The Little Issues E-newsletter #481 – Life, laughter, and many nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! I’ve spent extra time open air this previous week than I’ve shortly. The mornings have been gloriously cool and ideal for strolling or simply rocking on the porch. Whereas I’m not fairly able to say goodbye to summer season, I’m very a lot wanting ahead to fall with a smile on my face.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Full of savory, candy, and just a bit bit spicy floor beef tucked into melting cheese, you’re going to like Korean beef quesadillas. A little bit of leftover Korean beef impressed this scrumptious fusion twist on our late-night quesadilla cravings.

Rooster and greens simmer in a creamy filling beneath a flaky biscuit topping to make these irresistible mini chicken pot pies. (I believe my youngest could be blissful to eat hen pot pie each single day if I made it that usually.) That is additionally an effective way to make use of up bits of meat or greens lingering within the fridge too.

Creamy cottage cheese topped with juicy, candy peaches, loads of contemporary mint, and a drizzle of honey is about to change into your new favorite thing. Please, please, please, can peach season final just a bit longer? (Not a fan of cottage cheese? Simply use Greek yogurt!)

If there’s a dish I may eat all 12 months lengthy, it’s a vegetable-packed pasta salad. I’ve talked about earlier than, and it holds true with this garden pasta salad, that I like a LOT of greens in my pasta dishes. If I can handle a 50/50 ratio of greens to pasta, that’s happiness for me.

Love fajitas, however hate standing over scorching skillets within the summertime? Then these sheet pan chicken fajitas are about to alter your fajita-making recreation.

No-bake cookies have met their match with these no bake chocolate peanut butter bars. They’re the right strategy to finish the summer season and rejoice everybody heading again to high school. It doesn’t get a lot simpler than simply stirring all the pieces collectively and pouring it right into a pan.

Creamy, wealthy, chocolatey Nutella ice cream with a melt-in-your-mouth swirl of Nutella combined all through is a dreamy strategy to fulfill your candy tooth this summer season – or this fall, or winter, or just about any time of 12 months, if you happen to’re me.

What I’m CRAVING: A protracted winter nap. Can I admit that within the midst of summer season? There’s one thing irresistible a few wet or snowy weekend day when you may curl up on the sofa with a cafe con leche, a London fog, or possibly a hot chai latte. In my world, that would come with an important e book to learn or simply dozing to my coronary heart’s content material. It doesn’t occur typically sufficient, however when it does? It’s virtually magical. Within the meantime although, we’re nonetheless shifting nonstop by way of summer season, consuming all of the salads and chilly dishes potential.

My FAVORITE THING this week is this little ice cream maker. (You possibly can see me using it here.) Let me begin by telling you that I’m not an affiliate for the corporate or making a dime to advertise them, I’m merely as impressed as I may probably be with this machine.

Ice cream in simply FIVE minutes. Let that sink in. Begin to end with no frozen elements required, this ice cream is able to eat in lower than 5 minutes. Simply pour within the ice cream base and churn the ice cream. It’s that straightforward. I’ve made lots of ice cream, mates. With over 150 ice cream recipes on my web site, I’ve most likely churned a thousand batches over the previous few years. 

And I’ve reviewed (at my very own price) just about each machine available on the market. So, when Josh, the creator of this ice cream maker, reached out to me, I used to be actually skeptical. However WOW. Simply wow. You possibly can study extra about Tern ice cream and see extra movies on their web site.

OH! And yet another enjoyable truth earlier than I cease rambling about ice cream – because of the means this machine churns with out incorporating tons of air, it will get big bonus factors from me for the power to make ice cream as wholesome or indulgent as you want and nonetheless ship easy and creamy outcomes.

What I’m READING: The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn. The complete title of this e book is How Ardour in Your Work and Life Can Flip the Strange into the Extraordinary. It is a quick e book and a quick learn, however I actually loved it. The e book is full of easy tales of ways in which individuals can impression the lives of others with slightly greater than an important perspective and optimistic outlook on day-to-day actions.

Full disclosure, the writer aggravated me just a few instances (seemingly simply his character coming by way of), however total, I nonetheless give this e book a thumbs up and do suggest it. 

What I’m LISTENING to: I’ve began my mornings with Ellie Holcomb’s All of My Days all week lengthy. This album stays a favourite for me.

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the variety of the celebs; he provides to all of them their names. Nice is our Lord, and considerable in energy; his understanding is past measure.” Psalm 147:3-5 ESV

Wishing you a stunning week full of little issues that make you smile!

Mary