Sunday, September 04, 2022

Nelsonville Music Festival 2022

This weekend was Nelsonville Music Festival! One of my favorite weekend of the year. This year they moved to a new venue, Snow Fork. My friends and I were worried that it wouldn't have the same magical vibe that we have grown to love, but it turns out it was even BETTER! On Friday we caught the D-Rays at the Creekside Stage.

It was a great weekend for some Unicorn Pegasuses! Lori was first:

Aakrati!

Dorian!

Heather and I did matching rainbow nails for the weekend!

Twins!

Fun in the sun with great friends.

Heather's dress literally GLOWED at night!! It's so beautiful!

Day two brought another round of Unicorn Pegasuses!

 
 
 

The D-Rays played again today, this time on the Porch Stage! Look, it's Missy! WE KNOW HER! 

NMF dancing vibes.

D-Rays fangirls!

Group photo with the D-Rays!

This is how you properly apply glitter:

More unipegs!

 
 
 

The Snow Fork stage at dusk.

 
 
 
 

Valerie looking cute at Creekside on the last day.

Danielle Ponder was an unexpected delight. We hadn't heard of her before the weekend, but her set blew us all away. She did a cover of Creep by Radiohead and by the end of the song, I looked around and all of my friends were crying!!! And I was too! It was so powerful.

S.G. Goodman was another one of the favorites of the weekend. We saw her at the Creekside stage and the Porch stage.

Emily demonstrating the classic sexy hair shake:

Janna, Yumi and Mara!

Angel Olsen closed out the weekend.

 

Farewell, NMF! Till next year! Mwah!

 

Thursday, September 01, 2022

Happy 10 Years!

Ben and I celebrated our ten year wedding anniversary today! We went to Zoe for dinner.

Cheers!

There was a pork chop special on the menu, and we both got it. It was so good!

 

Saturday, August 27, 2022

August Cooking Club: Summer's Bounty

Our August cooking club theme was Summer’s Bounty! We had a few very special guests and ate boatloads of delicious summery goodness.

Nancy made Pink lemonade Jell-O shots. Yum!

Cheers!

Emily made watermelon salad with basil and feta. So refreshing!

Summer made roasted tomatoes with goat cheese. We put this on crackers. Sooo good!

Valerie made cold avocado soup with cilantro oil. This had a kick!

Valerie also made this grilled corn and halloumi salad with Israeli couscous. I looooove halloumi so much!

Nancy made two tomato tarts. One cooked tomato tart with basil and parsley purée and Gouda cheese...

...and one fresh tomato tart with a goat cheese & basil spread! I couldn't decide which one I loved more so I kept tasting both.

Emily made sabayon with fresh peaches. Mmm!

This photo IS summertime!! 

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Ohio Brew Week 2022

Happy Brew Week! On Wednesday, we went to Top Deck Dinner. The weather was hot and sunny! The tables had gorgeous bouquets from Jack Neal Floral!

Ben and Yumi say "Cheers!"

We enjoyed five courses prepared by Chef Andrew Wenmoth of Cutler's and beer pairings by Jackie O's Brewery. The first course was a fried green tomato soup, with grilled cucumber relish, paired with Speed Shop pilsner.

Course number two was a kale Waldorf salad, paired with Static Flow hazy IPA. Delicious!

Course number three was a spicy halibut cheek bouilliabase ramen, paired with Perpetum sour. Halibut is my favorite fish, and the cheeks were delicious!

Course number four was a smoked tritip with poblano and birds eye chimichurri, paired with Chomolungma brown ale. I loooove poblanos and they really shined here.

The Ohio Brew Week Top Deck Dinners are always amazing! They work so hard to pull off this event.

Before the dessert course, we took some photos in the beautiful light. Happy Top Deck Dinner!

Happy Ohio Brew Week!

Cheers!

Me and Lauren!

The final course was a buttered popcorn pot du crème paired with Bourbon Barrel Dark Apparition. YUM!! Such a great dessert!

Beautiful flowers for a beautiful lady!

On Thursday, Michele and I went to Jackie O's for a beer tasting and tour.

Cheers!

It was fun to tour the facility!

 

Look at all that Mystic Mama!

Cheers!

The Bagel Street food truck was there, so of course we got that for dinner!

I got a Debbie Debbie Debbie on a jalapeño cheddar bagel.

Saturday was Last Call.

Abby joined me for volunteering!

Another excellent Ohio Brew Week in the books!