OS Summer Cooking

sweetilemon

Tonight we had piri piri chicken(1/2 chicken from lidl £2.69), mixed leaf salad with fresh corriandor & cherry toms, mint & lemon cous cous and coleslaw. I love salad in the summer but theres so many different varieties, also love fajitas/wraps, ciabattas, pannis, pastas and bbq food.

Fresh herbs, baby potatoes and marinaded meat is all about summer to me.

Anne_Marie_2

I make large trays of roasted vegetables, sprinkled with some herbs and spices and a drizzle of olive oil.
Can be eaten hot or cold with all sorts of cold and hot cuts of meat, chicken, quiches. Often use some when making a quiche. I tend to freeze in batches, or store in the fridge in jars with olive oil. Also good blitzed to be used as a sauce or a soup.

Make up some different salads, one of my favourites at the moment is a bean, onion and sweetcorn salad. Any kind of beans (other than baked!), tin of sweetcorn (or equivalent frozen, thawed), one onion finely diced. Add some mayo and some greek yoghourt, add some kind of seasoning...quite like sweet chilli sauce at the moment, mix all together. Yummy. Lasts quite a few days in the fridge.

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When its really hot and I can't be bothered I am not too fussed what I eat really I have been known to just have a bowl of cereal and some chopped banana on top.As I live alone I can please myself what I eat.even a jacket spud with cheese and coleslaw is quite filling I leave the roasts for when its cooler In this country the hot weather doesn't last that long so as long as I keep my fruit intake up I'm not likely to go down with scurvy :):) for a few days of odd meals

System

We tend to eat the same meat as we always do but I tend to swap warm potatoes/vegetables for cold potatoes/salad which I usually drown in mayonnaise.

Tink2

So it's getting warmer and I'm back on my diet tomorrow

Just wondering what summer foods people eat that don't need cooking, all I can think of is salad and fruit

If it helps we don't eat red meat or poultry and I can't eat nuts/seeds/raw veg

zennith

I like the odd Strawberry in Summer.

zennith

Have you got a blender?


Cheap Value fruit blended up with added ice can make a smoothie type drink.

Tink2

zennith wrote: »

Have you got a blender?


Cheap Value fruit blended up with added ice can make a smoothie type drink.

Yeah, well, we have a smoothie maker

Tiglath

We eat a lot of salad, especially Greek salad as I don't like lettuce-type things except spinach, with additional protein like salmon or hardboiled eggs. I even have salad for breakfast when I feel like it.

Mrs_Bones

Do you eat fish? Fresh fish is nice but if you don't want to cook tin salmon or pilchards etc goes with a salad. Also lots of different cheeses with various pickles. Hard boiled eggs don't exactly take much cooking but are nice either as egg mayo or with something like tomatoes. I eat a lot of things like crustless quiche but off course they need cooking. Most supermarkets sell pate which you could have with toast or salad again. Filled pitta pockets.