Earlier this month Thomas shocked me with tickets to see Chris Stapleton! We donned our plaids and boots and headed out on a date evening.
Date Evening at Birch and Bloom
YES, Birch & Bloom is the identify of the brand new restaurant within the new Kimpton Resort close to the UVA enterprise faculty! Clearly I liked the identify from the beginning, so I used to be excited to check out the meals!
The decor could be very stylish – plenty 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 Common. It’s not on the net menu, however I keep 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 crimson 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 tune! He performed hit after hit together with his magical vocals. We undoubtedly advocate his present!
Different Birch Issues
Have 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 good. 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 at college, he’s been engaged on geography! How cool are these work he introduced dwelling. He’s 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 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 discovered a ton about cooking with carbon metal! I related with them via Instagram after the Blissful Cook dinner beneficial carbon metal for our induction range. Every bit is hand made and they’re beloved by dwelling cooks from world wide. How beautiful are these skillets!? Cody gave me the 101 model of carbon metal, which has similarities to cooking on forged iron. We’re excited to try it out this week!
In addition they make utensils, knives, cocktail supplies, wood spoons, and extra. When you have a foodie pal to present to this vacation season, Blanc Creatives could be the right place to purchase a novel present.
Kath Eats Actual Meals
Thomas and I got here dwelling from the seashore and determined we’d love to do puzzles at dwelling too! We borrowed this On a regular basis Heroes puzzle from our pal Anna, and it’s been a extremely stable puzzle with plenty of nice colours and patters (I don’t love puzzles which can be an excessive amount of of the identical coloration!). 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 dangerous on the 1,000 piece dimension already!
I acquired some cinnamon chip bread from Nice Harvest currently – one of the best!!
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 crimson wine
Right here’s the NA wine I attempted – it’s the brand new Crimson Mix by Certainly. 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 truly most well-liked it chilled, which is odd, however it tasted one of the best that option to me! Suggest.
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:
Brief Story
Final however not least, I acquired a Brief Story field for some fall garments, however didn’t find yourself holding a lot. Cherished 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 outdated!? Haha.
They despatched me this jumpsuit final 12 months, and it’s one in all my favourite issues I personal!!!
