8 Refreshing Recipes! Great For Spring, Summer, BBQ, Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner Fall or Winter Even

Hey chefs! Thanks so much for hanging out with me while I share with you this new cook with me video! I’m in the kitchen cooking up some amazing refreshing recipes! 8 Great recipes perfect for spring / summer BBQ or really any day of the week! Hope you enjoy cooking with me!

Kim!

Simple Homemade Lemonade:

Old Fashioned Homemade Lemonade (only 3 ingredients!)

Orzo Pasta Salad:

Cilantro-Lime Orzo Pasta Salad

Enchilada Pasta Salad:

Zesty Chicken Enchilada Pasta Salad

Strawberry Fluff Salad:
https://www.swankyrecipes.com/strawberry-shortcake-fluff-salad.html

Ina Garten Potato Salad:
https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/ina-gartens-potato-salad/

Ina Garten Corn Salad:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/fresh-corn-salad-recipe-1914351

Vanilla Fruit Salad:
https://julieblanner.com/vanilla-fruit-salad/

Watermelon Fruit Salad:

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I just printed out an obscene amount of
recipes Today is family dinner get
together and we always pick a theme we
get together once a month enjoy food
enjoy good company and it’s a really fun
thing that our family does so I’m making
a lot of fun recipes today and I thought
I would share them with you right now I
am just cutting up some lemons because
the very first thing oh did I tell you
the theme it’s like picnic theme but
these Foods I feel like would be also
great for Mother’s Day or summer or
really any day of the week because food
is food but the most important thing to
bring to a picnic in my opinion not that
I often go on picnics but in my mind I’m
like oh you need to have lemonade so I’m
making lemonade and I used to think to
make lemonade you just needed water
lemons you know lemon juice dump that in
and sugar and mix it the best way to do
it the oldfashioned way is to make a a
simple syrup and the reason why I’m
doing it first is because the simple
syrup obviously you have to boil it to
make the simple syrup which is
essentially just water and sugar boiled
but I’m adding lemon juice to it because
we’re making lemonade but this obviously
needs to cool in the fridge before we
drink it so I have about 2 cups of lemon
juice the recipe also says to slice up
the lemons and throw those in maybe I’ll
zest is I don’t know I just don’t feel
like straining it and going through all
of that I’m on a time crunch so we’re
just going to make it work this way so
the recipe calls for seven I think a
little bit over 7even cups of water I’m
going to double this so I’ve got 14 cups
here I’m going to bring this to a boil
gosh this thing is going crazy so once
this comes to a boil which is not
yet all right now it’s ready I have 2
and 1/2 cups of sugar I’m just going to
dissolve that in there remember I
doubled the recipe so 1 and 1/4 cup if
if you are just making a normal size
portion and just mix that in until it’s
dissolved into a pitcher or whatever
you’re serving it in I really don’t want
my glass to break oh my gosh is that a
pit or a seed what the heck ever all
right I saved the day I’m going to pour
my lemon juice in here it’s like two
cups there’s a little bit of Pulp but
it’s fine okay now I’m going to dump the
simple syrup in mix that in I’m going to
throw in some mixins I’ve got mint
strawberry and I’m going to slice up
some lemon lemons and of course you add
ice so like three cups of ice but I’m
going to let this sit for a minute
before I add the ice slightly worried
about glass and all this heat but uh
okay maybe I’ll add the ice now three
cups of ice going in which seems like
literally nothing but hey if you’ve
never done a lemonade stand before Oh I
guess six cups cuz I doubled it that
makes more sense now you know how to
make really good lemonade I can’t tell
you how many lemonade stands I’ve been
to oh my gosh I’m giving the these kids
like five bucks for a little bit of
lemonade and I’m
like someone needs to teach them how to
do it right just over here doing the
Lord’s work okay mix that in it’s good
to go obviously not really I’m going to
mix a lot more in but for now I’m moving
on I cooked some pasta earlier this
morning some pasta orizo and potatoes I
got a lot I’m making a feast over here
for just no good reason I need a
pineapple you can use any fruit for this
but I’m going to throw together a fruit
salad a vanilla fruit salad I’ve never
made this before and I’m really pumped
for it honestly it better be delicious
because if I am wasting four cups of
fruit we’re going to have a problem
because that’s what it calls for four
cups of fruit so I have a medley of
pineapple grapes strawberries
blueberries the picture shows I don’t
know other stuff it really doesn’t
matter anything you like I assume would
be delicious oh my gosh
pineapple the best save the top and
throw it in your garden in 3 years
you’re going to have a pineapple that’s
like this B # worth it so in the picture
what got me on this one was that the
fruit just looked so cute unfortunately
I’m not going to be making my fruit look
as cute as she does I mean could I no
she has heart-shaped pineapple and
that’s just at a different level than
where I am in my life right now that’s
like edible treats style what’s that
like Edible Arrangements that’s what I’m
talking about so I’m just dicing my
pineapple up pretty small feel like
that’s good
enough what am I going to bring this
in I have to transport it so I think
four cups of fruit will fit in here I’m
going to start with the pineapple I’m
going to add some strawberries to my
pineapple fruit mixture and I’m just
cutting them in like roughly the same
size pieces as the pineapple throwing
that right on top and then I’ve got some
grapes I’m just going to pluck these off
and throw these in I might add the
blueberries but I don’t know this is
looking pretty good maybe a handful or
two of blueberries just for a pop of
color why not then I’m going to toss all
the fruit just so I can see all the
colors see the rainbow nothing like
having a picnic and enjoying a
refreshing fresh fruit alongside but
that’s not all obviously well listen
here the recipe says to toss the fruit
in one cup of lemon juice I’m not going
to do that this fruit doesn’t Brown I
think we’re going to be good the kicker
for this one is adding 2 tablespoons of
instant or I I don’t know any kind of
vanilla pudding mix I’ve never done this
before so this is interesting I think my
kids are going to like it or it might be
a flop have you ever put oh gosh I
forgot what it is now lime juice on
grapes and they’re supposed to taste
like sour patch kits spoiler alert they
don’t it does taste like a tart grape
though or maybe it’s like a Jello-O
packet I don’t even remember but I did
it once and I was like okay no wow this
looks like a Gloppy mess her picture
looks nothing like this like do the gops
happening over here do you see her
picture and the lies that she told Julie
all right I’m going to take a taste test
anyway oh well I guess it’s nice to try
it once okay it doesn’t look half as
good as hers I can’t even like that GOP
oh gross this was surprisingly a hit and
after I had a few I was like wow the
flavor of this is really awesome if you
can get over the gooiness of some of
them and maybe if you dip them in lemon
juice like that will help with the GOP
too maybe I added too much powder I
don’t know but it’s so this one should
be really good I feel like I’ve made
something like it before how can it not
be good right it’s a watermelon cucumber
salad and I picked out this watermelon
last night when I went grocery shopping
fingers crossed everybody uh you know
what why it’s not like you know it’s
like H I might be able to cut the outer
portions off it’s so discouraging even I
thought oh it’s barely ripe like maybe
no it’s like almost rotten what the heck
maybe I’m a watermelon snob I don’t know
oh gross I’m not a watermelon snob like
that’s gross it’s just not it that’s not
even it’s not good not well scrapping
that idea oh I hate this watermelon
doesn’t even want to be thrown
away okay well you know what I’m going
to do since I always pivot I use what I
have and hopefully this cantaloupe is
good I bought it a few days ago I don’t
even know if this is good where did I
get this I’m going to feed these scraps
to my chicken and before I know it I’m
probably going to have like cantaloupe
growing out there in my garden right now
I have pumpkin cuz we gave them pumpkin
and like all the seeds were there it’s
actually pretty cool what’s funny is I
thought these fruit recipes were going
to be like the easy recipes all right I
got to taste test the cantaloupe okay
it’s good
everybody around now we’re going to take
it old school back to 8th grade back to
Middle school if I don’t drop it all
that piece is for me I’m okay calm down
I just cleaned my floors like 4 days ago
so we’re good cucumber and melon is what
I’m talking about the classic scents the
classic flavors I just have an English
cucumber we enjoy these a lot more than
the typical cucumber they’re seedless so
that’s always nice oh I just remembered
I meant to paint my nails you know
there’s never enough time in the day I
mean Bath and Body Works too honestly
now to top this off off I’m just going
to use some really simple you know my
favorite things fresh Citrus I’ve got a
lime fresh herbs I’ve got mint straight
from my garden yes oh my gosh can you
smell it it smells so fragrant so
refreshing is this a joke I’m pretty
sure I’m not supposed to cut the stems
up I’ll give it to my chickens it’s
Nature’s gum okay I’m just going to take
this little bundle here and just chop
that up Julian it oh yes that’s when the
flavor really comes out so I’m just
going to drizzle that over top yes and
then take the lime juice and add that in
oh yeah can’t forget to add the little
bit of natural perfume I love lime juice
so much yeah where’s my juicer my
fingers hurt that’s it you know I saw
some recipes that added Agave so I’ll
add Ito I’ll add a touch of agave in
here just a little splash I feel like
this might be expired oh no big deal
only
2022 it’s fine it’s like syrup right
doesn’t go bad it’s all natural all
right cool cool this is amazing that’s
exactly what it was so full of flavor
and freshness and it’s so simple to
throw together you can make this any day
of the week one more down moving
on up next I was going to make aa
gardens’s oh what is this crap I was
going to make her corn salad I still am
but I didn’t realize that I have
uncooked corn corn with all these husks
if they had normal corn in the grocery
store but this is like halfway peeled
off they think they’re making it easy
for you you know so I’m going to boil
these up real quick and I’m going to
make a different pasta salad in the
meantime I’m just going to bring this to
a boil and just let it cook for like 5
minutes it’s all it takes so earlier
this morning I cooked up some orzo pasta
and this is just 8 oz of pasta I threw
it in my fridge so it had time to cool
down before I threw the cilantro lime
orizo the salad together those flavors
are right at my alley it calls for herbs
obviously a must in any Springtime dish
summertime refreshing picnic dish some
lime juice it does call for tomatoes so
I bought some and then a red bell pepper
and then some spices and stuff for the
dressing so I’m just going to start
chopping and dropping my gosh it calls
for one bunch of green onions I think
that’s a little bit over well what do
they mean by one Bunch like is that one
Bunch or is this whole I’m just going to
do what I feel is right I give these a
nice
chop also calls for one bunch of
cilantro which I again think is a little
much and since I only bought one bunch
and I also need cilantro for a different
recipe I’m going to use just a big old
handful and I am going to chop up the
stems with this one because the cilantro
stems hold so much flavor and I don’t
want to waste them I need more space on
my cutting board so I’m going to throw
that in with the pasta I’m going to dice
up one red bell pepper it’s a really big
bell pepper I might just eat half of it
myself but I am going to dice it into
similar size pieces as the orzo and
they’re pretty small yeah that’s like
half of the red bell pepper and that
seems like a lot so add that in
everybody do Thea and then it calls for
some cherry tomatoes I really don’t feel
like ruining this I’m thinking of
leaving them whole so it’s easy for me
to pick them out because I am a child I
just don’t like tomatoes I don’t know
they taste like boogers okay like mucus
when you’re sick oh see the knife
doesn’t even want to cut it I’m
contemplating life choices Isn’t She
Lovely just the way she is without any
Tomatoes I’m going to throw together the
dressing and I might I might bring the
tomatoes just on the side for the
dressing I have 1/4 cup of olive oil the
juice of two limes So Fresh So
fragrant also a great vegetarian option
cuz I know a lot of pasta salads they
add meat to it and then some seasoning
so I’ve got some onion powder garlic
powder being very conservative with
these if you haven’t noticed a little
bit of pepper and a little bit of salt
it’s going to be so flavorful so I’m
just going to dump this dressing right
over top of the pasta mix it together
and then throw it in the fridge for
everything to settle in with each other
okay I guess I’ll add the potatoes now
that I see the lack of red in here so
pretty I diced up the rest of the red
bell pepper but I will say I have
another pasta recipe that oh my gosh I
absolutely adore and it’s just pasta
arugula and feta cheese with a little
bit of olive oil so simple and so
satisfying the corn is done so I’m going
to work on Ina gardens’s corn salad
fresh corn salad woo these are pretty
hot I’m going to shuck what it’s called
like take the ears the corn off of the
cob and to do that I’m just like I have
a bowl I don’t know you’re supposed to
put this inside of a bowl so I guess
that’s obsolete so the reason I wanted
to do it this way Ina gardens’s way is
because when you take it off of the cob
you get these delectable beautiful this
is so hot pieces that kind of stick
together right but if you don’t want to
be fancy like AA Garden like she says
just use store bought from the can you
know what my favorite is frozen I think
the frozen corn tastes so good this is
going to make like nothing I have four
ears of corn she calls for a little bit
more but they were sold in a pack of
four and they didn’t have fresh at my
local store my garden was fresh out you
know what I mean but this is what I’m
all about today with the picnic recipes
they’re just super simple easy to throw
together recipes that pack a punch and a
lot of great flavors fantastic I’m going
to throw it in here and the reason I
just remembered why you do it in a bowl
over a bowl is because the big bowl will
catch all of the juices but I’m beyond
that point right now of caring oh
beautiful so that’s what I’ve got to
work with love it AA is getting a little
wild and crazy on us this calls for one
entire small red onion diced up that’s
going to be a no for me but I will do
like half of a half of a red onion you
got to really love red onion to put a
whole dang onion in a salad very fine
pieces popping that in and I’ve got
basil here fresh from my garden this is
the flavor profile of this dish just
that I mean fresh basil it’s not that
I’ve never tried to grow basil it’s that
I try and fail every single time I blame
my climate ooh this kind of has like a
Teragon smell to it all right I’m using
a lot of Basil how much do I actually
need half a cup that seems about right
then all of it and I just like roll it
up a little bit here trying not to get
my bandid in there so gross Julianne
this got like a licoricey smell to it
I’m going to toss that on top and then
it does have a dressing so three
tablespoons of apple cider vinegar 1 2 3
equal parts olive oil and then a little
bit of salt and a little bit of pepper
that’s it that’s why why we love AA
right she keeps everything nice and
simple really lets the flavors Shine for
themselves so I’m going to drizzle this
over top and then give this a toss oh my
gosh so fresh so simple AA Garden really
knows what she’s doing she elevates the
dish while keeping the flavor profile
really simple but somehow like bursting
in your mouth you know what I mean it’s
fantastic as she would say it’s
fantastic
and then also delicious and easy to
throw together and that’s what it’s all
about right and the presentation is 20
one we’re down I’m so happy about this
almost time to leave I won’t be able to
get to everything but say logi so the
next recipe is a zesty chicken enchilada
pasta well I’m taking the shortcut the
easy way because I only have so much
time in my life right maybe I could have
made less recipes but what’s delicious
about less food I was going to make with
this chicken dill pickle chicken salad
sounds amazing right I still might
include that um but for the party I’m
going to let that slide so I got a
chicken last night and if this isn’t the
most pitiful looking chicken I’ve ever
seen in my what is this I don’t even
know if I’ll get a pound of meat off of
this thing and if I told you how much I
paid for this you’d say are you crazy
and the answer to that is yes have we
met it better taste good as all I’m
saying I’m going to take all the meat
that I can off of that pitiful little
bird and throw the enchilada pasta salad
together I cooked the pasta earlier
today so at least that is done oh my
goodness this bird is more flatchested
than me I don’t know which side have the
breast and which side is the back
there’s the little breast the Double A’s
I’m unhinge all right let me dissect
this thing a taste for the chef that’s a
bone the whole thing’s a bone bone it
does taste good the itty bitty little
Wishbone we making a wish I wish I had a
bigger chicken so I was going to make
the croissants the chicken salad like
dill pickle chicken Sal oh my gosh I
still want to make it so I’ll probably
make it next time we ate through the
croissant sad to report but uh I mean
they were delicious so not too sad but
the this rotisserie chicken costs twice
as much as the one that I get from
Costco but has half the meat
so I don’t know scream and deal that’s
why we love Costco right not that I
always get through a tisserie chicken
but what I’m trying to say is you could
probably use I didn’t have enough time
to like cook it and thaw it but you
could probably also use canned chicken
too just going to start chopping and
dropping here so I’ve got the chicken a
sad amount of it I’ve got some black
olives I’m going to throw in here I just
drained them from the can it’s a pretty
big can i’ got some corn this is just
from a can but I will say the quality of
corn from the can matters like store
bought versus the what do I have Delante
and then I have a can of black beans
drained and rinsed and then I have a red
onion I’m just going to dice this up oh
my gosh don’t do it this way okay
tossing this into what else I took some
pasta out for the little kids who don’t
care about Flavor oh cilantro where’s my
cilantro take a bundle of this I’m just
going to chop this up right quick fresh
herbs fresh Citrus always elevated dish
I’m going to throw the dressing together
which you need the juice of a lime these
flavors are going to be Bonkers for the
dressing or sauce you need oh boy 13 cup
of sour cream 2/3 cup of enchilada sauce
and lime juice and that’s it that seems
pretty simple the freshness is unmatched
okay I’m going to whisk this together
and then pour it straight over top mix
it all until it’s well combined I have
too much pasta well it doesn’t look like
much once it’s mixed together kind of
looks like sop but once you garnish it
with some fresh herbs look at that
completely transforms the dish all right
there she is all right there she is oh
my yes so much yes so much this was
delicious it had a lot of flavor to it
that enchilada sauce really gave it the
you know a little kick a little spice a
little flare and I would definitely use
more more than 2/3 cup I mean obviously
I didn’t measure but I would probably go
ahead and throw the whole can in there
because it was kind of dry I don’t know
that’s just my hot take and then I would
do the Greek yogurt instead of sour
cream because you can’t you would barely
be able to taste it with all of that
enchilada sauce in there you know so why
not give it a little healthy flare so
now I’m just cutting up some fruit for
the lemonade and if there was one
stunner throughout this entire video it
would be this one takeaway listen if
you’re are doing a lemonade stand please
for the love of everything that is Holy
do not let them do countrytime lemonade
or whatever the heck those packets are
you know we’ve done that before where
there’s like a sugar-free kind and that
comes in like a packet I forgot what
it’s called simply something I don’t
really know but it was okay but this is
you can’t even touch it right that that
the normal packet lemonade is like
whatever fine I’ll pay you $5 for a
little cup of lemonade and go on with my
life but this I mean if I paid it $5 for
this I would come back for seconds I’d
be like wow thank you so much what did
you do to this I need more in my life
this was the star and the lemonade it
wasn’t too tart it wasn’t too sour or
sweet or any not too much of anything
just like the perfect balance of
refreshing and delicious obviously it
had the herbs so even without adding all
of the extra add-ins that I did the
strawberry the the mint and the lemon
even without that it is perfect but with
it Round of Applause for whoever shared
a picture of this on Pinterest and made
me think that I would be able to
recreate it and I did and you know what
I saw on Pinterest is she shared it in
like these uh leader mason jars and just
made it look so sweet so if you’re doing
an actual picnic and need it to be more
transport friendly there’s an option
there but oh by the way this uh a
canister this drink dispenser is from
Target
I got it because uh I don’t know the one
I have I didn’t like and I saw this at
Target cuz I was looking for one that
was a lot prettier and could transport
the seal on top isn’t a proper seal it’s
just it just lays on there but I thought
it was gorgeous it was the right size
for what I want it’s a little smaller
than the ones that I have which I was
looking for it’s about two gallons but
it’s lovely hey it’s not a proper picnic
without a dessert so I’m going to throw
together one of my
faves I’ve made a lot of fun summer
desserts over the years
and this one is really fantastic and
delicious and simple and when I tell you
it’s delicious I’m not exaggerating it’s
so good just chop and drop a little
mixing and you’re on your way to uh
having a very well-known crowd pleaser I
have a pound of
strawberries I kind of feel like
whenever I’ve made this in the past I’ve
always doubled it but I can’t remember
it’s been so long so I’m just going to
cut the strawberries up and if I need to
add more I’ll do that oh my heck okay I
modified this recipe obviously as I do
with almost every
recipe I think I normally do more
strawberries than this like a it calls
for a pint I did one pound of strawberry
so however that converts and uh I feel
like typically I even do more than this
and then Wolf Gang was you know munching
on them as we went as well I always let
him help me out in the kitchen I use
help very Loosely but that’s how they
learn right and I would do more
strawberries because that’s just the gem
of the dish and I do about half of the
amount of marshmallows that it calls for
so like half a bag it calls for a whole
bag which I feel like is a bit much and
then when I um combined the oh it also
calls for half a loaf of pound cake as
well and so I just do a whole loaf it’s
like what first of all what am I going
to do with the rest of it and second of
all more is more you know and then I
added about 3/4 maybe 2/3
of the whipped cream sweet anded
condensed milk
mixture and it was a little on the dry
side I will say that obviously because I
added more stuff but I didn’t add at all
and it was fine like it still tasted
delicious like no one was like oh this
is no one complained listen this is such
a good salad it made me feel so healthy
after I ate it it’s sorc it is obviously
a dessert just with a little fruit flare
lots of sugar in here lots of butter
with the pound cake but it’s like you
know you got to live your life with
balance and it is such a good summer
treat if you’re looking for one so this
is just one can of sweet condensed milk
14 o and then 8 oz of the whipped cream
I just thought it out I left it in the
fridge after I bought it so it had been
in the fridge for I don’t know 12 hours
or so you can leave it on the counter
let it thaw out and then just mix that
together and then mix everything
together with the pound cake
marshmallows and strawberries so simple
to throw together so easy again that’s
the theme of my life and very very
delicious okay the payback of making
this I’m speechless it is one of my
favorites and it’s refreshing because
you let it chill in the fridge obviously
you can eat it right after you mix it
because you know it’s kind of cold stuff
anyway but if you let it chill it tastes
even better um I would eat it within a
couple of days because the marshmallow
not that we’ve ever let it go for a
couple of days let me say that but on
the recipe it states that the
marshmallows will start to
disintegrate um if you leave it for more
than 3 days so we’ve never had that
problem okay because that’s how good it
is it doesn’t last very long in our
house and I mean if I had the
opportunity to eat this entire
confection by my lonesome I would
definitely be able to do it because it
is that good call me Brucey and that’s
all I have to say about that make it if
there’s two things you make it’s
lemonade and this okay okay and we’re
just serving it and I have these little
ice cream cups earlier today I earlier
today I cooked some potatoes up so I’m
going to make AA Gardens potato salad
and it sounds really good everything she
makes is delightful they’ve been sitting
in the fridge chilling waiting for their
grand reveal so I have 3 lbs of potatoes
I just boiled them oh gosh it says easy
recipe but here we are making a dressing
and stuff I need celery for potato salad
never have I ever pickles I have but
celery I cry but I am so
productive it’s an art I’m going to
trust AA Garden on this one and uh get
some celery I also need some red onion
this looks like it’s about to go bad
half a cup of fresh
Bill a I broke a nail the thing I had
Dill fresh from my garden all right all
right all right all right I cry but I am
so
productive hey it’s an art I act like
it’s my first day every day calls for a
couple different mustards djon and whole
grain I doubt this is whole grain I’m
not going to use that this seems like a
lot of potato salad I’m okay with it I’m
going to whisk together the dressing
boom boom P boom p
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so we’ve got one cup of mayonnaise going
in here that’s a little crazy I’m sure
we can substitute half of that with
yogurt Greek yogurt for a little
healthier kick a little healthy flare
but we’re not eating potato salad to be
healthy okay 1/4 cup of Buttermilk y I
am
so couple tablespoons of the yellow Dion
looks good I’m just going to whisk This
Together get everything nice and
combined I forgot to add salt and pepper
mostly because I have to uh refill these
containers and I’ve been putting it off
just a little teaspoon of each oh
co give that a mix did you hear that
insane discs that Elanor just had I need
half a cup of red onion I’m going to
finally dice this up okay now I’m going
to add in half a cup of celery I don’t
know how many ribs of celery that
equates to but I am going to cut these
pretty finely let’s do three I think
that’ll get us there this is more like a
cup but I don’t go shy on my add-ins
okay if there’s one thing I’m not it’s
shy awesome that might be too much the
celery is a little overpowering and then
I’m going to need some dill just take a
peek take a look it’s in a book the
smell of this ooh you guys are we making
ranch dressing over here is that what
that is with the buttermilk and
mayonnaise I think so I would say if you
don’t have all of that just use ranch
dressing we need half a cup of Dill so
it’s basically everything from my pore
Garden I have a salmon recipe with dill
oh my gosh this was reminding me of it
it’s like lemon and Dill this is these
are the flavors of the season I mean can
you even look at this just so dang
delicious I’m going to give this a nice
chop probably my third favorite herb so
what I’ve got here are potatoes I’m
going to do the red and some celery and
then some dill I mean look it looks like
a salad your body won’t recognize it as
one but it’s got some green in it I
think I’ve gone through all of my
spatulas today just going to dump this
over and then toss it all together
that’s fabulous it is fabulous I’ve had
it’s different than any other potato
salad that I have I’m used to having
like some kind of vinegar or pickle in
my potato salad which I quite enjoy so
if you’re looking for that this is more
like very very classic very Mild flavors
it’s really good love the fresh dill in
there love the kick of the crunch of
celery I would add more of everything or
less potatoes I don’t know it made a lot
of it and uh maybe it’s the perfect
ratio and I’m just there’s something
wrong with me because I Garden doesn’t
make mistakes so there’s that and then I
will show you a couple of clips that I
took from my brother’s house when she
was setting up we got there and these
ants she got from Amazon I was like oh
my gosh they’re perfect for our picnic
themed I feel like everyone always does
the theme way better than I do they’re
all their cutesy little touches she
actually made chicken salad with
croissant too so it’s kind of perfect
that I didn’t do mine the same day and
she just had these little ants is
holding up the food oh I just thought it
was so cute she made a little keto I
don’t know keto salad I don’t know what
this is called but it had Dill in it it
had like cream cheese mixture with the
Tomato on top and then the crunch of the
Cucumber M so good if that’s your thing
just a nice little pop and then my one
of my nieces made that like cheese and
meat and artichoke I don’t know what
else is on there an Olive oh made it
delicious and then just the red and
white Checker theme of the day I feel
like that’s the tablecloth I’m missing
so she definitely had that and I was so
happy about it but this is the thing oh
my gosh and then my other sister-in-law
threw this together I thought it was
darling it was you know the whole ant
theme on it was a cupcake with some
coconut and then I posted this on
Instagram and someone asked if it was
olives on top uh no so sorry the those
are chocolate covered nuts and I just
think they’re so precious and then she
used like black frosting kind of stuff
for the legs and then the eyeballs just
so darling I loved how everything turned
out and we always have a good time we
were also playing what’s that game with
the headphones and you guess what people
are saying just always such a good time
when we get together so I would
encourage you guys to start doing this
even if it’s just with your own family
just getting together and making it a
theme once a month just you know give
life a little flare and that’s what it’s
all about so thank you guys so much for
watching and hanging out with me while I
shared all of these recipes with you I
hope it inspired you to uh make
something fun and funky and fresh hey if
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