sunshine_revival Challenge #3
Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?when I was a kid in summer we used to have BBQs in the back yard. A real BBQ, over an open fire. We had one of those homemade BBQs made out of old bricks haphazardly cemented together, with a wire rack, and you'd set a fire underneath the rack on the ground and cook your snags on the rack. they would smell like smoke and get a good black char if you weren't paying attention lol
no plates needed - each snag was served up on a slice of white bread with butter and tomato sauce (ketchup) and you just held it in your hand to eat while you were running around the yard. Kinda like the sausage sizzle sausages you get from Bunnings these days.
I miss that kind of BBQ. Where I live is a national park, and every summer these days there is automatically a total fire ban during summer, so you can't light any kind of fire, and can only have gas BBQs and that is 100% not the same. Might as well be cooking them indoors, lol
The other thing we used to eat in summer that I loved were Sunny Boys.
Sunny Boys were a type of ice block made from frozen orange juice - looked like this back in the 80s:
Sometimes they would have an offer where you checked the inside wrapper and you could win a free sunny boy. One summer we got lucky and ended up with a chain of about 5 free sunny boys! that was an epic summer lol
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Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes.ok here is a super quick recipe for a lunch:
Pesto Chicken Roll 2 cold cooked chicken breasts
1/2 cup pesto (red or green)
1tbsp greek yoghurt (or smooth ricotta)
140g (half a small jar) of roast capsicum (peppers) or sun dried tomato
lettuce
cheese slices
bread Rolls
1. dice or shred the cold chicken breasts
2. drain, and pat dry (with paper towels) half the jar the sun dried tomato (or capsicum) - if you don't do this the oil will seperate in the fridge.
3. In a bowl mix your pesto and yoghurt together until combined
4. add the sun dried tomato/capsicum and the chicken to the mix and stir until well coated
5. make your rolls with lettuce and cheese (and anything else you want on it)
6. spoon some of the chicken mix onto the roll. The rest can keep in the fridge in a container for a couple of days.
Optional: Its also nice served up with hot chips on the side!