Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer season work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We’ve a enjoyable journey deliberate with buddies 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 thousands of recipes here, and here, and 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 received’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 crimson onions, peppery arugula, contemporary basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous contemporary, and extremely satisfying, this salad must be a regular at your summer season desk.
Old Fashioned Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that can maintain you coming again for extra. With a dressing created from vinegar and oil, it’s higher suited to picnics and events within the scorching 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 happy smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer season recollections are made from. 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 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 nicely!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously crammed with 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 buddies and the flavour variations are countless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these super handy little pill organizers. They’re loopy low-cost (lower than $2 every!) they usually’re the best little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each medication we’d want and the little field takes up nearly no house.
What I’m READING: The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every 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 guide via my library. Her life story is really superb and her humorousness comes via within the guide as nicely. She’s an inspiration.
What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary guide of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s loads of enjoyable. The narration is implausible and though it’s written for ages 9-12, this can be a hilarious fantasy sequence 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
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