food for hot weather

Idiophreak

Smoked mackerel's always a winner in the summertime, no cooking required, so don't even need to put the cooker on (just heats the house up more, innit).

Normally have some with salad, but try couscous, cool savoury rice, or I have a particular fondness for warm linguine with a knob of butter on in the summer. Don't know how that works in my head, but linguine = winter, linguine+butter= summer.

Pink.

Hi bluemonkey,

We're having a cold roast chicken tonight with a green salad, pasta salad, new baby potatoes, and coleslaw. In warm weather we eat a lot of barbeques, salads. quiche, open sandwiches, light meals like soups with homemade bread, pasta bakes with salad etc.

I've added your thread to current one on food for hot weather that should give you more ideas:

Theses threads may give you some ideas too:

OS Summer Cooking

Gingham's vegetarian meal planner - SUMMER

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

What do you cook in your SC in the summer?

Pink

Penelope_Penguin

We're having the remains of Sunday's pork joint shredded, in HM tortillas with hoi sin sauce, lettuce, sliced onions and cucumber, with a salad accompaniement.

Interstingly, we had the same (with goose) on Boxing Day :T

Penny. x

blue_monkey_2

Thanks for the post. We do like the salad but it is all we ever seem to have and I am in a rut really. You know how it is!! We have had macaroni cheese today but there is something strange about eating hot food on days like this.

Great idea on the foods, thank you all for sharing, I shall sit down tonight and have a look through this thread, thank you.

kunekune

I seem to recall you probably have at least one child who is resistant to new foods? I have one child who doesn't eat any raw veg and very few cooked veg and to be honest, I've given up. He drinks orange juice and apple juice. He eats bananas. By the dozen. He will eat peas and corn and carrots and potatoes. In hot weather I can't be arsed cooking hot veg, so I don't. He's not going to die of malnutrition, so I just give him what he will eat, in small-ish quantities and give him the option of trying other things. It's a pick and mix approach, a lot of pots admittedly, but sometimes someone tries a new food which is a bonus.

Tonight we had leftover spinach and feta pie, potato salad with bought mayonnaise, plain boiled potatoes for persons who don't eat mayonnaise, greek salad, plain tomatoes for persons who won't eat them chopped up/in dressing/mixed with anything else, ham on just one person's plate, little gem green salad, and m&s lemon & pepper prawns (that everyone eats). It was good, and everyone left the table thinking they'd had a nice tea.

Beetroot makes nice salad too - I cook it myself and then when it's cold, skin and dice it. I like it in a lemony dressing with either feta or goats cheese.