Home made mac n cheese and potato salad, a bucket of chicken, and mixed berry shortcake.
Just ended up with some basic cheeseburgers and corn and the cob. Just about perfect. (I slightly overshot the burgers for my tastes and got them to medium/medium-well-ish instead of medium rare, but delicious, nonetheless. Pink in the middle, but not the soft pink and red I love.)
Just finished my Hot links plate from Armadillo Willy’s BBQ with coleslaw and onion rings. Washed down with some Big Eye IPA.
My wife made a delicious meal of Turkey burgers and a festive salad of grape tomatoes, spinach, Blue cheese, Mango slices, and candied pecans.
Yum.
Nothing but an 18 hour shift at work and a 50 cent bag of doritos and 64 ounces of melting ice.
But i will eat vicariously through the rest of you.
I had a hard time figuring out dinner for my private July 4th this year. Were I celebrating with friends or family, I’d have likely gone with slow cooked barbecue pork ribs, cowboy beans, potato salad and an Asian slaw, finished off with fresh strawberry shortcake or some such. But by choice, it’s just me alone this year. So I punted.
Sweet and spicy chicken in barbecue sauce with onions, sesame seeds, coconut milk and fresh snow peas over rice with chopped cilantro scattered over the top. Cracked open a favorite Kim Crawford sauvignon blanc to sip alongside. Fresh strawberry sauce over vanilla ice cream later for dessert.
Plenty of leftovers for tomorrow. 
All this plus s’mores over the fire pit.
It’s just us for the holiday. My husband has been crazy sick and doesn’t have much appetite, and I’m feeling not quite myself, too, so we took it easy. I baked sticky wings and made a blackberry pie. Fin.
Sticky wings, you ask?
Preheat oven to 425F
Cover a baking sheet with frozen wing pieces (do not defrost). Douse liberally with soy sauce, Cholula, paprika, and hickory salt. Bake, turning once, for 90 minutes or until liquid has nearly evaporated. Enjoy.