July Recipe Series - Favorite summer recipes! Send yours in, earn $10 Amazon gift card

It’s time for some recipe inspiration! I’ve been slacking in the recipe department, I’m sorry!! A couple months ago I tried to recruit someone to help with the recipes and I just didn’t find anyone that I thought was a good fit. And the more I considered it – the more I realized how much I enjoy this part of my blog and it was going to be very hard for me to give it up.

To jump start things in July I’m doing a SUMMER RECIPE series – featuring YOUR favorite summer recipes. My favorite recipes are always ones that are sent in by readers. This is a broad category – I’m thinking recipes for grilling, salads, punches/iced coffee/lemonades, sandwiches, cold desserts, crockpot and more. If I feature your recipe here on the blog, you’ll get a $10 Amazon gift card!

Here are some guidelines:

• Any delicious recipe will do. It doesn’t have to be a traditional recipe. Even better if it’s not. It can be a snack, breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert – any sort of summer-friendly recipe is good.  As long as it’s a recipe you love, someone else will, too.
• Include a credit or source. It doesn’t have to be an original – if you got your recipe from a cookbook or website – no worries, just include a source to the recipe. If you got it from Aunt Ruth or it’s your own brainchild – even better, just include that too.
• Share your pics. Share photos if you have them, but not required.
• You can submit as many as you’d like. I’m sure you have more than one favorite and I’d love it if you shared two or three recipes!
• I won’t be able to feature all recipes on the blog. I probably won’t have time to highlight all the submitted recipes. I will randomly pick select recipes to feature on the blog based on the time I have, the ingredients used and what sounds good at the time.  I will personally make those select recipes, take photos and share your recipe with my readers in a highlighted post. I will give $10 Amazon credits ONLY to the recipes I feature on the blog in individual posts. 

Submit your recipes via email to thehive@queenbeetoday.com with subject line: Favorite Summer Recipes

And just for fun here are some of my favorite summer recipes:

• Grilled Honey Teriyaki Chicken recipe (pictured above)
• Grilled Halibut with Lemon and Capers recipe
• Grilled pizza, with homemade dough recipe!
• New Waldorf Salad with Lemon Tarragon Dressing (Granny Smith apples)
• Grilled asparagus with garlic and olive oil recipe
• Southwestern Salad with Avocado-Lime Dressing
• Grilled corn, avocado, tomato salad recipe
• Banana, strawberry, blueberry smoothie recipe
• Roasted Marinara Sauce Recipe – great if you grow tomatoes in your garden!
• Grapefruit and Avocado Salad
• Grilled Stuffed Zucchini recipe – bacon, mushrooms, parmesan
• Black Quinoa Salad recipe – Mangoes, avocados, peppers, lime
• Grilled vegetables and couscous