Welcome to the weekend, my associates! 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: Stuffed with 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.
Hen and greens simmer in a creamy filling beneath a flaky biscuit topping to make these irresistible mini hen pot pies. (I believe my youngest can be completely satisfied to eat hen pot pie each single day if I made it that usually.) That is additionally a good 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 turn into your new favourite factor. 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 yr lengthy, it’s a vegetable-packed pasta salad. I’ve talked about earlier than, and it holds true with this backyard 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 hen fajitas are about to alter your fajita-making sport.
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 highschool. It doesn’t get a lot simpler than simply stirring all the things 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 yr, when you’re me.
What I’m CRAVING: An extended winter nap. Can I admit that within the midst of summer season? There’s one thing irresistible a couple of wet or snowy weekend day when you may curl up on the sofa with a cafe con leche, a London fog, or perhaps a scorching chai latte. In my world, that would come with an important ebook 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 summer season, consuming all of the salads and chilly dishes doable.
My FAVORITE THING this week is this little ice cream maker. (You’ll be able to see me utilizing it right 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 substances 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 loads of ice cream, associates. 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 value) 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 truthfully skeptical. However WOW. Simply wow. You’ll be able to study extra about Tern ice cream and see extra movies on their web site.
OH! And another enjoyable truth earlier than I cease rambling about ice cream – as a result of method this machine churns with out incorporating tons of air, it will get big bonus factors from me for the flexibility to make ice cream as wholesome or indulgent as you want and nonetheless ship clean and creamy outcomes.
What I’m READING: The Fred Issue by Mark Sanborn. The complete title of this ebook is How Ardour in Your Work and Life Can Flip the Bizarre into the Extraordinary. This can be a brief ebook and a quick learn, however I actually loved it. The ebook is stuffed with easy tales of ways in which individuals can impression the lives of others with just a little greater than an important angle and optimistic outlook on day-to-day actions.
Full disclosure, the writer irritated me a number of instances (possible simply his persona coming by), however general, I nonetheless give this ebook 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 offers to all of them their names. Nice is our Lord, and plentiful in energy; his understanding is past measure.” Psalm 147:3-5 ESV
Wishing you a stunning week stuffed with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
