Great meals for this heat??!

[Anonymous]

Please share your go-to recipes for the dog days of summer.

[Anonymous]

I mean this genuinely. Don’t most people here have AC? My house is about the same temperature year round. I’m probably not going to roast a turkey in the oven for 3 hours when it’s hot but I mostly crave and make the same things all year. We had soup tonight.

[Anonymous]

Cold pasta salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, chick peas, feta, red onion, olives, pepperoncini, and lemon balsamic dressing

Tabouleh and pita bread

Couscous salad with marinated artichokes, red bell pepper, celery, carrots, red onion, pepperoncini, walnuts, and dried cranberries, with a honey balsamic dressing (weird mix but it’s good)

Grilled hotdogs or hamburgers with a salad or corn and watermelon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean this genuinely. Don’t most people here have AC? My house is about the same temperature year round. I’m probably not going to roast a turkey in the oven for 3 hours when it’s hot but I mostly crave and make the same things all year. We had soup tonight.

NP. I have ac, but we spend a lot of time outside (SAHM), and it is hot and oppressive anywhere but the pool (and we don’t have a membership anywhere so we can’t go every day).

To answer the question, we do a lot of veggie soups (like tomato, cream of celery, broccoli cheddar, that kind of thing) and grilled cheese or we will just do veggies and hummus and pitas or a bean salad kind of thing with tortilla chips. Occasionally I will do a really hearty breakfast with omelets and waffles and the whole thing and that night for dinner we just have chilled fruit and yogurt (watermelon slices right out of the fridge taste so good after a long day!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean this genuinely. Don’t most people here have AC? My house is about the same temperature year round. I’m probably not going to roast a turkey in the oven for 3 hours when it’s hot but I mostly crave and make the same things all year. We had soup tonight.

It's hot out. The AC is running constantly. Do you really want to add to the heat or can you consider having a salad for once?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean this genuinely. Don’t most people here have AC? My house is about the same temperature year round. I’m probably not going to roast a turkey in the oven for 3 hours when it’s hot but I mostly crave and make the same things all year. We had soup tonight.

It's hot out. The AC is running constantly. Do you really want to add to the heat or can you consider having a salad for once?

You think me making spaghetti is making the AC work sooooo much harder?

[Anonymous]

I cook the same foods be it hot or cold out. So I don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cold pasta salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, chick peas, feta, red onion, olives, pepperoncini, and lemon balsamic dressing

Tabouleh and pita bread

Couscous salad with marinated artichokes, red bell pepper, celery, carrots, red onion, pepperoncini, walnuts, and dried cranberries, with a honey balsamic dressing (weird mix but it’s good)

Grilled hotdogs or hamburgers with a salad or corn and watermelon

Yum, I want an invitation to YOUR house!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean this genuinely. Don’t most people here have AC? My house is about the same temperature year round. I’m probably not going to roast a turkey in the oven for 3 hours when it’s hot but I mostly crave and make the same things all year. We had soup tonight.

You don't look forward to certain meals or fresh produce when they are in season?

I am not the most crunchy granola person, but you sound very detached from the natural world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean this genuinely. Don’t most people here have AC? My house is about the same temperature year round. I’m probably not going to roast a turkey in the oven for 3 hours when it’s hot but I mostly crave and make the same things all year. We had soup tonight.

You don't look forward to certain meals or fresh produce when they are in season?

I am not the most crunchy granola person, but you sound very detached from the natural world.

Sure, I buy fresh produce in season. I’m using the oven to make a peach pie tomorrow! In the fall it would be apple.

[Anonymous]

Instant pot! Make pulled pork or chicken salad. Microwave some corn in the husk and whip up a cucumber salad with a vinaigrette.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instant pot! Make pulled pork or chicken salad. Microwave some corn in the husk and whip up a cucumber salad with a vinaigrette.

+1 for the instant pot. It’s so good at not hearing up your kitchen.

I love cooking beets to make beet gazpacho.

[Anonymous]

Sliced peaches, good tomatoes, burrata or fresh mozz, some pine nuts, lots of chopped basil, drizzle of olive oil, balsamic vinegar (the good glaze stuff), salt and pepper. Pair with some toasted bread. Done and done.

I eat this every other night in the summer.

[Anonymous]

I’m loving my air fryer this summer. It’s fast, easy, and I’m not standing over a hot stove or oven. Tomorrow night is air fryer salmon with spinach salad.

[Anonymous]

Gazpacho
Ceviche