This would also be a good recipe to use up all the leftover turkey after Thanksgiving!
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Special Holiday Meals: Amelia Earhart Day
Amelia Earhart Day is the day we honor one of the greatest aviators! Click here to learn more about this holiday. It is celebrated on July 24th.
According to many sources, her flight dinners had to be quick, nourishing, and easy to eat. She also really liked tomato juice as a beverage to sustain her.
Amelia Earhart Day Menu
Tomato Soup –could have been taken in a cup and sipped with a straw
Grilled Cheese, Veggie Tray
Chocolate Squares, Raisins
**After dinner, go stargazing with a cup of hot cocoa in hand and imagine what it must have been like in the cockpit of the plane with Amelia.
Special Holiday Meals: National Ice Cream Day
National Ice Cream Day is the perfect day to pull out that old ice cream maker and make a batch of homemade ice cream! Click here to learn more about this holiday. It is celebrated on July 13th.
This might also be a nice day to plan an ‘Ice Cream Social’, where your friends and family can have an ice cream-making competition. Have everyone bring their favorite ice cream toppings, and everyone can make a different flavor too! We had this every year before school started when my older kids were little, and it was SO MUCH FUN!! We also had their birthday parties together at this time… knocking out a few ‘birds’ at a time!
Here are our favorite recipes for celebrating National Ice Cream Day:
Hot Fudge Sundae Cake – so good with fresh homemade ice cream!
Fruit Cobbler with Ice Cream
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Special Holiday Meals: Pecan Pie Day
Pecan Pie Day is the day we can eat Pecan Pie for no special reason! Click here to learn more about this holiday. It is celebrated on July 12th.
Here are some of our favorite pecan pie recipes:
We have a couple of side dishes that we use pecans in too:
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Special Holiday Meals: Teddy Bear Picnic Day
Teddy Bear Picnic Day is the day, well, it’s kinda self explanatory, we can set aside to take our teddy bears on a picnic! Click here to learn more about this holiday. It is celebrated on July 10th.
Teddy Bear Picnic Day Menu
See Cold Plate Dinner ideas – cute sandwiches into small portions
Cupcakes or teddy bear cookies
Lemonade or hot tea with a touch of honey
**You can cut sandwiches and snacks into cute bear shapes, if you like. Don’t forget to invite your teddy bear to the picnic!
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