Easy summertime food and drink ideas

Easy summertime food and drink ideas that are simple enough to make throughout the summer season including my favorite sweet tea recipe.

Summertime around here typically means two things, slow and easy. Although I don’t claim to be a self-professed cook, more like a self-professed eater, I do like my summertime meals to be just that…easy. With the official start of summer right around the corner, I pulled out a few of my favorite easy southern meals, snacks, and cocktails.

This crockpot barbeque chicken was actually a happy accident. We realized after talking about having barbeque chicken for dinner one night that we had no charcoal for the grill. That would be a problem. We put the chicken in the crockpot and were pleasantly surprised at amazing it turned out. Try it. Let me know what you think. Another must-have, while we are sitting around on the front porch, is a chilled glass of sweet tea. See my southern sweet tea recipe here.