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

Welcome to the weekend, my associates! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer time work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. Now we have a enjoyable journey deliberate with associates 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 simple option to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You received’t consider how easy it’s to show 4 primary components 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 pink onions, peppery arugula, recent basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous recent, and extremely satisfying, this salad needs to be a typical at your summer time desk.

Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may hold you coming again for extra. With a dressing produced from vinegar and oil, it’s higher suited to picnics and events within the sizzling 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 manufactured from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit outdoors along with your toes up, and chill out!

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

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 associates and the flavour variations are limitless.

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 best little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each drugs we would want and the little field takes up nearly no house.

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 ebook by way of my library. Her life story is really wonderful and her humorousness comes by way of within the ebook as nicely. She’s an inspiration.

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

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

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

Mary