What's the ultimate summer meal?

[Anonymous]

Watermelon/feta/mint soup.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Half of you are just naming random summer foods. Op said MEAL. The ideal summer meal is obviously a plate from a backyard grill out: hot dog, hamburger, baked beans, potato salad, maybe some BBQ chips, and s’mores for dessert. That is a summer meal.

But op said:
We're on the verge of July and I don't want to get to September and think, "Whoops, I forgot to make/eat X!"

What makes you think "It's really summer now"?

So I took that as asking about summer traditional foods and I listed mine. For me it wouldn’t be summer without watermelon for breakfast. It’s just a list of ideas, nothing serious about it.

+1. As an aside, I hate it when people dump on fun threads, especially in the Food forum.

I'm the OP, and I support these statements. The wrist-slapping poster probably had good intentions, and I do love it when people manage to pack multiple summer dishes into one meal (cold soup followed by a BLT or lobster roll? yes please), but sometimes an enormous platter of insalata caprese *is* the meal.

Anyway, carry on! You're doing great (although not to food-shame, but I am curious about how stuffed cabbage says "summertime!" to anyone -- enjoy, though)

Maybe we’re not all white?

[Anonymous]

Peach panzanella. I make a huge one and serve with some soup its a meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of you are just naming random summer foods. Op said MEAL. The ideal summer meal is obviously a plate from a backyard grill out: hot dog, hamburger, baked beans, potato salad, maybe some BBQ chips, and s’mores for dessert. That is a summer meal.

But op said:
We're on the verge of July and I don't want to get to September and think, "Whoops, I forgot to make/eat X!"

What makes you think "It's really summer now"?

So I took that as asking about summer traditional foods and I listed mine. For me it wouldn’t be summer without watermelon for breakfast. It’s just a list of ideas, nothing serious about it.

+1. As an aside, I hate it when people dump on fun threads, especially in the Food forum.

I'm the OP, and I support these statements. The wrist-slapping poster probably had good intentions, and I do love it when people manage to pack multiple summer dishes into one meal (cold soup followed by a BLT or lobster roll? yes please), but sometimes an enormous platter of insalata caprese *is* the meal.

Anyway, carry on! You're doing great (although not to food-shame, but I am curious about how stuffed cabbage says "summertime!" to anyone -- enjoy, though)

Maybe we’re not all white?

The stuffed cabbage I'm familiar with is Eastern European. Would love to hear about other options

[Anonymous]

Really good produce. Sweet corn, ripe watermelon, peaches (and plums for my kids), heirloom tomatoes, basil from the backyard plant. Yummmmm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tomatoes sliced while still warm from the sun, piled onto Italian bread with salt, pepper, and a little olive oil. Eat standing over the sink.

This.

Also, salted tomato wedge and high quality jarred tuna salad.

[Anonymous]

Strawberry lemon curd tart
Grilled asparagus
Blueberries and raspberries with fresh whipped cream
Grilled corn on the cob
Grilled everything
Grilled peaches
Homemade popsicles
Homemade basil pesto w basil I grew myself

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who don’t grow your own tomatoes, where do you get good ones?

Farmers market. But they don’t hold a candle to homegrown ones. Unfortunately I can’t grow tomatoes every year.

Ditto the farmers market. And not the greenhouse ones being sold now. A good tomato won’t be ready for another month.

I was going to say the same. The good tomatoes only come later in the summer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of you are just naming random summer foods. Op said MEAL. The ideal summer meal is obviously a plate from a backyard grill out: hot dog, hamburger, baked beans, potato salad, maybe some BBQ chips, and s’mores for dessert. That is a summer meal.

But op said:
We're on the verge of July and I don't want to get to September and think, "Whoops, I forgot to make/eat X!"

What makes you think "It's really summer now"?

So I took that as asking about summer traditional foods and I listed mine. For me it wouldn’t be summer without watermelon for breakfast. It’s just a list of ideas, nothing serious about it.

+1. As an aside, I hate it when people dump on fun threads, especially in the Food forum.

I'm the OP, and I support these statements. The wrist-slapping poster probably had good intentions, and I do love it when people manage to pack multiple summer dishes into one meal (cold soup followed by a BLT or lobster roll? yes please), but sometimes an enormous platter of insalata caprese *is* the meal.

Anyway, carry on! You're doing great (although not to food-shame, but I am curious about how stuffed cabbage says "summertime!" to anyone -- enjoy, though)

Maybe we’re not all white?

The stuffed cabbage I'm familiar with is Eastern European. Would love to hear about other options

+1
I actually went and googled it and stuffed cabbage is heavily associated with the Eastern Europe and into Russia. Every one of those countries has at least one rolled cabbage recipe. But! Dolmas and the other middle eastern/North African ones too. And China evidently has a cabbage roll (I don’t know anything about Chinese food).

[Anonymous]

Cold buckwheat noodle soup! Naengmyun.

[Anonymous]

We need a separate thread on this cabbage roll question. I love cabbage rolls but definitely think of it as a hearty winter meal, like all my Russian/Polish favorites.
Stuffed Grape leaves are a great summer food though.