VLOG: April City Life 2020 Quarantine In the City...Candle Review + Gluten Free Home Cooked Meals + Hauls & Fitness

This has been an interesting month, like the rest this year, stressful. I have gained a lot of peace by practicing yoga.

MISSING THE CITY

With everything being shut down we have been having "date night" at home and enjoying home cooked meals. I enjoy cooking so much so it hasn't been a chore or anything different than usual. As a blogger a lot of my blog details restaurant visits. I decided to share two blog posts this month from date nights we had. I was inspired by current cravings. In South Tampa a lot of these restaurants are still open for curb-side pickup so the posts are still relevant.

I am quite interested in how the future of dining out will look in the future.

Timpano

Thee Treehouse

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GLUTEN FREE MEALS COOKED BY MYSELF- RECIPES AVAILABLE BY REQUEST IF NOT POSTED.


I post a lot of roasted chicken dishes...all of them have different seasonings and spices, I usually have to write it down so I can make it the same again.

Navy beans (one of my favorite white beans)
jasmine rice
wings
Swiss chard

Shrimp curry
Jasmine rice

Roasted wings
Carrots
rice
Swiss chard

Whole roasted chicken breast
Jasmine rice
Swiss chard

This recipe was inspired from a fish dish I had at a restaurant last year. I pretty much made it exactly the same from taste and just used a different fish.

Salmon
Tri-colored quinoa
feta
finely chopped bell pepper
dusted with Sumac

Cook salmon 22 minutes at 410

salt (to taste)

pepper (to taste)

garlic powder (to taste)

evoo (1 cap full)

QUINOA

cook to package requirements

Add feta as garnish after its done and plated

Dust with sumac and add edible flowers

Cook on the side in pan finely chopped green& red bell peppers and onions then add to to quinoa.

Drizzle evoo on plate and plate

Mornings are especially fun because I always have a ton of energy and love to experiment with breakfast foods. We periodically buy these gluten free McMuffins from the frozen section at Whole Foods. They taste exactly the same as the real ones and they do not need to be thawed out beforehand.

Gluten free McMuffin (you can find these at Whole Foods)
Sausage
egg
cheese

Gluten free McMuffin (you can find these at Whole Foods)
Bacon
egg
cheese