The Little Things Newsletter #342 – Life, laughter, and lots of great food!

Welcome to the weekend, pals! Only a couple extra weeks till Christmas and I’m so prepared for all of it. (Okay, I could not really be prepared, however I’m definitely excited!) We’ve been having fun with our creation tree and taking turns studying a number of pages from A Christmas Carol every evening. I’m planning for vacation baking as quickly because the boys’ vacation break begins.

ON THE BLOG this week: Soup that’s filling and flavorful is a winner each time, and that places white bean, sausage, and cabbage soup excessive on the request record at our home. Buttery, cheesy, flaky drop biscuits full of shredded zucchini and carrots are an ideal match for all of the soups you’re craving.

Nearly 20 years in the past, I used to be handed one of the most delicious cookies I had ever tasted. The Pignoli Cookie is exclusive in taste and texture; fully in contrast to something I had tasted earlier than that day.

Dark Chocolate Coconut Fudge is full of candy, chewy bits of coconut after which topped with a beneficiant sprinkling of coconut.

Cream Cheese Mints soften in your mouth with a candy peppermint taste. Saved pure white or coloured nevertheless you want, pressed into molds or just rolled and pressed with a fork, nevertheless you make these mints, they’re one of the easiest candy recipes of all time.

Creamy Corn Dip is a creamy, spicy, barely candy snack for any time of the 12 months. With a great deal of nice taste from cilantro, lime, chili powder, and cumin, that is an irresistibly dippable version of Mexican street corn.

Made within the oven or within the air fryer, these Cajun Brussels Sprouts are another crispy, flavorful snack that I simply can’t cease making.

Tart cranberries and candy apples are baked inside a brown sugar and oat crisp for a perfect not-to-sweet cranberry apple crisp.

Caramel, pecans, and darkish chocolate are mixed in this simple homemade caramel turtle bark candy. For those who like chocolate turtles, you’re going to flip for this straightforward shortcut recipe!

What I’m CRAVING: Have you ever tried sponge sweet? Till a number of years in the past, I’d by no means heard of it. However then my good friend Rebecca launched us to it and it’s change into a vacation favourite. I’ve by no means tried making it although, so this recipe is on my must-try record this 12 months!

My FAVORITE THING this week is the game Pun Intended. I picked this up as an creation present for my boys and it was a giant hit. This can be a quick-play sport that even my not-so-into-word-games members of the family loved. You play in groups and also you’ll get 60 seconds to reply as much as 6 questions, so there isn’t time to emphasize your solutions, simply spit out your guesses. I can just about assure you’ll wince, groan, cringe, and snigger whereas enjoying this one.

What I’m READING: F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers by Richard Benson. I don’t recall how I stumbled onto this ebook, but it surely has been a laughable distraction. I purchased it for a present and laughed as I flipped by it. It isn’t actually a ebook you’d wish to learn cowl to cowl, although you definitely may, it’s possibly an hour’s learn. However I discovered it extra enjoyable to randomly open it and browse a few the questions and solutions at a time.

A couple of of my favorites from this ebook:

• Query: What does a transformer do? Reply: It may well go from being a robotic to a sports activities automobile in three seconds.
• Query: Who was Solomon? Reply: He was a highly regarded man with 700 wives and 300 porcupines.
• Query: Claire used good physique language at a job interview. Are you able to consider three examples of fine physique language that Claire might have used? Reply: 1) Pole Dancing 2) The Moonwalk 3) The Bolero

What I’m WATCHING: the first season of Chuck. I launched my boys to this one a few nights in the past and I’m so completely happy they loved it! I’m wanting ahead to having a enjoyable new present to look at with them.

For those who aren’t accustomed to this one, it’s a really humorous “unintended spy” film. It’s foolish, enjoyable, escapism with loads of humor, motion, a little bit of romance, and an unimaginable forged. Better of all, this present hardly ever takes itself significantly.

“Don’t neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels with out realizing it.” Hebrews 13:2 NASB

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

Mary