Welcome to the weekend, my associates! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer time work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We’ve a enjoyable journey deliberate with associates after which a complete 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 yr!)
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 – verify them out and discover one thing new to strive!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and straightforward technique to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You gained’t consider 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 pink onions, peppery arugula, contemporary basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous contemporary, and extremely satisfying, this salad ought to be a normal at your summer time desk.
Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that can hold 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 time 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 time reminiscences are made from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit outdoors together with your ft up, and loosen up!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so filled with cherries it’s positive to make you smile. With almost equal elements frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, this can be a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the get together as effectively!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously full of cookie items and mini chocolate chips. It’s a complete 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 associates and the flavour variations are infinite.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these super handy little pill organizers. They’re loopy low-cost (lower than $2 every!) and so they’re the good little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each medication we would want and the little field takes up virtually no house.
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 yr was nice enjoyable and I instantly positioned a maintain on her guide via my library. Her life story is actually superb and her humorousness comes via within the guide as effectively. 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 variety of enjoyable. The narration is incredible and regardless that 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
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