Food

<h1>What you will need:</h1>
<p>2 cups granulated sugar </p>
<p>1 1/2 cups vegetable oil (I use coconut!)</p>
<p>2 teaspoons vanilla </p>
<p>3 eggs at room temp</p>
<p>3 cups all purpose flour </p>
<p>1 teaspoon baking soda </p>
<p>1 teaspoon cinnamon (I use a bit more!)</p>
<p>1 teaspoon salt </p>
<p>3 Granny Smith apples (peeled, cored, and chopped)</p>
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<h1>First things first </h1>
<p>Tell echo to turn on some tunes. Baking should be fun!!! Remember that!</p>
<p>Then preheat your oven to 325 degrees. </p>

<p>Combine your sugar, oil, vanilla, and eggs. Beat until light and fluffy. Preferred to use an electric mixer, unless you’re like me and want to get a good arm workout - beat by hand!! </p>

<h1>Step 2</h1>
<p>Peel your apples! Once peeled, chop into small squares. </p>

<h1>Step 3</h1>
<p>Add in your dry ingredients and mix well. Once combined, fold in your apples and as an extra (not mandatory) step, squeeze in some apple sauce for that extra moisture. Who doesn’t love a moist cake?!</p>

<h1>Step 4</h1>
<p>Your cake batter should have a thick consistency like so!</p>
<p>Make sure to taste the raw batter just because. It’s yummy! </p>
<p>Then, pour the yummy goodness into a 9 inch greased Bundt pan. Forgot to get a pic, woops!</p>

<h1>Step 5</h1>
<p>After letting the beauty bake for 55-70 minutes in a 325 degree oven, take her out. Stick a toothpick in to make sure she’s cooked. Once fully cooked, allow to cool in Bundt pan for 20 minutes, then transfer onto a wire rack. </p>
<p>Sift over some powdered sugar before serving and enjoy! </p>

<h1>Final step </h1>
<p>Clean yo dishes!! No one likes a messy kitchen. Be responsible 🤪</p>

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Travel

<h1>Ready for takeoff!✈️</h1>
<p>Headed to Dallas for the weekend! My first trip on an airplane since before the pandemic - what a trip! Our flight got delayed by 2 hours due to having to wait for someone to be escorted off the plane by paramedics. Fortunately we had a great 3 hour flight and landed safely!</p>

<p>Thursday night we had dinner and drinks at a great restaurant. Learned that my new favorite drink in Texas is a “Ranch Water” which essentially is a tequila soda with lime, but I sounded silly ordering that when it had its own special name 😋</p>

<p>And Maorr finally reunited with one of his good friends from college! So so nice!🤍</p>

<h1>Friday night!</h1>
<p>Dinner before the Mavericks game. </p>

<p>This was the first Mavericks game with the stadium being open at full capacity. Was so crazy being in this type of environment for the first time in a while, but SO fun! The crowd was going CRAZY. </p>

<p>The real star of the show, who I fan-girled the most over…Mark Cuban! </p>

<p>Our hosts also had the most beautiful sweet pup named Maverick. Even my allergies could not keep me away from him! </p>

<h1>Saturday☀️</h1>
<p>We spent the day by the pool at Maorr’s friend, Collin, dads house. It was absolutely stunning as you can tell! </p>

<p>Headed home! After an amazing and awesome long weekend in Dallas, it was time to board our flight and head back home to LA. Thankfully no delays this time. </p>

<p>The best part was landing and bumping into my dad, stepmom, and sister at the airport after not seeing them for 2 weeks! We landed at the exact same time🤗</p>

Long weekend in Dallas — @undefined's mag on Magma

<h1>Step 1</h1>
<p>Start by cutting off the tops of your peppers and scooping out the insides so they look beautiful like this! Next, I put then in a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes just to soften them a bit. </p>

<h1>Step 2</h1>
<p>Start cooking your long grain rice (I used basmati) per the package instructions! </p>

<h1>Step 3</h1>
<p>Heat up some oil in a pan and start cooking the ground beef on medium high heat until there is no more pink. You’ll need to keep draining out the fat with a paper towel. Once all pink is gone, empty onto a paper towel lined plate to drain any excess fat. </p>

<h1>Step 4</h1>
<p>In the same pot that you cooked your meat, add in oil and an entire chopped yellow onion and sauté until soft. Then add in a few cloves of garlic and spices of your choice. </p>

<h1>Step 5</h1>
<p>Once onions are soft and rice is cooked, combine meat, rice and onions together in your pot. Add in a can of tomato sauce and a can of diced tomatoes and more spices of your choice to taste! </p>

<h1>Step 6</h1>
<p>Stuff your peppers with the mixture and top with a bit more sauce and spices. Bake in a 350 degree oven for around 45 minutes! </p>

<h1>Step 7</h1>
<p>Enjoy! Bon appetit🤤</p>

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Lifestyle

<p>Celebrating birthdays during the pandemic can be hard and a bit sad. However, don’t be fooled! Read alone for some fun and cool tips to keep a birthday celebration as fun as possible. </p>

<p>This past week, we celebrated my boyfriends birthday. We started the week picking up some pizza dough and some wine and making some homemade pizzas with his 2 best friends! Super fun activity that’s also super Covid safe! </p>

<h1>Nutella stuffed cookies</h1>
<p>Nutella stuffed chocolate chip cookies!</p>
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<p>To keep the mood fun and the food yummy, I decided to bake some chocolate chip cookies...but not just any chocolate chip cookies, NUTELLA stuffed cookies. I used the tasty chocolate chip cookie recipe linked in the image. For the Nutella, I scooped small amounts onto a plate, and stuck that in the freezer to harden - this makes the stuffy way easier and way less messy. Once it was harden, I got my cookie dough, used an ice cream scooper for size efficiency, and would flatten out each ball, place the Nutella in the center then roll into a ball. They were SO GOOD and the perfect birthday treat. </p>

<p>You can throw a small, intimate surprise gathering with people in your Covid circle!</p>

<p>This allows the birthday to still feel special and fun, while also maintaining proper safety :)</p>

<h1>Intimate dinner </h1>
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<p>Lastly, pick up your favorite food and end the birthday week off with your favorite meal and good conversation :) </p>
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<p>My go to Jon and Vinny items:</p>
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    <li>Spicy fucili</li>
    <li>White lightening pizza</li>
    <li>Gem lettuce </li>
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<p>I obviously love more things but this was the perfect amount for an intimate nice dinner! </p>

Celebrating birthdays during a pandemic  — @undefined's mag on Magma

<p><a href="https://damicheleusa.com/">L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele</a> </p>
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<p>Holy moly. This pesto burrata pizza was probably the best pizza I’ve ever had in my entire life. L’Antica is definitely a must try Their first restaurant location is in Italy so that’s how you KNOW it’s authentic. </p>

<h1><a href="http://allaboutthebread.com/">All About The Bread</a> </h1>
<p>The burrata sandwich 😍😍</p>

<h1>Shoutout cuz they’re my favorites!!</h1>

<h1>This jalapeño cheese bread i made was to die for!</h1>
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<p>Recipe is linked <a href="https://tasty.co/recipe/dutch-oven-jalapeno-cheddar-bread">here</a> </p>

<p>The process of making it was actually incredibly easy and it tastes SO GOOD! Definitely will be making again. </p>

<p>This was a plain bread I made that was also UNREAL!!</p>
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<p>So easy, so quick, and so delish </p>

<p>Recipe linked <a href="https://tasty.co/recipe/homemade-dutch-oven-bread">here</a> !</p>

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<h2>Checked into surf and sand resort and had an amazing 30 hour trip</h2>

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  <h2>I mean check out our beautiful view from our balcony </h2>
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<h1>Walking around and exploring the town was fun, masked of course!</h1>

<p>We even made Tahli’s dog an Instagram. Here she is admiring some beautiful art at a local museum! </p>

<h2>We made sure to wake up and get up extra early to go do some yoga on the beach. It was soooo relaxing </h2>

<h2>Then we went to the hotel restaurant to eat some breakfast. I got the oatmeal of course :)</h2>

<h1>Fun in the sun </h1>
<p>We enjoyed some final hours in the sun and then it was time to head home </p>

<p>Such a fun weekend!!! And of course, another photo shoot</p>

<p>Definitely can’t wait for my next trip to Laguna! (Next week😋) stay tuned!!</p>

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Personal

Los Angeles

<h1><strong>Celebrated</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>my</strong> besties at my most fav</h1>
<p><a href="https://www.jonandvinnys.com/">Jon and Vinny’s</a></p>

<p>Overwhelmed with love, joy, and gratitude towards all the people who made my birthday the most special one yet. Feeling like the luckiest girl in the world ♥️</p>

<p>The best thing about going to Jon and Vinnys with a big group is being able to order ALL your favorites. My personal favorites are of course the gem salad to start and an order of mozzarella sticks if we’re a big hungry group. Then an order of spicy fucili. And lastly some pizza. I’m always torn between the LA Woman and the White Lightening, but if we’re a small group, I prefer the white lightening 😋 Then, I finish it all off with some amazing soft serve ice cream on a cookie. DELISH!!</p>

<h1>Dinner at <a href="https://nonna.restaurant/menu">Nonna</a> in Westlake Village </h1>
<p>Celebrated with my fam ♥️</p>

<p>I am quite the Italian food connoisseur￼, and I must say that this was some of the most incredible and authentic Italian food I’ve yet to try, especially in LA. Their Cacio E Pepe was the most amazing thing, I’m still thinking about it! Highly recommend!</p>

Natacha Chowaiki