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
My favorite summer recipe involves an avocado, some sea salt, and a spoon!
Just Shishkabobs. Veggie and marinated chicken. So yum and easy. 🙂
I love avocado on ANYTHING or in ANYTHING in the summer!
My favorite is a simple pound cake to top with ripe strawberries and a mountain of whipped cream!
Home-made black bean burgers!
strawberry shortcake
Strawberry margaritas
Simple sweet iced lemonade and vanilla custard made from scratch.
Strawberries with black pepper balsamic vinegar and mascapone cheese
My favorite summer recipe has got to be a cold-steeping iced coffee recipe I found online several years ago. I wish Pinterest had existed then or I’d remembered to write down the source so I could go back and thank the person who created the recipe!