Kitchen

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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?

[Meowingkitty]

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. 

[sann]

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...

[QVCkitty1]

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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@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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@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.

[Kachina624]

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.

[Trailrun23]

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.

[WORKING GAL]

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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@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.