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

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! 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 quite a lot 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 in the present day, I’ve deliberate some quite simple meals to get us by the remainder of spring break and into the final of the varsity yr. BBQ chicken stuffed potatoes are at all times successful with everybody they usually’re actually the simplest meal you may make. 

All of the components we love in basic 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 find it irresistible.

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 improbable (and EASY) ground beef pot pie.

Some meals are so primary, so extremely easy, that it may be tough to explain their awesomeness. That’s how I really feel about cottage cheese with fruit. Two components. 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 vibrant and flavorful gentle balsamic dressing, this strawberry spinach salad is an surprising and scrumptious pasta salad that’s sure to turn into 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 have 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. Fortuitously, that is by no means removed from hand, (ha, pun unintended) I find it irresistible 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 track 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 e-book takes an strategy to prayer that I haven’t studied earlier than. Carson analyzes Paul’s prayers in depth, for example to to the Christian church, diving into every phrase and phrase used. It has already modified the best way that I pray for my household and mates, in addition to for our church. My oldest son launched me to Carson by 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, at all times being ready to make a protection to anybody who asks you for a motive for the hope that’s in you; but do it with gentleness and respect.” 1 Peter 3:15

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

Mary