Hi there, associates and fellow residence cooks!
It is time for my Saturday e-newsletter, which incorporates 7 weeknight meals + 3 wholesome salads (for the week of August 25-31, 2024), and a quick life replace.
7 weeknight meals + 3 wholesome salads
DAY 1: Creamy Mushroom Pork Chops (30 Minutes, One-Pan)
DAY 2: Stuffed Spaghetti Squash with Rooster, Tomatoes, Spinach, and Feta Cheese
DAY 3: Greek Shrimp Spaghetti
DAY 4: Thai-inspired Purple Curry Rooster Noodle Soup
DAY 5: Salmon Pasta with Solar-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce and Spinach
DAY 6: Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas (you can even use Asparagus, Broccoli, or Inexperienced Beans)
DAY 7: Italian Sausage Pasta with Spinach, Mushrooms, Tomatoes, and Garlic
SALAD 1: 15-Minute Peach Salsa with Pineapple, Bell Pepper, Purple Onion, Inexperienced Onion, Cilantro, Lime Juice, Chili Powder (Summer time various to common tomato salsa. Goes nice with grilled meat, nearly all the things: steak, salmon, rooster, pork, lamb)
SALAD 2: Asparagus Tomato Salad with Burrata Cheese, Pine Nuts, and Balsamic Dressing (You should use contemporary gentle Mozzarella cheese as a substitute of Burrata)
SALAD 3: Pear Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese, Pecans, and Honey-Lemon Dressing
LIFE UPDATE
Up to now two weeks, our city and the encompassing areas have been hit with an unusually excessive quantity of rain, resulting in in depth flash flooding and injury in some areas. Quite a few mudslides have occurred each in and round our city, typically forcing highway closures (and path closures) for days as crews work to clear the particles. Whereas rainfall is useful in lowering wildfire threat, the sheer quantity of moisture we have now just lately skilled is very uncommon for this time of yr. This week, trying longer hikes has been out of the query, because the circumstances have made it unsafe and ugly to hike via mud and below the specter of frequent lightning and thunderstorms, particularly in uncovered areas above the tree line.
Longer hikes are probably the most gratifying for me as a result of they take you as much as larger elevations, the place you’ll be able to expertise a totally totally different panorama above the tree line. Sometimes, we even come throughout small alpine lakes. This hasn’t been attainable for the previous two weeks, as mountain climbing at larger elevations will increase the chance of lightning strikes in present climate circumstances. It is also a lot colder up there, making it uncomfortable and ugly, and it may very well be unsafe when it rains that tough.
Nevertheless, I did handle to search out temporary home windows of fine climate and hiked my favourite path a number of occasions this week. Within the images, you will see the beautiful blue skies with lovely white clouds—a hanging distinction to the heavy rain and thunderstorms in between these blue skies. The sky has been extra breathtaking than I’ve seen in a very long time. I hope you’ll benefit from the images beneath that I snapped this week – check out the sky:
Perhaps it is as a result of I like mountain climbing, however an algorithm introduced up a YouTube video right this moment in my feed that I discovered fascinating. It is a self-told story of an MIT-educated neurosurgeon who all of the sudden left his profitable profession. After 4 years of medical college, 6 years of surgical coaching, and 10 years as a neurosurgeon in a hospital (doing spinal surgical procedures)—a complete of 20 years of profession funding—he made the drastic choice to give up with no different plan in thoughts. Nobody round him may perceive why. He left his job on the hospital final yr, and only a month in the past, he posted a video explaining his choice on YouTube, which has already garnered 11 million views. It is positively price watching; he makes some compelling factors and clearly enjoys mountain climbing, as he filmed your complete 48-minute video whereas standing towards the backdrop of beautiful, snow-covered mountain peaks. The feedback part below the video can be price studying – so many nice tales.
I can relate to him in some ways. Earlier than I grew to become a meals blogger, I completed a 4-year enterprise school diploma, had many company jobs, and accomplished a 2-year MBA Program in Provide Chain Administration. However for a very long time, that profession simply made me sad – I’m not the particular person to thrive within the company world; I’ve by no means actually slot in. I made a decision to begin anew in 2012 as a meals blogger within the on-line publishing world by beginning this web site. I give up my company job in 2016 and went full-time with this website. This variation allowed me to create a extra balanced life-style that features having fun with nature, train, meditation, journey, correct diet, spending time with household and associates, and extra.
It took time to search out my method, and I am nonetheless figuring all of it out. My life remains to be not as well-balanced as I would like, however I’m a continuing work in progress. I keep in mind studying about Kaizen again in enterprise college—it is a Japanese time period meaning “change for the higher” or “steady enchancment.” The concept is that small modifications right this moment can result in massive outcomes down the highway. That’s precisely the technique I’m rolling with lately!
