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 convey 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, stuffed 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 12 months, every in a singular 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 mates (we nonetheless textual content every day!).
Who Was There
A rising tide lifts all ships, and that was positively the power on the retreat. A favourite half was gathering collectively to downside resolve for each other. We did two classes of this on each days and man was it fantastic and useful.
Meet my new besties:
- Liz Della Croce (The Lemon Bowl – our fantastic host)
- Lauren Grier (The Curious Plate – our fantastic 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 (Dwell Eat Study)
- Shelly Jaronsky (Cookies & Cups)
- Chef Trimell: I’ve to provide some huge like to Chef Trimell. He was our in-house non-public chef, and now, a buddy! He’s so proficient and we ate actually good, in the event you can inform by the images!! An absolute deal with. He obtained inventive with native components and themes, whereas additionally incorporating our sponsors into his dishes. He’s the best- so positively test him out and comply with him on socials. He’s a gem and also you’ll study a lot from him!
- All of the images on this submit had been taken by the fantastic Amanda Kamppinen, the photographer for the retreat!
The Contemporary Air Retreat had some unimaginable sponsors doing wonderful issues within the meals house, and the journey was made attainable by them!
- Grocer’s Listing: My pal Ben from Grocer’s Listing flew out and walked us by some new and revolutionary methods to assist our readers and subscribers. They’ve fairly fantastic 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 components proper from Instagram! They make all of it about you, the reader, and making our platforms simple to navigate and get data from! They’re simply one of the best.
- Comfortable Egg Co.: They’re obsessed with creating a cheerful, wholesome surroundings for his or her hens, which leads to high-quality eggs and by the colour of the yolks, you possibly can inform! We talked all concerning the distinction between free vary, pasture-raised, cage free, the trade, and their hens which require a minimal of 21.8 sq. toes of vary for each fowl, which equates to 10 acres per 20,000 birds! You already know I’m all about eggs and the standard so this was enjoyable! Ensure 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 delight 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 duty of each onion, which I really like.
- Albertsons: They stored us well-fed, particularly with their unique Signature Choose model, which supplied an incredible vary of tasty, high-value merchandise. Discover them close to you!
- Go to Better 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 really 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 fantastic 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 assorted majorly in taste and texture. Do you know dates are low on the glycemic index? And comprise tons of fiber, minerals, nutritional vitamins, and polyphenols? I loooove them.
My Comfortable Tears of Gratitude!
As bloggers, we don’t have the normal co-workers, and we don’t get the chance to get collectively usually to brainstorm, like in an workplace house. That’s exactly what made the Contemporary Air Retreat so very special- the chums I left with, the data gained, the house to open up and be susceptible, and the enjoyable we had collectively!
It’s distinctive proudly owning your personal web enterprise the place the panorama is ever-changing, and people round you’re powerhouse entrepreneurs that stay all throughout the nation.
2020 slowed retreats down (to a hault), together with having two children in that point, so I used to be so excited to go and join with such wonderful girls (and fantastic manufacturers)!
We don’t get collectively usually 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 depart them with a full coronary heart, new mates, and countless 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!