How I Find Peace in Busy Los Angeles | Cozy Routines - Gardening, Cooking & Walking | A Slow Living Vlog

How I find peace and slow down in the middle of busy Los Angeles. In today's lifestyle vlog, I'm taking you along for a cozy fall day of backyard gardening, harvesting fresh ingredients, and cooking a comforting garden-to-table dinner. We’ll also step outside for a relaxing autumn walk by the lake to see the ducks and geese, head out for some grocery shopping, and share a few school routines with Josh. Thank you so much for stepping into my quiet corner of LA. Grab a warm drink and enjoy... cheers! ☕🍂

Featured Locations:

📍 The Village at Topanga

📍 Dan Modern Chinese

📍 Sprouts Farmers Market

📍 Lake Balboa

📍 El Pollo Peru Express

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How I Find Joy In The Ordinary | Slow Living in Los Angeles 🌱 🍐

In this video, I share how I find joy in the ordinary through a peaceful garden routine, cooking simple dinners, and spending intentional time with friends. Come along for a cozy look at slow living in Los Angeles and creating a quiet, mindful lifestyle in the city.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Cozy Morning & Backyard Garden Harvest

01:46 - Cozy Cleaning Routine

04:43 - Cooking Simple and Healthy Meal

04:39 - Trader Joe’s Run (Romanticizing Errands)

09:00 - Cooking a Comforting Fall Dinner

09:53 - A Slow Weekend at The Broad Museum (DTLA)

14:36 - Catching Up with a Friends (lunch get-together and park walk)

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How I Organize My Small Kitchen Appliances in One Cabinet | Slow Living in Los Angeles

As someone living in the city, space is a beautiful constraint. It forces us to be intentional about what we bring into our homes and how we care for them. Today, I’m taking you inside my small appliance cabinet to show you how I store and organize the gadgets that support our daily kitchen rituals. If you are looking for any of the specific, long-lasting appliances/gadgets featured in the video, you can find them curated in my storefront below.

My curated kitchen essentials: https://amzn.to/4igiLhE

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Raised Bed Gardening, Lemon Harvest & Hiking in Los Angeles

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Living in Los Angeles 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Home Garden, Seafood Market, Weekend Routine & Filipino Life Vlog

 

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Vlogmas Day 5 | Home Garden Harvest & Cooking Dinner | Living in Los Angeles

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Living in Los Angeles | Dragonfruit Harvest, Mid Autumn Mooncake Festival & Life Vlog

Our first dragonfruit harvest, yay! 

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Living in Los Angeles | Home Garden Tour, Shabu Shabu, Claudine Kitchen & Grocery Shopping 🍐🌸 🍳 🛒

 A quick tour of our backyard edible garden in Los Angeles California, some daily routines --grocery shopping plus coffee shops and restaurants we visited recently.

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Backyard Harvest, Juicing, Chicken Dinner and Vietnamese Grocery Shopping

Home Garden, Harvest, Food and Filipino Living in Los Angeles Vlog | We grow many varieties of edible plants and flowers in our backyard garden. Please subscribe to our channel if you like growing food, garden-to-table lifestyle, home cooking, Filipino food and Los Angeles living.

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Home Garden & Cooking at Home in Los Angeles, California Vlog 🌱🍋 🍇 #homegarden #cookingvlog

We grow many varieties of edible plants and flowers in our backyard garden. Please subscribe to our channel if you like growing food, garden-to-table lifestyle, home cooking, Filipino food and Los Angeles living.

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Home Garden, Cooking Tagine and Living in Los Angeles 🌱 🍋 🍑 🍇 #homegarden #gardenideas

We grow many varieties of edible plants and flowers in our backyard garden. Please subscribe to our channel if you like growing food, garden-to-table lifestyle, home cooking, Filipino food and Los Angeles living. Restaurant shown on this video is Good Alley.

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Living in Los Angeles Vlog - Rainy Day, Cooking and Garden Harvest

Rainy day in Los Angeles, kumquats in the backyard garden, cooking clam soup and oxtail soup and some random life vlog.

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Easy Salmon Recipe

 A healthy salmon recipe Salmon en Papillote, some garden harvest and just random life vlog.

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Living in Los Angeles Vlog | Food and Garden 🌱🍋 🍳

Some garden harvest from a Filipino garden in Los Angeles, cooking brunch and dinner, a trip to the park and just random life vlog.

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Filipino Cooking, Raclette and Garden Harvest

A great way to bring new culture into your home and learn about other countries is through food. The other night's dinner was RACLETTE which originated in Switzerland, but also popular in its neighboring countries. 

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Filipino New Year's Eve Dinner

Our New Year's Eve dinner or media noche to welcome 2025 -- 13 dishes and 13 round fruits! The star is.. of course, the ham, garnished with sliced pineapple and maraschino cherries. Other dishes were pancit bihon for long life, rice with black eyed peas, ham and collard greens for good luck, Filipino-style macaroni salad, broiled pompano, shrimp in garlic butter sauce,  broiled fish, etc.

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Filipino Thanksgiving Dinner and Get Together 🦃

We roasted turkey, steamed Maine lobster tails, sauteed vegetables and cooked some Filipino side dishes - pancit bihon and macaroni salad. The lemons were freshly-picked from our backyard edible garden, as well as the herbs - rosemary, sage, thyme and chives. Our friends brought the Thanksgiving cake from Porto's. 

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German Grocery Shopping and Bavarian Dinner

Grocery shopping, store tour and grocery haul at a German Deli, Continental Sausage Co.plus preparing a Bavarian-themed dinner at home.

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Our Home, Garden and Life Vlog

A tour of our backyard edible and flower garden, calamansi harvest and some random life vlog which include lunch at Little Goat Pizza in Glendale.

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Weekend Vlog | Living in Los Angeles 🧇🌸 🥖

Just some typical weekend routines like gardening, making breakfast, cleaning the house and cooking dinner.

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