Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! 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 reworking undertaking 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 the way simple it’s to make scrumptious, crisp-skinned rooster within the oven with Italian Baked Chicken. This oven baked rooster with Italian seasoning has a crispy pores and skin and juicy inside that makes it one in every of my all time favourite rooster 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 brilliant 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 simple sufficient for busy evenings however good sufficient to serve firm!
Oh, how I like these crunchy, tangy, quick green bean pickles! Fortunately, they’re really easy to make, we are able to make them on repeat. These inexperienced beans are a enjoyable new snack in our fridge and the youngsters have been devouring them about as shortly as I could make them.
Tender bites of rooster 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 occasion.
Creamy, candy, and only a bit tart, let’s give the summer season a final hurrah of brilliant 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 web site, or to the faculty campus. I discovered these PackIt packing containers this summer season they usually work nice. (I’ve had one of many sack-style PackIts for years now, so I knew it was a strong model.)
The lunch packing containers aren’t big, 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, they usually’re nonetheless chilly once they get dwelling 12 hours later.
What I’m READING: Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. My buddy Rebecca really helpful this one and I’m so glad she did. I laughed many occasions and totally 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 widespread 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 would possibly he will increase power. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and younger males shall fall exhausted; however they who look ahead to the Lord shall renew their power; 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 stuffed with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
