Welcome to the weekend, my mates! I’ve gifted myself the final two weeks of our summer time work-free – and I’m fairly enthusiastic about it. We’ve got a enjoyable journey deliberate with mates after which an entire week of hanging out with my youngest earlier than he begins highschool. (I can hardly imagine that I simply wrote that sentence – my child is beginning highschool this yr!)
I’ll be again with new recipes to share in a few weeks and within the meantime, I’ve already shared 1000’s of recipes right here, and right here, and right here – examine them out and discover one thing new to attempt!
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Blueberry Pancake Syrup is a fast and simple solution to make your pancake or waffle breakfast deliciously particular. You received’t imagine how easy it’s to show 4 fundamental elements right into a showstopping, vibrant purple feast for the eyes and mouth!
Watermelon Arugula Salad begins with icy chilly watermelon cubes in balsamic dressing with pink onions, peppery arugula, contemporary basil, and feta or goat cheese crumbles. Candy, savory, tremendous contemporary, and extremely satisfying, this salad must be an ordinary at your summer time desk.
Outdated Long-established Coleslaw with vinegar is a tangy, candy, crunchy slaw that may hold you coming again for extra. With a dressing created from vinegar and oil, it’s higher suited to picnics and events within the scorching summer time months than the maybe better-known mayonnaise-based variations.
Chunks of potato and hard-boiled egg mingle with salty bacon, tangy dill pickles and onions on this creamy potato salad. Bacon Potato Salad is a terrific facet dish for any barbecue and can just about assure glad smiles across the desk.
Gloriously tart however candy and endlessly refreshing, this cheery, ruby-hued Cherry Lemonade is what summer time recollections are manufactured from. Whip up a batch of this refresher, sit exterior along with your toes up, and chill out!
This cheery Cherry Milkshake is so stuffed with cherries it’s positive to make you smile. With almost equal components frozen cherries, ice cream, and milk, this can be a candy deal with that brings some goodness to the celebration as nicely!
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream is a buttery brown sugar ice cream generously full of cookie items and mini chocolate chips. It’s an entire new cookies and cream ice cream and I’m loving it.
What I’m CRAVING: All of the refreshing cocktails and mocktails! Have you ever tried making ranch water? These are tremendous enjoyable, gentle cocktails to combine up for mates and the flavour variations are countless.
My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these tremendous helpful little capsule organizers. They’re loopy low cost (lower than $2 every!) and so they’re the good little journey factor ever. They simply maintain nearly each medication we’d want and the little field takes up virtually no house.
What I’m READING: The Properly-Lived Life: A 102-12 months-Outdated Physician’s Six Secrets and techniques to Well being and Happiness at Each Age by Mark Hyman M.D. and Gladys T. McGarey. Listening to Gladys’ interview earlier this yr was nice enjoyable and I instantly positioned a maintain on her e book by way of my library. Her life story is really superb and her humorousness comes by way of within the e book as nicely. She’s an inspiration.
What I’m LISTENING to: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathon Stroud. That is the primary e book of The Bartimaeus Trilogy and it’s a number of enjoyable. The narration is unbelievable and despite the fact that it’s written for ages 9-12, this can be a hilarious fantasy sequence for all ages.
“You’re my refuge and my defend; I’ve put my hope in your phrase.” Psalm 119:114 NIV
Wishing you a stunning week stuffed with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
