Summertiiiiime and the livin’ is easy! We’re heading outside for parties, get togethers, and just normal family dinners while the sun is shining and the weather is warm. One of your party staples has got to be a summer beverage station. You’ve already brought the food outside – the people are outside – so bring your drinks outside as well! This party idea is part of this year’s #CookoutWeek which is brought to you by over 40 bloggers and some fab sponsors. Read on to learn all about the cookout, all about the giveaways, all about this summer beverage station, and alllllll about everything you need to have a delicious summer.
Get those grills fired up… because it’s #CookoutWeek 2017! This week, I’m joining forces with over 40 food blogger friends to bring you delicious recipes perfect for every backyard BBQ, picnic, summer party, or cookout.
We also have a fabulous giveaway featuring products from the brands who have made #CookoutWeek possible! You can enter below to win:
- From blog host The PinterTest Kitchen: $100 Amazon gift card, to use to buy all the supplies you need for your next cookout
- From our sponsor The French Farm: A gift pack of gourmet products hand-crafted by small businesses and using only the finest ingredients – La Favorita Genovese Pesto, Caprichos del Guadalquivir Cadenera Orange Marmalade, and L’Abeille Occitane Lavender Honey
- From our sponsor Smokin’-Os: A sampler pack of their “smokin’-os” wood rings, to help you add wood-fired, smokey taste to your grilled foods, even if you don’t own a smoker
- From our sponsor Primal Kitchen: $200 of Primal Kitchen goodies, including condiments made with avocado oil and bars and shakes with grass-fed collagen
- From our sponsor Langers Juice Company: Your choice of 10 bottles of Langers Juice, with flavors including traditional Apple and Grape, as well as interesting mixes such as Pineapple Orange Coconut, Cranberry Blood Orange, and Mango Peach
- From our sponsor True Made Foods: A 3-bottle sampler pack of sauces with real flavors made from real vegetables and less sugar – Ketchup, BBQ, and Veracha
This prize pack has an ARV of over $400! You have until July 1 at 11:59 PM to enter by following our sponsors and bloggers on social media:
Stay tuned… remember, throughout the week, all of the participating bloggers will be posting delicious cookout recipes. Here are all the bloggers who are part of #CookoutWeek 2017:
The PinterTest Kitchen • 2 Cookin Mamas • A Day in the Life on the Farm • A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures • Amy’s Cooking Adventures • Ashees Cookbook • Baking Sense • Body Rebooted • Bottom Left of the Mitten • Chef Sarah Elizabeth • Cook’s Hideout • Cookaholic Wife • Cooking with Sapana • Eat, Drink, Be Healthy! • Fairyburger • Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice • Family Around the Table • Fix Me a Little Lunch • For the Love of Food • Full Belly Sisters • Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks • Home Sweet Homestead • Join Us, Pull up a Chair • Kate’s Recipe Box • Kelly Lynn’s Sweets and Treats • Little House Big Alaska • My Southern Sweet Tooth • Our Good Life • Oven Tales By Syama • Palatable Pastime • Rants From My Crazy Kitchen • Savory Moments • Seduction in the Kitchen • Sidewalk Shoes • That Recipe • The Freshman Cook • The Mad Scientists Kitchen • The Pajama Chef • The Redhead Baker • The Saucy Southerner • The Spiffy Cookie • The Weekday Gourmet • Tramplingrose • Turnips 2 Tangerines • Uncle Jerry’s Kitchen
As one of the bonus entries in the giveaway, leave a comment on this blog post… what is your signature cocktail (or mocktail) to serve at a Summer Cookout?!
You can linkup your Cookout recipes, too!
Summer Beverage Station
Ingredients
- serving tray or table
- large bucket
- ice
- sharpies
- plastic cups
- straws
- cocktail napkins
- bottle openers
- corkscrews
- red wine
- white wine
- light beer
- hard liquor
- mixers
Instructions
- Fill your large bucket with ice, and add your beers and white wines to keep them chilled.
- Set the large drink bucket on a serving tray or table.
- Add the plastic cups, straws, and napkins.
- Set out sharpies so everyone can label their cups.
- Set out bottle openers and corkscrews.
- Choose 1 or 2 signature cocktails and set out the ingredients and recipes for guests to mix their own.
I love watermelon summer drinks with and without alcohol.
Watermelon is seriously one of the best flavors of summer!
I can’t have alcohol (that’s okay though–more for everyone else! 😛 ), but I love all the fruity drinks in the summer!
You can totally do a non-alcoholic beverage station!
Feel free to bring that portable drink station over to my house 😉
I’ll be over soon! 😉