Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! Holy heatwave in Ohio. Yikes! The Midwest has been cooking all week and it certain hasn’t made me miss the Valley of the Solar. I’m tremendous excited now for the cooler temps subsequent week and the even higher fall climate that’s lastly within the forecast!
This weekend I’m as much as my eyeballs in tasks as we’re cleansing out the kitchen earlier than our transforming mission begins on Monday. Want us luck, as this can be a first for us. Issues certain received’t be boring at house for the following few months!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Learn the way straightforward it’s to make scrumptious, crisp-skinned hen within the oven with Italian Baked Hen. This oven baked hen with Italian seasoning has a crispy pores and skin and juicy inside that makes it one in every of my all time favourite hen recipes.
Thrown collectively on a whim one evening a few years in the past whereas we have been on the highway, this Bacon Potato Salad quickly turned a household favourite. Crammed with loads of eggs, bites of bacon, and a brilliant dill pickle taste, this salad has confirmed irresistible to everybody who tries it.
Tender, delicate angel hair pasta will get a carbonara-like glow up with a flavorful bacon and pea cream sauce on this pleasant and easy dish. It’s a weeknight dish that’s straightforward sufficient for busy evenings however good sufficient to serve firm!
Oh, how I like these crunchy, tangy, fast inexperienced bean pickles! Fortunately, they’re really easy to make, we will make them on repeat. These inexperienced beans are a enjoyable new snack in our fridge and the youngsters have been devouring them about as shortly as I could make them.
Tender bites of hen and shrimp are tossed with pasta and colourful bell peppers in a creamy, barely spicy sauce to create this Cajun Hen and Shrimp Pasta.
Blueberry Pie Bars are the right summery dessert on your subsequent picnic or occasion.
Creamy, candy, and only a bit tart, let’s give the summer time a final hurrah of brilliant refreshing flavors with this Lime Ice Cream.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these freezable lunch containers. All of my guys carry lunches every day, both to highschool, the job website, or to the faculty campus. I discovered these PackIt containers this summer time and so they work nice. (I’ve had one of many sack-style PackIts for years now, so I knew it was a stable model.)Â
The lunch containers aren’t enormous, however they maintain a great quantity of meals for the day. We pop them within the freezer every evening, fill them within the morning, and so they’re nonetheless chilly once they get house 12 hours later.
What I’m READING: Wee Free Males by Terry Pratchett. My pal Rebecca beneficial this one and I’m so glad she did. I laughed many instances and completely loved following Tiffany and the Wee Free Males’s story. I instantly downloaded the following e book within the sequence once I completed this one!Â
“Armed with solely a frying pan and her frequent sense, younger witch-to-be Tiffany Aching should defend her house in opposition to the monsters of Fairyland. Fortunately she has some very uncommon assist: the native Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Males—a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue males.” – I imply, critically what’s to not love with an outline like that??
What I’m LISTENING to: I launched my youngest to Mamma Mia this previous weekend and he liked the film. (YAY! It’s such a enjoyable one!) So, naturally, we’ve had the soundtrack enjoying within the automotive all week. It’s tremendous enjoyable music for driving and singing alongside.
“He offers energy to the faint, and to him who has no would possibly he will increase power. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and younger males shall fall exhausted; however they who watch for the Lord shall renew their power; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and never be weary; they shall stroll and never faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31 ESV
Wishing you a stunning week stuffed with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
