Earlier this month Thomas shocked 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 title of the brand new restaurant within the new Kimpton Resort close to the UVA enterprise faculty! Clearly I beloved the title from the beginning, so I used to be excited to check out the meals!
The decor may be very stylish – plenty of pure components (in fact) together with marble and velvet. I beloved the tremendous skinny water glasses.
The cocktail menu was nice, and I ordered a Hazel Usual. 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 start out, 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 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 along with his opening music! He performed hit after hit along with his magical vocals. We undoubtedly advocate his present!
Different Birch Issues
Take a look at this candy word that Birch wrote to Mazen! He’s simply beginning to have the ability to write sentences, and you may 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 at college, he’s been engaged on geography! How cool are these work he introduced dwelling. He’s doing so nicely in his Montessori kindergarten yr <3
I’m the mother who thinks ice cream is a superb after faculty snack : ) It has protein in spite of everything! We LOVE Kohr brothers and cut up a snowstorm with oreos!
Blanc Inventive
Final week I went to Waynesboro, VA to tour the Blanc Inventive HQ. I met with the founder, Cody, and realized a ton about cooking with carbon metal! I linked with them by Instagram after the Completely happy 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 check it out this week!
In addition they make utensils, knives, cocktail supplies, wood spoons, and extra. You probably have a foodie good friend to reward to this vacation season, Blanc Creatives could 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 On a regular basis Heroes puzzle from our good friend 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 somewhat bit after dinner every night time. 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 these days – the most effective!!
We’ve been having inexperienced smoothies with AG1 on most weekdays!
Lunch Salads
Take a look at 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 Every 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 pink 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 really most popular it chilled, which is odd, however it tasted the most effective that strategy 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:
Quick Story
Final however not least, I acquired a Quick Story field for some fall garments, however didn’t find yourself preserving 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 outdated!? Haha.
They despatched me this jumpsuit final yr, and it’s certainly one of my favourite issues I personal!!!
