Favorite Summer food

I try to be an organized person. Even though at this moment I am failing miserably in certain areas of my life with this skill, there is at least a couple areas I try to keep organized at a rather high percentage level for the sake of my family's well being. One of these areas happens to be: meal time. I am a big believer that happy tummy's equals happy people. Most the time anyways. There is nothing better, if you ask me, then a good home cooked meal at the end of one's day. I really like food and I really like good food when I am hungry. I tend to get irritable and moody when I'm hungry and don't know what we're going to eat. I also like to know what my family is consuming and take a little pride in knowing they are getting a well rounded meal at least once a day, if not more. Now, of course this takes preparation and planning and grocery shopping and I am required to think about it at least a week or two in advance. Thus, the high percentage level for consistent meal planning and not the full 100%. Stuff comes up and life happens faster then I can keep up at times and this results in me throwing whatever together and hoping there is meat in the freezer or even better, thawed out, when I start to make dinner at 5:30 that night. So... this all being said. I love summer meals!!! and, as I start to plan our summer meals out I want some new ideas!!!

What is your favorite summer dish, grilled item, craving, or whatever! I am looking to expand my summer meals by trying some new things...so, dish them out! What do you like to eat??? Pass on a favorite summer dish recipe!!!

A few Simple Fav's at our house:

fresh strawberries and bananas cut up and mixed together. need I say more? yum!

grilled veggies: slice up sweet potatoes/yams, green pepper, green beans, asparagus. brush olive oil on them and salt & pepper. wrap in foil wrap and throw on the grill!

grilled potatoes: cut and dice up potatoes of your choice. sprinkle Lawry's seasonings on them and dice up some real butter to put on them. throw all this onto foil wrap and wrap up. place on grill for 20-30 min. double foil wrap so it doesn't char!

frozen fruit-cup: 1 can frozen pineapple juice, thawed, 12 oz
1 can frozen OJ juice, 6 oz, thawed
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 firm bananas
1 small container of fresh strawberries
1 can mandarin oranges, drained
1 can crushed pineapple
18 clear plastic cups (9oz)
prepare pineapple juice according to directions. add everything else. spoon 3/4 cupful into each cup and freeze! Enjoy a freezer full of cold fruit treats for a couple weeks!!

grilled chicken: you can fix this 100 different ways...our most used is- place chicken in tupper-ware container in morning and add marinade sauce for it to sit all day in fridge like this. I buy marinade by the bottle at Aldi's for like 97 cents and they have 3 or 4 flavors to choose from. McCormick's also makes marinades in little enveloped packages at Walmart that you can make a marinade from. pretty good too. throw on some fresh lemon or pineapple when you grill to add some citrus flavor.