Summertime Recipes

I spent all of Friday and Saturday shoveling this enormous pile of mulch. Let me tell you, my legs and arms are still aching. It was eleven cubic yards. You can’t tell from the photograph, but the mulch is waist-high. But our flowerbeds are beautiful now, and they look as though they don’t have any weeds. Hey, I can dream, can’t I?

Now that the weather is warmer, I’m finding it harder to cook. On certain days, particularly when it’s hot and muggy, the idea of cooking or even grilling sounds horrible. So, since I haven’t hosted a contest in a while, let’s have one that can benefit everyone! We’ll call it the Summertime Recipes contest.

Here’s how it works. Post the title of some of your favorite summertime recipes (you don’t have to write out the recipe yet). Example: Grilled Beef Shishkabobs. That’s all you have to do for now. They can be a salad, main dish, or even a dessert. Enter as many times as you like between now and Tuesday night!

On Wednesday, I’ll narrow down the finalists and we’ll vote on the ones we want recipes for. All finalists will receive a goodie of some sort (free book, possibly?). Then they will e-mail me their recipe and I’ll post them to share. Grand Prize winner gets a $20 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble. :wave::banana:

My hope is that everyone will have a new repertoire of summertime recipes to try out. Good luck!