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Dinner in this heat

Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:20:11 GMT

Is anyone cooking dinner in this heat? I'm trying to have some cold meals. A dish of ice cream would be perfect for me, but my

two guys need "dinner".

Today I made a taboule salad. We will have cold shrimp cocktail.

Hummus will be served and instead of pita bread, we will have vegetables for dipping.

There is ice cream, if anyone wants it. My husband has been hoarding ice cream. Right now he has 10 quarts of various flavors of Brigham's ice cream. I don't know if he thinks there may be an ice cream shortage. Every time he goes out he buys more. There is not much room for real food in our two refrigerators. I'll have to tell him to stop with the ice cream.

Anyone have cold meal ideas?

Re: Dinner in this heat

Meowingkitty — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:25:23 GMT

I live in Arizona so heat is a normal thing for us. We eat anything anytime. We make stew in July sometimes but today we had egg salad sandwiches simply because we are both recovering from Covid and it's to much effort to cook.

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sann — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:30:15 GMT

I will not use the oven with 100 plus temps..... the AC is working overtime.... So the Air Fryer will do for now...crockpot...and instant pot...

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QVCkitty1 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:34:16 GMT

We had a late lunch of a big green salad with chicken tenders on a hard roll. Except for ice cream later, the kitchen is closed. 😆

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:41:22 GMT

@Meowingkitty I am sorry to hear that you had covid. I hope that you will feel better soon.

Sandwiches sound good to me. I think that we may have tuna

sandwiches tomorrow.

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:43:48 GMT

@QVCkitty1 Sounds good to me. Every time I cook chicken tenders, I have to cook some for my cat. I just cook them in water

and she loves some of the broth with her chicken.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:58:50 GMT

I like to make a big pasta salad with chicken or cooked ham and eat on it several days or until I get sick of it. No trouble once it's made and its cool and light.

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Trailrun23 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:03:59 GMT

I made tuna pasta salad on Monday. I made it early so it would be nice and cold for dinner. DH found it and ate it for lunch. He had it again for dinner.😎

we are eating almost all meals cold except for breakfast where I boil eggs or make oatmeal in the microwave. I use the toaster and micro only.
Cold plates with Sausalito turkey ( Boars Head), a slice of cheese, some potato salad, fresh strawberries, blueberries, or watermelon.
Chicken salad in pineapple half or tomato

Big spinach salads with everything I can think of on top like egg, ham or chicken, veggies, jalapeños and walnuts.

I have made pasta early in the morning while doing breakfast, stick in the fridge and then reheat in micro for dinner or leave cold and make pasta salad.
DH has been eating way too much ice cream...he finished off the last half-gallon a couple of days ago and I didn't buy more. Now we have Outshine fruit bats and they are really good...I like the mango the best.

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WORKING GAL — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:12:20 GMT

It has been hot here in So. Cal. TV said it is National Hot Dog day so that's on the menu for tonight. Hebrew National cut to fit a Sweet Onion hamburger bun with coleslaw and potato salid. Too hot for my hubby to bbq so I'll make it inside in my grill pan. Ice crean ir pudding for desert. Dtr. is in San Antonio where it has been brutal for a long time. Keep safe and cool if possile everyone.

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:28:43 GMT

@Trailrun23 All your ideas sound great. I would love one of your cold plates. On Monday, I made chicken salad stuffed tomatoes. Sometimes I make them with tuna salad. My kids always loved stuffed tomatoes. We had a pasta salad with that on Monday.

Outshine fruit bars are the best. I'll have to get some. I like the pineapple. My husband would love the mango. It would be better than all the ice cream he eats.

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:30:54 GMT

@Kachina624 Pasta salad is perfect in this weather.

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Trailrun23 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:34:45 GMT

The Outshine bars are good to buy at Costco. You get four boxes of them in a big box for little more than one box costs at the grocery store. You get four flavors and they are very cooling. Ice cream makes me thirsty.

DD says I am supposed to call the cold plate I make a " charcuterie board" but I can't make myself do that. I grew up where we had hot summers and my mom served cold plates...so that's what they are.
My mom made a great tuna salad. It was iceberg lettuce, chopped tomatoes, crumbled cooked bacon, and a can of tuna in big chunks, not flaked up. Just a little Miracle Whip or Mayo thinned with a bit of vinegar. She always served it with cold baked beans and bolillo rolls. I had forgotten about this salad so will need to put that in my list.

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DSD2 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:36:47 GMT

Today was the first day that was truly unbearable here, hot and very high humidity.

I'd been cooking until now. I am giving hub his hot dogs in honor of the day. I didn't know what I was going to eat but my neighbor who loves to cook (heat doesn't bother her apparently) just came by with a small macaroni and cheese cassarole. I will take a small amount each night - and "toss" it with green veggies - broccoli or peas. Too hot to eat much and it cuts down on the calories.

I make a lot of tuna and will cook eggs which doesn't use much heat. I eat salads with turkey or chicken and lots of veggies - tomatoes, green pepper, onions, cukes and a sprinkling of croutons and a handful of dried cranberries.

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QVCkitty1 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:43:00 GMT

@Enufstuff wrote:
@QVCkitty1 Sounds good to me. Every time I cook chicken tenders, I have to cook some for my cat. I just cook them in water
and she loves some of the broth with her chicken.

@Enufstuff , They love chicken don't they ? 😻

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:43:19 GMT

@DSD2 How nice that you have a neighbor who loves to cook and shares too! I would love one of your salads, without onions please.

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Buffalogal47 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:47:48 GMT

Homemade chicken salad, cherry tomatoes and crackers for me! It's too hot to cook.

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Sooner — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:50:39 GMT

It was 110 here yesterday and I made a pot of stew from leftover roast and hubby made hamburger buns (they were WONDERFUL)! So no, we pretty much go on as usual. . .

Our house is pretty good about not getting too cold or too hot, which is a wonderful thing unlike the last one! But we've not shied away from using the oven--self cleaning ones don't leak heat like the ones fromback in the day--being old I remember!

I do have a metal thermos-like yogurt maker that you put hot water in to heat up, pour it out then add milk and yogurt starter, which works great in the summer in the garage! It just sits there 8 hours--no electricity needed.

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:58:49 GMT

@Buffalogal47 I would like that. Today, I had leftover chicken salad for lunch.

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Enufstuff — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:11:33 GMT

@Sooner OMG! I don't think that I could survive in that heat.

A few years ago, I visited my cousin in Florida at the end of April. They didn't even turn on the AC. I thought that I would die from the humidity. Humidity actually makes me feel ill, so I stay indoors, when it is high. He keeps asking me to move there. I tell

him that I could not take the summers. Besides, all my kids are here.

I know what you mean about the old ovens. In the 60's, I

loved baking in the fall. It took the chill out of the house. It is great that our self-cleaning ovens are so well insulated. Yesterday, I did use the oven to cook bacon for BLT's.

That is great, how you make yogurt. I've never seen a yogurt maker. I just buy plain Greek yogurt and add a little honey and some berries.

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lynnie61 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:26:51 GMT

A big fresh spinach salad with hard boiled eggs, cheese and veggies and walnuts. Maybe will throw a few strawberries in it. I have some poppy seed dressing. Yum. Some watermelon and probably a few freeze pops later! A big glass of ice water or iced tea. Done!