Cooking Thursday: Gingerbread Overnight Oats and Summery Pinterest

 

Hello beautiful Blogland Besties!

How's things for you this Thursday?

I had some honorary Aunties over for lunch - so that's why I'm getting to this post a little late. We had a great catch up and I served some monte cristo sliders with raspberry preserves, melon, veggie tray and apple cinnamon kringle. 😋

Here's the table all set. I used my blueberry placemats and some new linen summery napkins I had picked up. 

Since I'm talking about food - I thought I would share a few delicious looking dishes from my pinterest. 

I'm still thinking summer things - other then next week we're going to do a Christmas in July time when Annie's bf comes for a visit. She & I have made a plan. He loves Christmas and holiday music like I do. :) So I'm going to make a more holiday-like meal, a Christmas related treat, and we're going to listen to Christmas music and color (or they may do a lego set). Plus, I've already got some little gifts for them and Matt just for fun. So even though it won't be on the 25th of July - I'm still going to have my little "fix" before the end of July. 

But back to summer ideas....

You can find all of these on my pinterest board called "summer" if you click here.

I've always wanted to make this and I'm determined to do it before summer ends.

Annie has been into all things lime - so I may make these before she heads back to school.

this is a recipe for Italian grinder chicken salad - doesn't it look tasty?

my summer board also has all kinds of different red, white, and blue ideas for the season

It also has other summer related things - like summery quotes I've liked.

And of course there are several different Christmas in July ideas. :) 

even a doggy popsicle idea

This is not a pinterest thing - but I saw this on social media and my daughter & I both really liked it. We stretched out a fruit roll up and wrapped it around a coconut popsicle. It makes the fruit roll up a crisp texture and the strawberry flavor with the coconut was really yummy! 

Another fun Christmas in July idea was the overnight oats I made the other day. They were gingerbread flavor and I added some chopped walnut and some chopped apple (not shown in the pic). It was really good and definitely had that molasses gingery flavor. I found the recipe at a site called healthynibblesandbits.com I made it according to the recipe but tweaked a bit of the amounts and also added a little maple syrup and some chia seeds. Here's the recipe:

My hydrangeas are going strong! 

I hope you're still enjoying these summer days. They are so fleeting in the northwoods...so I'm trying to soak it all up before it's gone. (even though Autumn forever has my heart)😉