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The Little Issues E-newsletter #480 – Life, laughter, and many nice meals!


Welcome to the weekend, my pals! I’m reveling in a momentary break from the loopy humidity right here in central Ohio this weekend. The cool mornings for the previous couple of days have been an absolute reward. My youngest and I pulled collectively his faculty provides this morning, and it’s a bit of onerous to imagine how quickly faculty shall be beginning. Fall is unquestionably on the best way, and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  When you get pleasure from making your personal salad dressings (and also you already know that I do!), this honey dijon French dressing is a superb one to maintain readily available. It’s made with easy substances from the pantry and fridge, it’s fast to make, filled with terrific taste, and works with absolutely anything—from easy aspect salads to grilled hen or roasted greens.

Tender, garlicky shrimp, creamy avocado, crisp greens, and a tangy-sweet dressing mix on this irresistible shrimp and avocado salad. Each chew makes me grin after I’m consuming this salad.

Garlicky and mildly spicy, mushroom spinach pasta is a research in flavorful simplicity. Good al dente pasta is tossed in a light-weight pan sauce of white wine or hen inventory, onion, garlic, mushrooms, spinach, and Parmesan cheese.

Wealthy, savory, and hearty, air fryer kielbasa is a tasty addition to many various recipes. There are an entire lot of adjectives I may use to explain kielbasa, however flavorful is the very best considered one of all.

Candy dried cranberries, salty bacon, sharp crimson onion, crunchy pecans, and creamy cheese come collectively in an awesomely flavorful and texture-filled option to make this broccoli salad.

Heath bar cookies begin with a chocolate chip cookie dough base, however along with these melting semi-sweet morsels, these wealthy buttery cookies comprise the toffee-tastic magic of Heath bars.

Creamy and candy, this grape ice cream is an surprising delight on a sizzling summer time afternoon. When you loved grape popsicles as a child, this ice cream is a nostalgic taste bomb.

What I’m CRAVING: These Asian BBQ hen wings caught my eye a few days in the past, and now I have to make them. I’m additionally craving the spectacular Asian Salmon Salad I shared a number of months in the past. I’ve the salmon marinating now and I’m trying ahead to creating the salad for dinner tomorrow evening. Can’t wait!

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these reusable plastic lids for my mason jars. It’s a small factor, however I merely love the comfort of them. I don’t have that a lot of them, so I typically discover myself sifting by all of the steel lids within the drawer, hoping considered one of these shall be out there each time I would like a jar lid.

What I’m LISTENING to: Lemonade by Forrest Frank & The Figs. This music simply makes me snigger and grin. (And the story behind it is a lot enjoyable! All this whereas Forrest is mendacity in mattress with a damaged again, too.)

“The steadfast love of the Lord by no means ceases; his mercies by no means come to an finish; they’re new each morning; nice is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV

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

Mary

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