The Little Issues E-newsletter #470 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! 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 further blissful about just a few days of sunshine now too.

My youngest son completed faculty 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 might be crammed with a child bathe, a grad celebration, church, household dinner, and a recreation 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 recent 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 good friend instructed me that she makes her meatloaf with a package of Lipton onion soup mix, I knew I wanted to strive 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? Nevertheless, it seems that these onion soup seasonings work very properly for meatloaf.

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

Toasting coconut provides 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, mates.

What I’m CRAVING: All of the berries on this planet! I cannot get sufficient recent berries these days and I’m thrilled that they’ve been so candy and tart and ideal these days 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 publication a number of occasions through the years. I by no means was once a shower individual, however these salts work like nothing else for muscle reduction 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 sort 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 reminiscences.

“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