A Day at the Beach

We went to the beach over last weekend and had a blast! And I made some yummy food to take along with us. Which included:

Corn, Tomato, and Avocado Salad
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
1 1/2 cups of fresh Dill or Cilantro or whatever herb you like best. (I used dill from my garden :) )
2 Tbsp of Lime Juice
zest of one lime
Salt and Pepper
Blend in a food processor or blender until smooth. Set aside.

4 ears of Corn
(Put in cold, salted water, Bring to a boil, turn off heat, cover and let sit for 10-12 min, rinse under cold water and then shave corn off onto a clean kitchen towel. This prevents it from flying everywhere.)
1 cup of cherry tomatoes halved
1 cup of fresh mozzarella balls
2 avocados diced

Mix all the veggies and cheese together and pour the dressing over and chill for an hour before serving. This was SO good! I made this recipe twice, and the second time I made it I threw in some sweet red bell pepper, it was yummy.

Ham, Cheese, and Spinach Pin Wheels

2 cans of crescent rolls
some thinly sliced deli ham (you could also use prosciutto)
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese or Asiago
salt and pepper
1 garlic clove finely minced
1 cup of cooked spinach

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll out the crescent rolls and pinch all the seams together. Lay the ham over the dough in an even layer. Mix the Spinach, cheese, garlic, salt and pepper. Spread the spinach mixture evenly over the ham. Roll up making a "jelly roll" kind of. Then slice thin slices like you would a Cinnamon roll and lay on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for about 12 - 15 min until they are golden brown. These traveled very well and were delicious! Let them cool for a good 15- 25 minutes before you pack them up so they stay crisp and don't get soggy.


Along with these 2 delicious recipes I made tiny chocolate chip cookies. The dough I made about a week before our trip and had in the freezer, so it was easy to just bake some off to take with us. I made them about tsp size. They were prefect to just pop in your mouth. I had bought a pineapple about 5 or 6 days before we went on our little weekend beach trip. I sat it in the window so it got nice and ripe. I chopped that up with some strawberries. We had a very fun weekend of boating and swimming and building sand castles. The food was just the cherry on the cake.