Here in this little town in Wisconsin the weather has been almost unbearably hot. We had two days in a row with heat advisories and the days would have been well spent at the beach. Unfortunately, I’m not a lake kinda gal. There’s just something about stagnant water with green things floating on top that just doesn’t give me the welcome mat. Maybe I have been spoiled by the ocean, with the beautiful waves crashing on the shore and the constant renewal.

I suppose I’m just a little weird when it comes to the ocean as well. While living in California I loved going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. But when we lived in Hawaii, the only time I felt comfortable in the water was when we would go snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. This picture isn’t of Hanauma Bay but gives an idea of the beauty of the area.

To beat the heat I’ve made up a couple of yummies that I would like to share. The first one is a Strawberry Lemonade recipe that I found on the ‘net. The only changes I made were omitting the sugar because I used a tub of sweetened, sliced strawberries that I got for way cheap awhile ago. I like my lemonade quite tart and this was delicious.

The other yummy was homemade ice cream sandwiches. This one is really easy and flexible.

I found the recipe awhile ago, not sure where, and it called for refrigerated cookie dough. Since I make my own instead, I decided to use that. In either case, you want a fairly soft cookie. I made them double sized, put a couple of scoops of vanilla fudge swirl ice cream in between and froze them for about 20 minutes. They turned out really well but next time I will make the cookies a tad smaller because it’s just entirely too much to finish in one sitting!