The Little Issues E-newsletter #481 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my associates! I’ve spent extra time outdoor 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 time, I’m very a lot wanting ahead to fall with a smile on my face.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Full of 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 chicken pot pies. (I feel my youngest could be pleased to eat hen pot pie each single day if I made it that usually.) That is additionally an effective 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 recent mint, and a drizzle of honey is about to develop into your new favorite thing. 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 12 months lengthy, it’s a vegetable-packed pasta salad. I’ve talked about earlier than, and it holds true with this garden 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 chicken fajitas are about to alter your fajita-making recreation.

No-bake cookies have met their match with these no bake chocolate peanut butter bars. They’re the proper method to finish the summer time and have a good time everybody heading again to high school. It doesn’t get a lot simpler than simply stirring every little thing 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 method to fulfill your candy tooth this summer time – or this fall, or winter, or just about any time of 12 months, should you’re me.

What I’m CRAVING: An extended winter nap. Can I admit that within the midst of summer time? 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 possibly a hot chai latte. In my world, that would come with a terrific e book 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 time, consuming all of the salads and chilly dishes potential.

My FAVORITE THING this week is this little ice cream maker. (You possibly can see me using it 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 presumably 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 easy. I’ve made a number 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 in the marketplace. 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 possibly can be taught extra about Tern ice cream and see extra movies on their web site.

OH! And yet one more enjoyable reality 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 power to make ice cream as wholesome or indulgent as you want and nonetheless ship clean and creamy outcomes.

What I’m READING: The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn. The total title of this e book is How Ardour in Your Work and Life Can Flip the Strange into the Extraordinary. It is a quick e book and a quick learn, however I actually loved it. The e book is stuffed with easy tales of ways in which folks can influence the lives of others with slightly greater than a terrific angle and constructive outlook on day-to-day actions.

Full disclosure, the creator aggravated me just a few occasions (probably simply his character coming by), however total, I nonetheless give this e book 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 provides 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