Welcome to the weekend, my associates! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer season work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We’ve got a enjoyable journey deliberate with associates after which an entire week of hanging out with my youngest earlier than he begins highschool. (I can hardly consider 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 1000’s of recipes right here, and right here, and right here – test them out and discover one thing new to attempt!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and straightforward option to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You gained’t consider how easy it’s to show 4 fundamental components 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 pink onions, peppery arugula, recent basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous recent, and extremely satisfying, this salad must be a typical at your summer season desk.
Previous Usual Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that can preserve 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 facet dish for any barbecue and can just about assure completely satisfied smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer season recollections are product of. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit exterior together with your toes up, and loosen up!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so filled with cherries it’s positive to make you smile. With practically equal components frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, it is a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the social gathering as nicely!
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, mild cocktails to combine up for associates and the flavour variations are limitless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these tremendous helpful little capsule organizers. They’re loopy low cost (lower than $2 every!) and so they’re the best little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each drugs we would want and the little field takes up nearly no area.
What I’m READING: The Nicely-Lived Life: A 102-12 months-Previous Physician’s Six Secrets and techniques to Well being and Happiness at Each 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 guide by way of my library. Her life story is actually superb and her humorousness comes by way of within the guide as nicely. She’s an inspiration.
What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary guide of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s a number of enjoyable. The narration is incredible and despite the fact that it’s written for ages 9-12, it is a hilarious fantasy collection for all ages.
“You’re my refuge and my protect; 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
