Earlier this month Thomas stunned me with tickets to see Chris Stapleton! We donned our plaids and boots and headed out on a date evening.
Date Night at Birch and Bloom
YES, Birch & Bloom is the title of the brand new restaurant within the new Kimpton Hotel close to the UVA enterprise faculty! Obviously I liked the title from the beginning, so I used to be excited to check out the meals!
The decor may be very stylish – a number of pure components (after all) together with marble and velvet. I liked the tremendous skinny water glasses.
The cocktail menu was nice, and I ordered a Hazel Fashioned. It’s not on the web menu, however I bear in mind it had frangelico and a “coconut dusting” and it was 100%.
Thomas and I shared the bread service with salted butter to begin, and I had the Crispy Skin Salmon for my entree. It was nice! Crispy as marketed. That crimson drizzle is raspberry coulis – a pleasant distinction to the savory fish.
The lodge was gorg on the within too – we took a peek whereas we left for the present.
Chris Stapleton was excellent. He had Thomas in tears together with his opening tune! He performed hit after hit together with his magical vocals. We positively suggest his present!
Other Birch Things
Look at this candy notice that Birch wrote to Mazen! He’s simply beginning to have the ability to write sentences, and you may see it was removed from good. But I needed to doc this primary brother letter. He was lacking Mazen whereas M was at his dad’s home 🙁
When he’s not training his letters and numbers at college, he’s been engaged on geography! How cool are these work he introduced residence. He is doing so properly in his Montessori kindergarten 12 months <3
I’m the mother who thinks ice cream is a good after faculty snack : ) It has protein in any case! We LOVE Kohr brothers and break up a snowstorm with oreos!
Blanc Creative
Last week I went to Waynesboro, VA to tour the Blanc Creative HQ. I met with the founder, Cody, and discovered a ton about cooking with carbon metal! I related with them by way of Instagram after the Happy Cook beneficial carbon metal for our induction range. Each piece is hand made and they’re beloved by residence cooks from world wide. How attractive are these skillets!? Cody gave me the 101 model of carbon metal, which has similarities to cooking on forged iron. We are excited to check it out this week!
They additionally make utensils, knives, cocktail supplies, picket spoons, and extra. If you may have a foodie pal to present to this vacation season, Blanc Creatives can be the right place to purchase a singular present.
Kath Eats Real Food
Thomas and I got here residence from the seashore and determined we’d love to do puzzles at residence too! We borrowed this Everyday Heroes puzzle from our pal Anna, and it’s been a very strong puzzle with a number of nice colours and patters (I don’t love puzzles which can be an excessive amount of of the identical shade!). We’ve been doing just a little bit after dinner every evening. It’s so addicting! I’m making an attempt to get Birch to like puzzles too. He’s not unhealthy on the 1,000 piece dimension already!
I acquired some cinnamon chip bread from Great Harvest these days – one of the best!!
We’ve been having inexperienced smoothies with AG1 on most weekdays!
Lunch Salads
Check out this reel I made with my favourite salad dressing that includes orange marmalade! I’ve been making it since mid-summer and it’s THE BEST!
I like Daily Harvest flatbreads for lunch when I’m out of salad greens. I added pepperoni and cheese to this wholesome vegan pizza – LOL!
Salmon + couscous + NA crimson wine
Here’s the NA wine I attempted – it’s the brand new Red Blend by Surely. My evaluation is that it’s VERY smoky, medium-level fruity (candy, however just a bit), and it was superior to have the bottle open to sip on all week with dinners! I really most well-liked it chilled, which is odd, nevertheless it tasted one of the best that technique to me! Recommend.
Sunday grill out
Thomas smoked some wings and ribs with cornbread and grilled zucchini for soccer Sunday. ‘Twas very fall acceptable!
Also very fall acceptable:
Short Story
Last however not least, I acquired a Short Story field for some fall garments, however didn’t find yourself retaining a lot. Loved one pair of black denims they despatched, however I returned this gown (which was an XSP!) for being too quick and the pants for being too flared. Am I simply too outdated!? Haha.
They despatched me this jumpsuit final 12 months, and it’s one in all my favourite issues I personal!!!
