more labor day weekend.

This is the last Labor Day Weekend post inundating you with beach days and good eats. For those of you that have asked for recipes; I linked to them wherever possible in my last post and they are all up on Clean Green Cuisine. Breakfast on day three consisted of Baked French Toast Casserole with bacon and blueberries!

That would be a praline topping consisting of pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. It is a constant delight to your sense of smell to wander off the beach into G's kitchen. From the crisp salty ocean air through the beachfront slider door you are greeted by all kinds of comforting scents. This mornings cinnamon spices or past nights of pungent seafood smells, laced with warm melted butter, hints of fresh basil....this kitchen always smells incredible and the food always tastes even better.

On the beach today there was kite flying!

Well, there was kite flying everyday.

And Bocce. There was Bocce everyday too.

For lunch, mini lobster rolls and tomato gazpacho.

Cold soup after a morning in the hot sun is fantastic. Leftover lobster was tossed in a little mayo and placed over a bed of lettuce in a hot dog bun for a delicious lunch combo.

We snacked on Pimento cheese dip smothered on Ritz crackers and celery sticks. For dinner it was southern food night! Sweet and smokey spareribs accompanied by peanut lime slaw, white wine braised kale, root beer stove-top beans and more of those yummy biscuits!
Gretchen really outdid herself with this meal. Especially considering the fact that she rarely eats meat and this was her first time cooking spareribes! They were dry rubbed with smoked paprika, brown sugar, ground clove, ground ginger and chipotle chili powder, then slow cooked all afternoon. They came out very tender with a syrupy glaze. 

I remembered we had a handle of Southern Comfort Sweet Tea "just add ice and serve" sitting amongst the gin and vodka bottles on the counter. It was the perfect drink to stand up to a hearty southern meal. As you might have gathered, a night here wouldn't be complete without dessert. Tequila watermelon and caipirinha ice pops! And after a rowdy evening, the final day....

Someone had to clean out the fridge before we headed home. Don't worry, I wasn't the only one. It was once again glorious weather so we stuck around for most of the day, doing more of the same. 

And that my friends, is a wrap.