a summer food & drink bucket list

as a bona fide hedonist, i love to partially plan my seasonal activities around delicious treats of all kinds — and summer is perhaps the best time of year for indulging. so, here are some of my personal favorites that i plan on enjoying over the next couple of months (and yes, full disclosure, i’ve already enjoyed some of them). what am i missing?! what are your favorite summer foods and drinks?

FOOD

• burrata

• s’mores

  

• creamsicles (i recommend trader joe’s tangerine cream bars, which i just picked up a box of yesterday!)

  

• speaking of trader joe’s…gone bananas (the frozen banana slices — sooo delicious)

• potato salad (specifically, my mom’s recipe, which i’ve never been able to find an exact replica of online, but this is pretty close, minus pickle relish)

• burgerssss on the grill with yellow american cheese

• BLTs on chewy sourdough

• fried clams

• snickers ice cream bars

• plums and nectarines

• watermelon

• corn on the cob

• fried dough

• banana splits

• ambrosia salad (one of the few things i miss about living in florida: publix’s marshmallow delight)

  

• strawberry shortcake

• atlantic beach pie

  

DRINK (aside from tons and tons of iced coffee every day):

• lemonades

• raspberry lime rickeys

• malted iced coffees (my favorite is at tandem in portland, maine, but if you’re in the boston area, 1369’s is good, too!)

• chilled white wine (riesling, sauv blanc, and port are my favorites)

• root beer floats (i also did a makeshift creamsicle float last week with orange soda and vanilla ice cream. delicious!)

  

• bubble teas

• stoli raz & sprites

• whiskey sours (i also made frozen ones a couple summers ago with lemonade concentrate + maraschino cherry juice and they were amazing, so maybe i’ll try those again)

  

• rosé…possibly all day

• milkshakes