Welcome to the weekend, my associates! We’ve had an important week with household visiting, driving out to observe the eclipse in totality (so many ideas right here, however WOW sums it up), celebrating my niece’s birthday, enjoying video games, and cooking a lot meals. You recognize it’s been a soothing time after I’m now fortunately trying ahead to a number of straight days of labor. (However first, we’ll take pleasure in the remainder of the weekend!)
ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Loaded with our favourite Mexican flavors; this southwest chicken soup is barely spicy with chunks of tomatoes, corn, black beans, and tender hen. I wish to high the steaming bowls of soup with a handful of shredded cheese and your complete household provides this dinner two thumbs up. One of the best half? You may make this soup in simply TEN minutes!
Mango corn salsa is a candy and spicy deal with boasting a satisfying crunch of recent corn and delicate jalapeno warmth. Whether or not it’s scooped over grilled hen or served by itself with chips for dipping, it disappears quick.
Creamy, candy, and tangy poppy seed dressing flippantly coats every chunk of this broccoli slaw salad. With crisp recent broccoli and carrots, the chunk of purple onion, the crunch of pecans, and the candy chewy enjoyable of dried cranberries, this broccoli salad is a terrific facet dish for nearly any meal.
Bursting with candy and barely tart blueberries, this blueberry simple syrup will elevate your lemonades, pancakes, and cocktails with the essence of pure summer season goodness.
Oh, my associates, these blueberry lemon bars turned out much more superb than I hoped! With candy bursting blueberries in each chunk of the tangy lemon bars, they proved irresistible for me.
These buttery, not-too-sweet glazed lemon cookies have a light lemon taste and a sweetly tart lemon glaze. They’ve been successful with everybody who tries one.
As a lot as all of us love a superb old school banana cut up ice cream sundae, I’m right here to inform you that banana split ice cream is an entire new world of home made ice cream.
What I’m CRAVING: Scorching pretzels! I’ve a considerably ridiculous weak point for recent pretzels. There’s a pretzel store in our village and I not often resist stopping in when their gentle is on. (Fortunately, the store is simply open two days per week!) Within the meantime, when the native pretzels aren’t out there, we will make our personal utilizing Rebecca’s awesome pretzel recipes.
What I’m WATCHING: Insurgent and Allegiant. We completed watching the Divergent sequence whereas my youngest was on his spring break. I hadn’t seen the final film earlier than and we loved it. I want they’d completed the sequence (and never cut up the final guide into 2 separate deliberate motion pictures), nevertheless it works out okay the way in which it was accomplished.
What I’m READING: Four by Veronica Roth. When you’re a fan of the Divergent sequence, you’ll perceive how enjoyable it was to encounter this assortment of pre-Divergent tales, all informed from Tobias’s (a.ok.a. “4’s”) viewpoint.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all of your coronary heart and with all of your soul and with all of your thoughts. That is the good and first commandment. And a second is prefer it: You shall love your neighbor as your self.” Matthew 22:37-39 ESV
Wishing you a stunning week filled with little issues that make you smile!
Mary
P.S. The eclipse photograph credit score goes to my brother, as I didn’t even attempt to take photographs. (Additionally, he’s a greater photographer than I’m!)
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