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

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! The primary week of July is all the time enjoyable right here in Ohio. Our foremost road has been closed for the previous few days with the total carnival arrange there—rides, meals vehicles, and video games are in abundance. At this time is the final day of it, and as enjoyable as it’s to see the lights and listen to the laughter, it is going to be good to have a little bit of our common calm summer season life return tomorrow.

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

Crispy, pan-fried pork schnitzel is my type of consolation meals. I very not often escape the oil in my kitchen for any type of frying, so that after I do, it’s going to be price 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 all the time requests for the recipe.

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

Hearty noodles function the proper backdrop for barely candy cabbage and savory bacon on this simple cabbage pasta. I’ve been making it on repeat no less than 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 sometimes 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 e book a “wake-up name”, I instantly put it on my must-read checklist. And I learn this one quick. It was engrossing and I’ve already beneficial it to a number of individuals. 

The e book is exceptionally well-researched, and the quantity of data that challenges the medical established order is nearly unreal. I now have an inventory of issues to research 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, nevertheless it bears repeating. I like her variations on the standard songs she’s included. Her music, My Help, My God, stays my favourite.

“Due to this fact, since we’re surrounded by so nice a cloud of witnesses, allow us to additionally lay apart each weight, and sin which clings so carefully, 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