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My Favorite Summer Food
Summer. One of the most anticipated seasons within our year. Depending on where you are, you’ll most likely find it common to witness a wave of warmer weather, enriching activity, and let’s not forget: new season, new taste. Generally, it’s quite normal to switch the menu up a bit due to the temperatures, with most opting for foods that will keep them feeling rather cool and refreshed, opposed to keeping warm during the winter. Hi, my name is Jeremy, and today I’ll be sharing with you, my favorite summer food. Note that I’ve been a diligent vegetarian for the past five years, and within the last two I successfully bridged over into veganism. [Entering story mode] I awaken during the wee hours of the morning to the local weather report and heads up, it's just before day’s peak and the temps have both skyrocketed and surpassed the previous year’s index. Moreover, it is officially a hot day in the bay. So, I begin my most humanly obligations, afterwards, I relinquish my laze of being inside and I head out to my then neighborhood’s Safeway deli for a quick bite to eat. I settle for a longtime favorite that I’ve loved since childhood, Marinated Cucumber, Onion, and Tomato Salad. First, if you’ve never chanced to try it, allow me to explain why it’s one of the most perfect summer delicacies. It is technically a salad. Its’ contents go through a simple marinating process. Usually in vinegar, and vinaigrette. After a couple of hours being in the fridge, a salad loaded with summer veggies is served. That is, without lettuce or romaine. Now, on a balmy day with heightened activity, you’re aiming for something light on the stomach, healthy, and tasty. Starting with the cool and crisp bite of the cucumber, will leave your taste-buds satisfyingly hydrated. Which is why it’s got to make the list for ideal summer meals. Before the cucumber is added: it’s usually sliced, or diced, skinned, or left with some skin. Personally, it’s not much of a difference because it always seems to result in the same great taste. If this is ever self-prepared, I’ll know to find fresh cucumber from my local neighborhood market. [Adding cucumber to the queue]. Next, you’ll find detached from the vine and showing a bright red display, the juicy tomato. Before it’s added, it is either sliced, wedged, or served in any way you can possibly create. A bite into the tomato and it gives a both sweet, and tangy sense of flavor, with the added twang originating from its’ main component, the marinade. So, after the final ingredient is added, the onion, you’d just allow all of these ingredients to marinate in the vinegar mixture. Now, on the onion, if preparing myself, I would go with a sweeter type due to the acidity levels in the vinegar. By opting for a sweeter onion, would only help by giving the salad’s overall taste more balance. Some sweetness, some twang. I can also find the perfect onions at my local neighborhood market. This salad goes great by itself, but if ever I were to spruce things up, there are a few delicious ideas that create fantastic combos. I will not force you to be showered, or rained on with every single delicious idea, although, one favorite it pairs well with are black-eyed peas, or also called, cowpeas. It makes a tasty summer special that hits the spot, without overheating the spot. A tip to top it off is adding ground sea salt & pepper. This salad is always served cool. If you haven’t already gone to find it near you, I highly recommend you add it to your foods’ list, I can only hope it works as a great treat for you as it does for me. It’s not quite summer yet but sharing this with you has somehow enlightened today’s meal plan. Hopefully, you find this a great read, and thanks for inviting me to share with you, the Vocal team and family, my favorite summer food.
By Jeremy Conway4 years ago in Feast
Thee Barbecue Rib. Top Story - June 2022.
Summertime has arrived. The sun is perched in the sky being every bit of disrespectful as the temperature soars above 90. Yet, this weather and time of year serves as a call, similar to that of a mating call in the wild, to those who hold the barbecue as the champion of warm weather dining events. Shortly after noon, preferably on Saturdays since the festivities at a barbecue can lead to a food hangover that may trickle over into the beginning of the work week, the air starts to fill with a scent endearing to us all – savory smoky fumes of lit charcoal on a grill. We all know that smell; that bouquet broaches ideas of good eats and cold drinks. Barbecue connoisseurs are able to detect whether the aroma is coming from a grill using propane, wood chips, or charcoal briquettes.
By Nicole Ferguson4 years ago in Feast
Salt and Love. Runner-Up in Summer Camp Challenge.
You sit in the van on the way home from the beach. The window is open, wind buffeting your face with that flap-flap-flap rhythm you only get when you are going faster than thirty. Bob Marley is playing through the tinny car stereo, Buffalo Soldier. Most of your friends are dozing, except for Morten, with his pilot sunglasses on, who is driving and loving it. The warm wind plays through the sun-bleached hairs on your forearm, tiny grains of sand and salt reflecting the afternoon light as it strobes through the coastal pine forest. You can taste the salt on your lips from too many times the waves got the better of you in your heroic attempts to teach yourself surfing. You are tired, and happy, and your stomach is growling.
By Frank Havemann4 years ago in Feast
12 Unique Catering Ideas to Make Your Event...
Are you hosting an event soon, and wondering how to make your event stand out from the rest? Worry no more. In this article, I’ll be showing you twelve unique catering ideas to make your event pop. Try them, and become the go-to person for all things events!
By Mary Adeola Scott4 years ago in Feast
Go Play Outside
Summertime is more than the scorching heat of the day and the flying critters that bother you. The summer to me is a flavor all on it's own that brings a different meaning to "I'm home". Being raised outdoors and becoming befriends with my water-hose I created the taste of summer. The sweat on my face from running around all day chasing my siblings and running away from them. The heated breeze that carried the smell of the neighbor burring trash with it as it cooled my cheeks. The water from the water toys that sprinkled my sister, brother, and me.
By Daveen Éveline 4 years ago in Feast
The Iconic Ice Cream
The heat during the summertime calls for a sweet tooth craving to save our taste buds from drying out. We all yell “Ice cream”, a heavenly delight that can cool our sweaty backs with all ease and maybe giggles. Summer days are effortlessly endless like the choices of flavors and styles of Ice cream shared throughout our world. The coolest fact I have heard about Ice cream is that one summery day long ago, George Washington spent two hundred dollars on ice cream in one purchase, and all of it was eaten in one day due to no refrigeration. After that well, the creative combinations of the luscious treat were on the rise even to this day.
By Kristian B. Delpilar4 years ago in Feast
Summertime Same-Ness
I grew up a military brat, hoping from location to location, sometimes with only 6 months to a year in between moving. There were new schools & sack lunches, unpacking boxes and my mom’s melt in your mouth pot-roast… and then there were summers and my parents BBQ.
By Josey Pickering4 years ago in Feast
