Category: Holiday

Top 10 things to put in an Easter Basket



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1. Start with the basket itself. Make it a multiple meaning Easter basket. (A plant pot for the gardener, a mixing bowl for the baker, a helmet for the jock)
2. Chocolate candy (in the shape of a bunny, a cross, an egg, etc.)
3. Non-chocolate candy (I highly recommend starburst jelly beans or sweet tarts)
4. A fun little toy (water gun, play dough, whistle)
5. eggs eggs eggs (this is where you stuff the candy)
6. Green green fake grass (or green tissue paper)
7. A favorite DVD (think of the $5 bin at Walmart)
8. A pair of Easter themed panties or socks
9. An additional mini chocolate (say a yummy hello to mini snickers or butterfingers)
10. A funny shaped (over sized) Easter egg like a Darth Vader head.

xoxo,
Adora

2 hour vacation



All too often I get swept up in my daily grind (wake up-drive-work- work-work-drive-eat-sleep-beep-bop-boop-I am a task robot) and forget that I get to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world.

The other night my intuitive husband decided I needed a little break. After picking me up from work we went for a drink and then to the beach (a whopping 2 mile drive from my office). I was in a floor length skirt and heels, but he insisted and I gave in.

We just walked around a little bit, the city of Pompano Beach just recently redid the whole beach-walk area and it’s beautiful. Josh, the lifelong Florida boy was in his element waist high in the ocean.

It was a fun, low key night, and some random tourists wanted to take our picture…so we’re in some random family’s vacation slide show somewhere. Ha! Enjoy the pictures!
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xoxo,
Adora

Friends | Food | Fourth



This is how we did the fourth of July up right. Crappy iPhone shots of an impromptu party that didn’t get planned until half way through the day!

grillin'

grillin’

grill master

grill master

 

toppings

toppings

 

food food food

food food food

 

they like it

they like it

pretty guests [miranda]

pretty guests [miranda]

lyric spinning on the little stool

lyric spinning on the little stool

 

love

love

 

fireworks time

fireworks time

 

ready to light

ready to light

smoke bombs

smoke bombs

smokey

smokey

 

bomb pops

bomb pops

I hope you all had a great holiday!
xoxo,
Adora

It’s the 4th of July…let’s bake apple pie



Really, it’s the only sensible thing to do. This is how I do it.

peel

peel

Peel 6-7 apples old school style with a knife. You can use a peeler I guess, but this way makes you feel like you’re channeling every old awesome grandma that has ever baked an apple pie, so do it this way.

chop

chop

Slice then dice the apples and put them all in a bowl

mix

mix

Mix 3/4 cup brown sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon with 1/4 all purpose flour and little lemon juice.

pour

pour

Pour a little more than half of this mixture over the diced apples and mix the apples (with your hands) to coat them.

toss

toss

Add the rest of the dry mix to the bottom of the pie crust (I use pre-made frozen crusts because I’m lazy and impatient.

pile high

pile high

Add the apples to the pie crust

stars and stripes, if you please

stars and stripes, if you please

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it’s like captain america became a pie

Cut your top pie crust in an american shape and add it to the pie.

ready to bake

ready to bake

Brush the crust with melted butter and rub on some more cinnamon.

maybe 45 minutes is a little too long

maybe 45 minutes is a little too long

Then bake at 450 for 45 minutes and let sit for 20 minutes outside the oven. Maybe just stick to the lattice look, the flag didn’t turn out very well, but taste is all that matters…and it tastes like freedom.

Serve with vanilla ice cream and enjoy your holiday!
xoxo,
Adora