Whats up, pals and fellow residence cooks!
It is time for my Saturday publication, which incorporates 7 weeknight meals + 3 wholesome salads (for the week of August 25-31, 2024), and a quick life replace.
7 weeknight meals + 3 wholesome salads
DAY 1: Creamy Mushroom Pork Chops (30 Minutes, One-Pan)
DAY 2: Stuffed Spaghetti Squash with Hen, Tomatoes, Spinach, and Feta Cheese
DAY 3: Greek Shrimp Spaghetti
DAY 4: Thai-inspired Pink Curry Hen Noodle Soup
DAY 5: Salmon Pasta with Solar-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce and Spinach
DAY 6: Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas (you can even use Asparagus, Broccoli, or Inexperienced Beans)
DAY 7: Italian Sausage Pasta with Spinach, Mushrooms, Tomatoes, and Garlic
SALAD 1: 15-Minute Peach Salsa with Pineapple, Bell Pepper, Pink Onion, Inexperienced Onion, Cilantro, Lime Juice, Chili Powder (Summer season different to common tomato salsa. Goes nice with grilled meat, nearly the whole lot: steak, salmon, hen, pork, lamb)
SALAD 2: Asparagus Tomato Salad with Burrata Cheese, Pine Nuts, and Balsamic Dressing (You need to use contemporary comfortable Mozzarella cheese as a substitute of Burrata)
SALAD 3: Pear Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese, Pecans, and Honey-Lemon Dressing
LIFE UPDATE
Up to now two weeks, our city and the encompassing areas have been hit with an unusually excessive quantity of rain, resulting in intensive flash flooding and injury in some areas. Quite a few mudslides have occurred each in and round our city, typically forcing highway closures (and path closures) for days as crews work to clear the particles. Whereas rainfall is helpful in decreasing wildfire danger, the sheer quantity of moisture we now have not too long ago skilled is very uncommon for this time of yr. This week, trying longer hikes has been out of the query, because the circumstances have made it unsafe and unsightly to hike by way of mud and beneath the specter of frequent lightning and thunderstorms, particularly in uncovered areas above the tree line.
Longer hikes are probably the most pleasurable for me as a result of they take you as much as larger elevations, the place you possibly can expertise a very completely different panorama above the tree line. Sometimes, we even come throughout small alpine lakes. This hasn’t been attainable for the previous two weeks, as mountaineering at larger elevations will increase the danger of lightning strikes in present climate circumstances. It is also a lot colder up there, making it uncomfortable and unsightly, and it might be unsafe when it rains that arduous.
Nevertheless, I did handle to seek out temporary home windows of fine climate and hiked my favourite path a number of occasions this week. Within the pictures, you may see the gorgeous blue skies with lovely white clouds—a putting distinction to the heavy rain and thunderstorms in between these blue skies. The sky has been extra breathtaking than I’ve seen in a very long time. I hope you’ll benefit from the pictures under that I snapped this week – check out the sky:
Possibly it is as a result of I really like mountaineering, however an algorithm introduced up a YouTube video as we speak in my feed that I discovered charming. It is a self-told story of an MIT-educated neurosurgeon who immediately left his profitable profession. After 4 years of medical college, 6 years of surgical coaching, and 10 years as a neurosurgeon in a hospital (doing spinal surgical procedures)—a complete of 20 years of profession funding—he made the drastic choice to give up with no different plan in thoughts. Nobody round him might perceive why. He left his job on the hospital final yr, and only a month in the past, he posted a video explaining his choice on YouTube, which has already garnered 11 million views. It is positively value watching; he makes some compelling factors and clearly enjoys mountaineering, as he filmed your entire 48-minute video whereas standing towards the backdrop of gorgeous, snow-covered mountain peaks. The feedback part beneath the video can also be value studying – so many nice tales.
I can relate to him in some ways. Earlier than I grew to become a meals blogger, I completed a 4-year enterprise school diploma, had many company jobs, and accomplished a 2-year MBA Program in Provide Chain Administration. However for a very long time, that profession simply made me sad – I’m not the individual to thrive within the company world; I’ve by no means actually slot in. I made a decision to begin anew in 2012 as a meals blogger within the on-line publishing world by beginning this web site. I give up my company job in 2016 and went full-time with this web site. This modification allowed me to create a extra balanced life-style that features having fun with nature, train, meditation, journey, correct vitamin, spending time with household and pals, and extra.
It took time to seek out my means, and I am nonetheless figuring all of it out. My life remains to be not as well-balanced as I would like, however I’m a relentless work in progress. I keep in mind studying about Kaizen again in enterprise college—it is a Japanese time period meaning “change for the higher” or “steady enchancment.” The concept is that small modifications as we speak can result in huge outcomes down the highway. That’s precisely the technique I’m rolling with today!
