Today we celebrated both of Ryan's parents birthdays at our house. This is the third year we've hosted and we absolutely love doing so. Being the first official day of autumn, we planned a seasonal dinner and tried several new recipes that were excellent.
We started off the morning going to the public market and bought some of our main ingredients there (grass-fed beef, vanilla beans, zucchini).
Ryan took on the dinner, while I did drinks and dessert. He made a veggie-filled autumn meatloaf and mashed potatoes, while his sister brought two side dishes and Nonny brought salad. Silly me, or maybe silly Ryan, but we didn't get any pictures of the main meal...
But here's how my dishes turned out :)
Top: Homemade vanilla ice cream to pair with apple crumbles in mini oven dishes.
Bottom: Inverted "Reese's cups"- SO good!
I would recommend all three! And I followed all of the recipes to a T.
This was pear vanilla martini, also a good new recipe. Only three ingredients. That's my favorite kind of recipe.
I love fall, especially the changing colors in the landscape. Typically, the reds, oranges, yellows, golds and browns are characteristic. But I have these really pretty, thrift-store blue glasses that I wanted to work into the table decor somehow. And conveniently enough, Nonny had gifted me some cream and blue fabric napkins. And, also convenient, while helping my parents clean their house to get it market ready, my mom found napkin rings that she was going to donate. I graciously took them off her hands :) Silver is again not a traditionally fall color, but I love mixing metallic colors.
To wrap my mother-in-law's gift, which consisted of an assortment of small gifts, I opted to not make a gift basket, but rather arrange the items in brown paper lunch bags cut with scalloped scissors and attaching cards with clothespins.
Sunflowers for the birthday girl.
Happy Birthday!!
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