The Little Issues E-newsletter #476 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! The primary week of July is at all times enjoyable right here in Ohio. Our essential road has been closed for the previous few days with the total carnival arrange there—rides, meals vans, and video games are in abundance. Immediately is the final day of it, and as enjoyable as it’s to see the lights and listen to the laughter, will probably be good to have a little bit of our normal calm summer season life return tomorrow.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: For the times or nights if you end up craving a scrumptious meal and don’t have any vitality or motivation to cook dinner it, these air fryer steak bites are the recipe you have to have in your pocket. They’re fast, flavorful, and simply fancy sufficient to make dinner really feel particular—even should you’re consuming them in your pajamas on the finish of a really lengthy day.

Crispy, pan-fried pork schnitzel is my sort of consolation meals. I very hardly ever escape the oil in my kitchen for any sort of frying, so you recognize that after I do, it’s going to be value it.

There’s one thing undeniably irresistible about this broccoli salad with bacon and cranberries. It disappears each time it’s served at a potluck or barbecue, and there are virtually at all times requests for the recipe.

Tender rice with onion, bell pepper, and celery combined with a terrific mix of spices provides as much as bowl of Cajun rice—a easy, easy-to-make aspect dish that tastes like one thing a complete lot fancier than it’s.

Hearty noodles function the right backdrop for barely candy cabbage and savory bacon on this simple cabbage pasta. I’ve been making it on repeat a minimum of as soon as a month for the previous yr.

Recent pineapple and selfmade ice cream are two of my summer season favorites. So, naturally, combining the 2 right into a batch of candy and creamy pineapple ice cream was going to occur.

What I’m CRAVING: Sue’s burrata tomato salad is so pretty. I want I had it in entrance of me now alongside a pile of torn croutons. That sounds so good proper now.

My FAVORITE THING this week is the brand new Daybreak dish cleaning soap. Yep, I’m such a weirdo that the brand new perfume of Daybreak dishwashing cleaning soap makes me grin each time I wash a dish. Initially, I used to be thrown off by the actual fact it wasn’t the identical Daybreak scent I’ve used for many of my grownup life, however now? I prefer it. (And I don’t even know what to consider that, since I’m usually extremely averse to something remotely aromatic!)

What I’m READING: Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary, M.D. When Peter Attia (writer of Outlive) calls a guide a “wake-up name”, I instantly put it on my must-read listing. And I learn this one quick. It was engrossing and I’ve already really helpful it to a number of folks. 

The guide is exceptionally well-researched, and the quantity of data that challenges the medical established order is nearly unreal. I now have a listing of issues to analyze additional, each for my future well being and for the well being of my household. 

What I’m LISTENING to: Psalms by Sandra McCracken. The album has a singular sound, paying homage to Americana and folks. I’ve shared this one with you earlier than, but it surely bears repeating. I like her variations on the normal songs she’s included. Her music, My Help, My God, stays my favourite.

“Subsequently, since we’re surrounded by so nice a cloud of witnesses, allow us to additionally lay apart each weight, and sin which clings so intently, and allow us to run with endurance the race that’s set earlier than us, 2 seeking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our religion, who for the enjoyment that was set earlier than him endured the cross, despising the disgrace, and is seated on the proper hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV

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

Mary