I’ve only been drinking Bloody Marys for ten years or less, but I already have strong opinions on the best part: the garnishes.

When a lot of trendy brunch food spots have gone all in and garnished their drinks with crazy things like chicken tenders or slices of pizza or whatever in recent years, their only goal has been to go viral on TikTok or Instagram.

I’m not here to go viral. I’m here to make Bloody Mary skewers that taste great while I’m nibbling on my vegetarian quiche and blackberry muffin.

As I’ll explain in the post below, the best Bloody Mary garnish skewers are a simple combination of three flavors that our taste buds love.

You can get all of the ingredients needed for these Bloody Mary toppings at your local grocery store. And nobody here will ask you to stick an entire fried chicken on top of your drink. My only request is that you use everything bagel seasoning as bloody mary rim salt. Deal?

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Salads for specific holidays are becoming a hobby of mine. It all started with Thanksgiving salad, which became very popular and snowballed into Thanksgiving fruit salad.

Naturally, I tried my hand at salad for Christmas and Christmas fruit salad as well, and those were popular, too!

So this Spring, I’ve already brought you Easter salad, and you can definitely guess what is coming next, can’t you?

This Easter fruit salad recipe with sweetened whipped cottage cheese dip can be served in adorable little jars like you see here.

Or, serve it as a bowl of fruit salad, or arranged on your prettiest platter as an Easter fruit tray or fruit plate for Easter, with skewers to dunk into a bowl of dip.

Just like all of my holiday salads, it certainly isn’t meant to ONLY be enjoyed on that specific holiday (just like I wouldn’t hesitate to make shrimp deviled eggs in the middle of the summer).

Think of this more like a Spring fruit salad idea that you can enjoy any time you want this season. It’d also be right at home on a Mother’s Day brunch menu, alongside bacon in oven and vegetarian quiche.

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“There’s always money in the banana stand!!!” Who’s an Arrested Development fan out there? I treasure the original series on DVD, and re-watch the whole show every few years (or, in a pinch, just watch the “Pier Pressure” episode (The Hot Cops!)).

From The Cornballer to Lucille Two’s vertigo. From “It’s an illusion, Michael” to life lessons with J. Walter Weatherman. From Tobias being a Nevernude to “No Touching!,” I love it all.

However, anything involving the frozen banana stand is my favorite bit of the show. Sadly, I don’t have a banana stand lined with hundred dollar bills, but I do have a bunch of chocolate chips and some frozen banana chunks (I used some bananas to make caramelized banana splits, and a few for banana pancake ice cream, and then froze the rest). 

I’m a sucker for cold desserts in the summer, like frozen yogurt pie and peaches and cream ice cream bars. And, I’d been wanting to make my very own chocolate covered bananas for pretty much as long as I’ve been watching AD, so I finally crossed it off my bucket list.

These frozen chocolate covered bananas are the perfect treat to eat while you’re on a TV-watching binge, no matter what show it is.

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Five years ago, when basically everybody in my friend group was childfree, I would get very ambitious and creative when it came to what food I would bring to a party. I’d show up with a Smoked Salmon Platter or Roasted Corn Salad or General Tso’s Meatballs.

But if you’re in your mid-thirties like me, you can probably relate: our “parties” are now just kids running wild everywhere. So many kids. And most kids aren’t really into food they haven’t seen before.

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Through my partnership with Milk Means More, I had a chance to interview a local farmer last month as part of the Meet #MIFarmFamilies campaign. I was able to have a nice chat with Gertie van den Goor, a farmer who moved with her husband and three children from the Netherlands to Marlette, Michigan in 1999 and established Goma Dairy Farm, LLC. Gertie describes her farm, where they milk 2800 Holstein cows, as a modern, clean dairy that is proud of producing a safe and nutritious product.

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Is there a certain food that you did NOT grow up eating, but now can’t imagine your life without it? I have several. Hummus is one. Pretty sure the grocery store in the small town I grew up in didn’t even carry hummus when I was a kid. And mangos are another one. I’m not sure when I had my first bite of mango, but I was an adult, or very nearly one.

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When I have casual get-togethers with friends, I love serving snacks and drinks. However, I only like to make one of those things from scratch. If I make cocktails with lots of ingredients, I’ll buy a simple pre-made snack from the grocery store. Conversely, if I make the snack, I’m always looking for a no-fuss drink that I can just pour and serve. You get one or the other, but not both, friends! Unless we’re talking about my annual sangria party, where I’ll do both from scratch, but that’s a once-a-year event.

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Wow, it’s already about time for Father’s Day again? It seems like we were just celebrating this! The last year has seriously flown by. Father’s Day is doubly special for my Dad, because his birthday is always right around (or on) Father’s Day as well. My Dad is pretty easy to please  – we take him to a Detroit Tigers game, buy him a beer and a hot dog, and it’s all good. After all, it’s almost always a beautiful, sunny June day in Michigan. What more could you need, really?

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