The Little Issues E-newsletter #470 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my pals! It’s been a drizzly moist week right here in Ohio till yesterday, however I liked the overcast days and loved the sound of rain whereas I labored. Consequently, I’m additional comfortable about just a few days of sunshine now too.

My youngest son completed faculty this week and we’re kicking off the summer season with an entire lot of nothing on the calendar subsequent week. (I’m thrilled about that!) However first, the weekend will probably be stuffed with a child bathe, a grad get together, church, household dinner, and a sport night time.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  Parmesan cheese, black pepper, butter, and olive oil mix to make this parmesan pepper pasta. Its ease of preparation is matched solely by its perfection. The recipe is a mild riff on the basic Italian dish cacio e pepe which interprets merely as cheese and pepper. 

Calling all broccoli and shrimp lovers! This flavorful honey garlic shrimp stir fry is exploding with vibrant crisp-tender broccoli and shrimp.

Summery cucumber tomato pasta salad combines backyard contemporary cherry tomatoes and cucumbers with bite-sized pasta and onions in a vinegar dressing. This can be a dish that screams summer season cookout!

We’re a household of meatloaf lovers. So, naturally, when a good friend instructed me that she makes her meatloaf with a package of Lipton onion soup mix, I knew I wanted to attempt it. I’ll admit I’ve tweaked the recipe a very good bit from the unique one I discovered on the Lipton web site. I like what I like, what can I say? Nonetheless, it seems that these onion soup seasonings work very effectively for meatloaf.

This tuna pasta salad with bell peppers, celery, cucumbers, crimson onions, and olives is calmly tossed in a lightweight, tangy, pickle-inspired creamy dressing. All of the flavors and textures on this salad mix to make it a success with everybody who tries it.

Toasting coconut provides it a nutty sweetness and complexity that dried coconut lacks – and it’s really easy to do, too!

Toasted coconut ice cream is fool-proof candy, creamy coconut vanilla ice cream with the nutty goodness of freshly toasted coconut. It’s perfection in simplicity in ice cream type, pals.

What I’m CRAVING: All of the berries on this planet! I cannot get sufficient contemporary berries recently and I’m thrilled that they’ve been so candy and tart and excellent recently after I purchase them. I simply shook collectively a jar of creamy poppyseed dressing to make this summer berry salad this weekend.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these bath salts. I’ve talked about them within the publication a number of occasions through the years. I by no means was once a shower individual, however these salts work like nothing else for muscle reduction and rest earlier than sleep. I depend on them after exhausting exercises and, as a bonus, I sleep noticeably higher after utilizing them in a shower earlier than mattress.

What I’m LISTENING to: It’s been a Blues Traveler sort of week over right here. I attempted a random 90s playlist just a few days in the past and was transported again to so many enjoyable music recollections.

“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 stuffed with little issues that make you smile!

Mary