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Thursday, November 7, 2024

The Little Issues E-newsletter #432 – Life, laughter, and many nice meals!


Welcome to the weekend, my pals! 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 initiatives as we’re cleansing out the kitchen earlier than our transforming challenge begins on Monday. Want us luck, as this can be a first for us. Issues certain received’t be boring at dwelling for the subsequent few months!

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Learn the way straightforward it’s to make scrumptious, crisp-skinned hen within the oven with Italian Baked Rooster. This oven baked hen with Italian seasoning has a crispy pores and skin and juicy inside that makes it one among my all time favourite hen recipes.

Thrown collectively on a whim one evening a few years in the past whereas we have been on the highway, this Bacon Potato Salad quickly turned a household favourite. Crammed with loads of eggs, bites of bacon, and a vibrant dill pickle taste, this salad has confirmed irresistible to everybody who tries it.

Tender, delicate angel hair pasta will get 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 straightforward sufficient for busy evenings however good sufficient to serve firm!

Oh, how I really like these crunchy, tangy, fast inexperienced 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 rapidly as I could make them.

Tender bites of hen and shrimp are tossed with pasta and colourful bell peppers in a creamy, barely spicy sauce to create this Cajun Rooster and Shrimp Pasta.

Blueberry Pie Bars are the proper summery dessert to your subsequent picnic or celebration.

Creamy, candy, and only a bit tart, let’s give the summer time a final hurrah of vibrant refreshing flavors with this Lime Ice Cream.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these freezable lunch packing containers. All of my guys carry lunches every day, both to highschool, the job web site, or to the school campus. I discovered these PackIt packing containers this summer time 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 an excellent quantity of meals for the day. We pop them within the freezer every evening, fill them within the morning, they usually’re nonetheless chilly after they get dwelling 12 hours later.

What I’m READING: Wee Free Males 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 collection after I completed this one! 

“Armed with solely a frying pan and her widespread sense, younger witch-to-be Tiffany Aching should defend her dwelling towards 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, critically 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 beloved the film. (YAY! It’s such a enjoyable one!) So, naturally, we’ve had the soundtrack taking part in within the automotive all week. It’s tremendous enjoyable music for driving and singing alongside.

“He provides energy to the faint, and to him who has no may he will increase power. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and younger males shall fall exhausted; however they who look forward 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

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