What are your favorite summer foods, or dishes that when you make them they just remind you of summer?

I usually make alot of salads....pasta, veggie, fruit, even potato salad. I also love anything on the BBQ....veggies and some meats...

What about you?

Strawberries. and Peaches. That is summer.
asparugus in the beginning, sweet corn at the end.

gazpaucho - sp?
and fish - grilled to perfection.

these are some of my favourite things.

TOMATOES!!! And sweet corn, of course!

Oh, so many! Pesto, for one, made low-cal by using just a bit of pine nut and chicken stock instead of most of the oil, so its only 20 calories a serving or so. When basil is fresh and in season, its divine.

On that note, simple salads with heirloom tomatoes, basil and a bit of fresh mozzarella, with salt and pepper and maybe a simple vinaigrette. So good and summery.

Corn - my favorite ways to eat it are in corn salads (dice bell pepper, take boiled corn off cob, add some crisp-tender steamed green beans and some fresh basil, then top with a simple white wine vinegar vinaigrette with some fresh herbs - heaven) or grilled with a touch of fresh grated parmesan melted on when it comes off the grill.

Summer squashes are awesome, either grilled and topped with a shave of parmesan, or marinated in balsalmic and grilled into somewhat caramelized.

Strawberries, for sure, at the beginning of summer, and blackberries shortly after.

Ribs are my ultimate summer food, but a bit on the high-cal side. Still, they're a treat I indulge in, as my partner makes the best ribs I've ever tasted (and that anyone else that has ever had them has tasted - no one dislikes these ribs, even people who generally don't like the taste of ribs, or of meat, etc).

Tomatoesssss!! Love Em!

sweet corn, ranier (yellow with red blush) cherries, snap peas and watermelon.

I love our local farmer's market. We have a large asian population in our area, so there are often vegetables there I don't recognize. It is so fun to talk to the Hmong ladies about these veggies and how they prepare them.

Watermelon!!!!!

Also strawberries, peaches, tomatoes, cherries, cantaloupe, blueberries, blackberries, and plums.

Don't forget sweet corn and summer squash.

Mango!

I love mangoes - but all summer fruits are good.

Mmm... fresh berries that we pick ourselves at the farms - strawberries, raspberries, blackberries later in the summer. Fresh corn, cherries from our cherry tree, peaches.... I LOVE fresh fruit (in case you couldn't tell!)
And anything grilled - veggie kebabs, chicken kebabs, grilled peaches.....
And simple meals, like slices of tomatoes and cucumber and some good bread and a salad.... picnic-type food.
And I love raiding my herb garden for every dinner!

I know!! I know!! Next time, keep the empty jar of full fat mayonnaise, and then buy the reduced kind, and put it in the full fat jar!!! And don't tell him!!! He won't notice the difference, especially if he see the full fat jar!! Hee hee

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As for my favorite summer foods, I LOVE BBQ foods and strawberries. I'm not a big tomato fan, even though my parents and other relatives grow them. I bought a strawberry plants and so far it's only given me 5 stinking strawberries. And 4 of them were the size of quarters!!! Not fair!!!

My parents grow strawberries, and they a year at least before you get a decent amount of berries. My parents planted theirs last year, and didn't get very many last year at all....this year however....LOADS!!!!