Hot weather meals

Salads are your best bet.

It's hotter than the devil's asshole! What kind of salad? I won't eat iceberg, that's for deplorables.

You should just have tubs of Haagen Daaz going into you as IVs. That way you don't even have to chew or open your mouth to get fat!

Sushi. Everything's cold plus it's quick and easy to make.

Go to the pre made bag salad section in the produce aisle. Get a chopped Asian salad. Then go to the seafood section and get a half pound of cooked shrimp. If you don’t like shrimp get some precooked chicken in the produce aisle.

Go home. Open bag of salad and mix with protein of choice. Takes longer to buy than to make.

Tell me about this quick and easy, no cooking sushi. I'm fascinated.

Cold cuts, from your local Deli, fresh bread and your are done.

Get creative with Jello salads!

R6 Well you gotta make sushi rice but that's all.

Good quality feta (or another similar cheese), on top of chopped watermelon, with an olive oil and fresh lemon or lime juice dressing, and fresh chopped mint. Very easy to make, and a real summer dish. Don’t make it in advance, though: best to make it just before you’ll eat it.

That sounds like dessert

Chicken salad with cranberries and/or raisins and walnuts. It's delicious. You can buy precooked chicken from a deli or grocery store if you absolutely can't bear to turn on the stove.

Salads. I cook potatos, hardboiled eggs and green beans and keep in the fridge. Then I just buy lettuce, tomatoes, avocados, cheese chicken or cold cuts from the deli and make a salad. I usually cook everything for the week on Sunday evening. Also sandwiches or wraps.

Gazpacho.

I second R10. No better meal in hot weather than a watermelon and feta salad.

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Nigella's Greek salad.

R11: the saltiness of the feta makes it savoury, but it’s fresh and light.

In our house we make a batch of chilled avocado soup and serve it as a cool lunch on a scorching day.

Plenty of recipes out there.

I make a basic avocado salad then put fresh shelled lobster on top of it and us a bit of cocktail sauce with lots of horseradish and fresh squeezed lemon juice. I vary it with jumbo shrimp.

That sounds so good, R20. Gonna try it.

R21 Buy the lobster live and cook it yourself so that it is very fresh. You can cook it the day before and let it chill in the fridge overnight. Do the same for the jumbo shrimp.

Hummus; sliced tomatoes smeared with pesto; strips of bell pepper or zucchini; pita.

Tuna salad with radishes, shredded carrots and chopped romaine. Triscuits.

Chicken salad(use a rotisserie chicken) Since we're not actually cooking the chicken spring for homemade mayo(just takes a minute in a food processor or with a stick blender) Pecans, curry powder, shallots, black pepper, parsley. Fresh fruit, everything seems to be in season at the moment. Challah or potato rolls.

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I can't eliminate my stove and oven entirely from summer cooking. Easier to avoid the oven than stove top.

Bean salads are pretty easy to manage. I usually work with dried beans. But you can skip cooking the beans by buying canned beans. Buy a can of black beans or adzuki beans. Rinse them. Add some onions and tomatoes and your favorite dressing. Depending on what produce is available with serve the vegetables raw or steam them in microwave. You want to add a healthy carb cook up some quinoa.

Tabbouleh is easy to make and requires little heat.

A regular tossed salad. Add some tofu cubes that have marinated in apple cider vinegar, oregano, lemon juice and nutritional yeast.

Whole wheat pasta, pesto (vegan - made with nutritional yeast) and black soy beans.

I am looking for a good recipe for a cold noodle salad, something sweet and sour with cilantro. Any suggestions?

Yam Woon Sen?

My house is air conditioned so I don't have a problem cooking. It's hotter outside so I don't like to grill in hot weather.

cold soups

Cold soups: Vichyssoise, Cucumber Yogurt, Zucchini

Nicoise Salad

Also this and add cilantro.

I would use ground sesame or tahini instead of the peanut butter. That's cheap.

If you don't need the flavouring and the cilantro you can make zaru-soba as well, but that's not really a salad.