Welcome to the weekend, my pals! We’re headed to the Pend Oreille River (within the Idaho and Washington space) this weekend to spend a number of days vacationing with my sister’s household. I can hardly wait!
And lest anybody suppose we’re leaving an empty home behind and speaking about it right here – spoiler alert, we’re not. However within the meantime, when you’ve got a favourite informal restaurant suggestion within the Newport, WA space, I’d love to listen to it.
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: With an abundance of candy ripe berries, recent inexperienced spinach, chewy pasta, and a brilliant and flavorful mild balsamic dressing, this strawberry spinach salad is an surprising and scrumptious pasta salad.
The best ever bbq meatloaf is right here so as to add selection to your dinner desk. Take a straightforward meatloaf recipe and make it extra scrumptious with the addition of tangy barbecue sauce.
Observe this tremendous easy guide on how to boil corn and also you’ll be having fun with summer time’s finest very quickly in any respect. Candy, buttery goodness will likely be yours!
Is it actually summer time if you happen to don’t have loopy quantities of zucchini and corn? Whether or not you’re hitting the farmer’s marketplace for a deal or rising zucchini prefer it’s your job, this straightforward but delicious side dish pairs these two traditional heat climate greens!
What occurs once you mix a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe with white chocolate and freeze-dried raspberries? You wind up with a batch of completely irresistible white chocolate raspberry cookies.
The best ice cream cookie sandwiches begin with the perfect ever completely chewy cookies. I’m joyful to inform you that I’ve discovered the cookie recipe that works completely when frozen.
You want these buttery candy chocolate chip cookie dough bites in your life. Every one is stuffed with miniature chocolate chips in a bite-size chunk of snackable cookie dough!
What I’m CRAVING: It should be the season for porch sitting and cocktail sipping as a result of I’m craving each my good friend Meseidy’s whiskey smash and my brother-in-law Jason’s mai tai. It’s a great factor we’re on trip this week, as a result of each of those are going to be occurring quickly.
My FAVORITE THING this week is this Hitster game. Yep, I’m nonetheless obsessed. I’m packing it now to play with my sister’s household.
What I’m READING: I completed studying by way of the Christmas Keys books and so they all turned out to be enjoyable, very mild reads. There are 9 brief books within the sequence (all obtainable at no cost as a part of Kindle Limitless) and I learn most of them in a few hours or much less.
These are clear, quick reads which were a enjoyable distraction this summer time. The primary character usually makes me roll my eyes, however the different characters have grown on me. I didn’t take pleasure in this sequence fairly as a lot because the Shipwreck Key series, however I nonetheless advocate each for a enjoyable senseless distraction.
He who dwells within the shelter of the Most Excessive will abide within the shadow of the Almighty. I’ll say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I belief.” – Psalm 91:1-2 ESV
Wishing you a stunning week filled with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
