Summer Heat is Here, Recipes for Summer maybe passed down?

Summer Heat brings different cooking in many homes. Has your family passed down a recipe or two
for you utilize?

I remember we made many, many jello recipes, lots of salads, and when all else failed peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches.

We made home made Ice Cream often and no one grumbled about turning the crank, not if they wanted some of
the cool delicious peach Ice Cream or chocolate, or blackberry. Yes, we did eat Vanilla flavored also.

O yes, BBQ came about when I was a teen, so once in a long while we would do BBQ: Hamburgers, Hot Dogs,
Beef or Pork Ribs and rarely a steak. The other meats went much farther.

We could have pudding and cereal for supper if really warm. Mom invented a quick individual pie idea.
We all ate cornflakes, so we would make pudding and put the cornflakes in the bowl and pudding on top
with fresh whipped cream. The puddings were many in flavor: Vanilla, Chocolate, Banana, Coconut, Lemon,
Fresh Peaches, Fresh Pears, minus the pudding but with the whipped cream.

Loving the Blackberries and cornflakes and whip cream was awesome. Sometimes we used Ruskets if we had
them. Today I like to use Grapenuts and do the same thing. Just very hard to find good Blackberries. To
difficult for in town living to grow. I have tried. Blueberries grow well in large pots.

Our son had blackberries he brought from Mom's but then they moved. They had a large lot to grow a massive
garden and fruit trees. So did my Uncle when alive in Lemon Grove. He had an acre lot. Blackberries ramble
as you know and it is difficult to control their element.

Have you made the Beet, cherry jello salad with walnuts? It is on my list of doing. Great Aunt Edna
Foulk introduced us to that and serve with sour cream.

The Lime and Pineapple jello with either sour cream or whipped cream or salad dressing a dab on top.

Not being a fan of a lot of the jelled meat dishes but have eaten them. Have you?

Cold Chicken salad or turkey salad or ham salad is a life saver if you were prepared.
I like to take some of the packaged pasta salads and chop in the various meat and add yellow, red and
green peppers to it. Light on the green they are stronger and better for baking.

Do not forget we boiled eggs and potatoes and did many dishes using them also. Lots of Fresh fruit from
our trees also helped. An Apple a Day keeps the Dr away. We had 10 apple trees, regular and winter pears,
Blackberries, Raspberries, one plum tree.

So what do you remember of your summer meals?

Breakfast for us was normally: egg, toast, later cold cereal
came about but not often much to expensive. Biscuits and peanut butter and Jelly. It also doubled for our
lunch with a piece of fruit. Pancakes or Waffles on the weekends or when no school.