Fruit

I love cooking in the summer.  The abundance of fruit and vegetables available right now is lovely and delicious and I can't get enough of the strawberries, cherries, blueberries and melons.  Picnics, salads, soups and fruit - nothing fancy, but our favorite combination is something with fruit and whipped cream.

Frozen Inventions

Here's a gadget I love: popsicle molds.  It's been getting pretty warm out here, so it was time to crank up the popsicle factory.

I basically put the kids in charge of this one, and let them at it.  They love to invent recipes, so these included some lemonade, orange juice, strawberry & rhubarb sauce and....a teeny sprite from the back of the fridge.  The scientist-chefs went to work, testing the first batch of 2010's popsicles.

A few hours later, we learned that sprite works, but the crystals are larger than juice-based pops.  Not ideal.

The list of ideas grew longer - thankfully summer begins early around here!