What are your favorite summer foods? I have had an obsession with NOT turning on my oven or stove here lately (which sadly included much yarn dyeing) because I absolutely DETEST the heat. Which is anything over about 75. And I don't want to heat up the apartment any more than it already is.
Some of my current summer favorites- besides of course, copious amounts of iced tea and coffee:
-My favorite snack of all time is peanut butter mixed with dried milk and honey (thick enough with dried milk to roll in to balls if I am being nonlazy).
-Couscous, which only requires me to boil water.
-fried rice- with egg broken up in small pieces and peas, though I haven't been eating eggs lately at all unless they are in something I happen to be consuming. The same one lone egg has been in my fridge for...gosh! Over a month. I should probably throw it out.
-Calzones, baked when it is cooler late at night. Filled with only a bit of cheese, lots of garlic, and chopped onions + whatever else is on hand.
-Cabbage salad with ramen topping, though I never make it myself because a.) I just eat the delicious ramen topping off it and b) any cabbage salad you make gives you a huge amount of cabbage salad.
-sunflower seeds in the shell
-Biscuits and rolls premade and frozen so they can be cooked, or cooked and frozen and then and microwaved.
-Chilli with no meat of course
-Copious amounts of stawberries in lightly whipped cream, rasberries with cream poured over the top, grilled pineapple with basalmic, and enough watermelon I am
trying to pickle the rinds.-I make my pizzas with a slightly thicker crust than a thin crust pizza, but not so thick as most of the delivery places, and thinly slice the cheese instead of grating it, so I can get a more even "cheesy" coverage without much cheese. And using parmessan. I partially prebaked 4 of them a couple weeks ago, so all I have to do is pop them in the oven long enough to remelt the cheese. It is really more like bread + veggie topping as it is mostly caramelized onions and garlic (sensing a theme there?) with generous smattering of capers.
-I've had to lay off the bread making, and make flat breads and the like instead, as they can be cooked more easily on stovetop. Pita and flatbread is easy to make, and good for dipping in hummus or other bean dips (put beans, some oil, and spices in a blender). I like stuffing my flatbread with potatos and onion mixtures.
-And finally: Frozen bananas cut in to slices (either direction) and then dipped in chocolate or peanut butter or put in a blender with milk- like icecream, but better for you. I am not a huge fan of bananas, but they are SO GOOD frozen.