Happy first day of summer! Along with a few blogger friends, I’m hosting a Sizzling Summer Blog Hop starting today. We’ve all got some amazing prizes, so be sure to enter the giveaways that will surely make your summer fun and delicious!
In celebration of the first day of summer, a couple of bloggers friends and I have gotten together to each host an awesome giveaway. To say thanks for reading us, to let you know we appreciate your comments, to share the love!
My personal giveaway is all about Martha’s Vineyard, a little island on the coast of Massachusetts where families vacation and we work. The Vineyard is all about seasonality: May through October is what we call “the season”, meaning the season when everything is up and running, all the restaurants are open, and there are daily activities to attend, plus work days that are 14 hours long. October through April is the “off-season” when locals get to relax, take care of home projects, work on their manuscripts (because everyone is a writer in disguise), and suffer through a long, harsh winter.
But today my friends, today we celebrate with this gloriously local giveaway of some of my favorite artisan products from Martha’s Vineyard. This island is packed with creative people that makes some of the best products I’ve ever tasted and if you win, you’ll get to savor a tiny piece of MV in your own home.
Enter to win:
- locally made fudge from Murdick’s Fudge
- locally roasted coffee by Chilmark Coffee
- salt from our Martha’s Vineyard water made by MV Sea Salt
- honey collected from local bees by Martha’s Vineyard Honey
- raw chocolate by the ladies at Not Your Sugar Mamas.
And be sure to check out the blogs below for more giveaways and prizes!
The Sweetphi Blog
Karis’ Kitchen
Food n’ Focus
She Ordered What?
The Frosted Vegan
Food Faith Fitness
Kiss My Smoke
Cravings of a Lunatic
The Housewife in Training Files
The Cookie Rookie
Crumbs and Chaos
Miss in the Kitchen
Art of Natural Living
I love to grill fruit! The carmelization just makes the flavors pop!
Gosh I could never choose just ONE favorite summer recipe … there are too many! I love making salads in the summertime with fresh produce from the garden and homemade salad dressing. I love rhubarb crisp and berry white chocolate scones, roasted pears with goat cheese and stuffed peppers, italian cream sodas and grilled pizza.
Grilled fruit salad with sweetened mascarpone or greek yogurt
My favorite summer recipe is the standard BLT sandwich! Quick,easy and soooo delicious!
a tomato sandwich!! with big, ripe, slices of home grown tomato!
I think my favorite summer dish is a simple cucumber salad. It doesn’t need much to taste good and it just feels so much like summer!
My favorite summer recipe is for Macaroni salad. Really simple and light.
Elbow macaroni
diced cucumbers
tuna
Ken’s Italian dressing
Mayo
Hmm, favorite summer recipe……..anything with fresh local fruit. Love to make a fruit cocktail with strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, top with a dollop of Greek yogurt and homemade granola. Delicious.
my favorite summer recipe is for strawberry bread
By the season, you mean the time of year you aren’t freezing your ass off? We pretty much have the same here in Illinois. Ok. Seriously–anything with my fresh, summer fruit. And if shortcake or ice cream is involved, that’s even better.