OS Summer Cooking

MrsWoolfe

Hi!

one of the things I like to make a fair bit during the summer is spanish omlettes and salads- there is so much you can add to them and great for using up little bits of veg that are left over.

I do make beetroot salad a lot in the summer too- boil (sliced) potatoes & carrots slice up some beetroot and some boiled eggs. Make a dressing with sliced onions, oilive oil some garlic, salt, pepper and lemon juice and mix it all together. Yummy served with fresh bread.

Noodle Salads are great hot or cold and also really like home-made "kebabs" some seasoned mince- you can get some nice carribean/indian spice mixes in the supermarket shaped and grilled (or BBQ) a flatbread or pitta chuck lots of salad and veg in and some garilc sauce Mmmm...

Often do a tapas-style meal , with a few types of cold cooked meats, cheese, olives etc and some bread and salad everything out on the table and picking what you fancy- actually we do this with a lot of things- I love chinese starters and sometimes for a treat DH will pop down to the big chinese supermarket and come back with lots of dumplings, wontons etc and will make a few different types pop it in a huge bowl and we both pick from the bowl and munch away!

mostly we just make lighter versions of the foods we like to eat, bouilloins/broths instead of stews, still make chilli but heavier on the beans and add in sweetcorn then have with tortillas etc

HTH

MrsWoolfe

adelight

Salads using spuds, cabbage, carrot, beetroot and onion are much cheaper (and keep longer) and filling than leafy salads. Add different veg/meat to a basic potato salad or coldslaw

sb44

I made these the other day and they were really tasty.

We had them in pitta bread instead of a bun with garlic sauce.

Hopefully we will be having a BBQ at the weekend so I am going to make some more and try them on the barbie instead of the grill.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/gyros-burgers/Detail.aspx

These aren't my pics by the way but from allrecipes.

MsHoarder

I've been having a few "noodle salads" where I mix cold meat and salad veg in with noodles and just add a bit of balsamic vinegar to dress it. Other things we do are:

• If cooking meat, make potato salad instead of jackets or mash. Takes a couple of minutes more but is still tasty.
• More fish and chicken rather than red meats/pork to make the meals lighter
• HM Soup with a side salad (actually, I generally just try to have more salad rather than hot cooked veg/potato)

tanith

I have a DH thats also hooked on marrowfat peas (very gross and salty) must of been the way they were brought up.. I tend now to do him his usual whatever and do lots of salads for me.. I often get wholemeal pitta breads and stuff with salad and spicy chicken or sliced sausage..

Jevvers

We like "panzanella" - Italian bread salad, which is a good way of using up crusty bread which is going stale. Recipe here but it's essentially chunks of dense bread with tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, garlic, basil leaves, olive oil and left to soak up all the juices. Mmmm.

Also meze food such as falafels, hummus, kebabs, pittas.

yummymummy1987_2

Hi, hope this is in the right section if not please feel free to move

I was wondering if you could all give me some salad ideas. What are your favourite things to eat when it starts getting warmer?

Im finding that my lil family are really struggling to want a "proper" meal since weve been having all this lovely weather

so i was thinking about having some salads/cold dishes in the fridge for them when they get home from school/work. My dp has taken to having a bowl of cereal with cold milk!!!! Bit of a difference from whipping up hot dinners and puds served on the dot to 3 starving boys


Thanks in advance

Jo

PasturesNew

In the summer I tend to make/keep plastic boxes of salad stuff in the fridge so I can help myself and whip up a salad, or chuck it into a sandwich.

I'd do: boiled eggs (left in the shells), potato salad, cooked pasta (I'd add mayo/whatever at the point of eating), grated cheese, sliced peppers, grated carrot. It's just me though, so that's more than I can eat. Wouldn't buy lettuce/cucumber/tomato as they wouldn't get eaten before they went off as the other stuff's more interesting to eat

Pink.

Hi Jo,

You are in the right place. These threads should help get you started:

OS Summer Cooking

summer's here....any salad recipes?

Gingham's vegetarian meal planner - SUMMER

pasta salad

Where's the Simple Potato Salad Recipe?

Keeping salad fresh....

I'll add your thread to the first link later, once you've had more replies.

Pink

Claire_Bear

I'll always have a huge bowl of homemade coleslaw in the fridge over the Summer, it's cheap and easy, and a million times nicer than the watery rubbish you buy from the supermarket. I can never resist buttering a slice of bread and loading it up with coleslaw, or just grabbing a fork and having a munch! mmmm