girls’ night
Hi friends!! How are ya? Hope the day is going well! It’s been a good one over here; just chilling with the girls and getting ready for barre tonight. I need to sweat out some sangria. 😉
We’ve had little dinners here at the house since we’ve moved in, but this was my first time hosting 10+ people in our new house for girls’ night. It was a BLAST and I can’t wait to do it again!
I was originally planning on cooking, but when I found out that Birdie’s Market does catering, I decided to order some heavy hors d’oeuvres and make sides/cocktails to go with it. It ended up working out perfectly, and the food was amazing.
We had an enormous cheese board:
(It was a ridiculous mix of sharp, sheep, and creamy cheeses, with sliced duck breast, olives, berries, chorizo, almonds, preserves, and honey)
hoisin chicken skewers,
BBQ pulled pork sliders, (I forgot to take a pic of both of these because they were in the oven until everyone arrived)
and mini cheesecakes, in five flavor variations (raspberry white chocolate, caramel, lemon, chocolate praline, mint, and strawberry coconut.
To go along with it, I made a super easy Greek quinoa salad, my friend Rena brought a salad, and I also set out garlic crostini, crackers, and homemade hummus.
We ended up dragging in our extra table from the garage for extra seating:
And I set some crostini and a cheese board on each table. The original was so huge, so I split it into two:
Drink-wise, we enjoyed sangria (recipe is here!! Watch out for that stuff), organic ginger-lemon soda, La Croix, beers, rose, and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Pretty much everyone ended up drinking sangria, along with a little drink buddy (<— hilarity throughout the night).
Cody was drinking the honey, and Brad ended up snuggling a piece of chorizo on the cheese board haha.
Highly recommend them if you have any parties or girls’ nights coming up!
I didn’t manage to get a group photo, but here’s one with my beautiful friend Kate. She was rocking the most gorgeous Pinterest-y braid; she told me she’d teach me how to do it.
Hope you have a wonderful day and I’ll see ya soon! I might be MIA tomorrow because I’ll be getting everything ready to send out for Summer Shape Up. CAN’T WAIT!
xoxo
Gina
Random: does anyone have any tried and true cobbler recipes? We have an event for the Pilot’s work on Friday and I was thinking of taking cobbler in the cast iron with ice cream…
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http://detoxinista.com/2015/06/paleo-berry-crisp/
I’ve made this several times, it’s always a hit and doesn’t taste as healthy as it is!!
awesome, i can’t wait to check it out!
I super love this peach cobbler from Food Network. It calls for fresh peaches which I don’t have the patience for so I use thawed frozen. Still really delicious!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/peach-cobbler-recipe0-1939722.amp
amazing- thank you!
Those little drink buddies are so cute! Hope you have a good day.
thanks, girl. hope you had a good one, too!
we made the pioneer woman’s blackberry cobbler about 2 weeks ago… and then made it again three days later because it was SO good and we couldn’t stop thinking about it!!! so tasty with vanilla ice cream! i’m sure you could make it with whatever berries you have on hand as well. yum!
ahhh i’ll check that out- thank you!
Looks like Girl’s night turned out perfect!
Can’t go wrong with Paula Deen’s
http://www.stockpilingmoms.com/2013/08/paula-deens-peach-cobbler/
Or this other classic southern one featured in Steele Magnolia’s movie:
https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/fruit-dessert/cupa-cupa-cupa-cobbler.html
and sometimes I like to mix peaches with blueberries or blackberries. 🙂
looking at these now- thank you!!
Yay! How could I forget that Summer Shape Up is coming?
I love this cobbler recipe from Melissa Joulwan at Well Fed, http://meljoulwan.com/2013/08/09/peach-almond-crisp/, it may not be southern enough? Folks in Georgia know cobbler!
i’ll check it out! seriously. i feel like if i make cobbler it has to be legit
I am so envious of your girls night in! I have a group of girls I think would really enjoy this but we all have little ones. When it is your turn to host, who keeps the kids? Do they just go to a different part of the house or do you have them stay with a sitter? Hoping I can get some ideas and copy it here in Albuquerque! Thanks!!
it was SO fun <3 when we do things like this, the husbands watch the kids (because usually we're chilling with the kids when they have work events and guy nights out). tom took the girls with him to dinner with a bunch of the husbands; they had pho and ice cream, then he brought them home and snuck them upstairs to put them down for bed. it was brilliant
That cheese board is what dreams are made of.
It’s not cobbler but this peach crisp is possibly my next boyfriend!
http://www.cozycountryliving.com/old-fashioned-peach-crisp/
AHHHH this looks amazing
OMG those cheese boards look amazing and not in a too pretty to eat way which is always great!
yes! i thought so, too! they were pretty, but not too pretty to dig into 😉
What brand/type of wine do you typically use/recommend for sangria? Not a red wine drinker (though I love sangria) so I’m clueless haha 😛
strangely, cheaper is better. i get the huge bottles of yellowtail shiraz from target or costco
Thank you!!