The Little Issues E-newsletter #387 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my pals! Our go to with household this week was great and my brother and I made it out to stroll as usually as we had been in a position. The autumn colours are at their finest nowadays and I can’t get sufficient of them.

Has the climate lastly cooled off the place you’re? Ohio has been fabulously chilly all week, nevertheless, I’m headed again to Phoenix tonight. I’m actually not trying ahead to 100 levels once more! (Though it’s supposed to chill off fantastically there later within the week. My fingers are crossed that the promised rain will truly arrive whereas I’m within the valley.)

ON THE BLOGS this week: Flavorful and tender marinated boneless skinless chicken thighs will be cooked on the grill or baked within the oven. We eat a substantial amount of hen on this home and that is considered one of my favourite methods to cook dinner boneless skinless thighs within the oven.

On this hummus-inspired dip, roasted cauliflower takes the place of chickpeas making it a low-carb, full-flavored unfold. An entire head of garlic roasts with the cauliflower, including an irresistible caramelized sweetness to this cauliflower hummus.

It takes simply quarter-hour and some easy seasonings to air fry frozen broccoli and cauliflower into irresistibly crispy and scrumptious bites! I’ve been making this and snacking on it within the afternoon for weeks.

Zucchini Cobbler. Zucchini??? Cobbler? YES. You learn that proper and it’s best to positively hold studying. It seems that zucchini cobbler tastes a whole lot like apple cobbler, my pals. I didn’t consider it both – till I tasted it.

Creamy peanut butter is mixed with ripe bananas to make these peanut butter banana pancakes, leading to a wealthy, nutty sweetness with a touch of banana all through every fluffy, golden pancake.

These coconut chocolate chip cookies are loaded with each white and darkish chocolate, along with a very good quantity of coconut. They’re scrumptious heat from the oven and each bit as incredible two days later.

Oatmeal cream pie ice cream begins as a creamy vanilla ice cream with hints of brown sugar and cinnamon, after which it’s generously crammed with items of oatmeal cream pie cookies.

This one-bowl praline cake is nearly ridiculously easy, but it delivers the right stability of moist, tender buttermilk cake and the irresistible chewy crunch of caramelized pralines. You simply would possibly end up going again for “another sliver of cake” all through the day.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are my new walking and bicycling gloves. I’m actually loving them. They’re skinny sufficient to be very comfy, lined and heat with out being sizzling, and I’m in a position to make use of my telephone with none problem. At this worth, I wasn’t anticipating something wonderful, however I’ve been pleasantly shocked.

What I’m READING: Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon. That is ebook 8 within the Mitford collection and although I’ve learn all of them earlier than, they’re at all times value studying once more. I am keen on just about something Christmas-themed, so naturally this ebook is amongst my favorites. The character growth all through this collection is among the finest I’ve learn and all the forged of characters grows on you till they really feel like pals.

“Regardless that I stroll by way of the valley of the shadow of demise, I’ll concern no evil, for you’re with me; your rod and your workers, they consolation me.” Psalm 23:4 ESV

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

Mary