The Little Issues E-newsletter #461 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my pals! My youngest son and I spent the previous few days in Arizona and New Mexico visiting household and it was a good time for all of us. As a lot as we love Ohio, it’s loads of enjoyable to be again within the Southwest for these visits. (Particularly earlier than the solar reaches earth-boiling temperatures every summer season.)

IN THE KITCHEN THIS WEEK: With touring this previous week and heading dwelling right now, I’ve deliberate some quite simple meals to get us via the remainder of spring break and into the final of the varsity 12 months. BBQ chicken stuffed potatoes are all the time successful with everybody and so they’re actually the best meal you can also make. 

All of the substances we love in traditional Chinese language Egg Rolls come collectively on this egg roll stir fry recipe. That is an irresistible bowl of deconstructed egg rolls and also you’re going to adore it.

Tender peas, candy carrots, and savory bits of celery and onions in a creamy, wealthy beef gravy baked inside a buttery crust make for a incredible (and EASY) ground beef pot pie.

Some meals are so primary, so extremely easy, that it may be troublesome to explain their awesomeness. That’s how I really feel about cottage cheese with fruit. Two substances. Simply TWO. I’ll be making these bowls with strawberries all week lengthy. 

With an abundance of candy ripe berries, recent inexperienced spinach, chewy pasta, and a brilliant and flavorful gentle balsamic dressing, this strawberry spinach salad is an sudden and scrumptious pasta salad that’s sure to turn out to be one in every of your loved ones’s new favorites.

California spaghetti salad is a assured hit for the vegetable lovers in your life! This amped up pasta salad is exploding with recent greens and an irresistible Parmesan dressing.

And with all of the berries coming into season, Strawberries Romanoff positively must be on the meal plan. The final berries I purchased had been so flavorful, I instantly knew this dessert wanted to occur asap.

My FAVORITE THING this week is my hand cream. Every time I go to household again in AZ and NM, my pores and skin dries out like mad. Luckily, that is by no means removed from hand, (ha, pun unintended) I adore it a lot. 

What I’m LISTENING to: Psalms by Sandra McCracken. This album has a singular sound, paying homage to Americana and people. I like her variations on among the conventional songs she’s included. We initially found her tune My Help, My God and inside a couple of minutes I used to be downloading the complete album. It’s stunning from begin to end.

What I’m READING: A Call to Spiritual Reformation by D.A. Carson. This ebook takes an method to prayer that I haven’t studied earlier than. Carson analyzes Paul’s prayers in depth, for instance to to the Christian church, diving into every phrase and phrase used. It has already modified the way in which that I pray for my household and pals, in addition to for our church. My oldest son launched me to Carson via this research and I’ve already picked up a number of extra of his books.

“However in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, all the time being ready to make a protection to anybody who asks you for a purpose for the hope that’s in you; but do it with gentleness and respect.” 1 Peter 3:15

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

Mary