Welcome to the weekend, my pals! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer time work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We have now a enjoyable journey deliberate with pals after which a complete week of hanging out with my youngest earlier than he begins highschool. (I can hardly imagine 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 hundreds of recipes right here, and right here, and right here – verify them out and discover one thing new to attempt!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and simple solution to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You gained’t imagine 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 crimson onions, peppery arugula, recent basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous recent, and extremely satisfying, this salad must be a regular at your summer time desk.
Previous Common Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may hold you coming again for extra. With a dressing made out 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 aspect dish for any barbecue and can just about assure comfortable smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer time recollections are fabricated from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit outdoors together with your toes up, and calm down!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so stuffed with cherries it’s certain to make you smile. With practically equal components frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, this can be a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the social gathering as properly!
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, mild cocktails to combine up for pals and the flavour variations are limitless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these tremendous useful little tablet 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’d want and the little field takes up virtually no house.
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 e book by means of my library. Her life story is really superb and her humorousness comes by means of within the e book as properly. She’s an inspiration.
What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary e book of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s plenty of enjoyable. The narration is incredible and regardless that it’s written for ages 9-12, this can be a hilarious fantasy collection 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 stuffed with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
