My Personal Feasts & Treats Of Summer

Summer is one of the most brightest, warmest and gracious times of the year and everyone's personal favourite season. With a list of countless joys and activities to embark on and relax to the hot weather to either sunbath in your back garden, host a barbeque, socialise at a beer garden with friends, plan and go for a day out at a park or a beach of an ideal picnic of a staycation holiday and anything else to embrace and endure the Summertime feeling of wearing your shades and shorts, picking up a tan and maybe enjoy an Ice-Cream without a moment to miss out on a bright spectacular day of the weather, (so long as you drink plenty of water included).

Other Summer essentials are important too, if ever you plan to go somewhere wonderful like the beach or anywhere up-broad. For the food though it is an absolute luxury at home or on holiday (vacation), usually I prefer the food at home for the holidays for of Summer but don’t get me wrong, the food elsewhere for the break of celebrations are ravishing and wonderful in the likes of Triangular Pineapples, Breakfast Muffins, BBQ food, French Toast, Croissants, Crispy Bacon, Chopped Fruit pieces of Kiwi, Mangos, Grapes and Pineapple etc, Pancakes with toppings of Golden Syrup, Cream with Raspberries (or Blueberries) and unlimited Orange Juice and especially the never ending treats of Frozen Yogurt.

For my essential Summer food though, it does however involve a mixture of guilty pleasures which I just can’t get enough of even though I always try and keep a healthy and balanced diet. So here is some strong recommendations and some slight story telling for my favourite food of the sunny season.

Food:

Steak - Usually requested medium to rare served with Chips (fries) and Peas, this is usually served to me whenever I’m out with the family or friends at a pub or restaurant. I tend to make sure there is plenty of Tomato Ketchup with Salt to go with the seasoning, this is also usually as a fancy for the treat sat outside at a garden (or beer garden) and I would sit with my shades and shorts out with plenty of sunscreen, as this is for when the sun is out and the beam of the heat scorching on my skin without catching a sunburn. If there is an umbrella at a bench or picnic table with the shade then brilliant, I do love a tan but I DON’T wish for a sunburn what so ever as that can ruin your day.

BBQ Essentials - This involves a mixture of Hot Dogs, with Ketchup. Two Burgers, one with Ketchup on and the other with Burger Sauce, sometimes I would use a non stick Egg Ring to fry and Egg onto of the Burger so that there is no spillage onto the flames. Kebabs, on a stick with onions, red or green peppers, Chicken and even Cherry Tomatoes. Golden Vegetable Rice to go the extra and along with Chopped Tomatoes with Lettuce to add onto the Hot Dogs and Burgers. When it comes to Barbeques, I mainly go to one of either a friends or one of my Cousins houses or host one as my friends, Aunt, Grandmother and other Cousins would join us in our back garden along with other distance relative guests.

Fruit - Bananas, extremely healthy and always vital for your health, even included in cereals and believe or not but fried on the barbecue as well (even though often a guilty pleasure with sugary treats and deserts). I would go early on walks first thing in the morning on the public footpath, listening and passing by birds singing and other quiet noises of the nature nearby. This is also included for breakfast if I am in a rush or do not want to waste any moment for the morning glory of the sunrise.

Grapes are also a nutritionist way to go and I occasionally have Green Grapes as preferred on a golden sunny day, often in the afternoons. I would flick them up in the air and catch them in my mouth, they go in my mouth and sometimes miss and hit the floor but that's usually when boredom takes over.

Nando’s - If I don’t feel like cooking or just feel like going out and enjoying the outdoors of the shiny hot days, I would drop by at my all time favourite restaurant to dine at and the great glorious Chicken place Nando’s. My usual choice of the restaurant is either a Butterfly Chicken or Four Chicken Thighs, with the sides of Peri Peri Salted Chips, Garlic Bread, Creamy Mash Spicy Rice and even Broccoli. However I would not usually go for all of this (If I'm with anyone and sharing of course) as its usually two or three sides to go with my meal. I do also have bone Chickens such as the leg or wings and the spice option is usually a Medium as a prefer that spice level. I don’t mind my food spicy but when it gets too spicy it can quite frankly burn my tongue and having to keep my mouth open letting in all the air in my mouth.

Drinks:

Beer and Larger - My favourite and preferred alcoholic drinks involve Stella Artois, Cools Light, Birra Moretti or a Peroni. I drink these kind of alcohol if ever I am socialising with friends at a pub or just chilling out at home with the T.V. on. One favourite time is when I am with one of my friends and we catch up every Sunday either in Summer or any other season, and we would go to the pub chill and chat about how we’ve been about our week, families and football. We also involve activities of Snooker or Pool on occasions, we would even compete in a game of flip and catch with the beer mats at the table to have a great time and make more memories.

Cider - My favourite Cider to drink is the Koppaberg (or Rekorderlig) and I mostly drink the flavour of Mixed Fruit as it fits my taste buds, Strawberry and Lime flour is fine though it tends to get too sweet for me. I tend to drink these at pubs and restaurants, but one of my favourite and idealistic times to drink these is when I am sunbathing in my back garden with the drink out of the sound in the shade of my sun bed and listening to R&B, Hip - Hop and Soul to chill out to. One of the times I think and vision about the most in Summer on a scorching day for the time to pick up a tan is when I am drinking my Cider and listening to the track Show Me by Bruno Mars as a radical choice along with other songs to chill out to. Fair bit of advice is to try not to fall asleep when sunbathing and listening to music because the tan may end up as a sun burn and your drink will be warm, it’s not happened to me before but I make sure.

Volvic Flavoured Water - Another important option to stay hydrated and keep cool for a hot day, but to add flavour and without sugar of water I would go for Volvic of any particular flavour. I would always make sure that this is kept in the freezer though over night and take out in the morning if ever I am taking long walks and the ice will eventually melt keep the water at the lowest of temperatures to stay extra cool and hydrated, (besides from the annoying drips from the bottom of the bottle).

Treats:

Ben & Jerry’s - My ideal choice treat for the mild Summer days (along with any body else's) is always the Ben & Jerry’s Ice-Cream. Though the flavours I go for are the Half-Baked, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Chocolate Caramel Cookie Dough or the Cookie Dough S’Wich Up. I also intend to go to a local supermarket and buy a whole tub of Ice-Cream and would bring a spoon with me from home in a kitchen cloth. This is because if I take the tub at home it would melt quickly because of the heat and so I would enjoy a walk whilst enjoying the tub of Ice-Cream, I even did this on one occasion on holiday (vacation) with my brother on a stroll along the beach in Spain.

Fab Ice Lollies - As a kid these were always my favourites, Ice Lollies are not something I would usually go for nowadays but always free to go back and be reminded of my childhood memories, no matter the flavours I had before but these were always the ones I requested, to enjoy the sprinkles with Chocolate on top to the bottom of the Strawberry flavour of the bottom and even numb and chew with the stick without trying to damage my teeth.

Either way these were and are still my favourite foods and treats for the sunny seasons and a of recommendations for all no matter your age.