The Little Issues E-newsletter #458 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! I did a double take as I wrote immediately’s date – March 1st. I’m not fully certain how that’s potential and but, right here we’re. Time is actually flying this 12 months. 

March normally has me craving salads and lighter meals for spring, however I’m nonetheless very a lot within the hearty, consolation meals zone over right here. I’m pondering that a big pot of chili sounds nearly proper for this weekend, together with some oven burritos, and a few meat lover’s pasta for this week. Admittedly, there will likely be salads too, however for essentially the most half, simply give me all the nice and cozy, cozy meals.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  Flaky buttery pastry tops a luscious medley of tender hen, hearty greens, and a creamy, savory sauce on this Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie.

Neglect heating up the oven, use the air fryer for baked candy potatoes. The primary time I baked sweet potatoes in the air fryer it was a game-changer for me. Over the previous few months, this has been my lunch no less than as soon as per week.

Wealthy and garlicky, you’ll have hassle believing this Creamy Cauliflower Potato Soup is made and not using a drop of cream or milk! I beloved this soup from the very first chew.

Melting chocolate, chewy coconut, and crunchy nuts are layered over a buttery graham cracker crust to make these Hello Dolly Bars. My youngsters and husband devoured these lightning quick! Fortunately, they’re very simple to make as I believe they’re going to be in style in our residence for lots of years to return.

This three ingredient Hot Cocoa Mix is a tasty, easy, handy, and economical solution to get your scorching chocolate repair. Whip up a batch to maintain readily available for after faculty, chilly climate, and cravings.

This chocolate ice cream is swirled with bite-size wafer cookies and in addition loaded with chocolate-covered chunks of Package Kat sweet bars. Kit Kat Ice Cream has all the pieces you like about Package Kat sweet bars swirled into every scoop of this home made ice cream.

What I’m CRAVING: A bowl of my buddy Shawn’s Creamy Broccoli Cheese Soup together with some crusty heat bread for dipping? That sounds just about excellent proper now. 

My FAVORITE THING this week is that this journal. I nearly at all times lean towards spiral certain journals, however this one is a brand new favourite for me. I like the scale (it’s nice for tossing in my bag) and the standard is superb. The pages are good and thick and it lays flat for writing. It’s very snug to make use of and it seems to be so good too!

What I’m LISTENING to (on repeat): Never Lose Sight by Chris Tomlin. Your entire album is nice and I’ve been having fun with beginning my days with it.

What I’m READING: I’ve began and stopped a number of fiction books currently that aren’t price mentioning. (Might be that it’s simply not my season for excellent fiction.) Nonetheless, this Tim Keller e-book, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God has been great thus far! I’m studying it slowly and making an attempt to actually take in it, it’s more likely to be in my favorites record for a very long time.

“Train me your approach, O Lord, that I could stroll in your reality; unite my coronary heart to worry your identify. I give because of you, O Lord my God, with my complete coronary heart, and I’ll glorify your identify ceaselessly.” Psalm 86:11-12 ESV

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

Mary