This basil lemonade tastes like summer in a glass!

If you love fancy flavored lemonades at restaurants but don’t love paying a premium for them, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how easy this Basil Lemonade is to make at home.

Especially if you have a pot of basil growing this summer, this is the refreshing beverage you’ll want in your fridge at all times.

It’s simply an easy homemade basil simple syrup combined with fresh lemon juice and water. If you want, you can even add some pureed watermelon to take it to the next level and make watermelon basil lemonade.

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This watermelon feta salad has bright flavors that other recipes don’t!

The popularity of watermelon feta salad had gone up and up in the past few decades, and it seems to be at just about every summer gathering I attend.

The problem is, a lot of times, this salad is BLAND! It shouldn’t be, right? You’ve got juicy watermelon and salty and creamy feta, so what could go wrong?

This recipe solves the trap that many watermelon feta mint salads fall into – under seasoning. Just because the feta is a bit salty doesn’t mean you don’t need to season the watermelon.

And you’ll be surprised what a long way a half a lemon and a half an orange will go towards giving this watermelon salad with feta HUGE, bright flavor.

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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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I think I’ve told you this before, but growing up, sprinkling a little salt on watermelon was automatic. Expected. It’s just the way watermelon was eaten in our household. Without the salt, even the best watermelon tastes bland and flat to me.

It’s just the way my taste buds have been trained. So to me, watermelon has always leaned toward the savory end of the spectrum vs. being served as a sweet, dessert-like fruit, if that makes sense.

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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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