summer eats
Jun. 1st, 2006 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaAs I have I womanfully refrained from mentioning in at least half of my recent posts, it done got hot here. Normal summer weather, in which it's near 70 degrees at 6:30 am, and 90 or above by afternoon.
We have a single (although powerful) window AC unit to cool our entire (small) house, and thus find cooking in the summer to be an often uncomfortabe activity. So we eat a lot of salads, and cold foods, and such. We're also sometimes lazy, so we make simple things that use ingredients we tends to have readily to hand, or that keep well. A few of our summer staples:
Black bean, corn and tomato salad. Exactly what it says: beans canned, drained; corn frozen, thawed; tomato fresh, diced. Dressed with red wine vinegar. (Note: no need for a stove at all!)
Tortellini salad: Barilla tortellini, diced raw zucchini, diced tomato, dressed with Newman's Own balasmic vinaigrette.
Green bean, new potato, and tomato salad: yep, what it says, beans and potatoes cooked and chilled, Paul Newman rides again. (We are moderately addicted to the stuff, Casper most of all - she'll drink it if we let her.)
Also Greek salad, Greek pasta salad, hummus, and things of that nature.
What do you eat in the summer? Suggest a cool, easy recipe for me.
We have a single (although powerful) window AC unit to cool our entire (small) house, and thus find cooking in the summer to be an often uncomfortabe activity. So we eat a lot of salads, and cold foods, and such. We're also sometimes lazy, so we make simple things that use ingredients we tends to have readily to hand, or that keep well. A few of our summer staples:
Black bean, corn and tomato salad. Exactly what it says: beans canned, drained; corn frozen, thawed; tomato fresh, diced. Dressed with red wine vinegar. (Note: no need for a stove at all!)
Tortellini salad: Barilla tortellini, diced raw zucchini, diced tomato, dressed with Newman's Own balasmic vinaigrette.
Green bean, new potato, and tomato salad: yep, what it says, beans and potatoes cooked and chilled, Paul Newman rides again. (We are moderately addicted to the stuff, Casper most of all - she'll drink it if we let her.)
Also Greek salad, Greek pasta salad, hummus, and things of that nature.
What do you eat in the summer? Suggest a cool, easy recipe for me.