Hello there! Whereas I used to be off in Turks and Caicos, Matt took the youngsters as much as Pittsburgh; as soon as I bought house I flew as much as meet them there and spend just a few days earlier than all driving house collectively.
In addition to hanging out with Matt’s dad and mom and a bunch of pals that reside up in Sewickley space (exterior Pittsburgh), we additionally had some actually yummy meals!
Should you’ve been studying my weblog for awhile you understand that my father-in-law likes to prepare dinner, and we don’t thoughts benefitting from this. 🙂
First up: a surf + turf night time in honor of Matt’s birthday, which is definitely tomorrow however we celebrated early since we have been collectively!
Isn’t that grilled salmon attractive? He at all times grills it on a cedar plank and places lemons on high, plus some mustard and I imagine a little bit maple syrup. So good.
As for the steak (per Matt’s request, because it was his birthday dinner!), Matt and my father-in-law determined to attempt a sous vide “reverse sear” methodology, the place they cooked the steak through sous vide, then rapidly seared it on the grill on the finish. I suppose one other method is the common sear methodology the place you sear it first!
I don’t actually know any extra particulars than that as I’ve by no means tried the sous vide method myself, however listed below are some photos of the method. 🙂
Sealing up the steak in a sous vide bag with some butter and herbs:
Able to go in its bathtub!
Tub time:
Prosecco with a blackberry in it whereas the cooking occurred (isn’t their yard pretty? It’s so lush and inexperienced):
It wasn’t too loopy sizzling so we bought to eat exterior, which was good.
Right here’s the feast!
Everybody bought steak (along with the sous vide steak, there was additionally a grilled steak within the combine – Matt had a a lot bigger piece than I did!), salmon, corn, zucchini grilled with parmesan, and candy potato with cinnamon butter.
Tremendous scrumptious and contemporary summery meal!
The entire gang:
Wes determined he actually favored corn on the cob, in order that was good to entertain him for awhile! He’s not the simplest dinner companion as of late. 😉
After dinner (and after Wes went to mattress), we bought the fireplace pit going and had some s’mores. Yummy strategy to cap off the meal!
Matt had numerous birthday celebrations over the weekend – the night time earlier than our household dinner, we had a giant group dinner out with a bunch of pals for Matt’s birthday, adopted by a bar outing.
We went to a restaurant referred to as Andora that Matt and I went to as soon as earlier than years in the past. It’s good and so they have a pleasant and large outside space, too!
Shared appetizers – seared tuna, bread with dipping oil, fried shrimp (very yummy):
For my entree I had the crab cake. The crab cake was fairly good, however the rice on the facet was tremendous bland.
We clearly needed to embarrass Matt with a candle and really loud “pleased birthday” music. 😉
I want we had remembered to get an image of the entire group (there have been 12 of us), however right here is certainly one of Matt and our buddy Jack with a slice of chocolate mousse cake!
A pair different meals highlights from the lengthy weekend spent up there included some veggie-packed lunch salads:
A brunch feast:
Grilled pork chops with a corn and tomato succotash, sautéed Swiss chard, and tomato mozzarella and basil – this was one other yummy and tremendous summery meal:
And we additionally had a scrumptious dinner out on the membership my in-laws belong to, however Wes was type of a sizzling mess and so all of us spent an honest portion of the dinner following him round whereas he tried to leap into the pool (after which had varied tantrums after we stopped him), or, whereas inside, climbed up and down stairs for ages… good occasions.
My meal was actually yummy, although – a farro and veggie dish with Thai peanut sauce that I topped with seared salmon. It was so good. Want I’d gotten a pic!
Oh and sure, he had pants on and a cute outfit earlier than this image, however he bought a little bit moist in mentioned child pool so this was the random backup outfit from the diaper bag. No matter works!
So far as health, Matt and I bought out for 2 brief runs collectively which was a pleasant deal with!
I at all times love operating in Sewickley – so many good tree-lined roads with creeks, and many others.
We even noticed a fawn – so cute.
I additionally made it out to a sizzling yoga class one morning whereas Wes was napping and Riese was out at a morning artwork camp.
Salt Energy Yoga on the town is my fave to go to every time we go to. I at all times depart outrageously sweaty and feeling actually wrung out in a great way.
I used to be unhappy my go to to Sewickley was so brief this yr – we at all times have enjoyable visiting there in the summertime, and Riese particularly loves going to the pool. Nevertheless it was additionally good to get house and again right into a extra regular routine this week!
I’ve bought another journey subsequent week after which that’s the final of our journey till Thanksgiving – I’m going to a culinary workshop of types for dietitians on a close-by farm.
I’m actually excited – it ought to be numerous enjoyable AND I get a ton of constant schooling credit (which I must maintain my RD credential – I’m up for renewal subsequent yr) which is superior as normally I get them touring to conferences however I haven’t been capable of do any of that since 2019!
I’ll you’ll want to share a recap as soon as I’m again – keep tuned.
