The Little Issues Publication #481 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my pals! I’ve spent extra time outside 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 season, I’m very a lot trying ahead to fall with a smile on my face.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Crammed 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.

Rooster and greens simmer in a creamy filling beneath a flaky biscuit topping to make these irresistible mini chicken pot pies. (I believe my youngest can be glad to eat hen pot pie each single day if I made it that usually.) That is additionally a good 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 might 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 strategy to finish the summer season and have fun everybody heading again to high school. It doesn’t get a lot simpler than simply stirring every part 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 strategy to fulfill your candy tooth this summer season – or this fall, or winter, or just about any time of 12 months, should you’re me.

What I’m CRAVING: A protracted winter nap. Can I admit that within the midst of summer season? There’s one thing irresistible a few wet or snowy weekend day when you possibly can 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 fantastic ebook 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 means of summer season, consuming all of the salads and chilly dishes doable.

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 might presumably be with this machine.

Ice cream in simply FIVE minutes. Let that sink in. Begin to end with no frozen components 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 whole lot 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 price) 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 actually skeptical. However WOW. Simply wow. You possibly can study extra about Tern ice cream and see extra movies on their web site.

OH! And yet another 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 enormous 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 Factor by Mark Sanborn. The complete title of this ebook is How Ardour in Your Work and Life Can Flip the Odd into the Extraordinary. It is a quick ebook and a quick learn, however I actually loved it. The ebook is full of easy tales of ways in which folks can impression the lives of others with a bit greater than a fantastic angle and constructive outlook on day-to-day actions.

Full disclosure, the creator irritated me a number of occasions (probably simply his persona coming by means of), however total, I nonetheless give this ebook 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 plentiful in energy; his understanding is past measure.” Psalm 147:3-5 ESV

Wishing you a stunning week full of little issues that make you smile!

Mary