The Little Issues Publication #470 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my pals! It’s been a drizzly moist week right here in Ohio till yesterday, however I beloved the overcast days and loved the sound of rain whereas I labored. Consequently, I’m additional comfortable about just a few days of sunshine now too.

My youngest son completed college this week and we’re kicking off the summer time with a complete lot of nothing on the calendar subsequent week. (I’m thrilled about that!) However first, the weekend can be full of a child bathe, a grad get together, church, household dinner, and a sport night time.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  Parmesan cheese, black pepper, butter, and olive oil mix to make this parmesan pepper pasta. Its ease of preparation is matched solely by its perfection. The recipe is a mild riff on the traditional Italian dish cacio e pepe which interprets merely as cheese and pepper. 

Calling all broccoli and shrimp lovers! This flavorful honey garlic shrimp stir fry is exploding with vibrant crisp-tender broccoli and shrimp.

Summery cucumber tomato pasta salad combines backyard contemporary cherry tomatoes and cucumbers with bite-sized pasta and onions in a vinegar dressing. It is a dish that screams summer time cookout!

We’re a household of meatloaf lovers. So, naturally, when a buddy instructed me that she makes her meatloaf with a package of Lipton onion soup mix, I knew I wanted to attempt it. I’ll admit I’ve tweaked the recipe a great bit from the unique one I discovered on the Lipton web site. I like what I like, what can I say? Nonetheless, it seems that these onion soup seasonings work very properly for meatloaf.

This tuna pasta salad with bell peppers, celery, cucumbers, crimson onions, and olives is flippantly tossed in a lightweight, tangy, pickle-inspired creamy dressing. All of the flavors and textures on this salad mix to make it successful with everybody who tries it.

Toasting coconut offers it a nutty sweetness and complexity that dried coconut lacks – and it’s really easy to do, too!

Toasted coconut ice cream is fool-proof candy, creamy coconut vanilla ice cream with the nutty goodness of freshly toasted coconut. It’s perfection in simplicity in ice cream kind, pals.

What I’m CRAVING: All of the berries on the earth! I can’t get sufficient contemporary berries currently and I’m thrilled that they’ve been so candy and tart and ideal currently once I purchase them. I simply shook collectively a jar of creamy poppyseed dressing to make this summer berry salad this weekend.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these bath salts. I’ve talked about them within the e-newsletter a number of instances through the years. I by no means was a shower particular person, however these salts work like nothing else for muscle aid and leisure earlier than sleep. I depend on them after onerous exercises and, as a bonus, I sleep noticeably higher after utilizing them in a shower earlier than mattress.

What I’m LISTENING to: It’s been a Blues Traveler form of week over right here. I attempted a random 90s playlist just a few days in the past and was transported again to so many enjoyable music recollections.

“The steadfast love of the Lord by no means ceases; his mercies by no means come to an finish; they’re new each morning; nice is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV

Wishing you a stunning week stuffed with little issues that make you smile!

Mary