Welcome to the weekend, my pals! I’ve spent extra time open air this previous week than I’ve shortly. The mornings have been gloriously cool and excellent 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 trying ahead to fall with a smile on my face.
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Stuffed with 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 hen pot pies. (I believe my youngest can be blissful to eat hen pot pie each single day if I made it that always.) 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 grow to be your new favourite factor. 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 backyard 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 hen fajitas are about to vary your fajita-making sport.
No-bake cookies have met their match with these no bake chocolate peanut butter bars. They’re the proper solution to finish the summer time and have a good time everybody heading again to highschool. It doesn’t get a lot simpler than simply stirring all the things collectively and pouring it right into a pan.
Creamy, wealthy, chocolatey Nutella ice cream with a melt-in-your-mouth swirl of Nutella blended all through is a dreamy solution to fulfill your candy tooth this summer time – or this fall, or winter, or just about any time of 12 months, for those who’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 few wet or snowy weekend day when you’ll be able to curl up on the sofa with a cafe con leche, a London fog, or possibly a scorching chai latte. In my world, that would come with an ideal guide to learn or simply dozing to my coronary heart’s content material. It doesn’t occur usually sufficient, however when it does? It’s nearly magical. Within the meantime although, we’re nonetheless transferring nonstop by way of summer time, consuming all of the salads and chilly dishes attainable.
My FAVORITE THING this week is this little ice cream maker. (You’ll be able to see me utilizing it right 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 probably 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 loads of ice cream, pals. With over 150 ice cream recipes on my web site, I’ve in all probability churned a thousand batches over the previous few years.
And I’ve reviewed (at my very own value) just about each machine available on the market. 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’ll be able to study extra about Tern ice cream and see extra movies on their web site.
OH! And yet one more enjoyable truth earlier than I cease rambling about ice cream – as a result of means this machine churns with out incorporating tons of air, it will get large bonus factors from me for the power to make ice cream as wholesome or indulgent as you want and nonetheless ship easy and creamy outcomes.
What I’m READING: The Fred Issue by Mark Sanborn. The complete title of this guide is How Ardour in Your Work and Life Can Flip the Abnormal into the Extraordinary. This can be a brief guide and a quick learn, however I actually loved it. The guide is stuffed with easy tales of ways in which individuals can influence the lives of others with a little bit greater than an ideal perspective and optimistic outlook on day-to-day actions.
Full disclosure, the writer irritated me just a few instances (seemingly simply his character coming by way of), however total, I nonetheless give this guide 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 offers to all of them their names. Nice is our Lord, and considerable 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
