We had some new friends over for dinner tonight as a means to deliver a loaf of Great Harvest Bread to them, and it turned out to be such a fun night! Diana and Dan are friends of Michelle and Ben (and now our friends too!). Diana writes The Chic Life, which I’ve been following since we first met back in November and discovered we were both bloggers.
While we were getting ready with jazz playing and dinner on the stovetop, it was too hard not to pretend it was a Saturday night and sip a cocktail. So I made a teeny little Manhattan 🙂
For dinner I made another Frontier Soup: Butternut Squash + Lentil. This one was from Megan, a reader who works for them! This soup was made with fresh butternut, a mix of bulgur and lentils, fresh orange and mandarin oranges. It was awesome quite good. It called for 12 cups of broth but I only used 8 and it was still too watery for us, so I pureed it, and it did seem to thicken up again. I would rank their Black Bean Soup top, followed by the Tortilla and then this one.
I finally got to use my grandmother’s silver soup spoons!
Which appear to be quite old!
Of course we served bread on the side – with butter.
Diana and Dan brought some vino (and dessert!) Good ole Charles Shaw!! Love this Chard 🙂
I had a glass with dinner in two installments –
The gentlemen finished off this JUG of beer!
Diana made Ellie Kreiger’s Pear Crumble for dessert. We broiled it at the last minute to get the crust extra crispy and BURNED it!!! It was fine with me because I love burn, but I feel bad 😳 It was amazing – very gingery! And very healthy tasting 🙂
I had to have a tad bit more!
Diana brought her Canon Rebel and I got to play with it. So fun!! I still love my PowerShot though… Be sure to check her blog for some more dinner photography, SLR style!
In other news, I was awarded a “Holy Yum” Award by Megan’s Munchies: Holy Yum! Oats!! Thanks Megan!!
Tomorrow Kelsey and I are planning to exercise at Winthrop after class, so that means I don’t have to get up at 5! I might still get up early and do yoga to start off refreshed, followed by pumpkin oats of course. It’s already starting to late (yes, early for you guys, but late for me!) so I’m off to bed. Nite!
Diana says
It’s so fun to see how you blogged everything! 🙂 Don’t worry about the pear crumble…it still tasted good! Thanks again for having us over…dinner was delish and we had a blast!
Victoria says
Looks like a fun night! I love that two buck chuck chardonnay. 🙂
RachelD says
Yay! I love Carolina Brewery, they have the best food and beer. Kath I think you should post more pictures with you and other people in them, I like to see what everyone is wearing and if it matches my mental image of how you dress.
Sarah (lovINmytummy) says
I love the soup spoons…what a fun thing for your grandmother to have passed on to you!!!
Sharon says
Wow, tasty tasty tasty! What an awesome night!
Amelia says
Haha love the teeny cocktail. Sounds like a fun night!
Marissa says
Cute sweater! Cute drink! Cute spoons! Cute napkins! So much cuteness!
Lee says
I love two buck Chuck.
Oh She Glows says
I love the color on your walls, do you know the name of the green paint color by chance?
Angela
Missy (Missy Maintains) says
Looks like a fun dinner! That drink really is tiny! I could not really tell till you held it up next to you! The pear crumble looks great too, even if it was burnt!
Meg says
What a fun night! I would love to have an SLR camera! I bet it was fun to play with it!
You are very welcome for the award! You and your oats totally deserve it!
allijag says
I love that sweater you have on! TOO CUTE!
That is a teeny tiny manhattan! 🙂
You can’t go wrong serving 2 buck chuck with dinner! 🙂
Becca says
Love the sweater! You look so cute… as always!
Thanks for so many great eats… and thanks even more for your amazing attitude toward health and happiness. <3 You are definitely inspirational!
emmy says
dinner looks great! all of these blog meet ups seem so fun.
Sarah (Tales of Expansion) says
that soup looks like the perfect comfort food!
Jess says
Kath, your hair looks so cute in that photo!
Kath says
Thanks for all of the enthusiasm guys!
RachelD ,
I’ll try!
Oh She Glows,
You’re in luck!! I took a blog photo of the color – La Fonda Olive from Lowes!!
http://tinyurl.com/dzl3ej
And here are the before and afters:
https://www.katheats.com/?p=225
Kath
seelee live (for the love of peanut butter) says
hey kath-that’s so neat that she blogs too and u’re able to keep in touch with her! i think if everyone had a blog about what they’re passionate about, the world would be a better place!!
Beadie @ What I Ate Yesterday says
Looks like a fun dinner!!!
I love that old spoon!
K says
I love burn too – extra crispy is extra tasty 🙂
Nicole says
The pear crumble looks amazing. It definitely sounds like a fabulous dinner! Blog friends rule 🙂
Sarah W. says
wow those spoons ARE old!!!
JENNA says
I LOVE your grandmothers soup spoons!! They are so beautiful!! Sounds like a fun night 🙂
skinnyrunner says
what a fun evening! everything looks so good. and that manhattan is the tiniest drink i have ever seen!
brandi says
That soup sounds great, and I love the antique spoons!
That’s the main camera we have – it’s amazing. I just got a new smaller digital camera for graduation, which is the one I use to blog with. The Canon is just too big to carry around all the time, but it’s a great camera.
Philippa says
I am lusting after those soup soons, big time.
HangryPants says
The soup looks great, as does the bread.
Cute earings and sweater. Have a nice Friday.
Heather