Any favorite beach vacation recipes?

We always do a brined turkey. Cook it at home..and then eat it on the back porch as sandwiches with corn on the cob and a mixed salad.

A shrimp boil. Easy and a crowd pleaser.
A bag of shrimp raw with peel on, corn on the cob, cut into thirds, smoked sausages sliced, new potatoes.
A bag of zatarain's shrimp/crab boil. Lemons, cocktail sauce and butter.

A big stock pot with strainer (which you might have to bring with you). A clean news paper.

To get all the flavor out the spice bag. Put the bag in in the pot with 1 beer..and a lemon cut in half and juiced. let that simmer a few mins. Fill with water and add salt and bring to a boil ..then add potatoes, and sausages. Boil about 10 mins--then add corn..boil about 8 mins..add shrimp cover and turn off the heat and let sit until shrimp is pink.

Drain and dump it all in a big bowl lined with newspaper or just on a outside table with newspaper. Serve with a salad, crusty bread, butter, cocktail sauce and lemon wedges. (and seasoning salt for the corn/potatoes).
Easy and most everyone can find something they like in there (except for shrimp alergy people, or vegans).

Well good old hamburgers epitomize the beach vacation, and this site ran a great burger contest a while back: http://www.food52.com/contests/165

I would also like to offer up my roasted corn and tomato salad, which allows you to use extra ears of grilled corn for a great salad the next day: http://www.food52.com/recipes/5916_heirloom_tomato_and_grilled_corn_salad

I make what I call a "phoof" drink that I love: skim milk, ice, and butterscotch schnapps all go in a blender. Whirr until you get the consistency you like. The skim milk keeps the drink light, and you barely know you are drinking any alcohol (perhaps a little dangerous??!!).

I lived at the beach for a long, long time. One my favorite things to do in summer has always been paella cooked outside over a wood fire http://www.food52.com/recipes/7244_the_sun_also_rises_paella Hopefully you have a good seafood market nearby and can choose the best clams.

A wonderful blender drink for your Vita-Mix:
2 cups watermelon (I include seeds - not rind)
2 cups strawberries
1/2 inch fresh ginger
1 tbsp. lime juice

It is THE BEST

Oven fried chicken with roasted sweet potato salad. For breakfast I like to do baked French toast and/or individual vegetable frittatas made in muffin tins.

Funny--I was going to post a similar question--we'll be 18 in our house! I'm usually in charge of salads--and there are great ones recently--this week's finalist salad http://www.food52.com/recipes/12928_dilled_crunchy_sweetcorn_salad_with_buttermilk_dressing, and last week's winner http://www.food52.com/recipes/4765_haricots_verts_la_dijonnaise, for starters. Last year I made Lazy Mary's lemon tart http://www.food52.com/recipes/1374_lazy_marys_lemon_tart--a huge hit. We also loved Creamy Cucumber Side http://www.food52.com/recipes/4900_creamy_cucumber_side

We also love http://www.food52.com/recipes/224_amagansett_corn_salad and
http://www.food52.com/recipes/5425_summer_squash_couscous_with_sultanas_pistachios_and_mint

We always bake cookies, and I was thinking of trying this http://www.food52.com/recipes/376_pioneerstyle_orange_cake for my brother's birthday since you don't need a mixer, and we don't have one. (And the blender at teh house we rent is PLASTIC! But that's all part of teh fun, right?)

Can't wait to see what others post.

Pulled pork with slaw is a Beach Week must in our family. Corn on the cob, corn salads, huge bowls of fruit salad; if baking, fruit cobblers with whatever looks best at the nearest farm stand. My mother always baked a ham which she brought to the beach, and which we ate for one dinner shortly after we arrived, and then at leftovers for sandwiches. Three or four chickens roasted with herbs and garlic also work well. We always plan dinners to have a lot of leftovers, as people tend to fend for themselves during the day, and it's nice to have cold meats and leftover pulled pork in the fridge for sandwiches. Mmmm, how nice. I can smell the salt air now. (BTW, the photo closest to me on my desk is one of my sons sitting on the deck of my extended family's favorite beach house, with the dunes and waves on the Outer Banks in the background . . . . ) ;o)