A Delicious Slice of Summer

We love watermelon and yesterday we bought some, they were only $2.

We had a picnic outside with our watermelon and we also made some picnic punch to go with our picnic. Here is the recipe for the punch.

Ingredients:
6 oz. can orange juice
1 cup sugar
1 pkg. unsweetened strawberry-flavored drink mix
4 cups lemmon-lime soda pop

Mix the orange juice according to directions. Add one cup of sugar and the pkg. of strawberry-flavored drink mix to the orange juice. Add the soda to the punch and mix well. Pour the punch into plastic baggies. Insert a straw and wrap a robber band around the top. Stand the bags in a cake pan or container. Refrigerate until ready to serve or sometimes I even put it in the freezer until it's mushy. Cut out a paper watermelon and make two horizontal slits in it. Slip a straw through it. Enjoy!

Now if you don't have any watermelon around you can still make a refreshing treat. We made ice cream watermelon wedges last week. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:
dark brown M&M's (15-20)
2 T. melted butter
green food coloring
1 7 oz. pkg. coconut
1/2 gallon strawberry ice cream (or any flavor that is pink)

Combine butter and food coloring in a large bowl. Toss in 2 c. coconut, stirring until uniformly colored. Line 10 inch baking pan with foil. Press green coconut around edges of pan about 1 inch up. Spoon the ice cream into the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle the remaining coconut around the outside edge. Press the M&M's into the ice cream for watermelon seeds. cover and freeeze until firm. To serve, lift from pan by foil; cut into wedges.