Earlier this month Thomas stunned me with tickets to see Chris Stapleton! We donned our plaids and boots and headed out on a date night time.
Date Evening at Birch and Bloom
YES, Birch & Bloom is the identify of the brand new restaurant within the new Kimpton Lodge close to the UVA enterprise college! Clearly I cherished the identify 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 (in fact) together with marble and velvet. I cherished the tremendous skinny water glasses.
The cocktail menu was nice, and I ordered a Hazel Customary. 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 Pores and skin Salmon for my entree. It was nice! Crispy as marketed. That purple drizzle is raspberry coulis – a pleasant distinction to the savory fish.
The resort 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 track! He performed hit after hit together with his magical vocals. We undoubtedly suggest his present!
Different Birch Issues
Take a look at this candy observe that Birch wrote to Mazen! He’s simply beginning to have the ability to write sentences, and you’ll see it was removed from excellent. However 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 in school, he’s been engaged on geography! How cool are these work he introduced residence. He’s doing so nicely in his Montessori kindergarten 12 months <3
I’m the mother who thinks ice cream is a good after college snack : ) It has protein in any case! We LOVE Kohr brothers and cut up a snowstorm with oreos!
Blanc Artistic
Final week I went to Waynesboro, VA to tour the Blanc Artistic HQ. I met with the founder, Cody, and realized a ton about cooking with carbon metal! I related with them by Instagram after the Joyful Cook dinner advisable carbon metal for our induction range. Every bit is hand made and they’re beloved by residence cooks from around the globe. How beautiful are these skillets!? Cody gave me the 101 model of carbon metal, which is analogous to cooking on forged iron. We’re excited to try it out this week!
In addition they make utensils, knives, cocktail supplies, picket spoons, and extra. When you’ve got a foodie good friend to reward to this vacation season, Blanc Creatives could be the right place to purchase a novel reward.
Kath Eats Actual Meals
Thomas and I got here residence from the seashore and determined we’d love to do puzzles at residence too! We borrowed this On a regular basis Heroes puzzle from our good friend Anna, and it’s been a extremely stable puzzle with a number of nice colours and patters (I don’t love puzzles which can be an excessive amount of of the identical colour!). We’ve been doing a bit bit after dinner every night time. It’s so addicting! I’m attempting to get Birch to like puzzles too. He’s not unhealthy on the 1,000 piece dimension already!
I bought some cinnamon chip bread from Nice Harvest currently – the most effective!!
We’ve been having inexperienced smoothies with AG1 on most weekdays!
Lunch Salads
Try 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 really like Day by day 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 purple wine
Right here’s the NA wine I attempted – it’s the brand new Crimson Mix by Certainly. My evaluate 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, however it tasted the most effective that option to me! Advocate.
Sunday grill out
Thomas smoked some wings and ribs with cornbread and grilled zucchini for soccer Sunday. ‘Twas very fall applicable!
Additionally very fall applicable:
Quick Story
Final however not least, I bought a Quick Story field for some fall garments, however didn’t find yourself protecting a lot. Liked one pair of black denims they despatched, however I returned this costume (which was an XSP!) for being too quick and the pants for being too flared. Am I simply too previous!? Haha.
They despatched me this jumpsuit final 12 months, and it’s certainly one of my favourite issues I personal!!!
