Hey, I'm Laura. And welcome to my quarantine self-isolation bubble.
Oh, yes, Do I look like Oprah?
Do you guys like how I wear my overalls for homemaking adventures too?
You guys, it's not right. Try to be chill.
The world around us is changing at every minute and it can feel really scary and overwhelming.
And it does, at least for me at times. So I want to show you a few of the things that
I'm doing at home to try and stay sane and have some self-care and have a bit of a creative outlet.
This is my herb and veggie garden. You really don't need this much space at all to
have a herb garden. I mean, various places I've lived in New York, I had one on a fire
escape for a while. I had an apartment in Brooklyn where I just kept a bunch of pots
on the windowsill in the kitchen and we grow things out there. I'm really not an expert
in this whatsoever. I'm kind of just figuring it out as I go along, but it's really made
me happy being able to have, you know, fresh organic stuff just available and herbs makes
such a big difference in your cooking I think. This is, you see it? It's oregano. And then we
have leeks here.
Oh, yes. There look a leek. Look at everything we got.
Do I look like Oprah? Please tell me I look like Oprah. It's the whole reason I'm doing this.
With all the stuff that we picked in the garden today, I thought that it could be really nice
to make a little chimichurri sauce. And this is something that I make all the time. I honestly
really love to cook and it's much less fun when I'm home cooking three meals a day.
So I'm trying to figure out a way to spice it up. So I'm just gonna chop up this parsley
pretty finely. Now we're gonna go
for some oregano. I'm gonna chop this guy up really small as well. Okay, so we have our herbs
chopped up in there. And now I'm going to add some garlic. Do you guys like how I wear my overalls
for homemaking adventures too?
It has been nice to occasionally dress up during this though. I've been living in sweatpants
and you know,
whatever I have lying around for most of this time and I'll get to a point where I feel
kind of gross and I'll put on a dress and put on a little lipstick for no reason. And sit
back here with whatever I had for dinner and a glass of wine and get on Zoom with some
friends and have some sort of celebration or something even if it's just celebrating
speaking to your friends. So now
I have these preserved lemons. Just gonna chop these up a little too.
Skip the salt, pepper.
Some chilli flakes because I like spicy. This is red wine vinegar, eyeball it, throw it in and
then a bunch of olive oil, like a lot so it's sort of soupy. Super versatile, there you have it
Laura's chimichurri.
Welcome to
my lovely garage. This is where I put my
ceramic studio. You can't really call this a studio, this is where I put my ceramics
wheel. So we smack down our clay
onto our wheel. And now we're going to try and
center it.
So I just do this by bringing the clay up and down. Kind of want to push
it up like this, put it back down. I think like everything here it's not going to be perfect,
but it's really kind of the process that counts and that's something that I really
love about ceramics because it's really kind of meditative for me and
as a creative outlet, which I think is really important during this time. You guys, it's not
right. Okay, try to be chill.
So, we made our hole and now we're going to
build up the walls, you're gonna raise it up.
So see how it's getting a bit taller there. I think I could do another one. Do another
pull here.
See when it gets all
wobbly like that, it makes me so nervous.
We got a little bowl, see. The only thing is with
doing this during quarantine is I can’t go fire it at the studio.
So I'm just gonna have a ton of unfinished pots in here waiting till the day that I
can go back and finish it.
Which is fine. I'm going to do one more just because I want this to be a little more of
a smoother, round shape. So I'm going to kind of go in with my sponge and try and make it
more even.
How does that look?
See, thank you all so much for joining me. Those are a few things that I like to preoccupy
my time with a little bit. And I hope you enjoyed it as well. So thank you so much for
following along and please stay safe and healthy. Bye!