Christmas in July Recipes
Dreaming of snow, Santa and Christmas-y comfort food in all this heat? Yep, while visions of sugarplums (what are those, anyway?) aren’t exactly dancing in our heads, we’d love some festive fare so we can at least pretend the temperature is bearable. As our gift to you, we’ve compiled a summery take on some traditional holiday eats. Enjoy!
Add a spicy kick to your usual Christmas shrimp dish with the Food Network’s Christmas Shrimp Curry Recipe. We suggest serving it with shredded coconut and pineapple chunks on top. It’s like a Christmas vacation for your taste buds.
This fruity bread isn’t your typical heavy fruitcake. Christmas Strawberry Bread from AllRecipes.com is a berry good alternative, and it’s something delectable to serve on the side. Best part about it? When baked it comes out pinky-red (Christmas color!).
Christmas ham has gone tropical with AllRecipes.com’s Brown Sugar and Pineapple Glazed Ham recipe. The pineapple adds some seasonal zing and the brown sugar really reinforces that warm and fuzzy holiday feeling. Yum.
The perfect summer spin on a Christmas fave, this Peppermint Ice Cream Cake recipe from Taste of Home combines everyone’s favorite holiday candy with refreshing ice cream—not to mention it’s delectable and easy to make. Ahhh, the perfect minty cooldown for a sweltering day.
-Cait Rohan
GIRL TALK TIME: What is your favorite Christmas food? Are you kinda missing Christmas now that it’s so hot out? Would you ever try a summery take on your holiday favorites? Tell us now!
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15 Comments
Post a CommentCurry shrimp looks soooo good!
I love cranberried during Christmas. I definately would try it at other times but there hard to find during the summer except the canned kind and the price is more expensive than during Christmas unfortunately.
Ham And Shimps Love Yummy! Not A Fan Of The Red Bread…
The shrimp dish looks way yummy. The strawberry bread, not so much.b
I LOVE PEPPERMINT CAKE
The other summer recipes looked more appealing…….
red bread? not too appealing but I like the icecream cake!!!
yummy!
Yummie.. cake looks good!
The ham looks OK.
The shrimp looks great!
What is a sugarplum? “A sugar plum is a piece of dragée candy that is made of dried fruits and shaped in a small round or oval shape.”
it all looks soooo good. i happen to like all the seasons mainly the spring, and fall.
that ice cream cake sounds good! yes, i prefer winter over summer any day but when it gets this hot out, i wish for snow!!
All the food looks great. Wish I had something great to eat right now I am hungry.