Sleep in Christmas Morning

Lifestyle
Written By Nicole Jones

If you didn't know, earlier this year I teamed up with Chad Breckenridge to open a permanent home for his perennial pop up, Bagel Uprising. Opening another business in the midst of trying to build my carb empire (kidding) has left little room for holiday planning. I know I am not alone. I don't know how you people do all that you do with kids, jobs, extracurricular activities, parties, blowouts. Enter, Stomping Ground and Bagel Uprising's breakfast platters: 

  1. Order online (for biscuits and eggs go to stompdelray.com for bagels and cream cheese go to bageluprising.com). Ignore the pick-up dates and times, our websites are limited and they hate me.
  2. On Christmas Eve day, pick your treats up at the location you ordered from. Pro tip: Stomping Ground has cute ornaments, cookbooks, cards, and a retail wine & beer section for last minute purchases.
  3. Go home, open the bottle of wine you purchased from Stomping Ground's retail section.
  4. Drink too much, be really merry. Go to bed happy.
  5. Sleep in on Christmas morning.
  6. Serve your family delicious treats!

 You're welcome & Merry Christmas,Nicole 

Nicole Jones

See all posts

Head Janitor, Chef, and Proprietor | Modest Bread

Nicole’s cooking style is rooted in, but not limited to, her love of southern biscuits and her diverse culinary upbringing. A military brat, she spent her childhood in the Chicago suburbs enjoying her great-grandmother Mae’s Lithuanian cooking. As a tween, she moved to Paulding County, Ga. where she begrudgingly fell in love with the charmingly perplex small towns of the Deep South. She fondly remembers grubbing on Martin’s biscuits, late-night Waffle House debauchery and cooking with her family. 

After graduating from the University of Georgia, Nicole started a marketing career at an art nonprofit in Atlanta. At 25 years old, she became the youngest executive at the local Atlanta NPR affiliate. Chasing her dreams, she moved to Alexandria, VA where she took a short post in the Whole Foods marketing department. Realizing that cooking had been her true love all along, she began night courses at L’Academie de Cuisine. She completed her apprenticeship at Blue Duck Tavern where she was promoted to a line cook after graduation. From there, Nicole worked as a private chef for busy Washington D.C. executives and their families.

As grown-ups tend to do, Nicole realized something about her childhood -- the best parts were enjoying small town communities, cooking with her great-grandmother and sharing meals with family and friends. She opened Stomping Ground (now Rubia’s) to build a safe and welcoming community around yummy, handmade food from local sources. As her first foray running her own kitchen, she has shamelessly hired better, smarter cooks to fill her kitchen and your bellies. 

Modest Bread is a collection of idiosyncratic neighborhood restaurants devoted to hospitality in Northern Virginia and includes Rubia’s, Bagel Uprising, Mae’s Market & Cafe, and Virginia’s Darling.

www.modestbread.com

2309 Mt Vernon Avenue

Alexandria, VA 22301

703.664.0445

Previous

The Top Fitness Mistakes: Part 2
Next

Six Ways to Wear Bodysuits