The Little Issues Publication #480 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! 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 slightly laborious to imagine how quickly faculty shall be beginning. Fall is certainly on the way in which, and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  In the event you get pleasure from making your individual salad dressings (and also you already know that I do!), this honey dijon vinaigrette is a superb one to maintain 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 examine 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 perfect one in every of all.

Candy dried cranberries, salty bacon, sharp pink onion, crunchy pecans, and creamy cheese come collectively in an awesomely flavorful and texture-filled approach 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 include the toffee-tastic magic of Heath bars.

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

What I’m CRAVING: These Asian BBQ chicken wings caught my eye a few days in the past, and now I must 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 lots of them, so I typically discover myself sifting by all of the steel lids within the drawer, hoping one in every of these shall be accessible each time I would like a jar lid.

What I’m LISTENING to: Lemonade by Forrest Frank & The Figs. This track simply makes me chortle 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