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 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 12 months!)
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 attempt!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and straightforward approach 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 an ordinary at your summer season desk.
Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may maintain you coming again for extra. With a dressing comprised 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 joyful smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer season reminiscences are fabricated from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit outdoors together with your ft up, and calm down!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so filled with cherries it’s positive to make you smile. With practically equal elements frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, this can be a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the social gathering as properly!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously stuffed 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 mates and the flavour variations are countless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these super handy little pill organizers. They’re loopy low-cost (lower than $2 every!) they usually’re the best little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each drugs we would 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 12 months was nice enjoyable and I instantly positioned a maintain on her ebook by means of my library. Her life story is actually wonderful and her humorousness comes by means of within the ebook as properly. 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 a number of enjoyable. The narration is implausible and though it’s written for ages 9-12, this can be a hilarious fantasy sequence 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
