The Little Issues E-newsletter #479 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my associates! It’s been a peachy eager week over right here, and I’m admittedly blissful to be nearly executed with the peaches. (Okay, technically, I’m a little bit over half executed, however since the remainder of the fruit is destined for this jam and this jam, it doesn’t really feel fairly so overwhelming now.)

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  Impressed by the cottage cheese ranch dip that I shared a number of weeks in the past, this cottage cheese taco dip is creamy, loaded with spicy southwest taste, and harking back to the old-school layered taco dip everyone knows and revel in.

Each chew of this garlicky shrimp zucchini stir fry is pure shrimp-loving heaven – and you can also make it begin to end in underneath quarter-hour!

This enjoyable twist on cucumber corn salad encompasses a creamy dressing with a contact of spicy sweetness, harking back to the daring, crave-worthy flavors of Mexican road corn.

Savory floor beef mingles with tender carrots and peas beneath a tacky layer of mashed potatoes on this Irish cottage pie.

This ranch potato salad by no means fails to make folks grin and ask for the recipe. If you happen to, or anybody you understand, simply actually love something ranch-flavored, this one is particularly for you.

Crisp-edged, crunchy cookies with an intense however completely balanced vanilla taste make up these selfmade vanilla cookies. These bite-size cookies go method past placing conventional ‘Nilla wafers to disgrace, they’re an entire new ballgame.

Creamy candy and tart lemon ice cream is swirled with stunning blueberry sauce on this refreshing lemon blueberry ice cream. Made with recent or frozen blueberries, you possibly can get pleasure from this sunshiney style of summer season year-round.

What I’m CRAVING: Reality? One thing not made with peaches. As a lot as I really like my favourite summer season fruit, I’ve been consuming peaches nonstop all week lengthy. So, I’ll take some salmon or steak, asparagus, and potatoes now, please. 

My FAVORITE THING this week is my hand cream. Regardless of the loopy humidity this summer season, my palms have been tremendous dry currently. And this hand cream is my saving grace. I’ve in all probability talked about it at the very least 5 occasions right here, but it surely stays one in all my favourite issues for a motive. And for what it’s value, I now purchase it within the 26-ounce dimension.

What I’m LISTENING to: Heaven On My Mind by TobyMac. This album is enjoyable from begin to end. As a lot as I benefit from the title monitor, I feel I like “A Lil Church” better of all. 

“A joyful coronary heart is sweet medication, however a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 ESV

Wishing you a stunning week filled with little issues that make you smile!

Mary