalls: An Icelandic Journey

So, cool fun fact: I originally wrote this post last year on 12/25/2019 thinking I would post it within the week, but I guess things got away from me & I forgot about it. Posting it now though. Just half a year later. Here are some quick updates since December 2019.

Got 3 brand new roommates.
Added ads to my blog (I’m sorry), but I figured why not? Might make all of $1.00 off of ads if I’m lucky, but free is free.
I am currently a Product Manager for a small software development company.
I started playing The Sims again since the apocalypse/pandemic/Coronavirus to cope with shelter-in-place mandates.
I started making Sims 4 Let’s Plays for my YouTube channel. My last LPs were made 9 years ago. Holy cow.
Despite COVID-19 ruining everyone’s life, I’m thriving & I know I’m really fortunate to even say that.
Got a new laptop & camera since I turned 30 this year. #TreatYoself

It’s difficult to gauge exactly how meaningful or significant this year will actually be for me when considering one’s lifespan. I don’t know about you, but I’m hoping to live beyond 100, so how character-defining 2019 is unknown. Who really knows if my time in Iceland will matter to me when I’m living my best raisin life, retired in the French Alps or Tuscany? If our reality became similar to the world of the Netflix’s French Original Series Ad Vitam, then nothing that happened to me this year should really matter in the long run. In Ad Vitam, scientists developed a medical breakthrough allowing humans to live indefinitely by a process called “regeneration”. When we can live beyond 150, would a couple of years of hardship really be so unbearable? How much weight would we continue to give our problems? Would we feel less anxious about time passing? Would we take one another for granted even more than we already do?

Even if we won’t see regeneration in our lifetime, we know the average age of life expectancy is increasing. Yet, our human nature permits negativity to frequent our thoughts, filling our minds with anxiety, stress, and toxicity no matter the triviality. No matter how long we live, our time on this little blue dot is limited. Unfortunately for many of us, we haven’t evolved to become emotionally unaffected by hardships that will soon be forgotten. How many times must we tell ourselves, “this too shall pass,” to console ourselves?

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Upgraded French Onion Soup

June 24, 2018 // Posted in Food I Made, Photo Journal, Recipes, Soups

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Cool fun fact: I’ve always had a recipe for French Onion Soup, but it suuUuUuuUuuck3d. Here’s hoping no one ever made it, but if you did (why??), my dude, I apologize. So, I’ve decided to update my outdated recipe with a brand new one. Look how it sparkles with my cute mini Le Creuset cocettes! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING SO CUTE? Yeah, don’t answer that, of course, you have. I probably should’ve posted a more summer-friendly recipe because who wants to eat piping hot soup right now? Well, you know what? I live in New England & this damn region doesn’t obey the laws of seasons. Seasons are light suggestions. Calendar says it’s summer? EL OH EL, try again. New England says it’s still autumn so it’s cold & raining, but tomorrow it’ll be hot, humid, & thundering. Drunk seasons are fun! Yay! (Help me).

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Foodie Fridays: Bangkok + Chiang Mai

February 10, 2017 // Posted in Food I Ate, Foodie Fridays, Gallery, Photo Journal, Travel

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Cool fun fact: I was going to combine a huge travel dump of photos from Thailand & Vietnam, but decided it’s too overwhelming. Besides, I can break up my trip into 3 different posts, thereby making it seem like I’m suuUUuuper active, but I just scheduled the posts ahead of time. I didn’t realize how many food photos I actually took in Thailand.

So, I was enrolled in an Emergency Medical Services classes at Boston University for a hot minute & since the classes were so long & I have the attention span of Dory in a classroom setting, I finally ended up editing all of my photos from two summers ago (!!!! – I’m the worst) & last October’s trip to Maine. DROPPED that class – too busy with work & other shenanigans. Probably will retake it in the summer when I’m not as busy. Would be fascinating to ride in an ambulance. It’s too bad the experience won’t be anything like Sirens. That show was hilarious, RIP. Anyway, my family & I went on an amazing trip to Thailand & Vietnam for nearly a month. We vacationed first & then volunteered with MEMO to help out our peoplez. Tears were definitely shed & so many of us got food poisoning, but it was all worth it. Literally shed our blood, sweat, & tears helping the underprivileged in Vietnam. You can scroll down to see my travel photos, but otherwise, here’s a massive food photos dump featuring some of the best eats from Thailand & Vietnam!

Okay, time to shut up: IT’S SLOBBERING TIME. I can’t believe I just made a Marvel pun. What is wrong with me. Puns are the worst form of humor. Halp me.