All Things Glam Rock

Self Portrait

Steve-o and i

My mom always tells me that if I was to leave, Steve-O would be the most affected.... but in reality I think I would be the most affected. I love my 3 puppies... I don't know what I would do without my babies

Alexandra A

I'm not a professional photographer but I do know a little about it, enough to have some photography fun. I love finding out new things on my own and how to master it in my own personal way. This is a small shoot I did just messing around. Kudos to Alexandra for being a pretty awesome petite model! 

Sweet & Salty Walnuts

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving!!! My favorite holiday ever! For some reason, more than Christmas. I guess it's because I don't have to worry about greedy people wanting gifts, and it's a day to be thankful of all the blessings in our lives. So since it's also a day of eating I just wanted to share one of the few things I will be cooking! Sweet & Salty Walnuts. I got the recipe online but I made a few adjustments to my liking. I will make this as simply as possible.

Ingredients:

1 bag of walnuts

1 cup of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon of salt

a sprinkle of cayenne pepper

a sprinkle of nutmeg

1 egg white (extra large egg)

1 tablespoon of water

Tools:

measuring cups

measuring spoons

whisk

wooden spoon

2 large bowls

baking pan

wax paper

Ok so this is very very simple but before you start, preheat oven to 300 degrees:

1.) In first bowl, mix brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, cayenne pepper, and nutmeg

2.) In second bowl, beat egg white with a table spoon of water with whisk until it gets a bit foamy.

3.) Pour walnuts into the egg whites and mix until it's evenly distributed.

4.) Slowly pour brown sugar mix into the walnuts and mix

5.) Put a sheet of wax paper on the baking pan and pour walnuts into the pan and distribute throughout. Put pan into the oven for 20 minutes. Once it's done take out and let it cool. Then enjoy!!!

Farmer's Market in PBG

This morning my friend and I decided to take a little stroll around the farmer's market in Palm Beach Gardens. This event is one of my favorites when I travel outside of Florida. I've been to a few but I believe that the best one that I've been to was the one in Union Square in NYC. I will make a post of that Farmer's Market later on. Anyways, the weather was a bit gloomy but it was breezy. An awesome change for Florida in my opinion. The Market was full of families, kids, hippies, and foodies. There was a live jazz band giving a great atmosphere. Free samples were available which makes it all worth the trip! Parking was a hassle but the walk to the market in the crisp breeze was wonderful. Not everything was organic which I wasn't expecting but I did get to try a few samples of raw honey and took a 1lb. bottle home for $8. I know it's a bit expensive but it's grown in florida, it's unprocessed and the taste was very close to the raw honey that my grandpa used to bring us from Chile.

Macarons pour moi!!! Surprise???

So today out of nowhere I get a small square package in my mailbox. I wasn't aware of anyone sending me a package so it was definitely unexpected. I looked to see who it was from but it had no first name. I recognized the handwriting and I immediately knew that it came from my friend living in Paris. If you didn't know, I am overly obsessed with the delicate little french cookies called "Macarons". I have even attempted to cook the Macarons myself and after 4 tries I was finally able to master this small, delicate, almond based cookie. My very first one was when my friend and I went to New York City and stopped by the "Macaron Cafe" on Madison and 59th street. Ever since then I have fallen in love.

Anyways, baffled by the box I had no idea of what it could be. I took some keys and started tearing up the brown tape that was covering the small square box. When I finally tore apart the brown box i realized that there was a purple and black box with rococo designs all over it. The box was encrusted with a golden logo and name that said "Laduree". Now if you don't know, Laduree is a pastry shop known for the best Macarons in the world. It was even featured in one of the last episodes in Sex & The City. I opened up the small box in excitement! I couldn't believe that I was about to have Macarons from Laduree! But to my surprise all of the Macarons were crumbled in small pieces in the box. The raspberry was mixed in with the cassis, the coconut was all over the pistachio. It was a total mess! I guess the mailman forgot to put "Fragile" stickers al over it? Anyways, I tried a small piece of the broken Macarons, and although the delicate cookies were broken and shattered like glass, no one could take away the deliciousness of the Macarons that came from Laduree. Thank you Danay!