The Little Issues E-newsletter #428 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer time work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We’ve a enjoyable journey deliberate with mates after which an entire week of hanging out with my youngest earlier than he begins highschool. (I can hardly consider that I simply wrote that sentence – my child is beginning highschool this 12 months!)

I’ll be again with new recipes to share in a few weeks and within the meantime, I’ve already shared thousands of recipes here, and here, and here – examine them out and discover one thing new to strive!

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and straightforward solution to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You gained’t consider how easy it’s to show 4 fundamental elements right into a showstopping, vibrant purple feast for the eyes and mouth!

Watermelon Arugula Salad begins with icy chilly watermelon cubes in balsamic dressing with crimson onions, peppery arugula, recent basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous recent, and extremely satisfying, this salad ought to be a regular at your summer time desk.

Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may maintain you coming again for extra. With a dressing constituted of vinegar and oil, it’s higher suited to picnics and events within the scorching summer time months than the maybe better-known mayonnaise-based variations.

Chunks of potato and hard-boiled egg mingle with salty bacon, tangy dill pickles and onions on this creamy potato salad. Bacon Potato Salad is a terrific facet dish for any barbecue and can just about assure pleased smiles across the desk.

Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer time reminiscences are fabricated from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit outdoors along with your ft up, and calm down!

This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so filled with cherries it’s positive to make you smile. With almost equal elements frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, it is a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the occasion as effectively!

Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously full of cookie items and mini chocolate chips. It’s an entire new cookies and cream ice cream and I’m loving it.

What I’m CRAVING: All of the refreshing cocktails and mocktails! Have you ever tried making ranch water? These are tremendous enjoyable, gentle cocktails to combine up for mates and the flavour variations are countless.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these super handy little pill organizers. They’re loopy low-cost (lower than $2 every!) they usually’re the good little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each drugs we’d want and the little field takes up virtually no area.

What I’m READING: The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age by Mark Hyman M.D. and Gladys T. McGarey. Listening to Gladys’ interview earlier this 12 months was nice enjoyable and I instantly positioned a maintain on her guide by way of my library. Her life story is actually superb and her humorousness comes by way of within the guide as effectively. She’s an inspiration.

What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary guide of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s plenty of enjoyable. The narration is unbelievable and despite the fact that it’s written for ages 9-12, it is a hilarious fantasy collection for all ages.

“You’re my refuge and my defend; I’ve put my hope in your phrase.” Psalm 119:114 NIV

Wishing you a stunning week filled with little issues that make you smile!

Mary