Sunshine Challenge - Day 3

[evandar]

Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?



- When I was very little, we spent summers camping in France, and to this day summer food is BBQ. Specifically things like langoustines, which taste incredible grilled and which have the kind of claws which entranced kiddie!me.

- Sandwiches. When I was little, it was corned beef and ketchup sandwiches on the beach (with added sand). As I've grown older, it's stuff like banh mi and po'boys. When summer hit here this year, it was too hot to eat anything warm, so I basically lived off of banh mi and -

- Pickles. Usually pickled radishes, but I discovered this year that pickled lotus is bangin'.



Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes.



Back in the days when it was me, my mother, and my brother in the house, I used to get put in charge of salads and marinades and stuff. So, despite the fact that I'm the least salad-y person on earth, have a salad recipe.

Quarter and de-stone a couple of nectarines and yeet them into a pan to char.

Meanwhile, grab salad leaves of your choice (I like the mixed bags with peppery things for this: rocket/arugala and watercress, etc.) and dump them into a salad bowl with feta and/or blue cheese, pomegranate seeds, and (optional) some cous cous. Once the nectarines are jammy and slightly blackened at the edges, throw those in too. Mix.

Add salad dressing of choice should you desire. Everyone in my family hates salad dressing, so trial and error your own.

Goes well with BBQ of the slightly-too-burned at the edges variety. (Thanks, bro.)

Comments

[haunted_cherries]

BBQ is my all time summer fave and my BIGGEST weakness when it comes to food, so I FEEL YOU xD also, thank you for the salad recipe!! Sounds DELICIOUS :D

[evandar]

BBQ is amazing. I could eat it year-round, tbh, but there's something so very intrinsically summer about it.

[haunted_cherries]

AGREED, especially as someone who would happily eat Korean BBQ any day of the week!! xD Something about a nice set of ribs in the summer just HITS DIFFERENT 🥰

[scripsi]

Camping in France sounds like a very nice vacation!

[evandar]

There were certainly some good times, although I was very young for those holidays so I only have snippets left.

[pauraque]

I want to make that salad. And I actually have some nectarines!

[evandar]

Oooh, you should try it! I realise that I've given the instructions in the same way that I cook (in other words: throw things together and hope), so I hope that's not off-putting. I hope you enjoy it if you do try it!

[pauraque]

Oh, that's the way I cook too. And as cooking goes you can't get more subjective than a salad, anyway. :)

[tellshannon815]

Thanks for the recipe!

It is definitely not the weather for hot food right now over here.

[evandar]

You're welcome! Let me know if you try it :)

Oh, I hear that. When summer first hit here I was living off salted Lays, cucumbers, pickles and banh mi for three weeks. Stay hydrated!

[author_by_night]

I also associate summer with pickles!

I'll have to try that recipe.

[evandar]

I hope you enjoy it :)

[muscle_wizard]

I love pickled foods too - carrots, radishes are staples in my house. Also classic whole pickles. I had pickled mango at a restaurant once and now I need to make it myself.

I just love vinegar lol.

[evandar]

Pickled mango??? Oooooh, I'm going to have to try making that. It sounds amazing!

I first had pickled lotus root in a restaurant, and as soon as I next spotted lotus root in the supermarket I grabbed some to try making it myself. It's so good.

Vinegar is <3

[sarajayechan]

I buy mixed bags of salad greens all the time, and arugula is one of my favorites. That recipe sounds kind of fun, too!

[lightbird]

bbq is great. And that salad sounds delicious!

[dr_zook]

Pickled lotus! Sounds very intriguing, just as your grilled nectarine salad, nom. And the grilled langoustines! Now I'm hungry, haha.

[berryfairyghost]

Wow, this salad recipe sounds so fresh and delicious! Thanks for sharing! :3