Favorite Summer Foods!

[Food Lady]

I love sweet tea with lots of ice, overripe cantaloupe, peaches (alone or with vanilla ice cream), cherry-blueberry-yogurt smoothies, deviled eggs, and southern potato salad (none of that German stuff--a truckload of mustard and sugar, bleh). On watermelon: I rarely eat it, but if I do, I eat it with salt.

[Plaidman]

Anyone.....? Anyone at all know how much chili powder to put on watermelon?

[pssorens]

hrmmm.....

field corn (much better than sweet corn IMO, if you can find it)

We must have different field corn then, as the stuff we call field corn is not very tasty.

[Der Cute]

Around here, it's Cherries and Pears - and fresh spinach, new berries (strawberries and raspberries) mmmm. Oh, and the nectarines and peaches.. when picking them from the store, sniff their stem ends. If you can smell the fruit, it's ripe - also squeeze, if they give a bit, yep. If not, almost ready to eat.

Rainier cherries are common around here. I always thought the yellow skin meant tart -- but they're SWEEEEET.

I have a sweet tooth. BAD.

C

[Magpie]

Anyone.....? Anyone at all know how much chili powder to put on watermelon?

You want enough to contrast the taste of the watermelon. Put it on like you'd salt your food.

[Becks]

Strawberries and corn on the cob.

[AdminAssistant]

We must have different field corn then, as the stuff we call field corn is not very tasty.

It could just be the nostalgia factor, but I really like it. Where I grew up, people grow a lot more field corn than they do sweet corn, so I ate it all the time as a kid. Scraped off the cob and boiled with a bit of butter....yum! I'm dreading dealing with family drama next week, but I am soooooo looking forward to the food.

[MoonCat]

Sweet corn is a regional religion here. I like it, but I don't worship it the way some people do around here. Don't get between local shoppers and the bin of corn at the supermarket!

I thought field corn was the tough, chewy stuff they grow for cows??

My favorite summer stuff would be fresh cherries from the farmer's market. Oh, and definitely home grown tomatoes! I eat pretty much the same stuff all year, but decent tomatoes can only be found in the summer.

[AdminAssistant]

You can buy corn at the supermarket? (I keed, I keed)

We just got 5 gallon buckets and went out to a field (with permission), and had at it. Picked early in the morning, then we'd go back home and clean it all on the carport. As the youngest, I got stuck removing silks. I hate hate HATE doing that. Eat lunch, then mom would scrape it off, cook it, let it cool, and put it all in baggies to freeze. *sigh*

I don't remember field corn being tough or chewy, and I'm not sure if it's the variety grown for feed or not. All I remember was it being tasty.

[Whiskey]

Cold hummus, hot pita accompanied by cold fruit. Mmm.

[pssorens]

Though i won't get any this year, Fresh caught Gulf Shrimp. Grilled or boiled with lots of garlic butter.

[jnd4rusty]

ICE CREAM!!!!! CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM!!!!!! MMMM!! Also fruit..lots of fruit...not canned..fresh! Veggies...with ranch dip, or Italian pasta veggie salad, made with red, green, yellow and orange peppers, snow pea pods, celery, onion, shredded carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, italian dressing, black olives and pasta (any type), salt, pepper and a dash of splenda, this dish is so darn delicious and very addicting but so good for you!! Homemade potato salad and macoroni salad, cold fried chicken..I could go on and on...hell I am gaining weight just writing this..Damn!!!

[Food Lady]

I forgot the quintessential summer food: hot dogs. Of course, I eat veggie dogs now. And you have to put a squiggle of mustard down the center of the dog. It's a law.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Anything that came straight from the garden, including, but not limited to:

Potatoes (with a bit of butter, salt and pepper)
Radishes
Raspberries
Carrots

Also, grill me a thick steak on the barbecue. Aw, yeah.

Ice Cold Beer

This + 1,000,000

[BookstoreEscapee]

You can buy corn at the supermarket? (I keed, I keed)

Wegmans gets locally grown veggies sometimes. During corn season they even have big trash cans next to the corn bins so you can strip it right there.

We used to have a farm stand at the edge of a cornfield about a mile from my parents' house, and we would just take a ride over in the afternoon and pick up fresh corn, and whatever else struck our fancy when we got there, then go home and boil it up. Mmmm...

Field and farm stand are gone and now it's McMansions.

I forgot the quintessential summer food: hot dogs. Of course, I eat veggie dogs now. And you have to put a squiggle of mustard down the center of the dog. It's a law.

Oscar Meyer all-beef dogs with a thin line of ketchup. Only ones I'll eat.