The Little Issues E-newsletter #471 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! As I write this, I’m listening to the birds outdoors singing their hearts out and there’s a brilliantly purple cardinal dancing for us on the again patio. I feel the birds are as excited as we’re for a beautiful sunshine-filled day. 

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Do you know you possibly can prepare dinner perfect shrimp (from frozen!) in the air fryer with out thawing first and it seems completely? The air fryer is available in clutch as soon as once more by making shrimp an excellent simpler dinner choice.

Tender jasmine rice with chew sized broccoli florets in a tacky sauce makes this cheesy broccoli rice choosy eater authorised.

Cabbage crunch salad is an excellent recent, crunchy cabbage slaw in a superbly balanced tart and barely candy dressing with a touch of nutty sesame and almond.

Tangy, creamy, and packing somewhat mysterious kick, Russian dressing is a traditional salad topper and dip that deserves somewhat extra consideration. Coming collectively in 5 minutes or fewer, you’ll wish to have a bottle of this salad dressing within the fridge always!

Blueberry lemonade is as refreshing as it’s stunning. This vibrant magenta spin on traditional lemonade is destined to be your go-to for summer season sipping.

This coffee cake with fluffy coffee frosting is actually for espresso lovers. The espresso flavors each the cake and the frosting, reducing the sweetness with out detracting from the flavour. However you gotta like espresso. So much. Fortunately, we do, so it is a extremely popular cake in our home.

Brilliant and colourful and decidedly retro in the easiest way, bubble gum ice cream is a novel ice cream with a complete lot of caprice and hints of banana, cherry, and strawberry.

What I’m CRAVING: Have you ever heard of banana fritters?? These banana fritters with vanilla caramel sauce caught my eye yesterday and I dreamed about them final evening. I feel that’s an indication we have to make them quickly. They sound fairly superb!

My FAVORITE THING this week is this jewelry cleaner. In the event you’ve identified me for lengthy, that I certain do love glowing rings, and it doesn’t particularly matter whether or not they’re tremendous fancy, not so fancy, or costume items – I like all of them. Through the years, I’ve tried nearly each jewellery cleaner available on the market. That is my present favourite, just some drops in some heat water and every thing is glowing.

What I’m LISTENING to: The first Hunger Games audiobook has been a enjoyable hear this week. I loved the book years in the past, and we’ve watched the movie too, so the audiobook turned out to be a enjoyable alternative once I was on the lookout for a brand new ebook to hearken to this week.  

“Concern not, for I’m with you; be not dismayed, for I’m your God; I’ll strengthen you, I’ll show you how to, I’ll uphold you with my righteous proper hand.” Isaiah 41:10 ESV

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

Mary