What's your favorite summertime food or drink?

**Darlene** · 06-16-2004, 11:40 AM

Popcicles, icecream, iced latte,lemonade, watermelon,iced tea,daquiris,swiss chard...?

I like so many but my fav's are fresh tomatoes from the garden and I'd be lost without my iced tea.

**canadian gardener** · 06-16-2004, 11:45 AM

Fresh tomatoes with mayo and salt and pepper on top.

Watermelon.

Strawberrie's Iced Coffee drink. She makes it with leftover coffee, milk, half and half cream and sugar, and freezes and crushes it into a slushy. It's GORGEOUS. Recipe is here.

**canadian gardener** · 06-16-2004, 11:49 AM

Here it is from a reply into the May theme here:

Originally posted by Strawberry
Here you go....I love this recipe and have made it a few times this spring already. I have never drank coffee, don't like the taste, but I love iced coffee. I usually use decaff coffee if I'm planning on serving this in the evening.

Iced Coffee

1-1/2 cups hot brewed coffee
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1-1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup whipping cream(not whipped) - I use half & half instead and there's no difference

Dissolve sugar in hot coffee, add vanilla, milk and whip cream or half & half. Stir. Freeze in jar or juice jug until slushie. I usually make this up and freeze when I have any leftover coffee. Because it's frozen solid take out of the freezer a few hours (2 to 4 hrs) before serving. As it thaws it use a wooden spoon handle to break it up. Sometimes once it starts to thaw I pour it into a pot and use my potato masher and break it up. You want the coffee to be the same consistency and a slurpee.

If you want to be fancy, put iced coffee into nice glass mugs and top with a dollop of whipped cream. Most of the time I don't do this; I don't need the extra calories.

This is wonderfully refreshing and makes a great usual summer dessert.

**KKCondrey** · 06-16-2004, 11:53 AM

Definatly have to have tomato sandwhiches with mayo, salt and pepper (and toasting it with a slice of cheese isn't bad either)

Love Watermelon and just about any fruit there is as well.

frozen drinks and homemade ice cream are great as well.

**Sara Noel** · 06-16-2004, 01:00 PM

Gabe makes the best smoothies.

**mustang80** · 06-16-2004, 01:26 PM

Definitely Jersey white corn on the cob and Jersey tomatoes!

Gotta also have my iced tea.

Burgers and hot dogs on the grill, too.

Oh and deviled eggs, and macaroni salad.....now I'm hungry....

**sunshine** · 06-16-2004, 01:31 PM

Peaches, fresh off the tree-- with the juices dripping off my chin

lemonade

frozen pies-- cloud pies, chocolate cream pie, . . . .

**slowtypinwoman** · 06-16-2004, 02:06 PM

Iced tea and zucchinni

**guest2** · 06-16-2004, 02:33 PM

Iced tea, lemonade and slushies!!!!

Melons, fresh green and pasta salads, fruit salads

**Guest1** · 06-16-2004, 02:39 PM

We have lemonade all year round, but in the summer, we fill our water bottles with it & freeze it into slushies!!!
Every night, we sit down with a bowl of popcorn & devour our slushies!

Another family favorite is grilled yellow squash....

MMMMMMMM - I'm getting hungry!!

**SewCrafty** · 06-16-2004, 03:23 PM

Fresh fruit, macaroni and potato salads and spedies.

**duckduckgoose007** · 06-17-2004, 09:25 AM

Fresh Tomatoes from the garden & fresh Cukes, too.

Iced Coffee

**pip** · 06-17-2004, 05:11 PM

Salads, lemonade, and BBQ.

**canadian gardener** · 06-17-2004, 07:28 PM

enquiring minds want to know here too!

spedie????

Is is another name for a sub or hoagie?

**Sinclairwife** · 06-20-2004, 09:50 AM

Originally posted by Darlene
Popcicles, icecream, iced latte,lemonade, watermelon,iced tea,daquiris,swiss chard...?

I like so many but my fav is fresh tomatoes from the garden and I'd be lost without my iced tea.

I'm like you Darlene. Tomatoes are my favorite and I've been drinking iced lemon water with Splenda in it. YUM!!