The Little Issues E-newsletter #495 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! Can I be trustworthy for a second? I’ve simply not been feeling the vacations this yr. I’m that lady more often than not, simply counting down the times for each attainable vacation occasion. Christmas is my very favourite time of the yr. However this yr? It merely hasn’t felt prefer it’s that point of yr but. 

So, I’ve been enjoying Christmas music (whether or not I actually felt prefer it or not initially) and each time I hear a basic Christmas tune, it brings a smile to my face and a bit of extra of the vacation spirit to my coronary heart. If you end up feeling a little bit of the identical, I like to recommend beginning up your favourite playlist and embracing the truth that we actually are within the season now.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: You understand that second once you’re midway by way of winter and your physique simply begins begging for one thing recent, vivid, and alive? Yeah, that’s the place this Winter Salad with cabbage and Brussels sprouts is available in. I believe I’ve made it 5 instances prior to now month. 

Crispy on the surface and fluffy inside, these Garlicky Roasted Baby Potatoes are tossed in a fast garlic and herb dressing proper earlier than serving. The nice and cozy potatoes take in all that garlicky goodness, making each chew memorable and recent.

Shrimp and Broccoli Pasta is the form of consolation meals that feels delightfully indulgent with out being heavy. It is a dish that tastes fancy sufficient to publish on-line, however permits you to keep firmly in your relaxation period, because it comes collectively as fast as might be.

 So far as I’m involved, that is the Best Apple Pie of all time (not that I’m biased). There’s one thing magical that occurs once you high an apple pie with streusel. It provides a layer of texture and new flavors to the pie, that you simply’d in any other case miss out on. So, I’ll take a slice of this apple streusel pie over typical apple pie any day.

There’s one thing unimaginable a couple of dessert that appears this fancy and takes lower than quarter-hour from begin to end. It looks like unlocking a cheat code. And, Graham Cracker Toffee is strictly that form of recipe.

Peppermint Hot Cocoa is one among our favourite heat drinks this time of yr. Combine up a batch of this cocoa combine in the present day and have it prepared for simple peppermint sizzling chocolate by way of the vacation season.

I’ve gathered all the perfect Fall Ice Cream Flavors right here for you. From caramel apples to pumpkin spice, peppermint, and cinnamon, candy maple syrup, nutty pecans and walnuts, apple crisps, and all the opposite issues I can’t get sufficient of, right now of yr.

What I’m CRAVING: These Drunken Noodles (Pad Kee Mao) by The Woks of Life. They give the impression of being unimaginable and the flavour mixture is true up my alley too. They have to be on my meal plan quickly.

My FAVORITE THING this week is my caramel bedtime tea. I haven’t all the time been a tea drinker, so I discover that I could be a little pickier with my flavors than different tea lovers may be. Nevertheless, this tea is so splendidly soothing, I look ahead to brewing a cup at night time. And after I was below the climate final week, it was pure heavenly aid with a spoonful of honey stirred into it. 

What I’m READING: How to Read a Book by Monica Wooden. This guide was such an amazing shock! I picked it up on a whim after seeing it beneficial by the library. I had no thought what it was going to be about and inside a couple of chapters, I couldn’t put it down. I stayed up method too late studying and completed it in simply a few days. It is a story of forgiveness and second possibilities. The characters are so actual, I wish to sit all the way down to dinner with them now. “Even the least eventful life holds an avalanche of tales.”

What I’m LISTENING to: Christmas with the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr.) Simply attempt to not smile listening to those classics. It is a coronary heart stuffed with vacation spirit tucked right into a Christmas album.

“For it’s by grace you’ve gotten been saved, by way of religion. And this isn’t from yourselves, it’s the reward of God, not by works, in order that nobody can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV

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

Mary