The Little Issues Publication #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 season work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We now have a enjoyable journey deliberate with mates after which a complete week of hanging out with my youngest earlier than he begins highschool. (I can hardly imagine that I simply wrote that sentence – my child is beginning highschool this yr!)

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 strategy to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You received’t imagine how easy it’s to show 4 fundamental substances 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, contemporary basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous contemporary, and extremely satisfying, this salad needs to be a typical at your summer season desk.

Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that can 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 season 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 aspect dish for any barbecue and can just about assure completely satisfied smiles across the desk.

Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer season recollections are product of. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit outdoors along with your toes up, and chill out!

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

Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously crammed with cookie items and mini chocolate chips. It’s a complete 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, mild cocktails to combine up for mates 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!) and so they’re the best little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each medication we would want and the little field takes up nearly 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 yr was nice enjoyable and I instantly positioned a maintain on her guide by means of my library. Her life story is really wonderful and her humorousness comes by means 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 a whole lot of enjoyable. The narration is implausible and despite the fact that it’s written for ages 9-12, this can be 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 filled with little issues that make you smile!

Mary