Howdy!
I hope you are having a fantastic week to date. At this time I went for afternoon tea (simply earlier than faculty) with some mum associates to have fun Galentine’s Day. I am so excited!
What began out as a number of of us strolling collectively after faculty each week has now changed into a gaggle of over 10 folks doing weekly walks, month-to-month mums nights out and infrequently different enjoyable issues like tea immediately! There’s a large village and I’m grateful for my village. <3
Talking of Galentine’s Day/Valentine’s Day tomorrow, might I like to recommend a number of recipes? In the event you’re searching for one thing decadent, my Chewy Chocolate Cherry Cookies are a household favourite.
Need to save this text?
Enter your e mail beneath and get it despatched on to your inbox. Plus, I will ship you nice content material each week!
A lighter vacation concept that also has an identical style is my Cherry Chocolate In a single day Oats – make them later immediately and so they’ll be prepared and ready for you tomorrow morning! Or, attempt my Straightforward Beet Hummus, it’s a wonderful purple colour and even the youngsters will find it irresistible.
In the event you’re searching for dinner concepts, one other recipe good for Valentine’s Day do that outdated favourite stuffed rooster breast with feta, cherries, and kale. It is simpler than it sounds, nevertheless it looks like a “particular” meal and tastes nice.
Matt and I used to prepare dinner a particular meal at residence and exit on Valentine’s Day, however with having youngsters just lately it is extra enjoyable for us to exit; here is our plan for tomorrow. I am wanting ahead to this!
latest life
Now, some latest life!
Probably the most thrilling factor right here just lately (so far as the youngsters are involved) is that we acquired a canine, Freyja, for every week! (Very long time readers might keep in mind she was first my brother’s canine, then we adopted her and stored her for a number of years whereas he lived within the dorms for grad faculty, after which my dad and mom “borrowed” her in the beginning of the pandemic, per She would come go to when my dad and mom have been out of city.
Freya went to highschool with us each morning after faculty and the youngsters insisted on holding her on her leash – it was a complete factor. However fortunately we found out a system that allowed Wes to carry the tip of the leash and Reese to carry the center of the leash (Matt and I have been on standby in case one other canine acquired shut and Freya tried to flee). Oh, sure, Wes was carrying shorts—a brand new factor for him irrespective of the climate. It doesn’t matter what, we should select our battle!
We’re additionally completely satisfied to have Freyja in the home as a result of our kitchen ground is a lot cleaner. 😉 As Riese astutely identified: “Our kitchen is cleaner when Freyja is right here, however the remainder of the home is hairier!” Reality. 🙂
Zara the cat is usually unfazed by the truth that her outdated roommate is again at residence, though we have now to maintain her meals on a excessive word each time Freya comes to go to, in any other case Freya decides to assist herself to a cat meals buffet…
In meals information, I haven’t got a ton of meals footage as we have largely been consuming fundamental staples over the previous week, however we did have a very good roast pork meal just lately. And, I at all times neglect how scrumptious skillet inexperienced beans are! They simply put some oil, salt and pepper.
Nonetheless, the youngsters refused to eat them as a result of they’d seasoning on them – ugh.
We additionally had some scrumptious burgers at Holy Cow Burger one evening this week – the youngsters love burgers so it is normally a win for everybody. My favourite mixture of substances currently is kimchi + lettuce + sautéed mushrooms + ketchup and yellow mustard. so good.
There are waffle fries on the aspect. In my view, waffle fries are far superior to common fries as a result of they’re so crispy. I really like the feel of it. agree Disagree?
One other latest favourite: quiche. These have broccoli (sautéed a bit till tender) and cheese blended with eggs. It turned out nice and is the right straightforward morning snack that I take pleasure in for days on finish! (I normally wish to have one thing sweeter, like oatmeal, within the morning with the youngsters, after which need one thing heartier and tastier round 10 a.m.)
We have been doing plenty of baking currently – and my little sous chef is absolutely into it currently. <3
Banana muffins are a present favourite – have you ever tried my Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins? If you’d like, you may make these with common all-purpose flour as a substitute of GF all-purpose flour – that manner they’ll be nice too!
I will depart you with some enjoyable pictures from Matt and I’s date evening final week, persevering with our weekly deliberate date nights the place we gave one another Christmas items. February is my planning month (Matt plans January), so final week was my first one!
I booked us a 1 hour private coach session at SportRock, a climbing health club in Alexandria. We used to go mountaineering there once we have been youngsters however have not been since then and it was a lot enjoyable to do one thing like this collectively once more. Our teacher was pleasant and calm however encouraging and protecting of us so we did not have to fret about doing it ourselves.
We’ve got enjoyable! We begin with some simpler ones after which transfer on to some tougher ones, like I did above, leaning a bit of backwards in the beginning which makes it very tough! I fell as soon as, however with encouragement from my coach and Matt, I acquired again up and proudly made it to the highest. 🙂
We additionally every climbed an excellent excessive 60 foot wall! It is so intense! I did not look down till the tip. 😉 You possibly can barely see me within the decrease proper picture – that’s simply the highest half of the wall!
very humorous. My palms and forearms have been so sore afterwards!
That’s all I’ve for you immediately, associates – see you on Friday and are available again with some recipe inspiration!
