We recently asked you, our readers: What is your drink of choice during the Houston summers? Our June-July issue of My Table (headed to mailboxes and newsstands now) is all about keeping your cool under hellish conditions, and we’re sharing some cocktail, beer and wine suggestions that you’ve sent us here in SideDish. Have a suggestion? Send it our way and we might use it: sidedish@my-table.com. Do you see your name and submission below? We’re giving you a pair of tickets to the Italian Expo. Want to win a pair for yourself? Send us your favorite summer drink — it can even be non-alcoholic — and you’ll be entered to win one of three more pairs of tickets to the Italian Expo yourself. If you’ve already sent in a suggestion, you’re still in the running. We’ll draw three winners today, May 24, at 5 pm.

Cape Cod with a splash:

1 jigger good vodka (we’ve been enjoying Tito’s lately)

1 oz. cranberry juice

Splash of club soda

Generous squeeze of lime

— Martha Plunkett

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The Cucumber Press from Monarch at Hotel Zaza:

1 part Square One Cucumber Vodka

1 part club soda

a splash of Sprite

throw in some cucumber slices for good measure

— Taylor Badeen

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“My drinks  of choice this summer will be two-fold:

1)  Shiner’s seasonal beer – Ruby Redbird (light, refreshing and goes well with spicy food).

2)  Home-made sangria, using my favorite cheap wine, Pearly Bay. Nothing fancy about the recipe.”

— Steve Colvin