Welcome to the weekend, my mates! It’s been a drizzly moist week right here in Ohio till yesterday, however I beloved the overcast days and loved the sound of rain whereas I labored. Because of this, I’m further joyful about just a few days of sunshine now too.
My youngest son completed college this week and we’re kicking off the summer time with a complete lot of nothing on the calendar subsequent week. (I’m thrilled about that!) However first, the weekend might be stuffed with a child bathe, a grad celebration, 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 traditional 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 recent cherry tomatoes and cucumbers with bite-sized pasta and onions in a vinegar dressing. This can be a dish that screams summer time cookout!
We’re a household of meatloaf lovers. So, naturally, when a pal informed me that she makes her meatloaf with a package of Lipton onion soup mix, I knew I wanted to strive it. I’ll admit I’ve tweaked the recipe a great 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, pink onions, and olives is flippantly 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 offers 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, mates.
What I’m CRAVING: All of the berries on the planet! I can’t get sufficient recent berries currently and I’m thrilled that they’ve been so candy and tart and excellent currently once 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 e-newsletter a number of instances over time. I by no means was a shower individual, however these salts work like nothing else for muscle aid and leisure earlier than sleep. I depend on them after laborious 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 form 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 filled with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
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