Welcome to the weekend, my pals! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer season work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. Now we have a enjoyable journey deliberate with pals after which an entire 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 hundreds of recipes right here, and right here, and right here – examine them out and discover one thing new to strive!
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 consider how easy it’s to show 4 primary elements 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, recent basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous recent, and extremely satisfying, this salad needs to be a normal at your summer season desk.
Outdated Customary Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may hold you coming again for extra.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 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 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 season recollections are product of. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit exterior together with your ft up, and loosen up!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so stuffed with cherries it’s certain 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 social gathering as properly!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously full of cookie items and mini chocolate chips. It’s an entire 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 pals and the flavour variations are countless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these tremendous helpful little capsule organizers. They’re loopy low cost (lower than $2 every!) they usually’re the good little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each drugs we’d want and the little field takes up nearly no house.
What I’m READING: The Nicely-Lived Life: A 102-12 months-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 my library. Her life story is actually wonderful and her humorousness comes by within the ebook as properly. 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 a whole lot of enjoyable. The narration is unbelievable 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
