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Summersgiving 2025
You might not know, but yesterday was Summersgiving, the Saturday after the Summer Solstice. Yeah, it’s not official or anything, but it’s a jolly good excuse for a picnic.
🍹 Any Reason To Celebrate 🏐
I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert. ~Martha Stewart
Well, we didn’t get nearly as fancy as Martha.
I got a few hoagie rolls, some meat, some cheese, some macaroni salad, some potato salad and we had our own personal Summersgiving.
It was the first full day of 🌞 meteorological summer 🔥, so naturally it was as hot and miserable as the very concept of the season always seems to me.
Blech!
🏝️ Hot Weather – Cold Feast 🍉
Happy Summersgiving!
There’s something inherently 🌞 Summery 🔥 about treats such as Italian Water Ice, lemonade, melons of all kinds.
It’s common wisdom in warmer climes to include spicy food to offset outside temperatures.
The capsaicin triggers bodily processes that trick your body into thinking it’s hot, causing it to try to cool itself down.
Not everybody likes adding zing to their thing, so we have iced beverages and refrigerated fruits to bring your body temperature down quickly.
Note that the cold food and drink is a quick chill that doesn’t last, while the spicy food gives a longer-lasting cooling sensation.
Do yourself a favor and start the heat avoidance with a chilly beverage and follow it up with spicy food to keep the chill going.
🌞 More Light To Read By 🌕
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~Jeannette Walls
Or you can be like me and just stay in the AC for as long as humanly possible.
I’d have to say that the only good thing about the official beginning of 🌞 Summer 🔥 is that it means we’re that much closer to it being over.
For now, Empire City is still in the first days after ❄️ Winter ❄️, but they’re cruising right along as well.
When it gets hot in Empire City, it’s going to be super hot!
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for a 🍓 parfait…