The Little Issues E-newsletter #458 – Life, laughter, and many nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! I did a double take as I wrote immediately’s date – March 1st. I’m not fully certain how that’s attainable and but, right here we’re. Time is actually flying this yr. 

March normally has me craving salads and lighter meals for spring, however I’m nonetheless very a lot within the hearty, consolation meals zone over right here. I’m considering that a big pot of chili sounds nearly proper for this weekend, together with some oven burritos, and a few meat lover’s pasta for this week. Admittedly, there might be salads too, however for essentially the most half, simply give me all the nice and cozy, cozy meals.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK:  Flaky buttery pastry tops a luscious medley of tender hen, hearty greens, and a creamy, savory sauce on this Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie.

Overlook heating up the oven, use the air fryer for baked candy potatoes. The primary time I baked sweet potatoes in the air fryer it was a game-changer for me. Over the previous few months, this has been my lunch at the very least as soon as every week.

Wealthy and garlicky, you’ll have hassle believing this Creamy Cauliflower Potato Soup is made and not using a drop of cream or milk! I cherished this soup from the very first chunk.

Melting chocolate, chewy coconut, and crunchy nuts are layered over a buttery graham cracker crust to make these Hello Dolly Bars. My youngsters and husband devoured these lightning quick! Fortunately, they’re very simple to make as I think they’re going to be standard in our residence for lots of years to come back.

This three ingredient Hot Cocoa Mix is a tasty, easy, handy, and economical approach to get your scorching chocolate repair. Whip up a batch to maintain readily available for after college, chilly climate, and cravings.

This chocolate ice cream is swirled with bite-size wafer cookies and in addition loaded with chocolate-covered chunks of Equipment Kat sweet bars. Kit Kat Ice Cream has the whole lot you like about Equipment Kat sweet bars swirled into every scoop of this selfmade ice cream.

What I’m CRAVING: A bowl of my good friend Shawn’s Creamy Broccoli Cheese Soup together with some crusty heat bread for dipping? That sounds just about excellent proper now. 

My FAVORITE THING this week is that this journal. I nearly at all times lean towards spiral sure journals, however this one is a brand new favourite for me. I really like the scale (it’s nice for tossing in my bag) and the standard is superb. The pages are good and thick and it lays flat for writing. It’s very comfy to make use of and it appears to be like so good too!

What I’m LISTENING to (on repeat): Never Lose Sight by Chris Tomlin. The whole album is nice and I’ve been having fun with beginning my days with it.

What I’m READING: I’ve began and stopped just a few fiction books currently that aren’t value mentioning. (May very well be that it’s simply not my season for nice fiction.) Nonetheless, this Tim Keller ebook, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God has been great thus far! I’m studying it slowly and making an attempt to essentially take up it, it’s more likely to be in my favorites checklist for a very long time.

“Educate me your means, O Lord, that I could stroll in your fact; unite my coronary heart to concern your identify. I give because of you, O Lord my God, with my entire coronary heart, and I’ll glorify your identify without end.” Psalm 86:11-12 ESV

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

Mary