Gilroy Garlic Festival 2011

[ Watching: George Lopez ]

So this pass weekend was the Gilroy Garlic Festival, it's a festival consisting of all food with the star ingredient garlic, music, events, and prizes. The weather was hot and it was PACKED with people. It's like an hr & 10 minutes drive from the city, but we we're stuck in jam packed traffic for an extra hour! So that sucked.

I started to daydream off because I was hungry and tired...

Illiana had fallen asleep half way there which was a relief for us, but she ended up waking up once we had hit traffic jam.

Juls concentrating on the road, there were plenty of idiot drivers out that day.

Since it was so packed and freakin scorching out under the sun we found ourselves a nice shaded spot to chill and enjoy our food. Illiana hella caught me snapping photos of her (with broccoli stuck on her mouth still).

Daddy enjoying the Special Plate of the day from the hawaiian/asian booth.

Special Plate consist of 1 skewer of teriyaki chicken, 1 skewer of beef teriyaki, 1 veggie egg roll, fried rice, and chow mein. The chicken teriyaki was really good! And the veggie egg roll was on point.

We also decided to try the Tamale booth, it was pretty good; and I'm not that huge of a fan for tamales because it's so similar to the chinese Lotus Leaf Sticky Rice that I can't get pass the fact it's not. haha... Juls liked it tho.

Oh yea, I failed to mention I fell and scraped the shit outta my leg; there were so many hidden pot holes under the grassy harsh hay that my wedge caught into one and I fell knee forward. And it happened while we were walking TO the festival from the parking lot, so it was burning through out my whole day. Sucked balls and it still hurts like a bitch.

On a brighter note, I will leave you guys with Illi's 'MOB' face look.

Happy Weekend!

Good luck surviving the incoming week loves. You're not alone.

- LOVEVAS

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Breakfast + Diet? Kind of

So if you didn't know by now, BREAKFAST (yea the meal in the morning) is the most important meal of the DAY. That is because it gets your day started and keeps you full throughout MAJORITY of your day. Hint: for the kids who are trying to lose some weight, many people eat breakfast as if its dinner so they are full to function for the rest of the day; hence no over eating. And since you had just woken up your stomach hasn't expanded to it's full capacity therefore you won't be inhaling the food in the morning. I admit, I don't eat breakfast all the time; hell, most of the time (I know, hella bad). But I am really trying to start eating in the morning and not late night, that's my biggest enemy; eating at night. Everyone has their weakness rather it's sweets, starchy food, carbs; eating when bored. ITS NORMAL, shit happens; don't whack yourself over the head with a frying pan over it.

Just try to change the bad habits, if you eat late like me - eat early from here on. You love sweets, switch up the fatty sweets to good sweets (fruits, low fat yogurts, no calorie candy, splenda!, NO FRUIT JUICES - THEY ARE FATTENING). Cut down carbs and starchy food, if you CAN NOT cut down; PORTIONIZE! Portioning is your best friend, I tend to portion my food now and just have many small healthier in between snacks. I'm the type that HATES working out, I mean carrying a 13.9lb baby girl around all day is enough of a workout to me. So I portion my food consumption, it's not really a diet per say; but it helps. I mean I might not be losing weight (a lot), but I am maintaining the same weight and I am fine with that. But yea, I just felt like rambling. In case some of you lovelies wonder what I do about my weight and what I eat. Hope this helps! Good Luck!

- LOVEVA

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Do you ever just...

[ Colbie Callait - I Never Told You ]

Do you ever just feel like you HAVE to have some veggies?

Because I sure do. Here I just boiled the string beans in some salted water, then stir fried with a little bit of Spicy Soy Sauce for a kick of flavor. If you cannot eat spice, a little bit of soy sauce is just as good too. Great substitute for a snack than fatty junk food! Still nice and crunchy! Enjoy!

- LOVEVAS

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Abalones

Hello hello!

Tonight I am having dinner at my mom's place with thee familia, we are having Abalone :) If you guys dont know what abalone is... it is a sea urchin that is really valuable and great for health. Its one of the most expensive dishes in Chinese culture, if you ever get a chance you must try! For all my Mom-To-Be's, it also helps with LACTATING breast milk as well!!! ^_^ Here are a couple photos of how it looks like, my pops is slicing it up to eat after it being cooked.

It's yummier when they are a bit more tender than rough and stiff. Hope you guys like! Just wanted to share a little bit of my culture with y'all! Enjoy! Take care!

- EVA

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The way to a man's heart...

[ Above & Beyond Pres. OceanLab - Lonely Girl ]

hello kids,
my fault if my last blog was hella weird and awkward for some of ya'll. but n e hu, if ya'll don't know by now Juls 21st bday has just passed recently on the 25th of April. nigga is finally 21 and don't need me to copp the alcohol anymore. haha.... he's pretty siked! (: so on his birthday he had planned to go Go-Karting with just his boys, as i 'pretty up' for him for dinner. i had made reservations at this Thai Restaurant - Rin's Thai Restaurant in Noe Valley for his bday with everyone else. so i wasn't bout to sit around home all day and wait til dinner, i thot i bake him a birthday cake and some cupcakes for his friends just a THANK YOU for comin thru to celebrate Jul's birthday. so here is the process of the baking. nothing means more than cooking for your love on the reals. its the way to a man's heart mang, thru their tum tums :D Now I aint no chef or cook, so i used the pre-mixed batters for the cake & cupcakes (lol). I made a devils food chocolate cake with strawberries (his favorite) and Red Velvet cupcakes.

First off I copp'd some fresher than freshhhh strawberries then rinsed under cold water. Now it's time to slice them Vertically down the membrane. When the strawberries look as if its almost a HEART its perfect. I had already baked the cake in a 9inch round pan that's non-stick (best to use nonstick to prevent any breaking to the cake plus less of the pain having to scrub yo shit afterwards). Now get a piece of wax paper pop that baby upside down onto the wax paper and let cool in fridge (if you're in a rush like me) for a good 15 minutes. Now take it out and leave it upside down, get a cake knife and slice it in half horizontally across so you have two layers and cream the middle (bottom layer only). Now with those Heart shaped strawberries slice them into semi-thin slices and place them on that layer. Btw, i just used canned frosting; but i use the EXTRA FLUFFY so its lighter and easier to spread, ya feel me? oh yes, the white chocolate chips are used for the red velvet cupcakes to give it a sweeter kick, if ya'll never had red velvet;its originally not that sweet by itself. so i thot i popped some white chocolate chips into each cupcake for a little BOOST of sweetness. i didn't end up using the sprinkles for the cupcakes, i thot its too kiddy and not as yummy when theres a crunch to the cupcakes, PERSONALLY i didn't want them on it this time. lol. oh yes, make sure u have cupcake cups in handy, cuz this occasion is individual cupcakes to each person to have; it's much more convenient when its in a paper cup. Alright as i was saying, put the top layer back on; layered on top of the spread like so... then be sure to spread the frosting all over the cake. as i was doing all this Gizmo was chillin in the dining room just lying there wondering wtf i was doing running around the kitchen left and right. haha.... now back to frosting. so i finished frosting the rest of the cake. then the best part for me personally is DECORATING this bitch with TLC mang.so i placed a couple strawberries around the rim of the cake and i had melted some Ghiradelli chocolate chips and drizzled some designs over the cake by doing so i just used a regular fork. as you can see, i had many left over strawberries there in the corner because i originally WANTED to place one sliced heart strawberry on top of each cupcake.but i thot about it, it wont make sense to do so cuz the tastes dont mix. strawberries, the berry flavor on a red velvet cake mix. no no. so i had left over strawberries for thee familia to munch on. hahha... Now... on to the cupcakes.so with the batter i fit 12 at a time to bake. oh yes! be sure to have TOOTH PICKS in hand so u can poke in the center of the cup cakes or cakes to check if its ready.usually they are ready when barely any slobber from the mix stain the pick. now they are ready to be baked! after they're done, take them out and place on top of a wax paper (so its a easy clean-up) and let cool BEFORE YOU START FROSTING kids!be sure to wear oven mitts while handling the non-stick cupcake pan that just hopped out of the oven, PLEASE DONT BURN YOURSELF!after they're cooled off you can feel free and frost them, but u can also skip this step if you don't prefer frosting on your cupcakers.when i had ran out to copp them strawberries at Safeway for the cake, i also grabbed myself two GIANT PINK DONUT boxes in the bakery section, they should be right by the donuts. THEY'RE FREE! so ya'll know where to get them if ya'll need'em! (:so after baking i had to wrap his gifts real quick before i started to get ready. yea he likes Hennessy as you can tell. lol, so i grabbed a smaller bottle for HIMSELF to drink; but of course his nice self shared with his boys.


now on to dinner, we ate at Rin's Thai Food Restaurant; i had yelped this place. the food here is pretty good and the service was not bad either. feel free to check out their YELP review by clicking on the name link.so on to opening gifts. here he is opening a gift from our homegirl Griselda. now my gifts. i got him a 2 set of Yoshi Blade, if you guys don't know what it is. please go look at their infomercial. lol. he seemed to really like his gift. he was like 'oooh! i cant wait to try these out!'then perfect timing they bring out his birthday cake and we all sang him happy birthday :D after dinner we decided to go bar hopping down on Broadway street. we went to our first TITTY BAR at Condor on broadway. the girls werent all that hot, but this one chick was CHEEKIN' (aka she has booty), so my homegirl manda&i bought him a PRIVATE VIP LAPDANCE from her. her name was Isas, i'm pretty sure it's her stripper name. she was like a punk rocker type chick, tatted up and everythang; she was really friendly. she was the prettiest one there. lol. then we went over to next door to our first STRIP CLUB. lol. then went back to homie Omar's place and just kicked it and made thee bf drink some more til he was GONNNNNNNE. hahha....i think he had a GREAT time. what'chall think? heh. alright, until the next blog guys & girls. i hope ya'll have a great weekend! toodles! *deuce deuce*

- LOVEVA

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Goodbye MY BELOVED SpringBreak 2010!

[ Watching : Charmed ]

hello my loves,
this Spring Break was ONE of the best ones i ever had yet :) it all started on Thursday 04/01/10 morning at round 2am-ish, Juls and I had to run couple errands, he needed to stop by Walmart to exchange some stuff. So we headed out to Union City (which is the only 24hr Walmart) but unfortunately their customer service was closed and we couldn't exchange it. So that was a bummer and Juls had a surprise for me; he threw in a destination into his Navi. And I'm thinkin whats goin on, he tells me we're heading out to LOS ANGELES afterall (b/c we planned to go already this Spring Break but decided not to go in the end), so then we rushed home to pack a small luggage for the trip. Also booked a room at the Kyoto Hotel which was located Downtown La and tickets to 6 Flags Magic Mountain. headed out from SF at 4ish am with the whackk ass weather of rain and cold wind and arrived to LA to a sunny ass day at round 9ish., since we're early and our room wasn't ready yet we decided to go Grab some brunch since we haden't eaten. Yelped around a place that's close to the hotel that was open so early, and i had found Thai City right near Downtown. Juls smart ass used his Navi and went to the wrong City Thai restaurant and ended out in Pasadena instead. but its koo, it was still good. After that we headed back to our room so we can freshen up and have a day of fun at Six Flags Magic Mountain! here are some of the views around our hotel. i was being a straight up tourist :D hahah... Juls was siked that they had a big ass screen outside with the current live games. he was like "WOW, YOU CAN HELLA JUST SIT OUT HERE ON A NICE DAY WITH SOME POPCORN AND WATCH THE GAME". hah. he so wish we had that in the city. i LOVE LA weather and all but i hate the fact that where ever you're going, you HAVE to hit the highway to get anywhere! its ridiculous even if places are close u still have to use to freeway therefore traffic all the time. whackkk. my look of the day, no shadows; simple look w/ heavy bronzer.Juls look of the day, his GLUED on D&G sunglasses and his HUF shirt of the AT&T Giants Stadium. he loves reppin our city. is it obvious? -_-can you tell Juls was quite concentrating on the road? hah. thats because we're not use to the CRAZY LA driving, everyone smashin at fcukin 50-60's on the street and 80-90's on highways. and the roads are always clustered, felt like you got no room to breathe up in this bitch. here are some quick snap shots of the downtown scenes i manage to get. its pretty crazy. Juls and i think its more of the Mission side like in the city. they got crackheads, dealers, side shows, jewelry stores out in the open. felt almost like home. hah. even got Palatero mans selling them creamsicles. alright, here we are lining up for the X2; never rode on it yet. the ride was fun, iono if it was worth the wait; but it was a good ride tho. after a few rides, we had to take a break; or at least i did. to give my head a break from all the spinnings and loops. got a drink, a brownie, and blueberry muffin. the brownie wasn't overly sweet even tho it looks like it is surprisingly. cuz i can't handle shit thats over sweet, like chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and shit. thats waaay too much for me. the brownie brought back old child hood memories when they sold the individual small packaged brownies with walnuts at corner stores (if any of ya'll know what i'm talkin bout), so i really liked it. but that shit was pretty crackin. yummmmy. nice and sweet in my mouth. if only they were some special brownies, the rides would've been a trip! as for that blueberry muffin it was wayy to cold and got harden from being in the fridge too long. booooo. after a long day of fun, headed back to the hotel for a nap then off to dinner. we planned to go to a sushi bar restaurant near by after our quick nap since the restaurant doesn't close til 11pm. but UNFORTUNATELY, we overslept til like 1am!! so we missed the restaurant ): and had to yelp around for another sushi place. cuz we really wanted some sushi. we found another sushi place that was like couple miles away that closes at 2am, so decided to go there. so with my bare face and all, we rushed out to get there before they close; cuz we were starved! we got there and they were closed!! because they were closed that day... which was SUPER PLAYYYYYYED. there was a place opened right by the restaurant that was 24hours, so we just settled for this place called Tomy's which you can see my Yelp review on it. i ordered their Chilly Cheese Hot Dog with a side of Onion Rings. i thot it was weird that they had tomatoes and relish on a chilly cheese dog?? after that ridiculous late night bite we headed back to the hotel to rest cuz we had to leave early the next day. Because we we're goin to go outlet shopping before heading back home to our city. i took a few quick photos of Jul's car, since i never showed ya'll the rear which MAKES THE CAR unique :D the next morning we got up around 12pm to grab some brunch, yelped some places and found this little breakfast place called Nat's Early Bite Coffee Shoppe; which was thee best little brunch place you can find. everything was home-made and yummy! super quick service, awesome food; and home-made. what else can you ask for man. after breakfast we headed out to outlets that were on the way home. did i mention they served breakfast all day long too! so we went to the Camarillo's 160 Outlet Stores. babe checks out the directory to find the stores we want to shop at. i was shopping in this one store and i let Juls pick out some tops for me that he liked me to try on. here is one of them, preferably its not my typical style. he liked it tho. to our surprise while we was shopping babe's pops tells us to stay another night and enjoy LA and that he was down to cover one night of hotel for us to stay longer. we we're like FASHOOOOOOO! haha.... so we definitely had to upgrade from the last hotel.so we booked a different hotel this time in the heart of Hollywood Roosevelt's Hotel. which was a 4star hotel, and damn its pretty nice here. check out our room we got. hehe. it was definitely a UPGRADE from our room at Kyoto's. the best part to me of this room was the BED. King size, more space to roll around and comforters. felt like i was on a cloud. we settled down with our luggage and shit, freshened up once more. headed on out to dinner & a movie. Juls had found a little italian place called Osteria LA BUCA cuz he knows i love italian. i must say this place had the BEST TIRAMISU i had EVER HAD in my life. no joke! it was nice and fluffy, perfectly sweetened. i loved it. the food was good, service was great, dessert was just the icing on top of a cake. after that we made it to the perfect show time for my well waited movie CLASH OF THE TITANS that i've been waiting to watch! btw, this shit was good! i liked it very much. as we were lookin for parking in the lot, guess who we bump into?!?! yes. it is Dorian Gregory a.k.a Darrell Morris from Charmed! which is one of my favoritest tv series besides Friends. i grew up watching this show. so i had to take a photo with this fella. nigga is superrr tall man (we're matching almost), how ironic. hah. but he was really nice about me coming up and asking for a photo with him. damn, he gotten older. hah. but so have i, i was like 11-12 when i watched the show! hahah... that was pretty cool. the next day we headed over to Universal Studios because Juls haven't been there since he was like 7 and i never been there. i'mma leave this blog with this photo. surprisingly this shit was pretty good. the Simpson's ride was hella fun too, but i must say the best ride was THE MUMMY. shit was a trip!! definitely ride that one if ya'll go to US! this was a perfect get-a-way trip that was in need for both me and juls. we had a blast. feel very rejuvenated now. i hope ya'll enjoyed reading my trip as much as i did being there! toodles!


- LOVEVA<3

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