Kitchen

[Enufstuff]

@Kachina624  Pasta salad is perfect in this weather.

[Trailrun23]

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. 

[DSD2]

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. 

[QVCkitty1]

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@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.

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

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@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.

[Buffalogal47]

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

[Sooner]

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

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@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.

[lynnie61]

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!