What do you make when the days are really hot and muggy? I know lots of us lose our appetites and don't feel at all like spending time in the kitchen, but you can't have bbq every day -- or can you?
I love potato and pasta salads, but it heats up the kitchen to cook them on the stove top. Can you successfully microwave pasta?
I'd like to hear what you make and recipes for easy meals that don't require the stove or oven.
I like to pick up a bbq chicken from the store once in awhile. Lasts for a few meals.
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somegirl
Posted on: 06/27/2009 22:04
We don't have a bbq. Our summer meals are often done on my Forman grill. We often have grilled cheese or hot dogs. We have pasta more often and potatoes less because you don't have to cook them as long. In fact I think that I'm going to replace potatoes with salads more often this summer. Whatever gets cooked, the kitchen is to be avoided for some time afterward.
Alex
Posted on: 06/27/2009 22:07
I do the Chicken thing at least once a week. I also buy ready made salads, and eat lots of fruit.
Eileenrl
Posted on: 06/28/2009 08:48
You're making me hungry!!! We eat a lot of salads - chicken - simple meals -
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 06/28/2009 14:53
When it gets really hot, I get out of the kitchen
Actually I eat a lot of salad in the hot days - last week, what with the arrival of Ontario strawberries, I made up a very nice strawberry salad with cucumbers and lemon poppy seed dressing - the President Choice one is quite nice.
Last weekend did a nice steak salad with an incredible homemade dressing plus a roasted red pepper soup which was very yummy - wasn't so hot last weekend.
A nice quick potato salad - if you roast your potatoes the night before (I have a nice recipe that uses garlic and capers that really work great for this), toss them in blue cheese salad dressing. Delicious.
And when it gets really hot, watermelon. Just watermelon.
LB
Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
George Gershwin, Summertime
She_Devil
Posted on: 06/28/2009 20:01
I tend to get fast food a lot in the summer.