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

Welcome to the weekend, my buddies! 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 lots 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 house immediately, I’ve deliberate some quite simple meals to get us via the remainder of spring break and into the final of the varsity yr. BBQ chicken stuffed potatoes are all the time a success with everybody they usually’re actually the simplest meal you may make. 

All of the components 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 like 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 components. Simply TWO. I’ll be making these bowls with strawberries all week lengthy. 

With an abundance of candy ripe berries, contemporary inexperienced spinach, chewy pasta, and a shiny and flavorful gentle balsamic dressing, this strawberry spinach salad is an sudden and scrumptious pasta salad that’s sure to grow to be one among 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 contemporary 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. Thankfully, that is by no means removed from hand, (ha, pun unintended) I like it a lot. 

What I’m LISTENING to: Psalms by Sandra McCracken. This album has a singular sound, harking back to Americana and people. I really 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 total 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 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 buddies, in addition to for our church. My oldest son launched me to Carson via this examine 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