Recipes for your Wimbledon party

While the FIFA World Cup is creating a buzz like no other around the world, another premiere sports event is also going on right now: Wimbledon! The tennis tournament airs on ESPN.

While Wimbledon watch parties might not reach the same level of fever pitch as soccer watch parties, they're still a great opportunity to get together and eat and drink! To learn how to make true English snacks, we had English Chicagoan Nick Spencer in our ABC 7 Eyewitness News studio. He's the owner of Spencer's Jolly Posh Foods www.jollyposh.com.

Nick Spencer's Recipes:

Strawberries and Cream

Ingredients:

Fresh strawberries

Pint of Heavy cream

Sugar

Fresh Mint

Preparation:

1. Wash the strawberries carefully, making certain not to bruise them.

2. Hull the strawberries. Slice each berry in half.

3. Place your berries in a bowl. Sprinkle with sugar.

4. Whip a pint of heavy cream, either by hand with a whisk or with an electric beater until it forms stiff peaks.

5. Spoon the whipped cream over the sugared berries and garnish with a sprig of mint.

Wimbledon Salad

Ingredients:

Mixed greens

Carrots, peeled

Toasted sunflower seeds

Stilton cheese

Strawberries

House-made strawberry vinaigrette

Preparation:

1. Prep your ingredients. Slice your carrots into thin matchsticks. Wash, hull and slice your strawberries. Crumble your stilton.

2. Dress your greens with the strawberry vinaigrette until they are coated but not sopping with dressing.

3. Combine dressed greens with sunflower seeds and carrots. Top with crumbled stilton and sliced strawberries.

Pimm's Cup

Ingredients:

Ice

Pimm's liqueur

Fizzy lemonade (we like R. White's, which is imported from England)

Vodka or gin (optional)

English cucumber

Apples

Oranges

Strawberries

Mint

Preparation:

1. Fill a pitcher with plenty of crushed ice.

2. Fill pitcher approximately 1/3 with Pimm's liqueur.

3. Fill pitcher the rest of the way with carbonated lemonade. Aim for a 3:1 ration of lemonade to Pimm's. If you'd like your Pimm's a bit stronger, add a glug or two of vodka or gin! We like London dry gin. The liquor isn't the spotlight of the drink, so just add enough for your personal taste.

4. Chop and slice plenty of apples, oranges, strawberries and English cucumber. Add to pitcher and mix well.

5. Garnish with plenty of fresh mint. Enjoy!