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So, before Juan and I started dating, I've always wanted a romantic picnic at
the park, and last year, for our three-year anniversary, he did just that.
And I thought this would be a perfect and
inexpensive date idea to share with you all.
Especially for those of you who are on a budget.
I know a picnic is self explanatory.
We all know how to do a picnic, hopefully.
But I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on a picnic to explain why I
chose to share this idea with you.
It's something we probably did as a kid on field trips.
But to spend the day at the park with your Valentine is really so personal and
sweet, and I feel like people usually overlook things like that.
The process of packing each other's favorite food.
Having a relaxing day out.
Being able to just talk for hours really helps regain that spark or
start that spark in a relationship if it ain't there yet.
I know some of you are dealing with a snowstorm right now by the way [LAUGH].
I'm praying for you.
But for those of you who have pretty decent weather,
I thought this would be super sweet.
As for what I wore to the picnic,
we have pretty warm weather here in California, as I'm sure you guys know.
So I'm just wearing a oversized knitted sweater.
And I also have shorts underneath so
no booties were exposed that day and I just threw on a parka over the top to
keep me a little warm since the sweater has pretty large holes on it.
And I got this parka from H&M about two years ago so if you're looking for
something similar I'm sure you can still find it at H&M.
As for my shoes I don't usually wear booties to the park that is
too darn fancy.
and too hard to walk in in the grass.
But since I went out after filming this I wore my Jeffrey Campbell Juneau booties,
which are actually surprisingly very comfortable, just don't wear it for
over five hours.
Lastly I just kept all my things in this little mini backpack I got from Target.
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This idea is perfect for my single ladies.
Holla if you ain't got a boo throw a single ladies party and
celebrate your freedom with your girls.
Not that you're not free in a relationship but you know what I mean.
My friends were busy when I was filming this so I had to improvise and
use my stuffed animals for this video.
Pretend they are my home girls in this video okay.
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You guys can eat ice cream, cake,
cookies, chips, anything that you guys love to eat and watch a fun chick flick all
in a friend's backyard.
My recommendations are White Chicks and Mean Girls.
Girl those be the movies.
Those are classics and you can never go wrong. They are hilarious!
And if it's not too cold you can even set up a tent and camp outside with your
friends for the night, since Valentine's Day is on a weekend this year and
you won't have school tomorrow.
I think Valentine's Day is a great way to celebrate the love you have for
your friends and it's a great time to get together and
have girls night because lets be real how often do we have those anymore.
So to my single ladies embrace being single and have fun with your friends.
If you guys do decide to do this be sure to show me your pictures of your set up
by using the hash tag #weylie.
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I know dinner dates can be stressful, especially on Valentine's Day,
just finding the right restaurant, trying to make a reservation, to paying for
that $100 meal.
So I thought I'd show you guys my favorite steak recipe,
even if you're not great at cooking, this recipe is so
simple, I'm sure you guys will learn how to make it just from watching this video.
So, starting with the ingredients of.
Course you need some steak.
Steak of your choice.
And I'm gonna use my favorite seasoning.
You can get this from Safeway.
So first you're gonna start by rinsing the steak in some water to make sure it's
nice and clean.
And then you're going to take the seasoning and
sprinkle it all over your steak.
Make sure you cover it on both sides.
And just let it marinate for about 30 minutes.
While your steak is marinating go ahead and start.
Prepping your vegetables, I am making a mushroom onion sauce, so
that's why I'm cutting up some mushrooms.
If you don't like mushrooms, you can go ahead and skip this part.
And it's not an onion mushroom sauce without the onion, so
I'm cutting up this onion as well.
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For the side of veggies I am going to be making broccoli.
I love broccoli, I know a lot of people hate broccoli, I don't know why,
why do you hate broccoli?
Leave it in the comments down below.
But I personally love broccoli.
Now that the vegetables are all prepped, I'm gonna start by cooking my steak.
I drizzled some oil onto my.
My pan and I just put some of my onions in there.
To just sweat them a little bit, sweat it, sweat it.
And now, I'm gonna put my steak in there.
You can just lay it down, lay it down.
And, just let it cook for a little bit.
Make sure you lower the fire so that it's not super duper hot.
And I like to flip them every minute or two.
Because I wanna make sure that both sides get cooked evenly.
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As for the broccoli, I'm just going to steam them today, nothing very special.
I'm just tossing it into my little steamer, and letting it steam for
about five minutes.
I didn't time it, I think it was five minutes.
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making my onion mushroom sauce.
I'm just sauteing in a pan with some oil.
And after that, I just added a little bit of salt and pepper to taste.
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Once the mushroom and onions are added.
Good state.
I'm gonna start making my sauce here.
I'm taking a little bit of corn starch.
I love to eyeball things, as you guys know i don't really have exact measurements.
But ya, I just added some water into that mixture.
Stir it up and I'm going to pour it slowly into the pan.
This way it helps thicken up the sauce, and
it will look like a nice, pretty gravy.
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And ba-bam!
You are done.
Wasn't that super, super simple?
I told you, girl.
I told you it was gonna be simple.
So here I am just plating everything.
You can make it look nice, if you didn't want to do all that you don't have to, but
yeah, here is the final result of the food.
I thought it looked great, taste great, and it's really super simple, and
it took about an hour.
So hope you guys try out this recipe.
If you do, be sure to show me pictures using the hashtag #Weylie.
Once again, and I hope you all have a very, very, happy Valentine's Day.
And remember, it does not have to be expensive.
As long as you guys are spending time together,
that should already be the best gift.
To be honest I think Valentine's Day's kinda overrated because we should be
showing love to our partner every single day.
And before you guys go, be sure to check out my other videos.
If you still don't know what to wear for Valentine's Day, check out my lookbook.
I have it linked on the left.
Just click that box.
And if you want to check out my vlogs, just click the box to the right.
Thank you guys so much for watching again, and Happy Valentine's Day.
Bye, bye girl, bye!
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