What is your favorite Summertime food?

As I have rarely met a food that I don’t like, choosing a favorite summer food is really hard. There are the summer cookout foods, the summer fresh fruit dishes, homemade ice creams, and a vast choice of garden-fresh vegetable dishes. Although I love homemade peach ice cream and I adore a big serving of fried okra, I think my favorite summer flavor is a garden ripe tomato and that being said makes me decide that Gazpacho is my absolute favorite summer food. It is brimming with fresh chopped tomatoes, celery, onion, several kinds of peppers, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and a little oil all blended into something divine! Served chilled, a cup of gazpacho hits the spot on a hot summer day. My father in law would always dice up all of the veggies and make us a big pitcher of gazpacho. If I close my eyes I can see that Tupperware pitcher in the fridge and my taste buds are tingling in anticipation of a cup of this soup…pure summertime.