Final month I had the chance to fly to Palm Springs for the Contemporary Air Retreat, which is an unique meals blogger retreat designed to carry meals bloggers and types collectively, creating an area to study, join, and develop.
Come Alongside A Meals Blogger Retreat
It was an exquisite packed few days, crammed with each enjoyable and leisure, blended with main productiveness and forging friendships alongside the way in which.
Liz and Lauren host retreats two instances per yr, every in a novel location. We flew out and we soaked up the Palm Springs solar, explored, brainstormed, met with tremendous cool manufacturers, and ate scrumptious meals! I wished to take you alongside the Contemporary Air Retreat, and introduce you to all my new buddies (we nonetheless textual content day by day!).
Who Was There
A rising tide lifts all ships, and that was positively the vitality on the retreat. A favourite half was gathering collectively to drawback remedy for each other. We did two periods of this on each days and man was it great and useful.
Meet my new besties:
- Liz Della Croce (The Lemon Bowl – our great host)
- Lauren Grier (The Curious Plate – our great host)
- Ansley Beutler (The Match Peach)
- Christina Lane (Dessert for Two)
- Jean Choi (What Nice Grandma Ate)
- Jordan Zelesnick (JZ Eats)
- Molly Thompson (What Molly Made)
- Sarah Bond (Stay Eat Be taught)
- Shelly Jaronsky (Cookies & Cups)
- Chef Trimell: I’ve to offer some huge like to Chef Trimell. He was our in-house non-public chef, and now, a pal! He’s so gifted and we ate actually good, in case you can inform by the photographs!! An absolute deal with. He acquired inventive with native substances and themes, whereas additionally incorporating our sponsors into his dishes. He’s the best- so positively verify him out and observe him on socials. He’s a gem and also you’ll study a lot from him!
- All of the photographs on this publish had been taken by the great Amanda Kamppinen, the photographer for the retreat!
The Contemporary Air Retreat had some unbelievable sponsors doing wonderful issues within the meals area, and the journey was made doable by them!
- Grocer’s Listing: My pal Ben from Grocer’s Listing flew out and walked us by means of some new and progressive methods to assist our readers and subscribers. They’ve fairly great expertise that permits us to get you our recipes simply by way of social media, in addition to newer issues like permitting you to buy the substances proper from Instagram! They make all of it about you, the reader, and making our platforms simple to navigate and get info from! They’re simply the perfect.
- Pleased Egg Co.: They’re enthusiastic about creating a cheerful, wholesome surroundings for his or her hens, which leads to high-quality eggs and by the colour of the yolks, you’ll be able to inform! We talked all in regards to the distinction between free vary, pasture-raised, cage free, the trade, and their hens which require a minimal of 21.8 sq. ft of vary for each chicken, which equates to 10 acres per 20,000 birds! You realize I’m all about eggs and the standard so this was enjoyable! Be sure that to take a look at their retailer locator to see the place you could find them close to you!
- Onions 52: Onions 52 hosted a lunch which was a lot enjoyable. Chef did a enjoyable knife demo they usually satisfaction themselves in high quality merchandise and have even developed at “Smiley” candy onion that’s just about tearless! They’re devoted to utilizing sustainable farming practices to make sure the standard and environmental accountability of each onion, which I like.
- Albertsons: They saved us well-fed, particularly with their unique Signature Choose model, which supplied a tremendous vary of tasty, high-value merchandise.
- Go to Larger Palm Springs: They hosted a memorable dinner offsite, and the meal was excellent and the vibe was a ten/10!! Porto Through and Fuzion 5 had been scrumptious.
- California Walnuts: Walnuts are a powerhouse. Protein, fiber, antioxidants… I like them! It was a blast making charcuterie boards with California Walnuts, and studying extra about storing them, consuming them, their advantages, and chef created some fairly great recipes that lined our charcuterie spreads, and impressed some recipes coming for the vacations to LCK!
- California Date Fee: This was a spotlight. Our date tasting was soooo enjoyable. They arrange a “date flight” for us, and we tried all of the varieties which different majorly in taste and texture. Do you know dates are low on the glycemic index? And include tons of fiber, minerals, nutritional vitamins, and polyphenols? I loooove them.
My Pleased Tears of Gratitude!
As bloggers, we don’t have the normal co-workers, and we don’t get the chance to get collectively typically to brainstorm, like in an workplace area. That’s exactly what made the Contemporary Air Retreat so very special- the chums I left with, the data gained, the area to open up and be susceptible, and the enjoyable we had collectively!
It’s distinctive proudly owning your individual web enterprise the place the panorama is ever-changing, and people round you might be powerhouse entrepreneurs that dwell all throughout the nation.
2020 slowed retreats down (to a hault), together with having two youngsters in that point, so I used to be so excited to go and join with such wonderful girls (and great manufacturers)!
We don’t get collectively typically sufficient, and actually as wonderful of a job as it’s, it may be isolating, too! Each retreat I’ve ever attended has been gold. I at all times go away them with a full coronary heart, new buddies, and limitless new concepts and issues to implement into LCK to make it higher! The Contemporary Air Retreat was no exception, and I hope you loved seeing a glimpse into it!
