Our son came over for our Fourth of July celebration. The rest of his family was at a reunion of his wife’s clan. So as I am wont to do I made too much food for just the four of us to eat so we had a replay of the Fourth on the Fifth.

After some wine and before-sies of potato chips and dip, Doritos, and Manchego cheese and crackers we settled in to burgers, salad, and corn on the cob. Watermelon would be our simple dessert. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures on July 4. The only difference between the two meals was that I made a Caprese salad on the Fourth and moved the watermelon into a salad for July 5’s dinner.

Both nights’ salads were really good. The watermelon definitely needed to move from dessert to side since the watermelon was not particularly sweet. It benefitted from the salty sweet nuoc cham.

We had fun with our little celebration but it is not the same without the whole family here. Also the fact that we had to eat indoors since it was 106F made it seem less like our traditional Independence Day party.