{"id":41397,"date":"2014-01-16T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=41397"},"modified":"2014-01-08T08:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:25:54","slug":"buffalos-and-lotus-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=41397","title":{"rendered":"Buffalos and Lotus Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a serious obsession with Buffalo sauce. I have no idea why or where it came from but I love it<\/em>!!! I had some chicken drumsticks and decided to do a crockpot “buffalo wing” type dinner.<\/p>\n

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Doing these in the crockpot is the easy way to do it but it doesn’t make the outside of the chicken super crispy like you’d find in a restaurant. No matter, still tasted great! It had all of the buffalo sauce flavor, but it wasn’t super spicy.<\/p>\n

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I was slightly disappointed with the drumsticks. Because it was done in the crockpot, the meat fell off the bone. Which is normally a good thing, but it made it less like hot wings and more difficult to eat. Also, I really wish the outside had been a little crispy. That would have been nice.<\/p>\n

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I whipped up a blue cheese dressing using plain Greek yogurt, salt, pepper, Rogue River bleu cheese, a spoonful of mayo and a little cider vinegar. I mixed it all together and called it good.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also perfect timing because I needed a quick dinner before meeting a friend. I like easy, crockpot meals when I don’t have time to cook! After dinner I headed out to meet up with a friend at The Loaded Brush<\/a>. She saw my post last month and really wanted to try it! I had a coupon for a buy one get one half-off because of the last class I took, so I signed us up.<\/p>\n

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I ate the quickie dinner and then met Mindie at the studio. This time I brought just a few snacks and also a bottle of <\/span>Sweet Heat beer<\/a> to imbibe while I created my masterpiece. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

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We picked the Lotus Flower class. In previous classes we used yellow paint to make a guideline and the outline for the painting. This class was different–it was also a different instructor. This time he had us mix up our background color first and paint the canvas leaving a spot in the middle.<\/p>\n

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I made a mixture of medium purple. My friend Mindie made a dark, almost midnight, purple. Other people had different variations–some had magenta backgrounds, some had light blue, one guy did dark dark blue and an orange lotus. I really liked his orange lotus flower.<\/p>\n

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We outlined our lotus flowers with a dark pink\/red color and filled in our lotus with a lighter shade of the pink.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to make the ribbon, which I saw more as a river. I’m really happy with my river. I like the color mixtures and the brushstrokes. The lotus flower was just okay in my opinion.<\/p>\n

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Mindie’s painting is next to mine on the left. I LOVED her bright neon green! It looks really cool.<\/p>\n

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\nTa-da! All done! I was pretty happy with my final product. Towards the end I was starting to futz with it and needed to just stop and leave it be. I really enjoyed the class and I like this painting I did a lot better than the last one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a serious obsession with Buffalo sauce. I have no idea why or where it came from but I love it!!! I had some chicken drumsticks and decided to do a crockpot “buffalo wing” type dinner. Doing these in the crockpot is the easy way to do it but it doesn’t make the outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1621,315,104,107,1949,3205,195,6297,212,5425],"tags":[7682,7713,7715,7714,1842,8770,1940,6930,8891,6579,934,6929],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41397"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41449,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397\/revisions\/41449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}