Good day, mates and fellow house cooks!
It is time for my Saturday e-newsletter, 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 Rooster, Tomatoes, Spinach, and Feta Cheese
DAY 3: Greek Shrimp Spaghetti
DAY 4: Thai-inspired Pink Curry Rooster 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 too 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 every thing: steak, salmon, rooster, pork, lamb)
SALAD 2: Asparagus Tomato Salad with Burrata Cheese, Pine Nuts, and Balsamic Dressing (You should use recent delicate Mozzarella cheese as a substitute of Burrata)
SALAD 3: Pear Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese, Pecans, and Honey-Lemon Dressing
LIFE UPDATE
Prior to now two weeks, our city and the encircling areas have been hit with an unusually excessive quantity of rain, resulting in in depth flash flooding and harm 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 useful in decreasing wildfire danger, the sheer quantity of moisture we now have lately skilled is very uncommon for this time of 12 months. This week, making an attempt longer hikes has been out of the query, because the situations have made it unsafe and ugly to hike by mud and underneath 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 increased elevations, the place you possibly can expertise a totally totally different panorama above the tree line. Often, we even come throughout small alpine lakes. This hasn’t been potential for the previous two weeks, as climbing at increased elevations will increase the chance of lightning strikes in present climate situations. It is also a lot colder up there, making it uncomfortable and ugly, and it might be unsafe when it rains that arduous.
Nevertheless, I did handle to seek out transient home windows of excellent climate and hiked my favourite path a number of occasions this week. Within the photographs, you will see the gorgeous blue skies with stunning white clouds—a placing 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 photographs under that I snapped this week – check out the sky:
Perhaps it is as a result of I really like climbing, however an algorithm introduced up a YouTube video right this moment in my feed that I discovered fascinating. It is a self-told story of an MIT-educated neurosurgeon who immediately left his profitable profession. After 4 years of medical faculty, 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 12 months, 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 undoubtedly price watching; he makes some compelling factors and clearly enjoys climbing, as he filmed the complete 48-minute video whereas standing in opposition to the backdrop of gorgeous, snow-covered mountain peaks. The feedback part underneath the video can be price 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 particular person 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 website. This alteration allowed me to create a extra balanced way of life that features having fun with nature, train, meditation, journey, correct diet, spending time with household and mates, and extra.
It took time to seek out my approach, and I am nonetheless figuring all of it out. My life continues to be not as well-balanced as I might like, however I’m a relentless work in progress. I keep in mind studying about Kaizen again in enterprise faculty—it is a Japanese time period meaning “change for the higher” or “steady enchancment.” The thought is that small modifications right this moment can result in large outcomes down the highway. That’s precisely the technique I’m rolling with nowadays!
