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Summer Camp Mac
The people who give you their food give you their heart. - Cesar Chavez Summer camp for me was my home away from home for a week during July. Where every year friends that I only saw at camp came together on the shores of the James River to hangout, play and learn. To say I was excited to go every year would be an understatement.
Jacob PeytonPublished 2 years ago in FeastIt's The Puff For Me
I'm from Florida. Honestly, I think I could stop there and everyone would understand. Anyone who has ever met a Floridian will know where this is going. We are not known for having a cool climate, but for our almost desert heat combined with a level of humidity that resembles a rain forest. In fact, just the other day the high temperature was 93 degrees (but felt like 105) with 65% humidity. What a nightmare, right?
Lauren J. BennettPublished 2 years ago in FeastThe summer catch
Fishing has always been a fun and relaxing way to spend summer with my family. From bass, blue gill and catfish me my grandpa and dad would catch a stringer full of fish from the pond behind my parent's house. I have great childhood memories of my grandpa teaching me how to catch and fillet the fish. My grandpa also had great skills of cooking our catch he shared with me. One of my favorite moments was when he taught me how to lay the catfish fillets in the pan to fry them. When my grandma and parents came back he hurried to his chair in the living room and acted like I was cooking on my own. We had a laugh about it I was only seven but learning how to cook great food. Another family favorite was his hush puppy recipe that is slightly sweet with a hint of onion. The dining room table had a large bowl filled with the fried catfish along with the hush puppies and fresh tomatoes and other vegetables from my grandpa's garden. Me and my older sister helped set the plates and silverware for everyone while my grandma made coleslaw to go with the catfish. We always had a great diner and the satisfying feeling of helping catch the fish we ate made me proud of our catch. To this day every time I think of summer I think of frying catfish even if I only caught one I would fry it for myself. Even if the fish wasn't biting I enjoy fried catfish at the restaurant me and my family go to with all you can eat catfish fresh from the fryer with coleslaw and baked beans. The restaurant also had a big pond with catfish in it. Me and my sister would ask our parents to buy fish food from the counter and we watched in amazement as the huge catfish came up to eat the food we threw for them. Even as an adult now feeding the catfish brings me great joy to watch them race to the kibble on top of the water like a group of vacuums they ate the food. Another great time was when I had some how lassoed a big catfish buy the tail with my fishing line while fishing with my dad at the pond. We still laugh at that story and how much I wanted to keep at least one fish to eat when I was a kid. I have lots of great childhood memories about catching and cooking fish and having fresh tomatoes and yellow squash with great food. That is why fried catfish will all ways be one of my favorite summer foods. And the sound of nature around the pond with a chorus of frogs and whippoorwills behind my parent's house as I fish is a good way to relax after a long day at work. Sometimes I bring a coffee can full of fish food and just watch the catfish eat just like at the restaurant. I keep the catfish well fed in hopes that they will grow big by the time I catch them. And just siting in a lawn chair and listening the fish peck the food from the top of the water is very calming sometimes I will even see a deer or two in the field on the other side of the pond. Even just a sandwich with a fillet and tartar sauce in it along with a few hush puppies or even a home grown tomato is enough to bring me back to eating our catch at my grandparent's house. That is how fried catfish became my favorite summer time food.
Doug LemonsPublished 2 years ago in FeastEndless summers and strawberries
Summer means different things to different people, partly driven by their climate. Folk in the northern hemisphere, often struggling in a snowy December, marvel at the idea of Australians in their midsummer, in shorts and barbequing at the beach: But that's the Aussie iconic summer image.
Andy KilloranPublished 2 years ago in FeastCHEAP THRILLS: ICONIC SUMMER FOOD + FUN ON A SMALL BUDGET
Summertime joy is meant to be shared. Why do you think popsicles come in twos? But these days, who can afford steak BBQs and pricy piña coladas?
Miss CharlottePublished 2 years ago in FeastRenaissance Festival War Stories: The Lost Scrolls - Food Edition ...Part 2
The Minnesota Renaissance Festival offers some great tastes and foods. While some people get their kicks at the Minnesota State Fair with fried foods, foods on a stick, and fried foods on a stick; I'm filling my stomach and my soul at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Here are a few more foods that did not make the first cut.
Tinka Boudit She/HerPublished 2 years ago in FeastOperation: Deep Fried Reese's
Reese’s cups. Alone, they are more than enough. Their sweet, fluffy center with the perfect amount of crunch, filling your nasal cavity with the taste of artificial peanut butter that somehow tastes fresher than the actual thing. Their solid chocolate shell that provides the sufficient amount of protection for the peanut butter and satisfaction for its devourer when they take the first bite, feeling that dull crunch ushering their taste buds into a world of sugary goodness. If all that wasn’t enough of a draw, my favorite color was always orange as a kid. Again, Reese’s cups alone, are more than enough. After all, they made them into a cereal. But deep fried Reese’s cups? Well, that is a life-altering progression, and that is where this story begins.
Kyle MaddoxPublished 2 years ago in FeastSaving Summer
It was the summer of my freshman year in college. We were all winding down getting ready to go home for summer break and finishing up our last few exams at the same time. I had taken on the unofficial role as the chef for my group of friends. I often made our meals with the financial backing of my friends. On this particular day, my friend Lucas approached me and told me that when he got home he wanted to cook something for his mother. Since he left for school he hadn’t seen her much, and he wanted to cook for her this summer to show her how much he had missed her. He confided in me that he didn’t know how to cook anything but bologna sandwiches. So we needed something simple, and tasty, but most importantly we needed something that brought them together again. Immediately, I thought about my grandmother’s chicken salad. She often made it in the summer because Apples are in season around late July. That was her secret ingredient, a little apple. When my grandmother made her chicken-salad, it didn’t matter what was going on, everyone wanted to get some. Family members who were fueding would have a temporary ceasefire just to eat some, cause there was no fighting at grandma’s table.
Kendrick BakerPublished 2 years ago in Feast- Top Story - June 2022
What do you like to eat in summer and why is it ice-cream?
Dear ice-cream, I missed you so much. I know we had a rough time those past months. A cousin of yours was all over the place and we did not meet that much. I missed you. I missed all your tastes and variations, all your colours and presentations. Like every year, as soon as the sun comes back, you are the only thing I crave. Your existence itself is a cure for seasonal depression. Some say it is some kind of vitamin that I miss, but deeply I know it is you and only you.
Amsha OlsanPublished 2 years ago in Feast Roald Growl Mid Flood
Summers in England were fleeting and hazy, but were left behind by a move to Australia when I was ten. Here, Christmas was in summer, and was hot hot hot! Signalled by differences like the exchange of a traditional Turkey roast for poolside seafood, mulled wine forgotten as a second glass of sparkling red (with a couple of ice cubes) was poured, but Christmas Pudding remained a staple. Summer was the period away from school, where hiking beckoned, and the ocean glimmered just a little more brightly.
Robyn CliffordPublished 2 years ago in FeastSoda Crackers have benefits
Saltine crackers facts A saltine or soda cracker is thin and usually square (2 inches by 2 inches (5 x 5 cm). Each name denotes an ingredient as Saltines refer to the sodium content and are sometimes called “soda crackers” because of the baking soda that is used. Whether you refer the them as soda crackers or saltines might depend on what you heard people saying wen you were growing up. On most boxes of packaged crackers, it indicates that one serving is 5 crackers and there are 60 calories. You can als find low sodium versions of this crispy snack. Following is a more detailed breakdown.
Cheryl E PrestonPublished 2 years ago in FeastZa
Stop me if you have heard this one before. Hawaiian pizza is the best pizza. Either you are nodding your head in agreement right now or seething with fury. Am I right? Now listen, those people, those die hard pineapple defenders are absolute, one hundred percent wrong. Ok, now don’t you leave me head nodders; hear me out. What I am about to say will change your life. Cavoletti pizza is the game-changer. It’s the type of warm hug your body needs on a rainy day; It's the salty, crispy crust you deserve after a day’s swim in the lake. It's ooey; it's gooey, its cavoletti baby.
Rachael MacDonaldPublished 2 years ago in Feast