What do you eat when it's sooooo hot?

[Sum Dum Gai]

We do ceviche tostadas when it's particularly hot and we want a meal that doesn't involve a stove.  We buy tostada shells instead of making them ourselves, but you could put a small frying pan with some oil on the grill outside to make the shells in.

[Peace Of Mind]

We do different salads, fruits (DH only likes a few though) fish, chicken type dishes for the most part but we still have a nice steak now and again.  We just eat everything inside where there is a/c.  And drink chilled beers and wines and frozen Margaritas. 

[mrsdutt]

Cheese, fruit, pepperoni, ice water and plain tea with ice.  Tomato sandwiches and corn on the cob.

[constanz22]

Yesterday I bought a huge chef salad for lunch at the local pizza joint.  It was 4.50 and probably had a half pound of meat and cheese on it and was plenty for yesterday and today's lunches.

No idea about dinner tonight.  I do really like pasta salad with some marinated chicken, or chicken speidie salad, but don't really have the fixings for either...

[Deleted]

Rotisserie chicken tonight. And salad with vinigrette. With a banana smoothie for dessert.

[The Home 6]

You all are welcome to come visit up in AK (after I get back from my folks' house)! I've only had to turn on the AC once this summer. It's usually no hotter than 75 or so.  Sorry.

One of my favorite things to eat when it is hot, though is orzo salad with salami, roasted red peppers, sun dried tomatoes, kalamata olives, and feta cheese, dressed in balsamic vinaigrette.  The only thing you need to cook is the pasta.

[ZaireinHD]

nothing super special - just Turkey or Tuna sandwich with ice water

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Jul 16, 2013 12:41:37 GMT -5 milee said:

Jul 16, 2013 11:09:18 GMT -5 greeniis10 said:

I used the crock pot so that the oven was on for hours heating the house while the AC worked overtime to cool it down, but still...

Am I the only heathen who puts the crock pot (or solar cooker or immersion cooker or whatever other portable cooker I'm using) outside on the front sidewalk or porch when it's hot?  I know it sounds odd, but just plop that thing outside and that way it's not heating up your house. 

Damn, you must have like a turbo crock pot or something because mine never gets so hot it's heating the house!

Tonight I made French dip sandwiches (cooked beef in the crock pot) and bagged salad. Tomorrow will be Mexican bean salad and tortilla chips.

[Peace77]

Last night I had a tuna salad sandwich made with shredded carrots served on a whole wheat bun with pickled beets on the side.  

Cold chicken and potato salad from the deli is another hot weather option.  

[happyscooter]

I would love it if we had 90 degree weather here.  We had 20 straight days of rain.  All but one or two were complete downpours with flooding and mudslides.  The 2 days were just drizzles but it was still rain and we couldn't do anything outside.

We eat Oriental chicken salad when it's hot outside.  Also we eat fruit and veggie plates.  Tuna stuffed into a big homegrown tomato with lots of celery sticks, cucumbers and carrots, slices of apples, grapes and strawberries.  It's enough to fill you up.

[plugginaway22]

Once a year, we make pork and sauerkraut in the crockpot, and it is out on the deck all day so the house does not smell!!

[Deleted]

We've been ordering out a lot this past week because yeah it is too hot to be cooking.

[zibazinski]

Fruit, lots of it.

[Nazgul Girl]

    Tuna salad in a quartered tomato.    Make sure everything is really cold.   I do make a good tuna salad.

    Caesar salad with sliced strips of steak laid across it, making sure all fat is cut off of the steak.   The amount of steak should be kind of small.

   

[Tennesseer]

Cold pasta salads. Heat up the kitchen once and you have several days of no cooking.

[bookkeeper]

We had friends over last Friday night for drinks and dinner.  I planned a light dinner we could eat off the grill.  We had:

Cream cheese stuffed banana peppers
Green bean bundles wrapped with bacon
Sliced tomatoes
Creamed cucumbers with onion
Marinated beef kabobs and chicken kabobs
Lemon bars with ice cream

We served the courses slowly so dinner lasted two hours.  This left sufficient room for beer/cocktails.  The vegies were fresh from our garden and our neighbor's garden.

My husband was skeptical about having enough food, but as hot as it was, everyone had plenty to eat.

[Happy prose]

Dinner tonight is fresh mozerella and tomatoes on french bread with oil and vinegar. I've been eating this about three nights a week. Lunch is usually fruit and yogurt. 

[MarleyKeezy78]

Boars Head London Broil roast beef lunch meat, Provalone cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, mayo, horseradish on a hawaiian roll and dill pickle on the side... Oh, and some plain potato chips  That's what we have been eating!

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 I cooked a pork shoulder last week, it was around 96 degrees F and very high humidity, and I wanted to avoid using the stove and heating up the kitchen...so I experimented with a new strategy that worked pretty well. Instead of searing/browning the shoulder on the stove in a dutch oven, I fired up my portable Weber-clone grill (with a domed lid) out on the deck, got a good bed of coals glowing, added a few well-soaked hickory chips around the edges, then placed the shoulder (with a dry rub) inside and closed the lid and closed the dampers halfway. After about a half-hour, I turned the roast and gave it another half-hour of heat. At this point the meat was well seared without having warmed the kitchen at all. Then I transferred it to a crockpot that I had pre-heated (filled the insert with hot water from the tap, ran it on high for about ten minutes, then poured the hot water into a dishpan and washed dishes with it- didn't waste the hot water!) I let it simmer (on the high setting) for three hours, then turned it down to low and gave it three more hours. At that point the meat was fall-off-the-bone perfect. I was quite pleased with the results, and didn't notice any significant heating of the kitchen... not at all as if I had used the oven. 

[Jaguar]

I got a Hawaiian pizza slice.

[sunshinegal1981]

Just made a gigantic pseudo-coleslaw by drenching a bowl full of chopped cabbage/carrots with homemade yogurt-tahini sauce.

Oh lord, how I fucking LOVE tahini.   :-)