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You are here: Home / Real Meals / Well Holiday Seasoned

December 15, 2017

Well Holiday Seasoned

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School’s out! I love to spend time with Mazen, and we have a fun few things planned for winter break (including a visit to Grammie + Pea’s!) But I will probably be going a little nuts come New Year’s eve! 🙂 Where do they get their energy?!

Mazen’s school put on a Christmas program, and it was SO STINKIN’ CUTE! I can’t share a single photo because they all include many other children, but for the first time ever Mazen was singing and doing the motions as enthusiastically as the best of them. In his past preschool performances he was shy and barely mouthed the words, but this year he was belting them out with a smile on his face. I wish you could see the video!

Thomas and I went to an evening hot yoga class at Elements and it totally rocked! It was a 75-minute vinyasa flow in a perfectly heated room. T said it was the hardest class he’d ever taken! It was definitely challenging, and we were both drenched by the end. My shoulders feel like I lifted weights today.

We had plans for a baked chicken dinner, but as you can see from the stove clock, it was nearly 8:00 p.m. when we were home and showered, so we postponed that dinner and I made a stove-top brussels sprouts extravaganza. (T made a Big Green Egg smoked salmon salad.)

(Sidebar: I really don’t like capitalizing Greek yogurt and Brussels sprouts. Just sayin’. I know they are places, but capital letters in the middle of sentences make me feel off.)

I cooked the shaved sprouts (from Whole Foods) in a skillet with bacon grease and mushrooms and added two eggs to the middle when they were cooked. The whole dish was topped with grated cheese at the end! Dinner in a flash.

Yesterday I had lunch at the new Citizen Bowl Shop, the sister spot to Citizen Burger Bar (one of my Cville favs!)

For you Cville folks, it’s in the old Yearbook Taco space, and I think it’s a permanent restaurant. They are only open for lunch, and the guy told me that in the fall they had a line out the door every day!

Peruse the menu and tell me this doesn’t look amazing?!

I had the Umami bowl which was brown rice, power greens, local mushrooms, toasted sesame seeds, jalapenos, cilantro, edamame, and the most perfectly cooked Arctic Char. The dressing was a cilantro lime with a touch of soy (I think?) and it was so good. I ate every bite!

I can’t wait to go back and try the Fall Harvest and Citizen Bowls. And you can BYO too! If you’re visiting Cville, put this spot at the top of your quick lunch list.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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  1. Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog says

    December 15, 2017 at 7:43 am

    The Umami bowl looks super delicious! I want to make my own now! 😀

    Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog
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  2. Jana says

    December 15, 2017 at 7:52 am

    Just two quick comments, which I hope you don’t mind 🙂

    1) Brussels is not a country, it’s a city.
    2) Brussels and Greek ARE proper nouns, that’s why they’re capitalized in English.

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    • KathEats says

      December 15, 2017 at 8:18 am

      Sorry – that sentence was very poorly written. I was thinking about Greece when I wrote country. And that should have been ARE proper nouns. Just going to take that part out. DOH.

      Reply
  3. Kim says

    December 15, 2017 at 8:00 am

    LOL Kath Brussels is not a country!!!

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    • KathEats says

      December 15, 2017 at 8:18 am

      Sorry, typo, fixed it. No need to get so excited you guys!!

      Reply
  4. Tonya says

    December 15, 2017 at 8:02 am

    So I stopped reading this post waaaay up at the top to google “do you have to capitalize brussels sprouts” and the first entry brought up a really good point about the dictionary capitalizing Brussels sprouts and French toast, but not “french fries” and “caesar salad”. So i say, do whatcha like! LOL

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    • KathEats says

      December 15, 2017 at 8:21 am

      I was thinking about french fries as I was writing and didn’t think that was capitalized! Sometimes I rebel and write greek yogurt like so :mrgreen:

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      • Tonya says

        December 15, 2017 at 9:34 am

        Nothin’ like a good grammar debate in the comments! LOL “We are so smart! We are so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T!”

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        • KathEats says

          December 15, 2017 at 9:37 am

          Homer Simpson!!! I love that clip 🙂

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  5. Emily @ Always Emily H. says

    December 15, 2017 at 9:12 am

    I completely agree with the Greek/Brussels thing. It drives me nuts to have a capital in the middle of a sentence!

    Reply
  6. Katie says

    December 15, 2017 at 10:51 am

    That Umami bowl looks AMAZING!

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  7. Linda @ the Fitty says

    December 15, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    I could definitely use some la Croix water right now. 🙂

    Reply
  8. Anne says

    December 15, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    Is that little cutie with Mazen named Jesus?!
    Or just really excited for Christmas (aka JC’s birthday 🙂

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      December 15, 2017 at 2:16 pm

      Haha no that’s Sylvia but they were having a happy birthday Jesus party at school!

      Reply
      • Anne says

        December 15, 2017 at 2:29 pm

        OMG! Ha! They’re both so cute! I love that Mazen’s says MAZEN and Sylvia’s says JESUS. Kids are too funny!

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  9. Nancy says

    December 15, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    I started learning German using www.Duolingo.com (which is a great free language program!). One thing that surprised me about German is that they capitalize all nouns – so if you were to write “I have a dog” – in German it would be “I have a Dog” so you’d really be capitalizing a lot mid-sentence in Germany!
    I’d love to try the Goddess salad with kohlrabi – I’ve never seen that on a menu before and I love raw kohlrabi (really embracing my German heritage lately ha ha)

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    • KathEats says

      December 15, 2017 at 2:15 pm

      Haha gosh that would drive me nuts!

      Reply
  10. Kristen says

    December 15, 2017 at 6:58 pm

    What is the name of the wine delivery service you use?

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      December 17, 2017 at 8:04 am

      It’s called Winc!

      Reply
  11. Jess says

    December 16, 2017 at 10:41 am

    Mazen & Sylvia are SO cute!

    Reply
  12. Faith says

    December 17, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    Our child was in a preschool Christmas musical, & it was cute as well! Mazen looks so cute 🙂

    The menu at the Citizen Bowl Shop looks wonderful! If we had one near us, I would probably be there a couple times a week 🙂

    Reply
  13. Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca) says

    December 18, 2017 at 8:46 am

    Kids are out already! Nice! We go right up until Friday 22nd this year, and then aren’t back until January 8th.

    You capitalize words in the middle of a sentence all the time if you are using names or referencing a restaurant, etc., but I hear ya, I don’t like capitalizing Brussels when referring to the sprouts either.

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  14. Zima says

    December 20, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    I’m seriously salivating over those bowl descriptions. I live in LA (Pasadena), and while there might be dozens of “these” concepts here, I can’t think of a single one to run out to for lunch right now!!

    Reply

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