The Little Issues E-newsletter #432 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! Holy heatwave in Ohio. Yikes! The Midwest has been cooking all week and it certain hasn’t made me miss the Valley of the Solar. I’m tremendous excited now for the cooler temps subsequent week and the even higher fall climate that’s lastly within the forecast!

This weekend I’m as much as my eyeballs in tasks as we’re cleansing out the kitchen earlier than our transforming mission begins on Monday. Want us luck, as it is a first for us. Issues certain gained’t be boring at dwelling for the subsequent few months!

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Learn how straightforward it’s to make scrumptious, crisp-skinned hen within the oven with Italian Baked Chicken. This oven baked hen with Italian seasoning has a crispy pores and skin and juicy inside that makes it one among my all time favourite hen recipes.

Thrown collectively on a whim one night time a few years in the past whereas we had been on the highway, this Bacon Potato Salad quickly grew to become a household favourite. Full of loads of eggs, bites of bacon, and a vivid dill pickle taste, this salad has confirmed irresistible to everybody who tries it.

Tender, delicate angel hair pasta gets a carbonara-like glow up with a flavorful bacon and pea cream sauce on this pleasant and easy dish. It’s a weeknight dish that’s straightforward sufficient for busy evenings however good sufficient to serve firm!

Oh, how I really like these crunchy, tangy, quick green bean pickles! Fortunately, they’re really easy to make, we will make them on repeat. These inexperienced beans are a enjoyable new snack in our fridge and the youngsters have been devouring them about as rapidly as I could make them.

Tender bites of hen and shrimp are tossed with pasta and colourful bell peppers in a creamy, barely spicy sauce to create this Cajun Chicken and Shrimp Pasta.

Blueberry Pie Bars are the proper summery dessert on your subsequent picnic or get together.

Creamy, candy, and only a bit tart, let’s give the summer time a final hurrah of vivid refreshing flavors with this Lime Ice Cream.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these freezable lunch boxes. All of my guys carry lunches every day, both to highschool, the job website, or to the faculty campus. I discovered these PackIt bins this summer time and so they work nice. (I’ve had one of many sack-style PackIts for years now, so I knew it was a stable model.) 

The lunch bins aren’t enormous, however they maintain a very good quantity of meals for the day. We pop them within the freezer every night time, fill them within the morning, and so they’re nonetheless chilly after they get dwelling 12 hours later.

What I’m READING: Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. My buddy Rebecca really useful this one and I’m so glad she did. I laughed many occasions and completely loved following Tiffany and the Wee Free Males’s story. I instantly downloaded the subsequent e book within the sequence once I completed this one! 

“Armed with solely a frying pan and her frequent sense, younger witch-to-be Tiffany Aching should defend her dwelling in opposition to the monsters of Fairyland. Fortunately she has some very uncommon assist: the native Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Males—a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue males.” – I imply, severely what’s to not love with an outline like that??

What I’m LISTENING to: I launched my youngest to Mamma Mia this previous weekend and he liked the film. (YAY! It’s such a enjoyable one!) So, naturally, we’ve had the soundtrack playing in the car all week. It’s tremendous enjoyable music for driving and singing alongside.

“He offers energy to the faint, and to him who has no may he will increase energy. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and younger males shall fall exhausted; however they who await the Lord shall renew their energy; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and never be weary; they shall stroll and never faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31 ESV

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

Mary