Welcome to the weekend, my associates! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer season work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We’ve 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 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 – verify them out and discover one thing new to strive!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and straightforward technique to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You gained’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 purple onions, peppery arugula, recent basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous recent, and extremely satisfying, this salad must be a typical at your summer season desk.
Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may hold you coming again for extra. With a dressing constituted of 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 comfortable smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer season recollections are manufactured from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit exterior along with your ft up, and chill out!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so filled 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 occasion as nicely!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously crammed with 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 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 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 yr 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 quite a lot of enjoyable. The narration is implausible and although 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
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