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 Night time at Birch and Bloom
YES, Birch & Bloom is the title of the brand new restaurant within the new Kimpton Lodge close to the UVA enterprise college! Clearly I cherished the title from the beginning, so I used to be excited to check out the meals!
The decor could be very stylish – plenty of pure parts (after all) together with marble and velvet. I cherished the tremendous skinny water glasses.
The cocktail menu was nice, and I ordered a Hazel Original. It’s not on the web 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 pink 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 music! He performed hit after hit together with his magical vocals. We undoubtedly suggest his present!
Different Birch Issues
Have a look at this candy word 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 practising his letters and numbers in school, 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 superb after college snack : ) It has protein in any case! We LOVE Kohr brothers and break up a snowstorm with oreos!
Blanc Artistic
Final week I went to Waynesboro, VA to tour the Blanc Creative HQ. I met with the founder, Cody, and realized a ton about cooking with carbon metal! I related with them by Instagram after the Pleased 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 is analogous 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 reward to this vacation season, Blanc Creatives can be the right place to purchase a singular reward.
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 Everyday 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 a little bit bit after dinner every night time. It’s so addicting! I’m attempting to get Birch to like puzzles too. He’s not dangerous on the 1,000 piece measurement already!
I received some cinnamon chip bread from Nice 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 pink wine
Right here’s the NA wine I attempted – it’s the brand new Pink Mix 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 truly most popular it chilled, which is odd, however it tasted one of the best that approach 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 received a Short Story box for some fall garments, however didn’t find yourself conserving a lot. Cherished 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 previous!? Haha.
They despatched me this jumpsuit final 12 months, and it’s one among my favourite issues I personal!!!
