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 now have 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 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 approach to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You received’t imagine how easy it’s to show 4 primary 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 pink 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 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 aspect 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 made from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit exterior along with your toes up, and loosen up!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so stuffed with cherries it’s certain 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 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 infinite.
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 good little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each medication 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 yr was nice enjoyable and I instantly positioned a maintain on her e book by way of my library. Her life story is really superb and her humorousness comes by way of within the e book as effectively. She’s an inspiration.
What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary e book of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s lots of enjoyable. The narration is improbable 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
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