The Little Issues E-newsletter #473 – Life, laughter, and many nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my pals! It’s a muggy, heat Saturday right here and I’ve a reasonably clean day on the calendar. I loved my yoga class this morning, then a church breakfast with pals. After I ship this article out, I plan to hit the sofa with a guide and switch myself right into a vegetable for the remainder of the day. Happily, the fridge is full of leftovers and there can be no have to prepare dinner something tonight. 

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Craving one thing fast, flavorful, and just a bit spicy? This ground beef and cabbage stir fry comes collectively in minutes—with crisp greens, savory beef, and a refined warmth that retains you coming again for extra.

Frito pie casserole is the massive scale, crowd-friendly model of walking tacos; seasoned taco meat with beans topped with melted cheese and crunchy corn chips. If you wish to make it a meal in a single, prime as you’d a taco with lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and cilantro.

This brown sugar salmon recipe makes use of the air fryer to prepare dinner a chunk of salmon to seasoned and subtly candy perfection in mere minutes. And whereas I stand agency that the air fryer rocks salmon, I perceive not everybody has one useful, (otherwise you may have to prepare dinner for a bigger crowd!) so I’ve included the directions for cooking it in a typical oven.

Creamy ham pasta with tender sweet peas comes collectively in lower than half-hour for this pasta evening favourite. Whether or not you begin with leftover ham or seize ham particularly to make this, everybody will like it!

Give your tuna sandwich a excessive octane improve with this spicy tuna salad recipe. Just a little little bit of scorching sauce and a few jarred jalapeños deliver the warmth to this anything-but-boring tuna salad. You’re going to sit up for lunch all morning lengthy.

Do-it-yourself pie fillings style infinitely higher than store-bought! And to make issues as straightforward as might be, you can also make this cherry pie filling recipe with recent or frozen cherries.

I’ve a well-established love of ice cream, with over 150 ice cream recipes right here on the web site, and but I nonetheless make this straightforward ice cream recipe a minimum of as soon as a month. There’s a motive why we name this the easiest (and best!) ice cream you’ll ever make or style.

What I’m CRAVING: My buddy Rebeca’s crispy bang bang salmon bites are screaming my identify. I’m borderline obsessive about salmon bites these days and that recipe and sauce sound like an superior mixture. (I can’t consider I nonetheless haven’t shared my favourite recipe for salmon bites, and I make it nearly each week these days! It’s coming quickly although, I promise.)

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are my dishwashing gloves. I’ve been utilizing them every day for over a yr now. Sadly, there was an incident whereas washing a pointy utensil this week and I by accident poked a gap in them. I instantly dried my palms and ordered a substitute pair.

I really like these gloves a lot, I’ve even gifted them to pals. Sure, I’m the sort of one that presents cleansing merchandise or random pens or no matter else I occur to be having fun with a lot I need to share it. 

What I’m LISTENING to: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins has been this week’s pay attention. That is the prequel to the original Hunger Games trilogy. I loved watching the new movie with my nieces final yr however hadn’t learn the guide. So, this was an additional enjoyable learn/pay attention for the deeper storyline.

“That is the day that the Lord has made; allow us to rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 ESV

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

Mary