Welcome to the weekend, my mates! 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 mates 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 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 simple method to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You received’t consider how easy it’s to show 4 fundamental 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 purple onions, peppery arugula, contemporary basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous contemporary, and extremely satisfying, this salad ought to be a typical at your summer season desk.
Outdated Original Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may preserve you coming again for extra. With a dressing comprised of vinegar and oil, it’s higher suited to picnics and events within the scorching 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 aspect dish for any barbecue and can just about assure completely happy smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer season reminiscences are fabricated from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit exterior together with your ft up, and chill out!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so stuffed with cherries it’s certain to make you smile. With almost equal components frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, it is a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the celebration as effectively!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously stuffed with 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 mates and the flavour variations are countless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these tremendous useful little capsule organizers. They’re loopy low cost (lower than $2 every!) they usually’re the best little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each drugs we’d want and the little field takes up virtually no house.
What I’m READING: The Effectively-Lived Life: A 102-Yr-Outdated 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 ebook by means of my library. Her life story is really superb and her humorousness comes by means of within the ebook as effectively. She’s an inspiration.
What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary ebook of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s lots of enjoyable. The narration is unbelievable and regardless that it’s written for ages 9-12, it is a hilarious fantasy sequence for all ages.
“You might be my refuge and my protect; I’ve put my hope in your phrase.” Psalm 119:114 NIV
Wishing you a stunning week stuffed with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
